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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 243 164 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.57% 9.33% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 9.99% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 96 121
10th Percentile £406 £330 £383
25th Percentile £463 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £650
90th Percentile £800 £769 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 1,947 1,642 1,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.73% 93.45% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,039 1,394
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.55% -5.63%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 11 May 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 10 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.06%) Confluence
3 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (6.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.47%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.06%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.06%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.82%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.69%) Azure
2 48 (19.75%) AWS
3 17 (7.00%) GitHub
4 16 (6.58%) GCP
4 16 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.70%) OCI
7 8 (3.29%) Serverless
8 7 (2.88%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.47%) dbt
9 6 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.47%) SaaS
10 5 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.29%) Firewall
2 6 (2.47%) Network Security
3 3 (1.23%) VLAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.82%) MPLS
4 2 (0.82%) OSPF
4 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) VSAN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) 802.11
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) DVB
5 1 (0.41%) NGFW
5 1 (0.41%) SAN
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) TACACS
5 1 (0.41%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (5.76%) Power BI
3 6 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.06%) Metadata
4 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Tableau
6 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.82%) OLAP
7 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.65%) GitLab
3 3 (1.23%) Git
4 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.82%) Toad
5 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) Gradle
5 1 (0.41%) JUnit
5 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.41%) Mockito
5 1 (0.41%) MSI
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.41%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (31.69%) Finance
2 36 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.82%) Banking
5 13 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.12%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.29%) General Ledger
7 8 (3.29%) Law
7 8 (3.29%) Legal
8 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Retail
10 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) International Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (16.87%) Architect
2 31 (12.76%) Lead
3 30 (12.35%) Senior
4 29 (11.93%) Consultant
5 26 (10.70%) Analyst
6 25 (10.29%) Project Manager
7 16 (6.58%) Business Analyst
8 15 (6.17%) Migration Manager
9 14 (5.76%) Migration Project Manager
10 12 (4.94%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) Azure Architect
11 10 (4.12%) Developer
11 10 (4.12%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.70%) Data Migration Analyst
12 9 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
12 9 (3.70%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.88%) Citrix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.47%) Kafka
2 6 (2.47%) Middleware
3 4 (1.65%) RESTful
3 4 (1.65%) Spring
4 3 (1.23%) .NET
4 3 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.23%) PySpark
4 3 (1.23%) React
4 3 (1.23%) REST
5 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.82%) Flash
5 2 (0.82%) Redux
5 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.82%) XML
6 1 (0.41%) ADO
6 1 (0.41%) EDI
6 1 (0.41%) J2EE
6 1 (0.41%) JMS
6 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.64%) Cloud Native
1 21 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.06%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.23%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.23%) Replication
8 2 (0.82%) BYOD
8 2 (0.82%) Clustering
8 2 (0.82%) Derivative
8 2 (0.82%) Equities
8 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.17%) Windows
2 8 (3.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.65%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) SUSE
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.10%) Data Migration
2 48 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (18.11%) Agile
4 36 (14.81%) Validation
5 30 (12.35%) Project Delivery
6 28 (11.52%) DevOps
7 27 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 27 (11.11%) Project Management
8 24 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (8.64%) Analytics
11 20 (8.23%) ERP
12 19 (7.82%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (7.41%) ETL
13 18 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (7.00%) PRINCE2
15 16 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (6.17%) Data Governance
16 15 (6.17%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.23%) SQL
2 15 (6.17%) Python
3 7 (2.88%) Java
4 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.23%) Bash
5 3 (1.23%) Bicep
5 3 (1.23%) C#
5 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.82%) ABAP
6 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.82%) Perl
6 2 (0.82%) PHP
6 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.41%) C
7 1 (0.41%) ProC
7 1 (0.41%) VB
7 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) PMP
4 15 (6.17%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.29%) Degree
6 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) CISA
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CWNA
8 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MCSA
8 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.23%) GDPR
2 16 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 15 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.76%) QA
5 12 (4.94%) NIST
6 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.65%) PMO
8 3 (1.23%) GAAP
8 3 (1.23%) IFRS
9 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.82%) NCSC
9 2 (0.82%) SEPA
9 2 (0.82%) SLA
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.41%) PSD2
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (2.88%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.41%) NFS
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (7.82%) Terraform
2 12 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.23%) Ansible
4 3 (1.23%) SCCM
5 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.41%) vMotion
5 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.76%) SAP
3 28 (11.52%) Oracle
4 11 (4.53%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.70%) Workday
6 8 (3.29%) Citrix
6 8 (3.29%) Google
7 6 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.06%) VMware
9 4 (1.65%) Informatica
9 4 (1.65%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.82%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco
11 2 (0.82%) IBM
11 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.82%) Murex
12 1 (0.41%) Adobe
12 1 (0.41%) Apple
12 1 (0.41%) Dell