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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 243 169 169
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.49% 9.80% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 10.48% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 101 126
10th Percentile £405 £310 £373
25th Percentile £463 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £638
90th Percentile £800 £763 £695
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.82% - -

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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 21 May 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 8 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.06%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.47%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.06%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.06%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.65%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.82%) iTrent
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.82%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.41%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 62 (25.51%) Azure
2 46 (18.93%) AWS
3 21 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.58%) GCP
5 14 (5.76%) GitHub
6 10 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.70%) OCI
7 9 (3.70%) Serverless
8 7 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.47%) dbt
9 6 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.47%) SaaS
10 5 (2.06%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.47%) Firewall
2 4 (1.65%) Network Security
3 3 (1.23%) VLAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.82%) MPLS
4 2 (0.82%) OSPF
4 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) VSAN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) DVB
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) NGFW
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.82%) Power BI
2 17 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.47%) Metadata
4 6 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.65%) Tableau
7 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.82%) OLAP
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) JIRA
2 5 (2.06%) GitLab
3 4 (1.65%) Git
4 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.41%) ERwin
6 1 (0.41%) Gradle
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.41%) Mockito
6 1 (0.41%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.41%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Toad
6 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (32.51%) Finance
2 35 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.05%) Banking
5 15 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.94%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.12%) General Ledger
8 8 (3.29%) Legal
9 7 (2.88%) Law
10 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.23%) Marketing
12 3 (1.23%) Retail
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.82%) International Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Military
13 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (18.11%) Architect
2 31 (12.76%) Lead
3 29 (11.93%) Consultant
4 26 (10.70%) Senior
5 24 (9.88%) Analyst
5 24 (9.88%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.76%) Business Analyst
6 14 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.35%) Migration Manager
7 13 (5.35%) Migration Project Manager
8 12 (4.94%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.12%) Azure Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Data Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Developer
9 10 (4.12%) Migration Analyst
10 9 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.70%) Data Migration Analyst
10 9 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
10 9 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.70%) Kafka
3 7 (2.88%) Middleware
4 4 (1.65%) PySpark
4 4 (1.65%) React
4 4 (1.65%) REST
4 4 (1.65%) RESTful
4 4 (1.65%) Spring
5 3 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.82%) Flash
6 2 (0.82%) Redux
6 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.82%) XML
7 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.41%) IDoc
7 1 (0.41%) Playwright
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.47%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (8.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.47%) Mainframe
3 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.06%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.65%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) Replication
7 2 (0.82%) BYOD
7 2 (0.82%) Clustering
7 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.82%) Equities
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.12%) Windows
2 4 (1.65%) Linux
3 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
4 1 (0.41%) SUSE
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.16%) Data Migration
2 44 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (16.87%) Agile
4 36 (14.81%) Validation
5 30 (12.35%) Project Delivery
6 29 (11.93%) DevOps
7 27 (11.11%) Analytics
8 26 (10.70%) Project Management
9 25 (10.29%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (9.47%) ERP
10 23 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (8.23%) ETL
14 19 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (7.41%) Data Governance
16 17 (7.00%) Data Modelling
16 17 (7.00%) PRINCE2
17 16 (6.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.23%) SQL
2 18 (7.41%) Python
3 8 (3.29%) Java
4 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.23%) Bash
6 3 (1.23%) Bicep
6 3 (1.23%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) ABAP
7 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) Perl
8 1 (0.41%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) ProC
8 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) PMP
4 15 (6.17%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.29%) Degree
6 6 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) CISA
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CWNA
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MCSA
8 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 18 (7.41%) GDPR
2 14 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.94%) NIST
4 10 (4.12%) QA
5 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.65%) PMO
6 3 (1.23%) GAAP
6 3 (1.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 2 (0.82%) SEPA
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) PSD2
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.29%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.41%) NFS
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.17%) Terraform
2 14 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
5 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.41%) vMotion
5 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.76%) SAP
3 29 (11.93%) Oracle
4 11 (4.53%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.12%) Workday
6 8 (3.29%) Citrix
6 8 (3.29%) Google
7 6 (2.47%) Databricks
7 6 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.65%) Informatica
8 4 (1.65%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.23%) VMware
10 2 (0.82%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco
10 2 (0.82%) IBM
10 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.82%) Murex
10 2 (0.82%) Remedy
11 1 (0.41%) Adobe