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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 265 155 178
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.05% 9.07% 8.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.90% 9.68% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 92 131
10th Percentile £406 £366 £363
25th Percentile £455 £434 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £638
90th Percentile £789 £774 £700
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +70.04% - -

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 2,055 1,601 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.70% 93.74% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,015 1,375
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -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 12 June 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 12 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.89%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.26%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.89%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.89%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.51%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.75%) iTrent
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.75%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.38%) Maximo
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.38%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.77%) Azure
2 48 (18.11%) AWS
3 22 (8.30%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.66%) GCP
5 13 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.53%) GitHub
7 11 (4.15%) Serverless
8 9 (3.40%) OCI
9 7 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.64%) SaaS
9 7 (2.64%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.26%) dbt
10 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.51%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Firewall
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
2 4 (1.51%) VLAN
3 3 (1.13%) VSAN
4 2 (0.75%) BGP
4 2 (0.75%) DNS
4 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.75%) MPLS
4 2 (0.75%) OSPF
4 2 (0.75%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 2 (0.75%) Wireless
5 1 (0.38%) 802.11
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) DVB
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) TACACS
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) Power BI
2 14 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.64%) Metadata
5 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.51%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.13%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.13%) Tableau
9 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.75%) OLAP
9 2 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.38%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 16 (6.04%) JIRA
2 6 (2.26%) GitLab
3 5 (1.89%) Git
3 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Gradle
5 1 (0.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) MSI
5 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (34.72%) Finance
2 47 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.70%) Banking
4 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.91%) Financial Institution
6 13 (4.91%) General Ledger
7 9 (3.40%) Law
8 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Retail
11 4 (1.51%) Front Office
11 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Back Office
13 2 (0.75%) International Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (17.74%) Architect
2 36 (13.58%) Consultant
3 34 (12.83%) Lead
4 26 (9.81%) Analyst
5 23 (8.68%) Project Manager
5 23 (8.68%) Senior
6 16 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.28%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.28%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.53%) Migration Manager
9 12 (4.53%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (4.15%) Azure Architect
10 11 (4.15%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.77%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.77%) Data Migration Lead
11 10 (3.77%) Developer
12 9 (3.40%) Migration Consultant
12 9 (3.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.40%) Kafka
3 7 (2.64%) Middleware
4 6 (2.26%) PySpark
4 6 (2.26%) REST
5 4 (1.51%) React
5 4 (1.51%) RESTful
5 4 (1.51%) Spring
5 4 (1.51%) XML
6 3 (1.13%) .NET
6 3 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.13%) JSON
7 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.75%) ADO
7 2 (0.75%) EDI
7 2 (0.75%) Flash
7 2 (0.75%) Redux
7 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.38%) IDoc
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.43%) Cloud Native
1 25 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.02%) Mainframe
2 8 (3.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.89%) Derivative
4 5 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.51%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.51%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.51%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.51%) Replication
6 3 (1.13%) Equities
7 2 (0.75%) Clustering
7 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.75%) NHS
7 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Linux
3 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) SUSE
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.72%) Data Migration
2 56 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (16.60%) Agile
4 40 (15.09%) Validation
5 34 (12.83%) Project Delivery
6 32 (12.08%) DevOps
7 31 (11.70%) CI/CD
8 28 (10.57%) Analytics
9 27 (10.19%) ERP
9 27 (10.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (9.81%) ETL
11 25 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (9.43%) Project Management
12 24 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.68%) Data Modelling
14 22 (8.30%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (7.17%) Data Governance
17 18 (6.79%) Roadmaps
18 16 (6.04%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.34%) SQL
2 24 (9.06%) Python
3 7 (2.64%) Java
4 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.51%) Bash
5 4 (1.51%) Bicep
5 4 (1.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.13%) C#
7 2 (0.75%) ABAP
7 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.28%) PMP
4 13 (4.91%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.64%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.64%) Degree
6 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.38%) CCNA
8 1 (0.38%) CCNP
8 1 (0.38%) CISA
8 1 (0.38%) CWNA
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) MCSA
8 1 (0.38%) MCSE
8 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.42%) GDPR
3 14 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.15%) NIST
5 8 (3.02%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.89%) PMO
8 4 (1.51%) GAAP
8 4 (1.51%) IFRS
9 2 (0.75%) GRC
9 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) PSD2
9 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.75%) SEPA
9 2 (0.75%) SLA
10 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.38%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (2.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.66%) Terraform
2 14 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) vMotion
6 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.58%) Oracle
3 28 (10.57%) SAP
4 12 (4.53%) Databricks
5 10 (3.77%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.40%) Workday
7 8 (3.02%) Citrix
7 8 (3.02%) Google
8 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.89%) Informatica
10 4 (1.51%) Pure Storage
10 4 (1.51%) VMware
11 3 (1.13%) Cisco
11 3 (1.13%) IBM
11 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.75%) Murex
12 2 (0.75%) Remedy
13 1 (0.38%) Klarna
13 1 (0.38%) PayPal