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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Migration 181 191 232
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.85% 9.56% 9.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 10.37% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 121 170
10th Percentile £405 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £675
90th Percentile £764 £738 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% +0.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,656 1,841 2,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.15% 92.14% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,119 1,582
10th Percentile £347 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.54 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.65 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.74% +27.27% -21.43%

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 January 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 (9.39%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.42%) Confluence
3 3 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.66%) Apache
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) CMS
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 General Ledger
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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 FAH
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.55%) Sonata
4 1 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.18%) Azure
2 28 (15.47%) AWS
3 18 (9.94%) GCP
4 15 (8.29%) GitHub
4 15 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.87%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.31%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.31%) SaaS
9 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.76%) IaaS
9 5 (2.76%) OCI
9 5 (2.76%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.76%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.21%) Slack
11 3 (1.66%) ShareGate
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%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.18%) Power BI
2 12 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
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%) Data Lake
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%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.10%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.84%) 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 68 (37.57%) Finance
2 36 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.94%) Banking
5 12 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.52%) Front Office
8 7 (3.87%) Back Office
8 7 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.76%) Legal
10 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.21%) Law
11 3 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.66%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.10%) Marketing
12 2 (1.10%) Military
12 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (15.47%) Analyst
2 23 (12.71%) Business Analyst
3 21 (11.60%) Architect
3 21 (11.60%) Project Manager
3 21 (11.60%) Senior
4 16 (8.84%) Lead
5 13 (7.18%) Consultant
6 10 (5.52%) Developer
7 9 (4.97%) Migration Manager
8 7 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Migration Specialist
9 6 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Migration Project Manager
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%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.08%) XML
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.66%) Middleware
3 3 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.66%) PySpark
4 2 (1.10%) JSON
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%) SPFx
4 2 (1.10%) XSLT
5 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.55%) Kafka
5 1 (0.55%) OpenJDK
5 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.63%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.21%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.66%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.10%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.10%) NHS
8 1 (0.55%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.55%) Equities
8 1 (0.55%) SCORM
8 1 (0.55%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.29%) Windows
2 9 (4.97%) 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 55 (30.39%) Data Migration
2 42 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (21.55%) Agile
4 28 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (13.26%) DevOps
6 23 (12.71%) Analytics
7 22 (12.15%) CI/CD
8 20 (11.05%) ETL
9 19 (10.50%) Project Management
10 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (9.39%) Project Delivery
10 17 (9.39%) Validation
11 16 (8.84%) Data Governance
11 16 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.73%) ERP
14 13 (7.18%) Roadmaps
15 11 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.68%) SQL
2 12 (6.63%) Java
3 11 (6.08%) Python
4 7 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.76%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.55%) ProC
8 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.55%) VB
8 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.52%) Degree
4 6 (3.31%) PMP
5 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) CFA
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) MCSA
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) OCP
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) RHCE
8 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.39%) QA
2 16 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.18%) GDPR
4 9 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.21%) NIST
6 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.10%) EMIR
7 2 (1.10%) GAAP
8 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.55%) Basel III
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.55%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.55%) SEPA
8 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 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.66%) Ansible
4 3 (1.66%) Argo
5 2 (1.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
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 38 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle
3 17 (9.39%) SAP
4 13 (7.18%) Google
5 7 (3.87%) Databricks
6 6 (3.31%) VMware
6 6 (3.31%) Workday
7 5 (2.76%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.21%) Adobe
8 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.66%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.66%) Informatica
9 3 (1.66%) Murex
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.10%) Cisco
10 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.10%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (1.10%) Talend
11 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.55%) Palantir