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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 278 169 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.37% 9.40% 8.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.24% 10.02% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 103 130
10th Percentile £405 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £439 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.23% -14.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £773 £773 £714
Central London median daily rate £569 £550 £551
% change year-on-year +3.41% -0.23% -11.80%
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 2,099 1,687 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.85% 93.88% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,080 1,349
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -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 3 July 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 17 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.80%) SharePoint 2013
3 4 (1.44%) Confluence
4 3 (1.08%) CMS
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.16%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.16%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (2.16%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.16%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.80%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.80%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.08%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.72%) iTrent
5 2 (0.72%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.72%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.36%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 59 (21.22%) Azure
2 47 (16.91%) AWS
3 22 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.04%) GCP
5 11 (3.96%) GitHub
5 11 (3.96%) Serverless
6 9 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.88%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.88%) OCI
7 8 (2.88%) SaaS
8 7 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.52%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.16%) dbt
10 5 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.80%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.88%) Firewall
2 6 (2.16%) Network Security
3 4 (1.44%) DNS
3 4 (1.44%) VLAN
3 4 (1.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.08%) VSAN
4 3 (1.08%) WAN
5 2 (0.72%) BGP
5 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.72%) LAN
5 2 (0.72%) MPLS
5 2 (0.72%) OSPF
5 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.36%) NGFW
6 1 (0.36%) TACACS
6 1 (0.36%) VRRP
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.19%) Power BI
2 13 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.52%) Metadata
5 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.44%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.08%) Tableau
9 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.72%) OLAP
9 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.12%) JIRA
2 6 (2.16%) GitLab
3 5 (1.80%) Git
3 5 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) Gradle
5 1 (0.36%) JUnit
5 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.36%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
5 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (33.81%) Finance
2 53 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.51%) Banking
4 31 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.40%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.32%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.60%) Law
9 6 (2.16%) Legal
9 6 (2.16%) Retail
10 3 (1.08%) Front Office
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) International Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (18.35%) Architect
2 37 (13.31%) Consultant
2 37 (13.31%) Lead
3 32 (11.51%) Analyst
4 21 (7.55%) Senior
5 20 (7.19%) Project Manager
6 18 (6.47%) Business Analyst
7 17 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.40%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.68%) Data Migration Lead
10 11 (3.96%) Azure Architect
10 11 (3.96%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.60%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.60%) Developer
11 10 (3.60%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.60%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.24%) Migration Consultant
12 9 (3.24%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.60%) Kafka
3 9 (3.24%) REST
4 6 (2.16%) Middleware
4 6 (2.16%) PySpark
5 5 (1.80%) React
6 4 (1.44%) JSON
6 4 (1.44%) RESTful
6 4 (1.44%) Spring
6 4 (1.44%) XML
7 3 (1.08%) .NET
8 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) EDI
8 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.72%) Flash
8 2 (0.72%) Redux
8 2 (0.72%) SOAP
8 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.36%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.35%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (2.88%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.88%) Mainframe
3 7 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.52%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.80%) Derivative
4 5 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.44%) Replication
6 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.08%) Equities
6 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.72%) Clustering
7 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.72%) NHS
7 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.32%) Windows
2 5 (1.80%) Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) SUSE
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.89%) Data Migration
2 57 (20.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (14.39%) Validation
4 39 (14.03%) Agile
5 36 (12.95%) Project Delivery
6 33 (11.87%) CI/CD
7 32 (11.51%) ERP
8 31 (11.15%) DevOps
9 30 (10.79%) Analytics
10 28 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (9.35%) ETL
12 25 (8.99%) Data Modelling
13 23 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (7.55%) Project Management
16 20 (7.19%) Roadmaps
17 18 (6.47%) Data Governance
18 15 (5.40%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.31%) SQL
2 28 (10.07%) Python
3 9 (3.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.16%) Java
5 5 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.44%) Bicep
7 3 (1.08%) Bash
7 3 (1.08%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) ABAP
8 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.96%) PMP
4 7 (2.52%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.52%) Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CCNA
7 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.36%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) CISA
8 1 (0.36%) CWNA
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.40%) GDPR
3 12 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.24%) NIST
5 8 (2.88%) QA
6 6 (2.16%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.80%) PMO
8 3 (1.08%) GRC
8 3 (1.08%) IFRS
9 2 (0.72%) GAAP
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.72%) NCSC
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SEPA
9 2 (0.72%) SLA
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.04%) Terraform
3 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.08%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) SCCM
5 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) vMotion
6 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.95%) Oracle
3 25 (8.99%) SAP
4 13 (4.68%) Databricks
5 9 (3.24%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.88%) Citrix
6 8 (2.88%) Google
7 7 (2.52%) Workday
8 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.80%) Cisco
9 5 (1.80%) VMware
10 4 (1.44%) IFS
10 4 (1.44%) Informatica
10 4 (1.44%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.08%) IBM
11 3 (1.08%) Murex
11 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.72%) Adobe
12 2 (0.72%) Remedy