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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Migration 170 200 276
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.76% 9.56% 9.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.41% 10.45% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 137 192
10th Percentile £365 £363 £463
25th Percentile £443 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% +4.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £563
% change year-on-year - +2.22% +2.27%

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 1,633 1,914 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.49% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,173 1,741
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £764 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 November 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 & 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 15 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.76%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) CICS
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Maximo
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.59%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.88%) Azure
2 24 (14.12%) AWS
3 19 (11.18%) GCP
3 19 (11.18%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.06%) SaaS
6 9 (5.29%) Power Automate
7 8 (4.71%) GitHub
7 8 (4.71%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.12%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.53%) IaaS
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.35%) PaaS
11 4 (2.35%) ShareGate
11 4 (2.35%) Slack
12 3 (1.76%) dbt
12 3 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) DNS
2 4 (2.35%) Firewall
3 3 (1.76%) DHCP
3 3 (1.76%) Network Security
3 3 (1.76%) VPN
4 2 (1.18%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) BGP
5 1 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.59%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.59%) MPLS
5 1 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.59%) NGFW
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.82%) Power BI
2 10 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.35%) DataStage
5 4 (2.35%) Metadata
5 4 (2.35%) MySQL
6 3 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.18%) Tableau
8 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 14 (8.24%) JIRA
2 5 (2.94%) GitLab
3 4 (2.35%) Gradle
3 4 (2.35%) Maven
3 4 (2.35%) Selenium
3 4 (2.35%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.76%) Git
5 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.59%) ERwin
5 1 (0.59%) gulp
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) Postman
5 1 (0.59%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.59%) webpack
5 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (44.71%) Finance
2 40 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.94%) Banking
5 10 (5.88%) Front Office
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.71%) Back Office
8 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.35%) Law
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.12%) Analyst
2 23 (13.53%) Architect
3 21 (12.35%) Business Analyst
4 16 (9.41%) Project Manager
5 13 (7.65%) Lead
6 12 (7.06%) Consultant
6 12 (7.06%) Senior
7 11 (6.47%) Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.12%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Business IT Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) IT Business Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Migration Specialist
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.47%) XML
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (2.35%) REST
4 3 (1.76%) CSS
4 3 (1.76%) HTML
4 3 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.76%) PySpark
4 3 (1.76%) SPFx
5 2 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.18%) JSON
5 2 (1.18%) Middleware
5 2 (1.18%) Node.js
5 2 (1.18%) OpenID
5 2 (1.18%) React
5 2 (1.18%) SAML
5 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.18%) XSLT
6 1 (0.59%) Kafka
6 1 (0.59%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.71%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.76%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.18%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 2 (1.18%) PKI
7 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.24%) Windows
2 7 (4.12%) Linux
3 4 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.59%) AIX
5 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.35%) Data Migration
2 37 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (18.82%) Agile
4 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (11.76%) Analytics
7 18 (10.59%) DevOps
8 17 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 17 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (9.41%) ETL
10 15 (8.82%) Data Governance
10 15 (8.82%) Data Modelling
10 15 (8.82%) Validation
11 14 (8.24%) Data Cleansing
11 14 (8.24%) Project Management
11 14 (8.24%) Risk Management
11 14 (8.24%) Roadmaps
12 13 (7.65%) Project Delivery
12 13 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.29%) SQL
2 16 (9.41%) Python
3 15 (8.82%) Java
4 12 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.35%) Bash
5 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.76%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) C++
7 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.18%) Scala
7 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.59%) COBOL
8 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.59%) Groovy
8 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.59%) VBA
8 1 (0.59%) VBScript
8 1 (0.59%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.24%) Degree
3 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.76%) CBAP
7 2 (1.18%) PMP
8 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.59%) CFA
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) OCP
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.59%) RHCE
8 1 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.88%) QA
3 9 (5.29%) GDPR
4 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.18%) EMIR
5 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.18%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) SEPA
6 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.12%) Docker
3 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (7.06%) Terraform
2 9 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.35%) Argo
5 2 (1.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.59%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.59%) CASB
6 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.59%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.41%) Oracle
3 12 (7.06%) Google
4 7 (4.12%) Databricks
5 6 (3.53%) SAP
5 6 (3.53%) VMware
6 4 (2.35%) Informatica
6 4 (2.35%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.76%) Adobe
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco
7 3 (1.76%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.76%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.76%) Murex
7 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.76%) Workday
8 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.18%) Citrix
8 2 (1.18%) IBM
8 2 (1.18%) Splunk
8 2 (1.18%) Talend