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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Migration 164 197 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.37% 9.48% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.95% 10.30% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 134 192
10th Percentile £336 £366 £425
25th Percentile £414 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £687 £656 £700
90th Percentile £729 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.63 - -
Median hourly rate £34.65 - -
75th Percentile £34.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 - -

All Process and 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 1,649 1,913 2,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 92.10% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,220 1,918
10th Percentile £325 £384 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £763 £788 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £15.43
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% -36.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration 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 15 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.49%) Confluence
3 4 (2.44%) CMS
4 3 (1.83%) SAS
5 2 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.22%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.22%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.22%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.61%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.73%) Azure
2 20 (12.20%) AWS
3 16 (9.76%) GCP
4 15 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.10%) SaaS
7 8 (4.88%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.27%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.66%) IaaS
10 5 (3.05%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.44%) OCI
11 4 (2.44%) PaaS
11 4 (2.44%) ShareGate
11 4 (2.44%) Slack
12 3 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.10%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) Firewall
3 4 (2.44%) DHCP
3 4 (2.44%) NGFW
3 4 (2.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.83%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.61%) NAS
5 1 (0.61%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (7.32%) Power BI
2 6 (3.66%) Metadata
3 4 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.83%) Base SAS
4 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.22%) Big Data
5 2 (1.22%) DataStage
5 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.22%) Tableau
6 1 (0.61%) MS Access
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.54%) JIRA
2 5 (3.05%) GitLab
3 4 (2.44%) Gradle
3 4 (2.44%) Maven
3 4 (2.44%) Selenium
3 4 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.83%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (42.68%) Finance
2 43 (26.22%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.20%) Banking
4 19 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.66%) Back Office
7 6 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.44%) Front Office
9 4 (2.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.22%) International Banking
11 2 (1.22%) Law
11 2 (1.22%) Marketing
11 2 (1.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (21.95%) Analyst
2 22 (13.41%) Architect
3 15 (9.15%) Business Analyst
3 15 (9.15%) Project Manager
4 11 (6.71%) Developer
4 11 (6.71%) Lead
5 10 (6.10%) Data Analyst
5 10 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (5.49%) Consultant
7 7 (4.27%) Data Architect
8 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.66%) Senior
8 6 (3.66%) Test Analyst
9 5 (3.05%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.05%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.44%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (2.44%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.44%) Network Support
10 4 (2.44%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.88%) XML
2 4 (2.44%) ADO
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.83%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.22%) CSS
4 2 (1.22%) HTML
4 2 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.22%) REST
4 2 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.22%) Spring
5 1 (0.61%) FpML
5 1 (0.61%) JSON
5 1 (0.61%) Kafka
5 1 (0.61%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.61%) Node.js
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.61%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.61%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.44%) Anti-Spyware
5 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.83%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.22%) NHS
7 2 (1.22%) PKI
7 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.76%) Windows
2 9 (5.49%) Linux
3 4 (2.44%) Unix
3 4 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) AIX
5 1 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.27%) Data Migration
2 33 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.51%) Agile
4 31 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (10.37%) Data Cleansing
6 15 (9.15%) Data Governance
6 15 (9.15%) Validation
7 14 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (7.93%) Roadmaps
8 13 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (7.32%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.32%) Data Analysis
9 12 (7.32%) DevOps
9 12 (7.32%) Project Delivery
10 11 (6.71%) ERP
10 11 (6.71%) ETL
10 11 (6.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.71%) Risk Management
11 10 (6.10%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.24%) SQL
2 16 (9.76%) Python
3 13 (7.93%) Java
3 13 (7.93%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.05%) Bash
5 4 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.83%) Groovy
6 3 (1.83%) VBScript
7 2 (1.22%) C#
7 2 (1.22%) PROC SQL
7 2 (1.22%) SAS Macro
7 2 (1.22%) VBA
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) COBOL
8 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.61%) VC++
Qualifications
1 11 (6.71%) Degree
2 10 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.83%) CBAP
6 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) OCP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMP
7 1 (0.61%) RHCE
7 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
2 6 (3.66%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) EMIR
5 1 (0.61%) GAAP
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (6.10%) Terraform
2 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.44%) Argo
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.83%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.61%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.54%) Oracle
3 12 (7.32%) Google
4 11 (6.71%) SAP
5 6 (3.66%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.05%) VMware
7 4 (2.44%) Adobe
7 4 (2.44%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.44%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.83%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.83%) Cisco
8 3 (1.83%) Databricks
8 3 (1.83%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.83%) Murex
8 3 (1.83%) Splunk
9 2 (1.22%) Citrix
9 2 (1.22%) IBM
9 2 (1.22%) Informatica
9 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.22%) Salesforce