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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 172 171 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.00% 9.43% 8.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 10.30% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 110 138
10th Percentile £413 £363 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +0.05% -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £786 £750 £797
Central London median daily rate £558 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 1,700 1,661 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 91.57% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,001 1,526
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.35 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -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 16 February 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 14 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (8.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.16%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.16%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.16%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.58%) Maximo
4 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.58%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.07%) Azure
2 33 (19.19%) AWS
3 15 (8.72%) GitHub
4 14 (8.14%) GCP
5 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.49%) SaaS
9 5 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.33%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.33%) IaaS
10 4 (2.33%) OCI
10 4 (2.33%) Serverless
11 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) Firewall
1 6 (3.49%) Network Security
2 3 (1.74%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) MPLS
3 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.58%) BGP
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) Internet
4 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.58%) NAS
4 1 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) VLAN
4 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.23%) Power BI
3 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.91%) MySQL
4 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.74%) Metadata
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.74%) Tableau
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.16%) DataStage
6 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.16%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.58%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 14 (8.14%) JIRA
2 4 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.16%) Toad
4 1 (0.58%) ERwin
4 1 (0.58%) gulp
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.58%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 68 (39.53%) Finance
2 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.88%) Banking
5 11 (6.40%) Front Office
6 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.07%) Legal
8 6 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.91%) Law
10 4 (2.33%) Back Office
10 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.33%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.16%) International Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (15.12%) Analyst
2 24 (13.95%) Senior
3 23 (13.37%) Architect
4 21 (12.21%) Business Analyst
5 18 (10.47%) Project Manager
6 17 (9.88%) Consultant
7 15 (8.72%) Lead
8 10 (5.81%) Migration Manager
9 9 (5.23%) Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Migration Project Manager
11 7 (4.07%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.49%) Migration Consultant
12 6 (3.49%) Programme Manager
12 6 (3.49%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) XML
2 6 (3.49%) Middleware
3 4 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.16%) EDI
4 2 (1.16%) Node.js
4 2 (1.16%) OpenID
4 2 (1.16%) Playwright
4 2 (1.16%) PySpark
4 2 (1.16%) REST
4 2 (1.16%) SAML
4 2 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.16%) SPFx
4 2 (1.16%) XSLT
5 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.58%) IDoc
5 1 (0.58%) Jest
5 1 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.58%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.72%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.74%) Derivative
6 3 (1.74%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) Equities
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.16%) NHS
7 2 (1.16%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.16%) Replication
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.14%) Windows
2 9 (5.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.33%) Linux
3 4 (2.33%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.49%) Data Migration
2 40 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (22.09%) Agile
4 27 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 22 (12.79%) DevOps
5 22 (12.79%) Validation
6 21 (12.21%) Analytics
7 20 (11.63%) Project Management
8 18 (10.47%) CI/CD
8 18 (10.47%) ETL
9 16 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (8.72%) Project Delivery
11 14 (8.14%) ERP
12 12 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.98%) Data Governance
13 11 (6.40%) Data Modelling
13 11 (6.40%) PRINCE2
13 11 (6.40%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.35%) SQL
2 11 (6.40%) Python
3 7 (4.07%) Java
4 5 (2.91%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.74%) Bash
5 3 (1.74%) C#
5 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.16%) ABAP
6 2 (1.16%) C++
6 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.16%) Perl
6 2 (1.16%) PHP
6 2 (1.16%) Scala
6 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.58%) C
7 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.58%) ProC
7 1 (0.58%) VB
7 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.40%) Degree
4 10 (5.81%) PMP
5 9 (5.23%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CFA
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.58%) MCSA
10 1 (0.58%) MCSE
10 1 (0.58%) OCP
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.58%) RHCE
10 1 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.47%) Data Quality
1 18 (10.47%) GDPR
2 15 (8.72%) QA
3 12 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.07%) NIST
5 3 (1.74%) GAAP
5 3 (1.74%) IFRS
5 3 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.16%) EMIR
6 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) Basel III
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) HL7
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.58%) PMO
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.91%) Docker
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) NFS
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (9.30%) Terraform
2 11 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.33%) Ansible
5 3 (1.74%) SCCM
6 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.58%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.58%) CASB
6 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.58%) vMotion
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.63%) Oracle
2 20 (11.63%) SAP
3 9 (5.23%) Google
4 8 (4.65%) CyberArk
5 7 (4.07%) VMware
5 7 (4.07%) Workday
6 4 (2.33%) Databricks
6 4 (2.33%) Informatica
6 4 (2.33%) Murex
6 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.74%) Adobe
7 3 (1.74%) Ahrefs
7 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco
8 2 (1.16%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.16%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (1.16%) Talend
9 1 (0.58%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.58%) Verint