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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 244 167 167
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.59% 9.62% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.53% 10.28% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 99 124
10th Percentile £405 £309 £369
25th Percentile £463 £441 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £697 £700 £646
90th Percentile £800 £765 £700
Central London median daily rate £558 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.36% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.82% - -

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 1,948 1,624 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.51% 93.55% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,020 1,377
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +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 19 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 8 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (6.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.46%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.05%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.05%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.64%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.82%) iTrent
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.82%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.41%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 64 (26.23%) Azure
2 46 (18.85%) AWS
3 21 (8.61%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.56%) GCP
4 16 (6.56%) GitHub
5 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.69%) OCI
6 9 (3.69%) Serverless
7 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.87%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.46%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.46%) dbt
9 6 (2.46%) SaaS
10 5 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.87%) Firewall
2 4 (1.64%) Network Security
3 3 (1.23%) VLAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.82%) MPLS
4 2 (0.82%) OSPF
4 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) VSAN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) 802.11
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) DVB
5 1 (0.41%) NGFW
5 1 (0.41%) SAN
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) TACACS
5 1 (0.41%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) Power BI
2 16 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.46%) Metadata
5 5 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.64%) Tableau
7 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.82%) OLAP
8 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.64%) Git
2 4 (1.64%) GitLab
3 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.82%) Toad
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 77 (31.56%) Finance
2 35 (14.34%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.02%) Banking
5 15 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.69%) General Ledger
8 8 (3.28%) Legal
9 7 (2.87%) Law
10 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.23%) Marketing
12 3 (1.23%) Retail
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.82%) International Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Military
13 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (18.03%) Architect
2 31 (12.70%) Lead
3 30 (12.30%) Consultant
4 27 (11.07%) Senior
5 24 (9.84%) Analyst
5 24 (9.84%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.74%) Business Analyst
6 14 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.33%) Migration Manager
7 13 (5.33%) Migration Project Manager
8 12 (4.92%) Data Analyst
9 11 (4.51%) Developer
10 10 (4.10%) Azure Architect
10 10 (4.10%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.10%) Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Data Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.69%) Data Migration Lead
11 9 (3.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.28%) Kafka
3 7 (2.87%) Middleware
4 4 (1.64%) PySpark
4 4 (1.64%) REST
4 4 (1.64%) RESTful
4 4 (1.64%) Spring
5 3 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.23%) React
6 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.82%) Flash
6 2 (0.82%) Redux
6 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.82%) XML
7 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.41%) IDoc
7 1 (0.41%) Playwright
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.02%) Cloud Native
1 22 (9.02%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.46%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.46%) Mainframe
2 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.64%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.23%) Replication
6 2 (0.82%) Clustering
6 2 (0.82%) Derivative
6 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.82%) Equities
6 2 (0.82%) NHS
6 2 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.51%) Windows
2 4 (1.64%) Linux
2 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
4 1 (0.41%) SUSE
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (33.61%) Data Migration
2 44 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (17.21%) Agile
4 36 (14.75%) Validation
5 30 (12.30%) Project Delivery
6 29 (11.89%) DevOps
7 27 (11.07%) Analytics
7 27 (11.07%) CI/CD
8 26 (10.66%) Project Management
9 25 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (9.02%) ERP
12 21 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.61%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (8.20%) ETL
14 18 (7.38%) Data Governance
14 18 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (6.97%) Data Modelling
15 17 (6.97%) PRINCE2
16 16 (6.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.57%) SQL
2 17 (6.97%) Python
3 8 (3.28%) Java
4 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.23%) Bash
5 3 (1.23%) Bicep
5 3 (1.23%) C#
5 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.82%) ABAP
6 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.82%) Perl
6 2 (0.82%) PHP
6 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.41%) C
7 1 (0.41%) ProC
7 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.41%) VB
7 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.56%) PMP
4 15 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.28%) Degree
6 6 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.64%) 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 (7.38%) Data Quality
1 18 (7.38%) GDPR
2 14 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.92%) NIST
4 11 (4.51%) QA
5 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.64%) PMO
6 3 (1.23%) GAAP
6 3 (1.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 2 (0.82%) SEPA
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) PSD2
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (2.87%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.56%) Terraform
2 13 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.23%) 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 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.11%) SAP
3 30 (12.30%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.10%) Workday
6 8 (3.28%) Citrix
6 8 (3.28%) Google
7 6 (2.46%) Databricks
7 6 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.64%) Informatica
8 4 (1.64%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.23%) VMware
10 2 (0.82%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco
10 2 (0.82%) IBM
10 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.82%) Murex
10 2 (0.82%) Remedy
11 1 (0.41%) Adobe