Migration Contracts in Central London

Migration
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 195 179 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.90% 7.45% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.64% 8.22% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 130 203
10th Percentile £363 £381 £365
25th Percentile £450 £457 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +14.16%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £725
90th Percentile £751 £739 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.34 - -
90th Percentile £32.14 - -
London median hourly rate £29.90 £67.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year -55.70% +52.54% +10.63%

All Process and 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 1,833 2,177 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.09% 90.63% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,550 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £30.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £39.00
% change year-on-year +21.78% -28.41% +5.41%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Central London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Migration in Central London

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Central London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 14 May 2025. 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 +1 164 £550 - 51
West End of London +5 11 £550 +118.10% 2
Camden +9 7 £450 -47.06% 2
City of Westminster +7 6 £550 +6.28% 1
Southwark - 1 £450 -
Migration
London

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.08%) Confluence
3 5 (2.56%) CMS
4 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.54%) SAS
6 2 (1.03%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.51%) Apache
7 1 (0.51%) Documentum
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.03%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.03%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.51%) Magento
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.51%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 53 (27.18%) Azure
2 26 (13.33%) AWS
3 16 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.64%) SaaS
5 10 (5.13%) GCP
6 9 (4.62%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.10%) IaaS
8 7 (3.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.08%) PaaS
10 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.56%) OCI
11 4 (2.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.05%) Serverless
11 4 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.54%) dbt
12 3 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.72%) Firewall
2 15 (7.69%) VPN
3 12 (6.15%) DNS
4 7 (3.59%) NGFW
5 5 (2.56%) Network Security
6 4 (2.05%) BGP
6 4 (2.05%) VLAN
7 3 (1.54%) DHCP
7 3 (1.54%) IPv6
7 3 (1.54%) OSPF
8 2 (1.03%) Broadband
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.03%) LAN
8 2 (1.03%) MPLS
8 2 (1.03%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.03%) SSL
8 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.56%) Power BI
4 4 (2.05%) Tableau
5 3 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.54%) Base SAS
5 3 (1.54%) Big Data
5 3 (1.54%) Metadata
6 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.03%) Tableau Server
7 1 (0.51%) DTS
7 1 (0.51%) MS Access
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.51%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.10%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) GitLab
3 4 (2.05%) Git
4 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.54%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.51%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (41.54%) Finance
2 43 (22.05%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.26%) Banking
4 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.08%) Legal
6 6 (3.08%) Marketing
6 6 (3.08%) Retail
7 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.05%) Front Office
8 4 (2.05%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Back Office
9 3 (1.54%) French Language
9 3 (1.54%) Law
9 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) International Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (18.46%) Architect
2 23 (11.79%) Analyst
3 21 (10.77%) Project Manager
4 18 (9.23%) Developer
5 15 (7.69%) Senior
5 15 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.15%) Network Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) Consultant
7 11 (5.64%) Lead
8 9 (4.62%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.62%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Azure Architect
9 8 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Network Support
10 7 (3.59%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) ADO
2 6 (3.08%) .NET
3 4 (2.05%) REST
4 3 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.54%) SOAP
4 3 (1.54%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.54%) XML
5 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.03%) JSON
5 2 (1.03%) Middleware
5 2 (1.03%) Node.js
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.03%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.03%) Spring
5 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.51%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.59%) Anti-Spyware
4 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.05%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.54%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.54%) PKI
6 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.54%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.03%) iSeries
7 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.87%) Windows
2 13 (6.67%) Linux
3 8 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.59%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.08%) Unix
6 3 (1.54%) AIX
6 3 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Android
7 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.56%) Data Migration
2 42 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.46%) Agile
4 22 (11.28%) DevOps
5 19 (9.74%) Project Management
6 17 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (7.18%) ERP
7 14 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 13 (6.67%) Data Modelling
8 13 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (6.15%) Data Cleansing
10 11 (5.64%) Test Automation
10 11 (5.64%) Validation
11 10 (5.13%) Data Governance
11 10 (5.13%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (4.62%) Change Management
13 8 (4.10%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (4.10%) CRM
13 8 (4.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (14.87%) SQL
2 24 (12.31%) Python
3 12 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.64%) Java
5 9 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.10%) C#
7 4 (2.05%) Bicep
8 3 (1.54%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.54%) Bash
8 3 (1.54%) Groovy
8 3 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.54%) Ruby
8 3 (1.54%) VBA
9 2 (1.03%) C
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.03%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.03%) VBScript
10 1 (0.51%) SOQL
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.21%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 6 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.54%) CCNP
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.03%) CCIE
7 2 (1.03%) CISA
7 2 (1.03%) CISM
7 2 (1.03%) CISSP
7 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
8 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.54%) SEPA
4 3 (1.54%) SLA
5 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) GAAP
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.54%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (8.21%) Terraform
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.10%) SCCM
4 4 (2.05%) Ansible
5 3 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.03%) Nagios
6 2 (1.03%) Puppet
6 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.51%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.51%) Grafana
7 1 (0.51%) Istio
7 1 (0.51%) Netcool
7 1 (0.51%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.51%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
7 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.74%) Oracle
3 12 (6.15%) SAP
4 10 (5.13%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.10%) CheckPoint
6 7 (3.59%) Infoblox
7 6 (3.08%) Cisco
7 6 (3.08%) Google
8 4 (2.05%) Murex
8 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.54%) Adobe
9 3 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.54%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.54%) TOWER Software
9 3 (1.54%) Tradeweb
9 3 (1.54%) VMware
9 3 (1.54%) Workday
10 2 (1.03%) Databricks
10 2 (1.03%) Snow