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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 246 164 169
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.62% 9.72% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.53% 10.38% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 97 126
10th Percentile £406 £308 £363
25th Percentile £463 £438 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £638
90th Percentile £800 £768 £695
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £28.33 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £28.33 -
% change year-on-year +108.01% - -

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 1,963 1,580 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.76% 93.60% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 993 1,378
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 22 May 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 7 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.44%) Confluence
3 5 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (5.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.44%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.03%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.03%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.63%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.63%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.81%) iTrent
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.81%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.41%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 62 (25.20%) Azure
2 45 (18.29%) AWS
3 22 (8.94%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.50%) GCP
5 14 (5.69%) GitHub
6 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.66%) OCI
7 9 (3.66%) Serverless
8 8 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.85%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.44%) dbt
10 6 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.44%) SaaS
11 5 (2.03%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) Firewall
2 4 (1.63%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) VLAN
4 2 (0.81%) BGP
4 2 (0.81%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.81%) MPLS
4 2 (0.81%) OSPF
4 2 (0.81%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) VSAN
4 2 (0.81%) WAN
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) HSRP
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Multicast
5 1 (0.41%) NGFW
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) Power BI
2 17 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.44%) Metadata
5 5 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.63%) Tableau
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.81%) OLAP
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.81%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.41%) Logi Info
Development Applications
1 17 (6.91%) JIRA
2 5 (2.03%) Git
2 5 (2.03%) GitLab
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) Gradle
5 1 (0.41%) JUnit
5 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.41%) Mockito
5 1 (0.41%) MSI
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.41%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (32.52%) Finance
2 37 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.35%) Banking
5 15 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.47%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.07%) General Ledger
8 8 (3.25%) Law
8 8 (3.25%) Legal
9 5 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.63%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) Marketing
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.81%) International Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Military
12 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (18.29%) Architect
2 32 (13.01%) Lead
3 29 (11.79%) Consultant
4 26 (10.57%) Senior
5 24 (9.76%) Analyst
6 23 (9.35%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.69%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.88%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.88%) Migration Manager
9 12 (4.88%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (4.07%) Azure Architect
10 10 (4.07%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Data Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Data Migration Lead
11 9 (3.66%) Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (4.07%) Kafka
3 7 (2.85%) Middleware
4 5 (2.03%) PySpark
5 4 (1.63%) React
5 4 (1.63%) REST
5 4 (1.63%) RESTful
5 4 (1.63%) Spring
6 3 (1.22%) .NET
6 3 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.81%) Flash
7 2 (0.81%) Redux
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.81%) XML
8 1 (0.41%) EDI
8 1 (0.41%) jBPM
8 1 (0.41%) JMS
8 1 (0.41%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.85%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.63%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Replication
8 2 (0.81%) BYOD
8 2 (0.81%) Clustering
8 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) Equities
8 2 (0.81%) NHS
8 2 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.07%) Windows
2 5 (2.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.81%) SUSE
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.74%) Data Migration
2 43 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (17.07%) Agile
4 35 (14.23%) Validation
5 31 (12.60%) DevOps
6 30 (12.20%) Project Delivery
7 29 (11.79%) Analytics
8 27 (10.98%) CI/CD
9 26 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (10.16%) Project Management
11 23 (9.35%) ERP
11 23 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (8.94%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (8.54%) ETL
14 19 (7.72%) Data Governance
14 19 (7.72%) Data Modelling
14 19 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.45%) SQL
2 20 (8.13%) Python
3 8 (3.25%) Java
4 5 (2.03%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.22%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) Bicep
6 3 (1.22%) C#
6 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.81%) ABAP
7 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) ProC
8 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.10%) PMP
4 14 (5.69%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.25%) Degree
6 7 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) CISA
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CWNA
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MCSA
8 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.91%) GDPR
3 13 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.47%) NIST
5 10 (4.07%) QA
6 5 (2.03%) PMO
7 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.22%) GAAP
8 3 (1.22%) IFRS
9 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.81%) NCSC
9 2 (0.81%) SEPA
9 2 (0.81%) SLA
10 1 (0.41%) Basel III
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) HL7
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.41%) NFS
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.10%) Terraform
2 14 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
5 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.41%) vMotion
5 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.60%) SAP
3 30 (12.20%) Oracle
4 10 (4.07%) CyberArk
4 10 (4.07%) Workday
5 9 (3.66%) Google
6 8 (3.25%) Citrix
6 8 (3.25%) Databricks
7 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.63%) Informatica
8 4 (1.63%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.22%) VMware
10 2 (0.81%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco
10 2 (0.81%) IBM
10 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.81%) Murex
10 2 (0.81%) Remedy
11 1 (0.41%) iManage