Migration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Migration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 268 162 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.08% 9.38% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 10.00% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 97 134
10th Percentile £406 £371 £369
25th Percentile £450 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £643
90th Percentile £779 £768 £700
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -14.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.46 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +28.31% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,072 1,620 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.66% 93.75% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,032 1,358
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.44% +8.00% -20.54%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the City of London

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the City of London

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Migration

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.24%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.87%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.87%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.12%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.75%) iTrent
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.75%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.75%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.37%) Maximo
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.39%) Azure
2 45 (16.79%) AWS
3 22 (8.21%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.22%) GCP
5 13 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.85%) GitHub
6 11 (4.10%) Serverless
7 9 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.36%) OCI
8 7 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.24%) dbt
9 6 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.24%) SaaS
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.49%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) Firewall
1 6 (2.24%) Network Security
2 4 (1.49%) VLAN
3 3 (1.12%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) VPN
3 3 (1.12%) VSAN
3 3 (1.12%) WAN
4 2 (0.75%) BGP
4 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.75%) LAN
4 2 (0.75%) MPLS
4 2 (0.75%) OSPF
4 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.75%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.75%) Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) DVB
5 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.37%) NAS
5 1 (0.37%) TACACS
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.46%) Power BI
2 14 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.61%) Metadata
5 6 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.12%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.12%) Tableau
9 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.75%) OLAP
9 2 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.37%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 16 (5.97%) JIRA
2 6 (2.24%) GitLab
3 5 (1.87%) Git
3 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) Gradle
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.37%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) MSI
5 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 93 (34.70%) Finance
2 52 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.57%) Banking
4 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.22%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.48%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.99%) Law
10 6 (2.24%) Legal
11 5 (1.87%) Retail
12 4 (1.49%) Front Office
13 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.75%) Back Office
14 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.75%) International Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Marketing
14 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (17.91%) Architect
2 37 (13.81%) Consultant
2 37 (13.81%) Lead
3 27 (10.07%) Analyst
4 22 (8.21%) Senior
5 21 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 16 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.22%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.22%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.85%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.85%) Data Migration Lead
9 11 (4.10%) Azure Architect
9 11 (4.10%) Migration Analyst
9 11 (4.10%) Migration Manager
9 11 (4.10%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.73%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.36%) Data Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.36%) Developer
11 9 (3.36%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.36%) Kafka
3 7 (2.61%) Middleware
3 7 (2.61%) REST
4 6 (2.24%) PySpark
5 4 (1.49%) React
5 4 (1.49%) RESTful
5 4 (1.49%) Spring
5 4 (1.49%) XML
6 3 (1.12%) .NET
6 3 (1.12%) JSON
7 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.75%) ADO
7 2 (0.75%) EDI
7 2 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.75%) Flash
7 2 (0.75%) Redux
7 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.96%) Cloud Native
1 24 (8.96%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (2.99%) Mainframe
2 8 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.61%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.87%) Derivative
5 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.49%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.49%) Replication
7 3 (1.12%) Equities
7 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.75%) Clustering
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.10%) Windows
2 5 (1.87%) Linux
3 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) SUSE
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.07%) Data Migration
2 56 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (15.30%) Agile
4 40 (14.93%) Validation
5 34 (12.69%) Project Delivery
6 32 (11.94%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.57%) DevOps
8 29 (10.82%) ERP
9 28 (10.45%) Analytics
10 26 (9.70%) ETL
10 26 (9.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (8.58%) Data Modelling
13 22 (8.21%) Project Management
13 22 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (7.09%) Roadmaps
17 18 (6.72%) Data Governance
18 16 (5.97%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.18%) SQL
2 24 (8.96%) Python
3 7 (2.61%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.24%) Java
5 4 (1.49%) Bicep
5 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.49%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.12%) Bash
6 3 (1.12%) C#
7 2 (0.75%) ABAP
7 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.85%) PMP
4 12 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.61%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.61%) Degree
6 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.75%) CCNA
8 2 (0.75%) CCNP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.37%) CISA
9 1 (0.37%) CWNA
9 1 (0.37%) MCSA
9 1 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.34%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.97%) GDPR
3 13 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.73%) NIST
5 8 (2.99%) QA
6 6 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.87%) PMO
8 4 (1.49%) GAAP
8 4 (1.49%) IFRS
9 3 (1.12%) GRC
10 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.75%) NCSC
10 2 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.75%) SEPA
10 2 (0.75%) SLA
11 1 (0.37%) Basel III
11 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.37%) HL7
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 7 (2.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.97%) Terraform
2 14 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.12%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) SCCM
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) vMotion
6 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.43%) Oracle
3 26 (9.70%) SAP
4 12 (4.48%) Databricks
5 10 (3.73%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.36%) Workday
7 8 (2.99%) Citrix
8 7 (2.61%) Google
9 6 (2.24%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.87%) Cisco
10 5 (1.87%) Informatica
10 5 (1.87%) VMware
11 4 (1.49%) IFS
11 4 (1.49%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.12%) IBM
12 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.75%) Murex
13 2 (0.75%) Remedy
13 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow