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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 265 157 172
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.25% 9.30% 7.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.15% 9.92% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 91 128
10th Percentile £406 £365 £377
25th Percentile £456 £431 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £681 £701 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £692
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +70.04% - -

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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
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 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 5 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 12 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.89%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.26%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.89%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.89%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.51%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.51%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.75%) iTrent
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.75%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.38%) Maximo
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.38%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.77%) Azure
2 48 (18.11%) AWS
3 22 (8.30%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.04%) GCP
5 13 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.91%) GitHub
6 11 (4.15%) Serverless
7 9 (3.40%) OCI
8 8 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (3.02%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.64%) SaaS
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.26%) dbt
10 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.51%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Firewall
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
2 4 (1.51%) VLAN
3 3 (1.13%) VSAN
4 2 (0.75%) BGP
4 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.75%) MPLS
4 2 (0.75%) OSPF
4 2 (0.75%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 2 (0.75%) Wireless
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) DNS
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) PSTN
5 1 (0.38%) TACACS
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VoIP
5 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) Power BI
2 16 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.64%) Metadata
5 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.51%) Tableau
7 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.75%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.75%) OLAP
8 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.38%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 15 (5.66%) JIRA
2 6 (2.26%) GitLab
3 5 (1.89%) Git
3 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Gradle
5 1 (0.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) MSI
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (33.58%) Finance
2 44 (16.60%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.57%) Banking
4 27 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.91%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.53%) General Ledger
8 9 (3.40%) Law
9 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.64%) Legal
11 5 (1.89%) Retail
12 4 (1.51%) Front Office
12 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Back Office
14 2 (0.75%) International Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (18.11%) Architect
2 34 (12.83%) Consultant
3 33 (12.45%) Lead
4 26 (9.81%) Analyst
4 26 (9.81%) Project Manager
5 24 (9.06%) Senior
6 16 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.91%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.91%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.53%) Migration Manager
9 12 (4.53%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (4.15%) Azure Architect
10 11 (4.15%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.77%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Data Migration Analyst
12 9 (3.40%) Developer
12 9 (3.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.77%) Kafka
3 7 (2.64%) Middleware
4 6 (2.26%) PySpark
5 5 (1.89%) REST
6 4 (1.51%) React
6 4 (1.51%) RESTful
6 4 (1.51%) Spring
7 3 (1.13%) .NET
7 3 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.13%) XML
8 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.75%) ADO
8 2 (0.75%) EDI
8 2 (0.75%) Flash
8 2 (0.75%) JSON
8 2 (0.75%) Redux
8 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.38%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.19%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.02%) Mainframe
3 8 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.89%) Derivative
5 5 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.51%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.51%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.13%) Equities
7 3 (1.13%) Replication
8 2 (0.75%) Clustering
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Linux
3 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.83%) Data Migration
2 53 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (16.23%) Agile
4 39 (14.72%) Validation
5 32 (12.08%) DevOps
5 32 (12.08%) Project Delivery
6 30 (11.32%) CI/CD
7 28 (10.57%) Analytics
8 27 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (9.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 25 (9.43%) ERP
10 25 (9.43%) Project Management
11 24 (9.06%) ETL
12 21 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (7.92%) Data Modelling
13 20 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (7.55%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.79%) Data Governance
15 17 (6.42%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.47%) SQL
2 24 (9.06%) Python
3 8 (3.02%) Java
4 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.51%) Bash
5 4 (1.51%) Bicep
5 4 (1.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.13%) C#
6 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.75%) ABAP
7 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) ProC
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.66%) PMP
4 14 (5.28%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.02%) Degree
6 7 (2.64%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.38%) CCNA
9 1 (0.38%) CCNP
9 1 (0.38%) CISA
9 1 (0.38%) CWNA
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) MCSA
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
9 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.42%) GDPR
3 14 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.15%) NIST
5 9 (3.40%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.26%) PMO
7 4 (1.51%) GAAP
7 4 (1.51%) IFRS
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.75%) PSD2
8 2 (0.75%) SEPA
8 2 (0.75%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.02%) Docker
2 4 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.38%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (6.42%) Terraform
2 16 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) vMotion
6 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.45%) Oracle
3 30 (11.32%) SAP
4 10 (3.77%) CyberArk
4 10 (3.77%) Databricks
4 10 (3.77%) Workday
5 8 (3.02%) Citrix
5 8 (3.02%) Google
6 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.89%) Informatica
8 4 (1.51%) Pure Storage
8 4 (1.51%) VMware
9 3 (1.13%) Cisco
9 3 (1.13%) IBM
9 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.75%) Murex
10 2 (0.75%) Remedy
11 1 (0.38%) Klarna
11 1 (0.38%) PayPal