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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Migration 178 172 216
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.54% 9.20% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.70% 10.00% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 112 157
10th Percentile £413 £363 £425
25th Percentile £470 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +2.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £666 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £791
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +4.36% +0.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,663 1,720 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.17% 91.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,047 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £374 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £42.12 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £45.08 £112.00 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 21 January 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 16 (8.99%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.93%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (7.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.56%) Maximo
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.56%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.53%) Azure
2 30 (16.85%) AWS
3 17 (9.55%) GCP
4 14 (7.87%) GitHub
5 13 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (6.18%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.93%) SaaS
8 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.37%) OCI
9 5 (2.81%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.25%) IaaS
10 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.25%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) Network Security
2 5 (2.81%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.56%) MPLS
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) VLAN
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (5.62%) Power BI
3 7 (3.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.81%) MySQL
4 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.69%) Metadata
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.69%) Tableau
7 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.12%) DataStage
7 2 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.12%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.56%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 15 (8.43%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Selenium
2 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 2 (1.12%) Gradle
3 2 (1.12%) Maven
3 2 (1.12%) Toad
4 1 (0.56%) ERwin
4 1 (0.56%) gulp
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.56%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 70 (39.33%) Finance
2 32 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.67%) Banking
5 11 (6.18%) Front Office
5 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Back Office
8 6 (3.37%) Legal
9 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.25%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.25%) Law
10 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.12%) International Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Military
11 2 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.29%) Analyst
2 25 (14.04%) Business Analyst
3 23 (12.92%) Senior
4 21 (11.80%) Architect
4 21 (11.80%) Project Manager
5 18 (10.11%) Lead
6 15 (8.43%) Consultant
7 12 (6.74%) Migration Manager
8 9 (5.06%) Migration Project Manager
9 8 (4.49%) Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Migration Specialist
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Migration Consultant
12 5 (2.81%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) XML
2 5 (2.81%) Middleware
3 4 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.69%) PySpark
5 2 (1.12%) Node.js
5 2 (1.12%) OpenID
5 2 (1.12%) Playwright
5 2 (1.12%) REST
5 2 (1.12%) SAML
5 2 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.12%) SPFx
5 2 (1.12%) XSLT
6 1 (0.56%) CSS
6 1 (0.56%) EDI
6 1 (0.56%) HTML
6 1 (0.56%) J2EE
6 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.69%) Derivative
8 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.69%) NHS
8 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.69%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.12%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.12%) Equities
9 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
10 1 (0.56%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.87%) Windows
2 9 (5.06%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 4 (2.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.78%) Data Migration
2 44 (24.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (21.91%) Agile
4 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (12.92%) DevOps
7 22 (12.36%) Validation
8 21 (11.80%) Analytics
8 21 (11.80%) Project Management
9 20 (11.24%) CI/CD
10 18 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (9.55%) ETL
11 17 (9.55%) Project Delivery
12 16 (8.99%) ERP
12 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (7.30%) Data Governance
14 11 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.18%) Data Mapping
14 11 (6.18%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.42%) SQL
2 10 (5.62%) Python
3 8 (4.49%) Java
4 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.81%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.12%) C#
7 2 (1.12%) C++
7 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.12%) Perl
7 2 (1.12%) PHP
7 2 (1.12%) Scala
7 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) ABAP
8 1 (0.56%) C
8 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) ProC
8 1 (0.56%) VB
8 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) Degree
4 10 (5.62%) PMP
5 9 (5.06%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CFA
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) MCSA
10 1 (0.56%) MCSE
10 1 (0.56%) OCP
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
10 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) QA
2 16 (8.99%) GDPR
3 14 (7.87%) Data Quality
4 12 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.93%) NIST
6 3 (1.69%) GAAP
6 3 (1.69%) IFRS
6 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.12%) EMIR
8 1 (0.56%) Basel III
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.56%) HL7
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.56%) SEPA
8 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.93%) Docker
3 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Terraform
2 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Argo
5 2 (1.12%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.56%) CASB
6 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 39 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Oracle
3 20 (11.24%) SAP
4 12 (6.74%) Google
5 8 (4.49%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.93%) Workday
7 6 (3.37%) VMware
8 5 (2.81%) Databricks
9 4 (2.25%) Murex
9 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.69%) Adobe
10 3 (1.69%) Ahrefs
10 3 (1.69%) Informatica
10 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.12%) Cisco
11 2 (1.12%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (1.12%) Talend
12 1 (0.56%) Calypso
12 1 (0.56%) IBM
12 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy