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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 198 174 191
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.79% 9.63% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 10.51% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 112 139
10th Percentile £434 £364 £388
25th Percentile £500 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £650
90th Percentile £775 £761 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 9 March 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 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (6.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.02%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.02%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.52%) Workday HCM
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.01%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.51%) Maximo
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.26%) Azure
2 41 (20.71%) AWS
3 17 (8.59%) GitHub
4 15 (7.58%) GCP
5 13 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.04%) OCI
6 8 (4.04%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.54%) Serverless
8 6 (3.03%) SaaS
9 5 (2.53%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.53%) dbt
9 5 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Firewall
2 6 (3.03%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) DNS
3 3 (1.52%) MPLS
3 3 (1.52%) VPN
4 2 (1.01%) BGP
4 2 (1.01%) DHCP
4 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.01%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.01%) VLAN
4 2 (1.01%) WAN
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.51%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.51%) HSRP
5 1 (0.51%) NAS
5 1 (0.51%) NGFW
5 1 (0.51%) VSAN
5 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.56%) Power BI
3 8 (4.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.53%) MySQL
4 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.02%) Metadata
5 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.02%) Tableau
6 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.01%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.01%) DataStage
7 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) OLAP
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.01%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) JIRA
2 5 (2.53%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.01%) Toad
4 1 (0.51%) ERwin
4 1 (0.51%) gulp
4 1 (0.51%) MSI
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.51%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.51%) Selenium
4 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 76 (38.38%) Finance
2 38 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.11%) Banking
5 9 (4.55%) Front Office
5 9 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.54%) Legal
8 6 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.53%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.53%) Law
10 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.52%) Retail
12 2 (1.01%) Back Office
12 2 (1.01%) International Banking
12 2 (1.01%) Military
12 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (14.65%) Architect
1 29 (14.65%) Senior
2 26 (13.13%) Analyst
3 22 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 22 (11.11%) Lead
3 22 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 20 (10.10%) Consultant
5 13 (6.57%) Migration Manager
6 11 (5.56%) Migration Project Manager
7 9 (4.55%) Developer
8 8 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (4.04%) Data Migration Lead
9 7 (3.54%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.03%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.03%) Migration Consultant
10 6 (3.03%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.54%) Middleware
2 5 (2.53%) XML
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.52%) PySpark
5 2 (1.01%) EDI
5 2 (1.01%) Flash
5 2 (1.01%) Kafka
5 2 (1.01%) Node.js
5 2 (1.01%) OpenID
5 2 (1.01%) Playwright
5 2 (1.01%) REST
5 2 (1.01%) SAML
5 2 (1.01%) SPFx
5 2 (1.01%) Spring
6 1 (0.51%) BAPI
6 1 (0.51%) CSS
6 1 (0.51%) HTML
6 1 (0.51%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.51%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (8.08%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.02%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.52%) Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.01%) BYOD
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.01%) Equities
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.01%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.08%) Windows
2 9 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.02%) Linux
4 3 (1.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.32%) Data Migration
2 47 (23.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (21.21%) Agile
4 29 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (14.14%) Validation
6 26 (13.13%) DevOps
6 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (12.63%) Analytics
8 23 (11.62%) ETL
9 22 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.11%) Project Management
10 20 (10.10%) Project Delivery
10 20 (10.10%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (9.09%) ERP
11 18 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (8.08%) Data Modelling
13 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.07%) Data Governance
14 14 (7.07%) Data Mapping
15 13 (6.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.70%) SQL
2 13 (6.57%) Python
3 9 (4.55%) Java
4 5 (2.53%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.01%) ABAP
6 2 (1.01%) C#
6 2 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.01%) Perl
6 2 (1.01%) PHP
6 2 (1.01%) Scala
6 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.51%) Bash
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) C++
7 1 (0.51%) ProC
7 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) PMP
4 11 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 10 (5.05%) Degree
6 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CFA
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.60%) Data Quality
1 19 (9.60%) GDPR
2 17 (8.59%) QA
3 14 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.55%) NIST
5 6 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.52%) GAAP
6 3 (1.52%) IFRS
6 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.01%) SEPA
7 2 (1.01%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) Basel III
8 1 (0.51%) EMIR
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) HL7
8 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.51%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.04%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (9.60%) Terraform
2 13 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.51%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.51%) CASB
5 1 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) vMotion
Vendors
1 39 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.12%) Oracle
3 23 (11.62%) SAP
4 10 (5.05%) CyberArk
4 10 (5.05%) Workday
5 8 (4.04%) VMware
6 7 (3.54%) Google
7 5 (2.53%) Informatica
7 5 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.02%) Databricks
8 4 (2.02%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.52%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.52%) Murex
9 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.52%) Talend
10 2 (1.01%) Adobe
10 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.01%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.51%) Okta
11 1 (0.51%) OutSystems