Migration Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Migration London / City of London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	33	26	27
Rank change year-on-year	-7	+1
Contract jobs citing Migration	188	236	338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	5.76%	7.01%	5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	6.53%	8.18%	7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	143	172	266
Median daily rate	£495	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.00%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£300	£303
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£581
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+2.50%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
Median hourly rate	-	-	£14.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.50	£20.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-29.26%	+24.24%

Migration is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	2879	2886	4657
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	88.23%	85.71%	81.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	2211	2359	3662
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£465
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+2.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£335	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	24	24	56
Median hourly rate	£20.00	£19.00	£24.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-22.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£15.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.00	£33.35	£55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.75	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+21.92%	-5.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London citing Migration as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the City of London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Migration in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Migration in the City of London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Migration in the City of London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Migration in the City of London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Migration in the City of London

Migration
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Migration also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Migration.

1	111 (31.81%)	Finance
2	75 (21.49%)	Data Migration
3	69 (19.77%)	Windows
4	66 (18.91%)	Banking
5	53 (15.19%)	Stakeholder Management
6	51 (14.61%)	Agile Software Development
7	48 (13.75%)	Data Centre
8	47 (13.47%)	SQL
9	45 (12.89%)	Java
10	36 (10.32%)	Office 365
11	35 (10.03%)	Amazon AWS
11	35 (10.03%)	Active Directory
12	33 (9.46%)	Microsoft Azure
13	30 (8.60%)	VMware
13	30 (8.60%)	Microsoft

14	29 (8.31%)	Project Management
14	29 (8.31%)	Investment Banking
15	28 (8.02%)	Linux
16	27 (7.74%)	Business Intelligence
17	26 (7.45%)	PowerShell
18	25 (7.16%)	ETL
18	25 (7.16%)	SQL Server
18	25 (7.16%)	Unix
19	23 (6.59%)	Front Office
19	23 (6.59%)	PRINCE2
19	23 (6.59%)	SharePoint
19	23 (6.59%)	Cisco
19	23 (6.59%)	Security Cleared
19	23 (6.59%)	Analytical Skills
19	23 (6.59%)	Windows Server

Migration
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	23 (6.59%)	SharePoint
2	10 (2.87%)	Skype for Business
3	8 (2.29%)	Tomcat
4	6 (1.72%)	CMS
5	5 (1.43%)	Elasticsearch
6	4 (1.15%)	Adobe Experience Manager
6	4 (1.15%)	MS Exchange
7	3 (0.86%)	Apache Spark
7	3 (0.86%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	3 (0.86%)	SAS
7	3 (0.86%)	SharePoint 2010
8	2 (0.57%)	Apache
8	2 (0.57%)	Confluence
8	2 (0.57%)	Exchange Server 2010
8	2 (0.57%)	JBoss
8	2 (0.57%)	SharePoint 2013
9	1 (0.29%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	1 (0.29%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	1 (0.29%)	Sitecore CMS
9	1 (0.29%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	10 (2.87%)	Microsoft Excel
2	9 (2.58%)	Microsoft Office
2	9 (2.58%)	MS Visio
3	5 (1.43%)	Microsoft Project
4	2 (0.57%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.29%)	Acrobat
5	1 (0.29%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	10 (2.87%)	Dynamics CRM
2	5 (1.43%)	Sage 200
3	4 (1.15%)	Sage 50
4	3 (0.86%)	Oracle EBS
4	3 (0.86%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	3 (0.86%)	SAP S/4HANA
5	2 (0.57%)	Eikon
5	2 (0.57%)	SAP ERP
5	2 (0.57%)	SAP FI-AR
6	1 (0.29%)	Dynamics NAV
6	1 (0.29%)	Hyperion Planning
6	1 (0.29%)	Maximo
6	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Assets
6	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Cash Management
6	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Payables
6	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Payroll
6	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Receivables
6	1 (0.29%)	SAP CRM
6	1 (0.29%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	1 (0.29%)	Summit

Cloud Services
1	36 (10.32%)	Office 365
2	35 (10.03%)	Amazon AWS
3	33 (9.46%)	Microsoft Azure
4	9 (2.58%)	IaaS
4	9 (2.58%)	OpenShift
5	5 (1.43%)	Azure Active Directory
5	5 (1.43%)	OneDrive
5	5 (1.43%)	SaaS
6	4 (1.15%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	4 (1.15%)	GitHub
6	4 (1.15%)	PaaS
7	3 (0.86%)	G Suite
7	3 (0.86%)	Yammer
8	1 (0.29%)	Adobe Analytics
8	1 (0.29%)	Amazon EC2
8	1 (0.29%)	Amazon S3
8	1 (0.29%)	AWS Lambda
8	1 (0.29%)	Cloud Computing
8	1 (0.29%)	Google Drive
8	1 (0.29%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	19 (5.44%)	WAN
2	16 (4.58%)	Firewall
3	15 (4.30%)	Skype
4	14 (4.01%)	LAN
5	10 (2.87%)	SAN
6	9 (2.58%)	DNS
6	9 (2.58%)	VPN
7	8 (2.29%)	BGP
7	8 (2.29%)	TCP/IP
7	8 (2.29%)	Wireless
8	7 (2.01%)	OSPF
8	7 (2.01%)	VXLAN
9	6 (1.72%)	iSCSI
9	6 (1.72%)	Structured Cabling
10	4 (1.15%)	Unified Communications
10	4 (1.15%)	VoIP
11	3 (0.86%)	DHCP
11	3 (0.86%)	Internet
11	3 (0.86%)	Intranet
11	3 (0.86%)	Network Security

Database & Business Intelligence
1	25 (7.16%)	SQL Server
2	22 (6.30%)	Data Warehouse
3	11 (3.15%)	BusinessObjects
4	10 (2.87%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	7 (2.01%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	5 (1.43%)	SQL Server 2008
7	4 (1.15%)	Big Data
7	4 (1.15%)	Crystal Reports
7	4 (1.15%)	Oracle Database
7	4 (1.15%)	PostgreSQL
7	4 (1.15%)	Power BI
7	4 (1.15%)	SQL Server 2014
8	3 (0.86%)	Amazon Redshift
8	3 (0.86%)	Apache Cassandra
8	3 (0.86%)	Base SAS
8	3 (0.86%)	Hadoop
8	3 (0.86%)	Relational Database
8	3 (0.86%)	SAP BW
8	3 (0.86%)	SAS Data Integration Studio
8	3 (0.86%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	8 (2.29%)	Cucumber
1	8 (2.29%)	JUnit
2	7 (2.01%)	Team Foundation Server
3	5 (1.43%)	Visual Studio
4	4 (1.15%)	JIRA
5	3 (0.86%)	Jenkins
5	3 (0.86%)	Selenium
6	2 (0.57%)	Bitbucket
6	2 (0.57%)	Git (software)
7	1 (0.29%)	LoadRunner
7	1 (0.29%)	LSMW
7	1 (0.29%)	MSI
7	1 (0.29%)	ReSharper
7	1 (0.29%)	SpecFlow

General
1	111 (31.81%)	Finance
2	66 (18.91%)	Banking
3	29 (8.31%)	Investment Banking
4	23 (6.59%)	Front Office
5	17 (4.87%)	Retail
6	15 (4.30%)	Marketing
7	10 (2.87%)	Advertising
8	8 (2.29%)	Legal
9	7 (2.01%)	Financial Institution
10	6 (1.72%)	Law
11	5 (1.43%)	Telecoms
12	4 (1.15%)	Publishing
13	3 (0.86%)	Back Office
13	3 (0.86%)	Retail Banking
14	2 (0.57%)	Corporate Banking
14	2 (0.57%)	Games
14	2 (0.57%)	International Banking
14	2 (0.57%)	Manufacturing
15	1 (0.29%)	Electronics
15	1 (0.29%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	61 (17.48%)	Analyst
2	54 (15.47%)	Developer
3	48 (13.75%)	Project Manager
4	33 (9.46%)	Business Analyst
5	31 (8.88%)	Architect
6	25 (7.16%)	Java Developer
7	20 (5.73%)	Consultant
8	17 (4.87%)	Migration Manager
9	12 (3.44%)	DevOps Engineer
9	12 (3.44%)	Front Office Developer
9	12 (3.44%)	Migration Analyst
9	12 (3.44%)	Migration Project Manager
10	11 (3.15%)	Data Analyst
10	11 (3.15%)	Data Architect
11	10 (2.87%)	Migration Engineer
12	9 (2.58%)	Senior Developer
12	9 (2.58%)	Technical Analyst
13	8 (2.29%)	Azure Engineer
13	8 (2.29%)	Data Manager
13	8 (2.29%)	Support Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	12 (3.44%)	Middleware
2	10 (2.87%)	TIBCO EMS
3	9 (2.58%)	HTML
3	9 (2.58%)	XML
4	8 (2.29%)	.NET
4	8 (2.29%)	WireMock
5	7 (2.01%)	AngularJS
5	7 (2.01%)	Web Services
6	5 (1.43%)	CSS
6	5 (1.43%)	Node.js
7	4 (1.15%)	ASP.NET
7	4 (1.15%)	RESTful
8	3 (0.86%)	Apache Camel
8	3 (0.86%)	JSON
8	3 (0.86%)	React
8	3 (0.86%)	Redux
8	3 (0.86%)	SAML
9	2 (0.57%)	Elastic Stack
9	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Fusion
9	2 (0.57%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	48 (13.75%)	Data Centre
2	23 (6.59%)	Analytical Skills
3	20 (5.73%)	Derivative
4	15 (4.30%)	Equity Derivative
5	13 (3.72%)	Equities
5	13 (3.72%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	7 (2.01%)	Management Information System
7	6 (1.72%)	Mainframe
8	5 (1.43%)	Greenfield Project
8	5 (1.43%)	NHS
8	5 (1.43%)	Public Cloud
9	4 (1.15%)	Computer Science
9	4 (1.15%)	Credit Derivative
9	4 (1.15%)	Credit Risk
9	4 (1.15%)	Fixed Income
9	4 (1.15%)	PMI
10	2 (0.57%)	Data Protection Act
10	2 (0.57%)	Hedge funds
10	2 (0.57%)	Reference Data
10	2 (0.57%)	Video Conferencing

Operating Systems
1	69 (19.77%)	Windows
2	28 (8.02%)	Linux
3	25 (7.16%)	Unix
4	23 (6.59%)	Windows Server
5	16 (4.58%)	Windows 10
6	9 (2.58%)	Windows Server 2012
7	8 (2.29%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	8 (2.29%)	Solaris
7	8 (2.29%)	Windows Server 2008
8	5 (1.43%)	Windows 7
9	2 (0.57%)	Android
9	2 (0.57%)	Apple iOS
10	1 (0.29%)	AIX
10	1 (0.29%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	75 (21.49%)	Data Migration
2	53 (15.19%)	Stakeholder Management
3	51 (14.61%)	Agile Software Development
4	29 (8.31%)	Project Management
5	27 (7.74%)	Business Intelligence
6	25 (7.16%)	ETL
7	23 (6.59%)	PRINCE2
8	22 (6.30%)	DevOps
9	21 (6.02%)	Multithreading
10	20 (5.73%)	Data Modelling
11	19 (5.44%)	Data Management
12	16 (4.58%)	Business Analysis
12	16 (4.58%)	Test Automation
13	15 (4.30%)	Analytics
13	15 (4.30%)	CRM
13	15 (4.30%)	User Acceptance Testing
14	14 (4.01%)	Electronic Trading
15	12 (3.44%)	ERP
15	12 (3.44%)	Risk Management
16	11 (3.15%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	47 (13.47%)	SQL
2	45 (12.89%)	Java
3	26 (7.45%)	PowerShell
4	17 (4.87%)	Python
5	13 (3.72%)	C#
6	8 (2.29%)	Bash Shell
6	8 (2.29%)	JavaScript
7	6 (1.72%)	T-SQL
8	5 (1.43%)	VBA
9	4 (1.15%)	VBScript
10	3 (0.86%)	Scala
11	2 (0.57%)	Apex Code
11	2 (0.57%)	C++
11	2 (0.57%)	Perl
11	2 (0.57%)	PHP
11	2 (0.57%)	Shell Script
12	1 (0.29%)	COBOL
12	1 (0.29%)	Korn
12	1 (0.29%)	R
12	1 (0.29%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	23 (6.59%)	Security Cleared
2	20 (5.73%)	SC Cleared
3	15 (4.30%)	Degree
4	10 (2.87%)	CCNA
4	10 (2.87%)	Cisco Certification
5	8 (2.29%)	CCNP
5	8 (2.29%)	PRINCE2 Certification
6	7 (2.01%)	Microsoft Certification
6	7 (2.01%)	PMI Certification
7	5 (1.43%)	MCSE
7	5 (1.43%)	PMP
8	4 (1.15%)	Computer Science Degree
8	4 (1.15%)	MCITP
9	2 (0.57%)	BPSS Clearance
9	2 (0.57%)	DV Cleared
9	2 (0.57%)	ISEB
9	2 (0.57%)	MCTS
9	2 (0.57%)	OCP
9	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Certification
9	2 (0.57%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	13 (3.72%)	Data Quality
2	6 (1.72%)	QA
3	2 (0.57%)	MiFID
3	2 (0.57%)	PMO
4	1 (0.29%)	P3O
4	1 (0.29%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	35 (10.03%)	Active Directory
2	15 (4.30%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	13 (3.72%)	Docker
4	5 (1.43%)	XenApp
5	4 (1.15%)	Hyper-V
6	3 (0.86%)	Microsoft App-V
6	3 (0.86%)	XenDesktop
7	2 (0.57%)	LXC
7	2 (0.57%)	VMware Server
7	2 (0.57%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.29%)	DFS Replication
8	1 (0.29%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
8	1 (0.29%)	Shibboleth
8	1 (0.29%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.29%)	Virtual Desktop
8	1 (0.29%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.29%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	19 (5.44%)	Ansible
2	12 (3.44%)	Puppet
2	12 (3.44%)	SCCM
3	9 (2.58%)	Kubernetes
4	8 (2.29%)	Grafana
4	8 (2.29%)	Kibana
4	8 (2.29%)	Prometheus
5	6 (1.72%)	Backup Exec
5	6 (1.72%)	NetBackup
6	5 (1.43%)	Opscode Chef
7	4 (1.15%)	Cisco CUCM
7	4 (1.15%)	Forefront Identity Manager
7	4 (1.15%)	SCOM
7	4 (1.15%)	Terraform
8	3 (0.86%)	Oracle Identity Management
9	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Identity Manager
9	2 (0.57%)	Tivoli
9	2 (0.57%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
9	2 (0.57%)	vCenter Server
9	2 (0.57%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	30 (8.60%)	Microsoft
1	30 (8.60%)	VMware
2	23 (6.59%)	Cisco
3	22 (6.30%)	Oracle
4	16 (4.58%)	Citrix
5	14 (4.01%)	Red Hat
6	12 (3.44%)	SAP
7	10 (2.87%)	Splunk
7	10 (2.87%)	TIBCO
8	8 (2.29%)	Palo Alto
9	7 (2.01%)	Arista
9	7 (2.01%)	Fortinet
9	7 (2.01%)	Salesforce.com
9	7 (2.01%)	SolarWinds
9	7 (2.01%)	Yardi
10	6 (1.72%)	HP
10	6 (1.72%)	iManage
11	5 (1.43%)	Google
11	5 (1.43%)	IBM
11	5 (1.43%)	Sage