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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Migration 220 177 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.04% 10.17% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 11.02% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 113 138
10th Percentile £413 £375 £388
25th Percentile £491 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £701 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
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 1,908 1,606 2,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.04% 92.30% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,035 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 6 April 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 14 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) Apache
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Camunda
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (6.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.27%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.91%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.91%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.45%) Maximo
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.64%) Azure
2 49 (22.27%) AWS
3 19 (8.64%) GCP
4 17 (7.73%) GitHub
5 15 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.09%) OCI
8 8 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.64%) Serverless
8 8 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.18%) dbt
10 6 (2.73%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.73%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.27%) SaaS
12 4 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.09%) Firewall
2 8 (3.64%) Network Security
3 4 (1.82%) VPN
4 3 (1.36%) MPLS
5 2 (0.91%) BGP
5 2 (0.91%) DHCP
5 2 (0.91%) DNS
5 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.91%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.91%) VLAN
5 2 (0.91%) VSAN
5 2 (0.91%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) 802.11
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.45%) HSRP
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) NAS
6 1 (0.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.45%) Power BI
3 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.73%) Metadata
5 5 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.27%) Tableau
6 4 (1.82%) MySQL
6 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.91%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.91%) OLAP
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.91%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.45%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 15 (6.82%) JIRA
2 4 (1.82%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.91%) GitLab
4 2 (0.91%) Toad
5 1 (0.45%) ERwin
5 1 (0.45%) Gradle
5 1 (0.45%) gulp
5 1 (0.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.45%) Mockito
5 1 (0.45%) MSI
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.45%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.45%) Selenium
5 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 76 (34.55%) Finance
2 41 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.00%) Banking
5 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.18%) Law
7 7 (3.18%) Legal
8 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.73%) Front Office
8 6 (2.73%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.91%) International Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Military
11 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (15.91%) Architect
2 32 (14.55%) Senior
3 28 (12.73%) Lead
4 24 (10.91%) Analyst
4 24 (10.91%) Consultant
5 23 (10.45%) Project Manager
6 19 (8.64%) Business Analyst
7 16 (7.27%) Migration Manager
8 14 (6.36%) Migration Project Manager
9 11 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
10 10 (4.55%) Developer
11 9 (4.09%) Azure Architect
12 8 (3.64%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.64%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (3.18%) Migration Analyst
13 7 (3.18%) Senior Business Analyst
14 6 (2.73%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.73%) Middleware
1 6 (2.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.82%) Kafka
2 4 (1.82%) Spring
3 3 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.36%) PySpark
3 3 (1.36%) REST
3 3 (1.36%) XML
4 2 (0.91%) EDI
4 2 (0.91%) Flash
4 2 (0.91%) OpenID
4 2 (0.91%) Playwright
4 2 (0.91%) React
4 2 (0.91%) RESTful
4 2 (0.91%) SAML
4 2 (0.91%) SPFx
4 2 (0.91%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.45%) HTML5
5 1 (0.45%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 20 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.73%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.36%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.91%) BYOD
8 2 (0.91%) Derivative
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.91%) PKI
8 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.73%) Windows
2 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.73%) Linux
4 3 (1.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) SUSE
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.55%) Data Migration
2 52 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (20.45%) Agile
4 34 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (14.55%) Validation
6 30 (13.64%) DevOps
7 28 (12.73%) Project Delivery
8 27 (12.27%) Analytics
8 27 (12.27%) CI/CD
9 26 (11.82%) Project Management
10 23 (10.45%) ETL
11 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (8.64%) ERP
13 18 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
14 17 (7.73%) Data Modelling
15 16 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (7.27%) Data Governance
16 15 (6.82%) PRINCE2
16 15 (6.82%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 40 (18.18%) SQL
2 14 (6.36%) Python
3 8 (3.64%) Java
4 7 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.36%) Bash
7 2 (0.91%) ABAP
7 2 (0.91%) Bicep
7 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.91%) Perl
7 2 (0.91%) PHP
7 2 (0.91%) Scala
7 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.45%) ProC
8 1 (0.45%) VB
8 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.36%) PMP
4 13 (5.91%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.64%) Degree
6 7 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) CFA
9 1 (0.45%) MCSA
9 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.00%) GDPR
2 19 (8.64%) Data Quality
3 17 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.73%) QA
4 12 (5.45%) NIST
5 6 (2.73%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.82%) PMO
7 3 (1.36%) GAAP
7 3 (1.36%) IFRS
7 3 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.91%) SEPA
8 2 (0.91%) SLA
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.45%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) PSD2
9 1 (0.45%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.64%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.64%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.45%) NFS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.45%) Terraform
2 14 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.36%) Ansible
4 3 (1.36%) SCCM
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.45%) CASB
5 1 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.45%) vMotion
5 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.82%) Oracle
3 23 (10.45%) SAP
4 12 (5.45%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.55%) Workday
6 8 (3.64%) Google
7 7 (3.18%) VMware
8 6 (2.73%) Informatica
8 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.82%) Citrix
9 4 (1.82%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.36%) Databricks
10 3 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.36%) Talend
11 2 (0.91%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.91%) IBM
11 2 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.91%) Murex
12 1 (0.45%) Datto
12 1 (0.45%) iManage