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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 323 162 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 15.01% 9.41% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.47% 9.97% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 106 122
10th Percentile £400 £364 £363
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £661
90th Percentile £775 £720 £725
Central London median daily rate £590 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £11.90 - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile £28.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 - -

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 1,625 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.12% 94.42% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,114 1,208
10th Percentile £368 £328 £363
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 17
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £23.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -36.39% +36.00%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% -21.43% +27.27%

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 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the City of London

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 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.72%) Confluence
3 7 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.86%) IIS
5 5 (1.55%) Apache
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.24%) CMS
6 4 (1.24%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.62%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.62%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.79%) Oracle Financials
1 9 (2.79%) Oracle Payables
1 9 (2.79%) Oracle Receivables
2 8 (2.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.55%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle iProcurement
5 4 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.93%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.62%) Maximo
7 2 (0.62%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.62%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.62%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 71 (21.98%) Azure
2 47 (14.55%) AWS
3 25 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 21 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.57%) GCP
6 17 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 17 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.02%) SaaS
8 11 (3.41%) Serverless
9 10 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.10%) GitHub
9 10 (3.10%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.79%) dbt
11 7 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.17%) OCI
12 6 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.55%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (1.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.33%) DNS
2 10 (3.10%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) Network Security
4 6 (1.86%) BGP
4 6 (1.86%) SSL
4 6 (1.86%) VPN
5 5 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.24%) Internet
6 4 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.93%) DHCP
7 3 (0.93%) Multicast
8 2 (0.62%) LAN
8 2 (0.62%) VLAN
8 2 (0.62%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.31%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.31%) SMTP
9 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.12%) Power BI
1 23 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (4.64%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.72%) Metadata
4 8 (2.48%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.17%) Delta Lake
6 6 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.24%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.62%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.05%) JIRA
2 9 (2.79%) Git
3 6 (1.86%) GitLab
3 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.31%) Gradle
5 1 (0.31%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.31%) NUnit
5 1 (0.31%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (37.46%) Finance
2 90 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.55%) Banking
4 33 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.95%) General Ledger
7 14 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.41%) Front Office
8 11 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.79%) Back Office
10 8 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.17%) Law
11 7 (2.17%) Retail
12 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.24%) Legal
13 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.93%) Billing
14 3 (0.93%) Marketing
14 3 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (16.41%) Architect
2 39 (12.07%) Lead
3 35 (10.84%) Analyst
4 31 (9.60%) Consultant
5 24 (7.43%) Project Manager
6 23 (7.12%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.12%) Senior
7 22 (6.81%) Developer
7 22 (6.81%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.50%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.33%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.02%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.41%) Administrator
12 10 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.48%) Migration Engineer
14 8 (2.48%) Oracle Consultant
15 7 (2.17%) Migration Analyst
15 7 (2.17%) SharePoint Administrator
16 6 (1.86%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.19%) Terraform
2 12 (3.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (3.72%) REST
3 10 (3.10%) .NET
3 10 (3.10%) PySpark
4 8 (2.48%) Kafka
5 7 (2.17%) JSON
5 7 (2.17%) React
5 7 (2.17%) SAML
6 6 (1.86%) Middleware
6 6 (1.86%) OAuth
6 6 (1.86%) OpenID
6 6 (1.86%) Web Services
7 5 (1.55%) XML
8 4 (1.24%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.24%) Node.js
9 3 (0.93%) RESTful
9 3 (0.93%) Spring
9 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.81%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.41%) Mainframe
6 10 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.48%) Derivative
9 7 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.55%) PKI
10 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.55%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.24%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.81%) Windows
2 7 (2.17%) Linux
3 6 (1.86%) Unix
4 4 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) zOS
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) MVS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) SUSE
7 1 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (34.06%) Data Migration
2 96 (29.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (16.72%) Validation
4 49 (15.17%) Agile
5 43 (13.31%) CI/CD
6 41 (12.69%) DevOps
7 38 (11.76%) Analytics
8 36 (11.15%) ERP
8 36 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (10.84%) Data Modelling
9 35 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 35 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 34 (10.53%) ETL
11 31 (9.60%) Data Governance
12 29 (8.98%) Project Delivery
12 29 (8.98%) Roadmaps
13 27 (8.36%) Decision-Making
14 25 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (7.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.34%) SQL
2 41 (12.69%) Python
3 17 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.10%) C#
4 10 (3.10%) Java
5 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.24%) Bicep
7 4 (1.24%) Korn
8 3 (0.93%) Bash
8 3 (0.93%) Perl
8 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.62%) JCL
10 1 (0.31%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.31%) R
10 1 (0.31%) REXX
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) SOQL
10 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.48%) Degree
4 7 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.17%) PMP
5 5 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.62%) CAPM
7 2 (0.62%) CCNA
7 2 (0.62%) CCNP
7 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) CCIE
8 1 (0.31%) CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.02%) QA
3 7 (2.17%) PMO
4 6 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.24%) GRC
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.93%) IFRS
8 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.62%) GAAP
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.62%) SEPA
9 1 (0.31%) Basel III
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.31%) PSD2
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) TARGET2
System Software
1 18 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.17%) Docker
4 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.86%) Ansible
4 5 (1.55%) SCCM
5 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.93%) SCOM
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.31%) Control-M
7 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.31%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.31%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.31%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.69%) Oracle
3 32 (9.91%) Databricks
4 25 (7.74%) SAP
5 14 (4.33%) Google
6 12 (3.72%) VMware
7 10 (3.10%) Cisco
7 10 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.48%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.55%) IBM
9 5 (1.55%) IFS
9 5 (1.55%) Remedy
9 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.24%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.24%) Citrix
10 4 (1.24%) Commvault
11 3 (0.93%) BMC
11 3 (0.93%) Informatica
11 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.93%) Workday