Migration Contract Job Trends in Central London

Migration
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 340 181 208
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 13.97% 9.36% 8.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.41% 9.97% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 119 143
10th Percentile £390 £338 £380
25th Percentile £450 £430 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -0.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £724 £725
London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £15.70 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £36.25 - -
90th Percentile £38.50 - -
London median hourly rate £56.75 £25.15 £49.50
% change year-on-year +125.65% -49.19% -26.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 1,815 2,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 93.90% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,225 1,371
10th Percentile £359 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 28 28
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.33 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.18 £22.56 £24.83
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%
75th Percentile £53.50 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £119.65
London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Migration job vacancy trend in Central London

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Central London

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Central London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +11 314 £590 +2.61% 144
West End of London -3 10 £600 -7.69% 16
City of Westminster -6 9 £525 -19.23% 28
Southwark - 3 £600 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £550 -
Migration
London

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.53%) Confluence
3 7 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.47%) Apache
4 5 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.47%) CMS
5 4 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.88%) IIS
7 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.59%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.59%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Oracle Financials
1 9 (2.65%) Oracle Payables
1 9 (2.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 8 (2.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.47%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.88%) iTrent
5 3 (0.88%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.88%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.59%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.29%) Azure
2 48 (14.12%) AWS
3 25 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.88%) GCP
6 18 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (4.12%) Entra ID
7 14 (4.12%) SaaS
8 11 (3.24%) OCI
8 11 (3.24%) Serverless
9 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.35%) dbt
11 8 (2.35%) GitHub
12 6 (1.76%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (1.76%) IaaS
12 6 (1.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.82%) DNS
1 13 (3.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.65%) Network Security
3 8 (2.35%) BGP
4 7 (2.06%) VPN
5 5 (1.47%) Internet
5 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.18%) DHCP
6 4 (1.18%) SSL
6 4 (1.18%) VLAN
7 3 (0.88%) Multicast
8 2 (0.59%) LAN
8 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.59%) WAN
9 1 (0.29%) PSTN
9 1 (0.29%) SAN
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
9 1 (0.29%) SMTP
9 1 (0.29%) VoIP
9 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.47%) Power BI
2 21 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.53%) Metadata
6 9 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.35%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.06%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.06%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.18%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.59%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (8.24%) JIRA
2 7 (2.06%) Git
3 5 (1.47%) GitLab
3 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.59%) Gradle
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.29%) JUnit
6 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.29%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Mockito
6 1 (0.29%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (33.82%) Finance
2 90 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.65%) Banking
4 33 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.12%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.24%) Front Office
8 10 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.35%) Back Office
9 8 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.35%) Law
10 6 (1.76%) Retail
11 5 (1.47%) Legal
11 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.18%) Marketing
12 4 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.88%) Billing
13 3 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (17.94%) Architect
2 42 (12.35%) Lead
3 38 (11.18%) Analyst
4 33 (9.71%) Consultant
5 25 (7.35%) Project Manager
6 24 (7.06%) Developer
7 23 (6.76%) Senior
7 23 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.18%) Business Analyst
8 21 (6.18%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.71%) Data Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Administrator
11 11 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.94%) Migration Analyst
13 9 (2.65%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (2.65%) Oracle Consultant
14 8 (2.35%) Data Migration Analyst
14 8 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
14 8 (2.35%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.88%) Terraform
2 18 (5.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (3.82%) REST
4 11 (3.24%) .NET
5 10 (2.94%) PySpark
6 9 (2.65%) Kafka
7 7 (2.06%) JSON
7 7 (2.06%) React
8 6 (1.76%) Middleware
9 5 (1.47%) Web Services
9 5 (1.47%) XML
10 4 (1.18%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.18%) RESTful
10 4 (1.18%) SAML
10 4 (1.18%) SOAP
10 4 (1.18%) Spring
10 4 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.88%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.88%) OAuth
11 3 (0.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.24%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.24%) Mainframe
6 10 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.06%) Derivative
7 7 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.06%) Replication
8 6 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.18%) Clustering
10 4 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.35%) Windows
2 5 (1.47%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.59%) VMS
5 2 (0.59%) zOS
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) MVS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) SUSE
6 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.71%) Data Migration
2 92 (27.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (15.29%) Agile
4 50 (14.71%) Validation
5 44 (12.94%) CI/CD
6 40 (11.76%) DevOps
7 37 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (10.59%) Data Modelling
8 36 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 35 (10.29%) ERP
10 34 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 33 (9.71%) Analytics
12 32 (9.41%) ETL
13 31 (9.12%) Data Governance
14 27 (7.94%) Roadmaps
15 26 (7.65%) Project Delivery
16 23 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (6.76%) Decision-Making
17 22 (6.47%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (15.88%) SQL
2 37 (10.88%) Python
3 13 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.24%) C#
5 10 (2.94%) Java
6 8 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.47%) Bicep
9 4 (1.18%) Korn
10 3 (0.88%) Perl
10 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.59%) JCL
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) REXX
12 1 (0.29%) SOQL
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.65%) PMI Certification
3 9 (2.65%) PMP
4 8 (2.35%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.35%) Degree
5 7 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.59%) CAPM
8 2 (0.59%) CCNA
8 2 (0.59%) CCNP
8 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.29%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) CISA
9 1 (0.29%) CWNA
9 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.82%) QA
3 7 (2.06%) PMO
4 5 (1.47%) GDPR
4 5 (1.47%) GRC
4 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.59%) GMP
5 2 (0.59%) GxP
5 2 (0.59%) IFRS
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (0.59%) SEPA
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.29%) PSD2
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.47%) Docker
4 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.76%) Ansible
2 6 (1.76%) SCCM
3 5 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.88%) SCOM
5 1 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.29%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.29%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.29%) Oracle
3 29 (8.53%) Databricks
3 29 (8.53%) SAP
4 16 (4.71%) Google
5 13 (3.82%) VMware
6 12 (3.53%) Cisco
7 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.06%) Citrix
9 5 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.47%) IBM
9 5 (1.47%) Remedy
9 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.18%) IFS
10 4 (1.18%) Informatica
11 3 (0.88%) BMC
11 3 (0.88%) Commvault
11 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.88%) Workday