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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 298 167 194
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.86% 9.21% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.66% 9.77% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 103 133
10th Percentile £401 £338 £365
25th Percentile £450 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £663
90th Percentile £774 £768 £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 2,033 1,710 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.74% 94.32% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,123 1,253
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £460 £425 £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 25 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 £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -17.44% +8.55% -23.49%

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 25 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 18 (6.04%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.68%) Confluence
3 6 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.68%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.01%) CMS
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.67%) Apache
6 2 (0.67%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Oracle Financials
1 7 (2.35%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.01%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.68%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.67%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.67%) iTrent
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.67%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.67%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 63 (21.14%) Azure
2 45 (15.10%) AWS
3 24 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.04%) GCP
5 14 (4.70%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.36%) SaaS
7 10 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (3.36%) GitHub
7 10 (3.36%) Serverless
8 9 (3.02%) OCI
9 7 (2.35%) dbt
9 7 (2.35%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.68%) IaaS
11 5 (1.68%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.69%) Firewall
2 10 (3.36%) DNS
3 8 (2.68%) Network Security
4 6 (2.01%) VPN
5 5 (1.68%) BGP
6 4 (1.34%) Internet
6 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.34%) VLAN
7 3 (1.01%) DHCP
8 2 (0.67%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.67%) LAN
8 2 (0.67%) Multicast
8 2 (0.67%) OSPF
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
8 2 (0.67%) TACACS
8 2 (0.67%) VSAN
8 2 (0.67%) WAN
8 2 (0.67%) Wireless
9 1 (0.34%) DKIM
9 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.72%) Power BI
2 12 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.68%) Metadata
4 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.68%) Delta Lake
5 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.34%) Data Mart
6 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.67%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (8.05%) JIRA
2 6 (2.01%) GitLab
3 5 (1.68%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.67%) 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 95 (31.88%) Finance
2 65 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.07%) Banking
4 29 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.03%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.69%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.69%) Law
8 9 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.68%) Front Office
10 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.68%) Legal
10 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.34%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) International Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (17.11%) Architect
2 42 (14.09%) Lead
3 34 (11.41%) Consultant
4 30 (10.07%) Analyst
5 23 (7.72%) Project Manager
6 22 (7.38%) Senior
7 17 (5.70%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.70%) Developer
8 16 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.70%) Data Analyst
9 14 (4.70%) Data Migration Lead
10 13 (4.36%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.03%) Data Architect
12 11 (3.69%) Administrator
12 11 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Migration Analyst
13 10 (3.36%) Azure Architect
14 9 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
15 8 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.68%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.71%) Terraform
2 15 (5.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (3.69%) REST
4 10 (3.36%) Kafka
5 9 (3.02%) PySpark
6 7 (2.35%) .NET
7 6 (2.01%) JSON
8 5 (1.68%) Middleware
8 5 (1.68%) React
9 4 (1.34%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.34%) RESTful
9 4 (1.34%) XML
10 3 (1.01%) Spring
11 2 (0.67%) ADO
11 2 (0.67%) PCRE
11 2 (0.67%) Redux
11 2 (0.67%) Regular Expression
11 2 (0.67%) SOAP
11 2 (0.67%) Web Services
11 2 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.38%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.70%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.02%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.68%) Clustering
9 5 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Derivative
10 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Replication
12 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.38%) Windows
2 7 (2.35%) Linux
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) VMS
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.67%) SUSE
5 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.56%) Data Migration
2 69 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (14.77%) Agile
4 41 (13.76%) CI/CD
4 41 (13.76%) Validation
5 37 (12.42%) DevOps
6 34 (11.41%) Project Delivery
7 33 (11.07%) Analytics
7 33 (11.07%) Data Modelling
7 33 (11.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (10.40%) ERP
9 30 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (8.39%) ETL
13 24 (8.05%) Roadmaps
14 23 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (7.38%) Data Governance
16 20 (6.71%) Project Management
17 18 (6.04%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.43%) SQL
2 34 (11.41%) Python
3 15 (5.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.35%) C#
5 6 (2.01%) Bicep
5 6 (2.01%) Java
6 5 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
8 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.67%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) SOQL
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.35%) DBS Check
3 7 (2.35%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.35%) PMP
4 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.34%) Degree
7 2 (0.67%) CCNA
7 2 (0.67%) 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 25 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.36%) QA
3 9 (3.02%) GDPR
3 9 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.01%) PMO
5 5 (1.68%) GRC
5 5 (1.68%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) IFRS
6 2 (0.67%) NCSC
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Basel III
7 1 (0.34%) GAAP
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) PSD2
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.35%) Docker
4 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.67%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.01%) Ansible
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (1.34%) SCCM
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.01%) SCOM
5 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.34%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.75%) Oracle
3 26 (8.72%) SAP
4 20 (6.71%) Databricks
5 13 (4.36%) Google
6 11 (3.69%) VMware
7 9 (3.02%) Cisco
8 8 (2.68%) Citrix
9 7 (2.35%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.01%) Workday
11 5 (1.68%) Remedy
11 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.34%) IFS
13 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 3 (1.01%) BMC
13 3 (1.01%) Commvault
13 3 (1.01%) IBM
13 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.01%) Splunk