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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 291 174 199
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.47% 9.44% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.23% 10.02% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 108 139
10th Percentile £404 £326 £373
25th Percentile £450 £423 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £660
90th Percentile £770 £775 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -2.98%
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 £32.50 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -

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 2,045 1,737 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.62% 94.25% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,134 1,262
10th Percentile £376 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 16
10th Percentile - £17.89 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.43 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £47.00 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 20 August 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 18 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.41%) Confluence
3 6 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.72%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.03%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.69%) Apache
6 2 (0.69%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle Financials
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.72%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.03%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.69%) iTrent
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.69%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.62%) Azure
2 42 (14.43%) AWS
3 24 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (5.84%) GCP
5 13 (4.47%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.78%) SaaS
7 10 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (3.44%) GitHub
7 10 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.44%) Serverless
8 8 (2.75%) OCI
9 7 (2.41%) dbt
10 6 (2.06%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.06%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.72%) IaaS
11 5 (1.72%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.09%) Firewall
2 8 (2.75%) DNS
3 6 (2.06%) Network Security
4 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 4 (1.37%) VLAN
6 3 (1.03%) BGP
6 3 (1.03%) Internet
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) DHCP
7 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.69%) LAN
7 2 (0.69%) OSPF
7 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 2 (0.69%) TACACS
7 2 (0.69%) VSAN
7 2 (0.69%) WAN
7 2 (0.69%) Wireless
8 1 (0.34%) DKIM
8 1 (0.34%) DMARC
8 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.90%) Power BI
2 13 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.75%) Metadata
5 6 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.37%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.69%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.69%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (7.22%) JIRA
2 6 (2.06%) GitLab
3 5 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.37%) Git
5 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) Gradle
6 1 (0.34%) JUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.34%) Mockito
6 1 (0.34%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (32.30%) Finance
2 63 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.97%) Banking
5 16 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.15%) General Ledger
7 12 (4.12%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.78%) Law
9 9 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.41%) Front Office
11 5 (1.72%) Legal
11 5 (1.72%) Retail
11 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.69%) Billing
14 2 (0.69%) International Banking
14 2 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (17.18%) Architect
2 42 (14.43%) Lead
3 33 (11.34%) Consultant
4 30 (10.31%) Analyst
5 24 (8.25%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.87%) Senior
7 17 (5.84%) Developer
8 16 (5.50%) Data Engineer
8 16 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 14 (4.81%) Data Migration Lead
10 13 (4.47%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.78%) Migration Analyst
12 10 (3.44%) Administrator
12 10 (3.44%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.09%) Oracle Consultant
14 8 (2.75%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.53%) Terraform
2 15 (5.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (3.78%) REST
4 10 (3.44%) Kafka
5 9 (3.09%) PySpark
6 7 (2.41%) .NET
7 6 (2.06%) JSON
8 5 (1.72%) Middleware
8 5 (1.72%) React
9 4 (1.37%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.37%) RESTful
9 4 (1.37%) XML
10 3 (1.03%) Spring
11 2 (0.69%) ADO
11 2 (0.69%) PCRE
11 2 (0.69%) Redux
11 2 (0.69%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.69%) SOAP
11 2 (0.69%) Web Services
11 2 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.56%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.09%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.72%) Clustering
8 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Derivative
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Replication
11 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.87%) Windows
2 7 (2.41%) Linux
3 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) VMS
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.69%) SUSE
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.68%) Data Migration
2 68 (23.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (14.78%) Agile
4 41 (14.09%) CI/CD
5 40 (13.75%) Validation
6 34 (11.68%) Analytics
6 34 (11.68%) DevOps
6 34 (11.68%) Project Delivery
7 32 (11.00%) Data Modelling
8 31 (10.65%) ERP
8 31 (10.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (8.93%) ETL
10 26 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (7.56%) Data Governance
13 22 (7.56%) Project Management
13 22 (7.56%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.19%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.09%) SQL
2 31 (10.65%) Python
3 15 (5.15%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.41%) C#
5 6 (2.06%) Bicep
5 6 (2.06%) Java
6 5 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.03%) Bash
8 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.69%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) SOQL
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.75%) PMI Certification
3 8 (2.75%) PMP
4 7 (2.41%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.37%) Degree
8 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) CCNA
9 2 (0.69%) CCNP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.34%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) CISA
10 1 (0.34%) CSPO
10 1 (0.34%) CWNA
10 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.44%) GDPR
2 10 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.44%) QA
3 6 (2.06%) NIST
3 6 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.06%) PMO
4 5 (1.72%) GRC
5 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) IFRS
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Basel III
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.41%) Docker
4 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.72%) Ansible
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.03%) SCCM
4 3 (1.03%) SCOM
5 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.34%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.71%) Oracle
3 25 (8.59%) SAP
4 19 (6.53%) Databricks
5 14 (4.81%) Google
6 11 (3.78%) VMware
7 8 (2.75%) Citrix
7 8 (2.75%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.06%) Cisco
8 6 (2.06%) Workday
9 5 (1.72%) Remedy
9 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.37%) IFS
11 3 (1.03%) BMC
11 3 (1.03%) Commvault
11 3 (1.03%) IBM
11 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.03%) Splunk
12 2 (0.69%) Informatica