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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 277 166 181
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.34% 9.44% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.22% 10.07% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 100 131
10th Percentile £405 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% - -13.73%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.46 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +28.31% - -

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 2,095 1,649 1,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.80% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,053 1,338
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.89% +11.47% -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 30 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 17 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.81%) Confluence
2 5 (1.81%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.08%) Apache
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Oracle General Ledger
1 7 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.81%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.81%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.08%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.72%) iTrent
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.72%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.72%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.36%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.94%) Azure
2 47 (16.97%) AWS
3 22 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.05%) GCP
5 11 (3.97%) GitHub
5 11 (3.97%) Serverless
6 9 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.25%) OCI
7 7 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.53%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.53%) SaaS
7 7 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.17%) dbt
9 5 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.81%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.89%) Firewall
2 6 (2.17%) Network Security
3 4 (1.44%) DNS
3 4 (1.44%) VLAN
3 4 (1.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.08%) VSAN
4 3 (1.08%) WAN
5 2 (0.72%) BGP
5 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.72%) LAN
5 2 (0.72%) MPLS
5 2 (0.72%) OSPF
5 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) DVB
6 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.36%) TACACS
6 1 (0.36%) VRRP
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.22%) Power BI
2 14 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.53%) Metadata
5 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.44%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.08%) Tableau
9 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.72%) OLAP
9 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.50%) JIRA
2 6 (2.17%) GitLab
3 5 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) Gradle
5 1 (0.36%) JUnit
5 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.36%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
5 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (34.66%) Finance
2 53 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.91%) Banking
4 31 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.05%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.33%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.89%) Law
10 6 (2.17%) Legal
10 6 (2.17%) Retail
11 4 (1.44%) Front Office
12 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.08%) International Banking
12 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.72%) Back Office
13 2 (0.72%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (18.05%) Architect
2 38 (13.72%) Lead
3 37 (13.36%) Consultant
4 32 (11.55%) Analyst
5 21 (7.58%) Senior
6 20 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 19 (6.86%) Business Analyst
8 17 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.69%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.69%) Data Migration Lead
11 11 (3.97%) Azure Architect
11 11 (3.97%) Migration Analyst
12 10 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.61%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.61%) Developer
12 10 (3.61%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.61%) Migration Project Manager
13 9 (3.25%) Data Migration Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.61%) Kafka
3 9 (3.25%) REST
4 7 (2.53%) Middleware
5 6 (2.17%) PySpark
6 5 (1.81%) React
6 5 (1.81%) XML
7 4 (1.44%) JSON
7 4 (1.44%) RESTful
7 4 (1.44%) Spring
8 3 (1.08%) .NET
9 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.72%) ADO
9 2 (0.72%) EDI
9 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.72%) Flash
9 2 (0.72%) Redux
9 2 (0.72%) SOAP
9 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.36%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.39%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.39%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (2.89%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.89%) Mainframe
2 8 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.81%) Derivative
5 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.44%) Replication
7 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.08%) Equities
7 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.72%) Clustering
8 2 (0.72%) NHS
8 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.97%) Windows
2 5 (1.81%) Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) SUSE
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.38%) Data Migration
2 57 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (14.80%) Validation
4 40 (14.44%) Agile
5 35 (12.64%) Project Delivery
6 33 (11.91%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.19%) DevOps
7 31 (11.19%) ERP
8 30 (10.83%) Analytics
9 28 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (9.75%) ETL
11 24 (8.66%) Data Modelling
11 24 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (7.58%) Project Management
14 19 (6.86%) Roadmaps
15 18 (6.50%) Data Governance
16 15 (5.42%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.08%) SQL
2 28 (10.11%) Python
3 8 (2.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.17%) Java
5 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.44%) Bicep
7 3 (1.08%) Bash
7 3 (1.08%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) ABAP
8 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.97%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.97%) PMP
4 7 (2.53%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.53%) Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CCNA
7 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.36%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) CISA
8 1 (0.36%) CWNA
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.42%) GDPR
3 12 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.25%) NIST
5 8 (2.89%) QA
6 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.81%) PMO
8 3 (1.08%) GAAP
8 3 (1.08%) GRC
8 3 (1.08%) IFRS
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.72%) NCSC
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SEPA
9 2 (0.72%) SLA
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (2.89%) Docker
2 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.05%) Terraform
3 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.08%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) SCCM
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) vMotion
6 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.72%) Oracle
3 25 (9.03%) SAP
4 13 (4.69%) Databricks
5 9 (3.25%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.89%) Citrix
6 8 (2.89%) Google
6 8 (2.89%) Workday
7 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.81%) Cisco
8 5 (1.81%) VMware
9 4 (1.44%) IFS
9 4 (1.44%) Informatica
9 4 (1.44%) Murex
9 4 (1.44%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.08%) IBM
10 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.72%) Adobe
11 2 (0.72%) Remedy