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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 302 165 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.02% 9.17% 9.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.84% 9.72% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 102 134
10th Percentile £401 £332 £366
25th Percentile £450 £414 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -4.87% -5.83%
75th Percentile £688 £687 £656
90th Percentile £774 £738 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -0.52%
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 2,035 1,697 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.75% 94.28% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,116 1,250
10th Percentile £381 £323 £375
25th Percentile £460 £424 £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 £774 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 27 August 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 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.98%) Confluence
3 7 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.66%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.99%) Apache
7 3 (0.99%) CMS
8 2 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.66%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.66%) SAS
9 1 (0.33%) Camunda
9 1 (0.33%) IIS
9 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Oracle Financials
1 7 (2.32%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.99%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.66%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.32%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.66%) iTrent
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.66%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.66%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 65 (21.52%) Azure
2 47 (15.56%) AWS
3 24 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 19 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.96%) GCP
6 14 (4.64%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.30%) SaaS
8 11 (3.64%) Serverless
9 10 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.31%) GitHub
10 9 (2.98%) OCI
11 8 (2.65%) dbt
12 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.32%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.66%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.97%) Firewall
2 10 (3.31%) DNS
3 9 (2.98%) Network Security
4 6 (1.99%) BGP
4 6 (1.99%) VPN
5 4 (1.32%) Internet
5 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.32%) VLAN
6 3 (0.99%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.66%) LAN
7 2 (0.66%) Multicast
7 2 (0.66%) OSPF
7 2 (0.66%) SSL
7 2 (0.66%) TACACS
7 2 (0.66%) VSAN
7 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 2 (0.66%) Wireless
8 1 (0.33%) DKIM
8 1 (0.33%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.62%) Power BI
2 13 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.98%) Metadata
5 6 (1.99%) Delta Lake
5 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.66%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.32%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.99%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (8.28%) JIRA
2 6 (1.99%) GitLab
3 5 (1.66%) Git
3 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.33%) Gradle
5 1 (0.33%) JUnit
5 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.33%) Mockito
5 1 (0.33%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (32.12%) Finance
2 67 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.93%) Banking
4 29 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.97%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.64%) Law
8 9 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.65%) Front Office
10 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.66%) Legal
10 5 (1.66%) Retail
10 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Back Office
12 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.66%) Billing
13 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (16.89%) Architect
2 41 (13.58%) Lead
3 33 (10.93%) Consultant
4 31 (10.26%) Analyst
5 24 (7.95%) Project Manager
6 22 (7.28%) Senior
7 18 (5.96%) Data Engineer
8 17 (5.63%) Developer
9 16 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.64%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.64%) Data Analyst
11 13 (4.30%) Data Migration Lead
12 12 (3.97%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.64%) Administrator
13 11 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Migration Analyst
14 10 (3.31%) Azure Architect
15 9 (2.98%) Oracle Consultant
16 8 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.65%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.62%) Terraform
2 15 (4.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (3.64%) REST
4 10 (3.31%) Kafka
4 10 (3.31%) PySpark
5 7 (2.32%) .NET
6 6 (1.99%) JSON
7 5 (1.66%) Middleware
7 5 (1.66%) React
8 4 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.32%) RESTful
8 4 (1.32%) XML
9 3 (0.99%) Spring
10 2 (0.66%) ADO
10 2 (0.66%) PCRE
10 2 (0.66%) Redux
10 2 (0.66%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.66%) SOAP
10 2 (0.66%) Web Services
10 2 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.95%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.64%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.66%) Clustering
9 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Derivative
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.32%) Replication
11 3 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.28%) Windows
2 7 (2.32%) Linux
3 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.99%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.66%) SUSE
5 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.66%) zOS
6 1 (0.33%) AIX
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) MVS
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.11%) Data Migration
2 72 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (15.23%) Agile
4 42 (13.91%) CI/CD
5 41 (13.58%) Validation
6 39 (12.91%) DevOps
7 34 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (11.26%) Project Delivery
8 33 (10.93%) Analytics
9 32 (10.60%) Data Modelling
10 31 (10.26%) ERP
10 31 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
11 30 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.28%) ETL
12 25 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (7.95%) Roadmaps
14 23 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (7.62%) Data Governance
15 21 (6.95%) Project Management
16 19 (6.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.24%) SQL
2 34 (11.26%) Python
3 15 (4.97%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.32%) C#
5 6 (1.99%) Bicep
5 6 (1.99%) Java
6 5 (1.66%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.99%) Bash
8 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.66%) JCL
9 2 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) Korn
10 1 (0.33%) REXX
10 1 (0.33%) SOQL
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.32%) DBS Check
3 7 (2.32%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.32%) PMP
4 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.32%) Degree
7 2 (0.66%) CCNA
7 2 (0.66%) CCNP
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.33%) CCIE
8 1 (0.33%) CISA
8 1 (0.33%) CSPO
8 1 (0.33%) CWNA
8 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.31%) QA
3 9 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.65%) GDPR
5 6 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.99%) PMO
6 5 (1.66%) GRC
6 5 (1.66%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS
7 2 (0.66%) NCSC
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Basel III
8 1 (0.33%) GAAP
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.32%) Docker
4 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.99%) Ansible
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (1.32%) SCCM
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.99%) SCOM
5 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.33%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.33%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.91%) Oracle
3 26 (8.61%) SAP
4 21 (6.95%) Databricks
5 13 (4.30%) Google
6 11 (3.64%) VMware
7 10 (3.31%) Cisco
8 8 (2.65%) Citrix
9 7 (2.32%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.66%) IBM
10 5 (1.66%) Remedy
10 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.66%) Workday
11 4 (1.32%) IFS
12 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.99%) BMC
12 3 (0.99%) Commvault
12 3 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.99%) Splunk