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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Migration 181 192 236
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.85% 9.32% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.88% 10.11% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 122 173
10th Percentile £405 £363 £440
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £736 £799
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,663 1,899 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 92.18% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,159 1,591
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.80 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -35.93%

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 25 December 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 19 (10.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.87%) Confluence
3 3 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) CICS
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (6.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.10%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.10%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.10%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.55%) Maximo
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.55%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.18%) Azure
2 27 (14.92%) AWS
3 18 (9.94%) GCP
4 15 (8.29%) GitHub
4 15 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.87%) SaaS
8 6 (3.31%) IaaS
8 6 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.76%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.21%) PaaS
10 4 (2.21%) ShareGate
10 4 (2.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) Firewall
2 5 (2.76%) Network Security
3 3 (1.66%) DNS
3 3 (1.66%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) Internet
4 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.55%) MPLS
4 1 (0.55%) NAS
4 1 (0.55%) NGFW
4 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.18%) Power BI
2 11 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.21%) DataStage
5 4 (2.21%) MySQL
5 4 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.66%) Metadata
6 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.10%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.21%) Selenium
2 4 (2.21%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.66%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) GitLab
3 3 (1.66%) Gradle
3 3 (1.66%) Maven
4 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.10%) Toad
5 1 (0.55%) ERwin
5 1 (0.55%) gulp
5 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.55%) Postman
5 1 (0.55%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 66 (36.46%) Finance
2 34 (18.78%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Banking
5 12 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.97%) Front Office
8 7 (3.87%) Back Office
9 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.76%) Law
11 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.21%) Legal
12 3 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.10%) Marketing
13 2 (1.10%) Military
13 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (16.02%) Analyst
2 23 (12.71%) Architect
2 23 (12.71%) Business Analyst
3 20 (11.05%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.05%) Senior
4 15 (8.29%) Lead
5 12 (6.63%) Consultant
6 11 (6.08%) Developer
7 8 (4.42%) Migration Manager
8 7 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Migration Specialist
9 6 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.31%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (3.31%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (3.31%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Business IT Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.76%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) XML
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.66%) PySpark
3 3 (1.66%) SPFx
4 2 (1.10%) JSON
4 2 (1.10%) Middleware
4 2 (1.10%) Node.js
4 2 (1.10%) OpenID
4 2 (1.10%) Playwright
4 2 (1.10%) React
4 2 (1.10%) REST
4 2 (1.10%) SAML
4 2 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.10%) XSLT
5 1 (0.55%) Kafka
5 1 (0.55%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.63%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.21%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.66%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.10%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.10%) NHS
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.55%) Equities
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.73%) Windows
2 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.31%) Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Unix
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) AIX
6 1 (0.55%) Solaris
6 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.28%) Data Migration
2 41 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (19.89%) Agile
4 28 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.26%) DevOps
7 23 (12.71%) Analytics
8 22 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.94%) ETL
9 18 (9.94%) Project Management
10 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (8.84%) Data Governance
11 16 (8.84%) Project Delivery
12 15 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (8.29%) Validation
13 13 (7.18%) ERP
13 13 (7.18%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.08%) Data Modelling
15 10 (5.52%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.02%) SQL
2 12 (6.63%) Java
3 11 (6.08%) Python
4 8 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.21%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.66%) Bash
6 3 (1.66%) C#
7 2 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.10%) Perl
7 2 (1.10%) PHP
7 2 (1.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) COBOL
8 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.55%) ProC
8 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.21%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.21%) PMP
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) CFA
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) OCP
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) RHCE
7 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.39%) QA
2 16 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 12 (6.63%) GDPR
4 8 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.66%) NIST
5 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.10%) EMIR
6 2 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.55%) SEPA
7 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.87%) Docker
3 5 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (10.50%) Terraform
2 10 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.66%) Ansible
4 3 (1.66%) Argo
5 2 (1.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.55%) CASB
6 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 39 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.94%) Oracle
3 15 (8.29%) SAP
4 13 (7.18%) Google
5 7 (3.87%) Databricks
6 6 (3.31%) VMware
7 4 (2.21%) Adobe
7 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.21%) Workday
8 3 (1.66%) Ahrefs
8 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco
9 2 (1.10%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.10%) IBM
9 2 (1.10%) Informatica
9 2 (1.10%) Murex
9 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.10%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (1.10%) Talend