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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 294 165 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.83% 9.17% 9.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.57% 9.72% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 104 134
10th Percentile £400 £334 £377
25th Percentile £450 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £688 £686 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -

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 2,018 1,697 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.08% 94.28% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,122 1,245
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -13.60%

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 1 September 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 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.06%) Confluence
3 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.70%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.02%) Apache
6 3 (1.02%) CMS
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.68%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.68%) SAS
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
1 7 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
1 7 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.70%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.70%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.68%) iTrent
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.68%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.68%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 66 (22.45%) Azure
2 43 (14.63%) AWS
3 23 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.78%) GCP
6 14 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.42%) SaaS
8 10 (3.40%) GitHub
9 9 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.72%) OCI
10 8 (2.72%) Serverless
11 6 (2.04%) dbt
11 6 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.70%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.70%) IaaS
12 5 (1.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.74%) Firewall
2 9 (3.06%) DNS
2 9 (3.06%) Network Security
3 6 (2.04%) VPN
4 5 (1.70%) BGP
5 4 (1.36%) Internet
5 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.02%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) DHCP
7 2 (0.68%) LAN
7 2 (0.68%) Multicast
7 2 (0.68%) SSL
7 2 (0.68%) VSAN
7 2 (0.68%) WAN
8 1 (0.34%) DKIM
8 1 (0.34%) DMARC
8 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.34%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.14%) Power BI
2 13 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.72%) Metadata
5 6 (2.04%) Delta Lake
5 6 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.36%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.68%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.16%) JIRA
2 5 (1.70%) Git
2 5 (1.70%) GitLab
3 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) JUnit
5 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.34%) Mockito
5 1 (0.34%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (32.99%) Finance
2 68 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.54%) Banking
4 30 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.10%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.74%) Law
8 10 (3.40%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.72%) Front Office
11 5 (1.70%) Legal
11 5 (1.70%) Retail
11 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.02%) Back Office
13 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (17.35%) Architect
2 39 (13.27%) Lead
3 33 (11.22%) Consultant
4 30 (10.20%) Analyst
5 23 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.80%) Senior
7 17 (5.78%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (5.44%) Developer
9 14 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.76%) Data Analyst
10 12 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.74%) Administrator
11 11 (3.74%) Data Migration Lead
12 10 (3.40%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.40%) Migration Analyst
13 9 (3.06%) Oracle Consultant
14 8 (2.72%) Data Migration Analyst
15 7 (2.38%) Citrix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.46%) Terraform
2 15 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (3.74%) REST
4 9 (3.06%) Kafka
4 9 (3.06%) PySpark
5 8 (2.72%) .NET
6 7 (2.38%) JSON
7 5 (1.70%) Middleware
7 5 (1.70%) React
7 5 (1.70%) XML
8 4 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.36%) RESTful
9 3 (1.02%) Spring
10 2 (0.68%) ADO
10 2 (0.68%) PCRE
10 2 (0.68%) Redux
10 2 (0.68%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.68%) SOAP
10 2 (0.68%) Web Services
10 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.42%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.74%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.70%) Clustering
9 5 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.36%) Derivative
10 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.36%) Replication
11 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.14%) Windows
2 7 (2.38%) Linux
3 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) SUSE
5 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.68%) zOS
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) MVS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 71 (24.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (15.31%) Agile
4 40 (13.61%) CI/CD
5 39 (13.27%) Validation
6 37 (12.59%) DevOps
7 34 (11.56%) Project Delivery
8 33 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (10.88%) Data Modelling
10 31 (10.54%) Analytics
10 31 (10.54%) ERP
11 29 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (9.86%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (7.82%) Data Governance
13 23 (7.82%) ETL
13 23 (7.82%) Roadmaps
14 21 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (6.80%) Project Management
16 18 (6.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.27%) SQL
2 31 (10.54%) Python
3 15 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.72%) C#
5 6 (2.04%) Bicep
5 6 (2.04%) Java
5 6 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.02%) Bash
8 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.68%) JCL
8 2 (0.68%) Perl
8 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Korn
9 1 (0.34%) REXX
9 1 (0.34%) SOQL
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.04%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.04%) PMP
5 5 (1.70%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.70%) Degree
5 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CCNA
7 2 (0.68%) CCNP
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.34%) CCIE
8 1 (0.34%) CISA
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
8 1 (0.34%) CWNA
8 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.40%) QA
3 7 (2.38%) GDPR
3 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.04%) PMO
5 5 (1.70%) GRC
5 5 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.36%) NIST
7 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) IFRS
7 2 (0.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
8 1 (0.34%) GAAP
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PSD2
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) SEPA
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.70%) Docker
4 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.04%) Ansible
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (1.36%) SCCM
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.02%) SCOM
5 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.34%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.93%) Oracle
3 26 (8.84%) SAP
4 21 (7.14%) Databricks
5 13 (4.42%) Google
6 11 (3.74%) VMware
7 9 (3.06%) Cisco
8 8 (2.72%) Citrix
9 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.04%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.70%) IBM
11 5 (1.70%) Remedy
11 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.36%) IFS
12 4 (1.36%) Workday
13 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 3 (1.02%) BMC
13 3 (1.02%) Commvault
14 2 (0.68%) Informatica
14 2 (0.68%) Lotus