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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 222 176 186
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.14% 10.09% 8.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.72% 10.90% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 113 130
10th Percentile £406 £363 £387
25th Percentile £475 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.82% - -

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 1,895 1,614 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.57% 92.49% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,035 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.39
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +42.72% -43.21%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £32.83 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.03% -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 14 April 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 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.25%) Confluence
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Camunda
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (6.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.25%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.45%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.45%) Maximo
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (26.13%) Azure
2 48 (21.62%) AWS
3 19 (8.56%) GCP
4 15 (6.76%) GitHub
5 14 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.05%) OCI
8 8 (3.60%) Serverless
8 8 (3.60%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.70%) dbt
11 5 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.25%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.25%) SaaS
12 4 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.05%) Firewall
2 7 (3.15%) Network Security
3 4 (1.80%) VPN
4 3 (1.35%) MPLS
5 2 (0.90%) BGP
5 2 (0.90%) DHCP
5 2 (0.90%) DNS
5 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.90%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.90%) VLAN
5 2 (0.90%) VSAN
5 2 (0.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) 802.11
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.45%) HSRP
6 1 (0.45%) NAS
6 1 (0.45%) NGFW
6 1 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.41%) Power BI
3 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.70%) Metadata
5 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.25%) Tableau
6 3 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.90%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.90%) MySQL
7 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) OLAP
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.90%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.45%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 15 (6.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.35%) Git
2 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.90%) Toad
4 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.45%) ERwin
4 1 (0.45%) Gradle
4 1 (0.45%) JUnit
4 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.45%) Mockito
4 1 (0.45%) MSI
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.45%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
4 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 75 (33.78%) Finance
2 39 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.56%) Banking
5 11 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.50%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.15%) Law
7 7 (3.15%) Legal
8 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.70%) Front Office
9 5 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.35%) Retail
11 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.90%) International Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Military
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (16.67%) Architect
2 32 (14.41%) Senior
3 30 (13.51%) Lead
4 25 (11.26%) Analyst
5 24 (10.81%) Consultant
6 23 (10.36%) Project Manager
7 20 (9.01%) Business Analyst
8 16 (7.21%) Migration Manager
9 14 (6.31%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (4.50%) Data Migration Lead
11 9 (4.05%) Developer
12 8 (3.60%) Azure Architect
12 8 (3.60%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.60%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (3.15%) Migration Analyst
13 7 (3.15%) Senior Business Analyst
14 6 (2.70%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.70%) Middleware
3 4 (1.80%) Kafka
3 4 (1.80%) Spring
4 3 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.35%) PySpark
4 3 (1.35%) XML
5 2 (0.90%) EDI
5 2 (0.90%) Flash
5 2 (0.90%) OpenID
5 2 (0.90%) RESTful
5 2 (0.90%) SAML
5 2 (0.90%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.45%) JSON
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.45%) REST
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.01%) Cloud Native
1 20 (9.01%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.90%) BYOD
8 2 (0.90%) Derivative
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.66%) Windows
2 9 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.70%) Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) AIX
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) SUSE
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.38%) Data Migration
2 52 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (19.82%) Agile
4 31 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (13.96%) Validation
5 28 (12.61%) DevOps
5 28 (12.61%) Project Delivery
6 26 (11.71%) Project Management
7 25 (11.26%) Analytics
7 25 (11.26%) CI/CD
8 22 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (9.46%) ETL
10 20 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (8.11%) ERP
11 18 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (7.66%) Data Modelling
13 15 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (6.76%) Data Governance
13 15 (6.76%) PRINCE2
13 15 (6.76%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.12%) SQL
2 14 (6.31%) Python
3 8 (3.60%) Java
4 6 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.25%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.35%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) ABAP
7 2 (0.90%) Bicep
7 2 (0.90%) Perl
7 2 (0.90%) PHP
7 2 (0.90%) Scala
7 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.45%) ProC
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.45%) VB
8 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.31%) PMP
4 13 (5.86%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.60%) Degree
6 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) CFA
9 1 (0.45%) MCSA
9 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.46%) GDPR
2 18 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (6.76%) QA
5 11 (4.95%) NIST
6 5 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.80%) PMO
8 3 (1.35%) GAAP
8 3 (1.35%) IFRS
8 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.90%) SEPA
9 2 (0.90%) SLA
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) HL7
10 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.45%) NCSC
10 1 (0.45%) PSD2
10 1 (0.45%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.60%) Docker
2 7 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.45%) NFS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.36%) Terraform
2 14 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.35%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) SCCM
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.45%) CASB
5 1 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.45%) vMotion
5 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.26%) Oracle
3 24 (10.81%) SAP
4 12 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.50%) Workday
6 8 (3.60%) Google
7 7 (3.15%) VMware
8 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.25%) Citrix
10 4 (1.80%) Informatica
10 4 (1.80%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.35%) Databricks
11 3 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.90%) Ahrefs
12 2 (0.90%) IBM
12 2 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.90%) Murex
13 1 (0.45%) Adobe
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco
13 1 (0.45%) Dell