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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 185 177 189
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.41% 9.77% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.58% 10.66% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 114 139
10th Percentile £420 £366 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £775 £759 £796
Central London median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.05% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 1,749 1,661 2,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.96% 91.67% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,027 1,505
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £670 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.25 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.67 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 2 March 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 13 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.78%) Confluence
3 3 (1.62%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.62%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.08%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.08%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.54%) Maximo
4 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.57%) Azure
2 37 (20.00%) AWS
3 16 (8.65%) GitHub
4 14 (7.57%) GCP
5 12 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.24%) SaaS
10 5 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.16%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.16%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.16%) OCI
11 4 (2.16%) Serverless
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.62%) dbt
12 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) Firewall
1 6 (3.24%) Network Security
2 3 (1.62%) MPLS
2 3 (1.62%) VPN
3 2 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.08%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.08%) WAN
4 1 (0.54%) BGP
4 1 (0.54%) DHCP
4 1 (0.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.54%) NAS
4 1 (0.54%) SAN
4 1 (0.54%) VLAN
4 1 (0.54%) VSAN
4 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (5.41%) Power BI
3 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.70%) MySQL
4 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.62%) Metadata
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.62%) Tableau
7 2 (1.08%) DataStage
7 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.08%) OLAP
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (7.57%) JIRA
2 4 (2.16%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.08%) Toad
4 1 (0.54%) ERwin
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) gulp
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) MSI
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.54%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.54%) Selenium
4 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 75 (40.54%) Finance
2 39 (21.08%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.81%) Banking
5 10 (5.41%) Front Office
6 8 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.78%) Legal
8 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.16%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.16%) Law
11 3 (1.62%) Back Office
11 3 (1.62%) Retail
12 2 (1.08%) International Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Military
12 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (14.59%) Senior
2 25 (13.51%) Architect
3 24 (12.97%) Analyst
4 22 (11.89%) Business Analyst
5 21 (11.35%) Project Manager
6 19 (10.27%) Consultant
7 17 (9.19%) Lead
8 13 (7.03%) Migration Manager
9 11 (5.95%) Migration Project Manager
10 9 (4.86%) Developer
11 7 (3.78%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (3.78%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.24%) Migration Consultant
12 6 (3.24%) Programme Manager
12 6 (3.24%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.24%) Middleware
2 5 (2.70%) XML
3 4 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.08%) EDI
5 2 (1.08%) Flash
5 2 (1.08%) Node.js
5 2 (1.08%) OpenID
5 2 (1.08%) Playwright
5 2 (1.08%) PySpark
5 2 (1.08%) REST
5 2 (1.08%) SAML
5 2 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.08%) SPFx
6 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.54%) FHIR
6 1 (0.54%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.54%) IDoc
6 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.54%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.19%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.95%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.16%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.62%) Derivative
8 3 (1.62%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.08%) Equities
9 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.08%) NHS
9 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.08%) Replication
9 2 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Windows
2 9 (4.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.16%) Linux
3 4 (2.16%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.19%) Data Migration
2 47 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (21.08%) Agile
4 29 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.59%) Validation
7 24 (12.97%) Project Management
8 23 (12.43%) Analytics
9 22 (11.89%) DevOps
9 22 (11.89%) ETL
10 19 (10.27%) CI/CD
11 18 (9.73%) Project Delivery
12 17 (9.19%) ERP
13 16 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.03%) Data Governance
15 13 (7.03%) Data Modelling
15 13 (7.03%) PRINCE2
16 12 (6.49%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.46%) SQL
2 12 (6.49%) Python
3 8 (4.32%) Java
4 5 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.62%) Bash
5 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.08%) ABAP
6 2 (1.08%) C#
6 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.08%) Perl
6 2 (1.08%) PHP
6 2 (1.08%) Scala
6 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.54%) C
7 1 (0.54%) C++
7 1 (0.54%) ProC
7 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) PMP
4 11 (5.95%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.86%) Degree
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CFA
9 1 (0.54%) MCSA
9 1 (0.54%) MCSE
9 1 (0.54%) OCP
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.54%) RHCE
9 1 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.35%) GDPR
2 19 (10.27%) Data Quality
3 17 (9.19%) QA
4 14 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.86%) NIST
6 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.62%) GAAP
7 3 (1.62%) IFRS
7 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.08%) SEPA
9 1 (0.54%) Basel III
9 1 (0.54%) EMIR
9 1 (0.54%) HL7
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.54%) TARGET2
9 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.24%) Docker
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.54%) NFS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (9.73%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.16%) Ansible
5 3 (1.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.54%) CASB
6 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 37 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.89%) SAP
3 21 (11.35%) Oracle
4 10 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 8 (4.32%) Google
5 8 (4.32%) VMware
5 8 (4.32%) Workday
6 5 (2.70%) Informatica
7 4 (2.16%) Databricks
7 4 (2.16%) Murex
7 4 (2.16%) Pure Storage
7 4 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.62%) Ahrefs
8 3 (1.62%) Talend
9 2 (1.08%) Adobe
9 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.08%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.54%) FIS