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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 203 177 204
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.63% 9.96% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.92% 10.83% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 114 146
10th Percentile £426 £368 £390
25th Percentile £500 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £779 £771 £772
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
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 1,859 1,635 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.15% 92.01% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,042 1,490
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.00 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +27.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £36.94 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £45.25 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 23 March 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 13 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.96%) Confluence
3 3 (1.48%) Apache
3 3 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (6.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.97%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.48%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.99%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.49%) Maximo
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.49%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (28.57%) Azure
2 42 (20.69%) AWS
3 17 (8.37%) GCP
4 16 (7.88%) GitHub
5 14 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.94%) OCI
7 8 (3.94%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.45%) Serverless
9 6 (2.96%) dbt
9 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.46%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.46%) SaaS
11 4 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Firewall
2 6 (2.96%) Network Security
3 3 (1.48%) MPLS
3 3 (1.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.99%) BGP
4 2 (0.99%) DHCP
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.99%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.99%) VLAN
4 2 (0.99%) WAN
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.49%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.49%) HSRP
5 1 (0.49%) NAS
5 1 (0.49%) NGFW
5 1 (0.49%) VSAN
5 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.91%) Power BI
3 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.46%) Metadata
4 5 (2.46%) MySQL
4 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.46%) Tableau
5 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.99%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.99%) OLAP
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.99%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (6.90%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.99%) GitLab
3 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.99%) Toad
4 1 (0.49%) ERwin
4 1 (0.49%) gulp
4 1 (0.49%) MSI
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.49%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.49%) Selenium
4 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 76 (37.44%) Finance
2 36 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.34%) Banking
5 9 (4.43%) Financial Institution
5 9 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.94%) Front Office
6 8 (3.94%) Legal
7 6 (2.96%) General Ledger
7 6 (2.96%) Law
8 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Retail
11 2 (0.99%) Back Office
11 2 (0.99%) International Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Marketing
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (15.27%) Architect
2 30 (14.78%) Senior
3 27 (13.30%) Analyst
4 22 (10.84%) Business Analyst
4 22 (10.84%) Lead
4 22 (10.84%) Project Manager
5 20 (9.85%) Consultant
6 15 (7.39%) Migration Manager
7 13 (6.40%) Migration Project Manager
8 10 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (3.94%) Azure Architect
9 8 (3.94%) Developer
10 7 (3.45%) Data Migration Lead
10 7 (3.45%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Migration Consultant
11 6 (2.96%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.45%) Middleware
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.97%) XML
3 3 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.48%) PySpark
4 2 (0.99%) EDI
4 2 (0.99%) Flash
4 2 (0.99%) Kafka
4 2 (0.99%) OpenID
4 2 (0.99%) Playwright
4 2 (0.99%) REST
4 2 (0.99%) SAML
4 2 (0.99%) SPFx
4 2 (0.99%) Spring
5 1 (0.49%) .NET
5 1 (0.49%) BAPI
5 1 (0.49%) CSS
5 1 (0.49%) HTML
5 1 (0.49%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.85%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.48%) Derivative
7 3 (1.48%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.48%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.99%) BYOD
8 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.99%) Equities
8 2 (0.99%) NHS
8 2 (0.99%) PKI
8 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Windows
2 9 (4.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.46%) Linux
4 3 (1.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.02%) Data Migration
2 50 (24.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (21.18%) Agile
4 31 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (15.27%) Validation
5 27 (13.30%) DevOps
6 26 (12.81%) Analytics
7 25 (12.32%) Project Delivery
7 25 (12.32%) Project Management
8 24 (11.82%) CI/CD
9 22 (10.84%) ETL
9 22 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 20 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (8.87%) ERP
13 16 (7.88%) Data Modelling
14 15 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (6.90%) Data Governance
15 14 (6.90%) Project Governance
15 14 (6.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.72%) SQL
2 14 (6.90%) Python
3 7 (3.45%) Java
4 6 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.46%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.48%) Bash
7 2 (0.99%) ABAP
7 2 (0.99%) C#
7 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.99%) Perl
7 2 (0.99%) PHP
7 2 (0.99%) Scala
7 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.49%) C
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) ProC
8 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.49%) VB
8 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.40%) PMP
4 12 (5.91%) PMI Certification
5 10 (4.93%) Degree
6 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.49%) CFA
10 1 (0.49%) MCSA
10 1 (0.49%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.34%) GDPR
2 19 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 17 (8.37%) QA
4 16 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (5.42%) NIST
6 6 (2.96%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.48%) GAAP
7 3 (1.48%) IFRS
7 3 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.99%) SEPA
8 2 (0.99%) SLA
9 1 (0.49%) Basel III
9 1 (0.49%) EMIR
9 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.49%) HL7
9 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.49%) TARGET2
9 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.45%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.49%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (10.34%) Terraform
2 12 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) SCCM
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) CASB
5 1 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) vMotion
Vendors
1 40 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.82%) Oracle
3 22 (10.84%) SAP
4 11 (5.42%) CyberArk
5 9 (4.43%) Workday
6 7 (3.45%) Google
6 7 (3.45%) VMware
7 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.46%) Informatica
9 4 (1.97%) Databricks
9 4 (1.97%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.48%) Talend
11 2 (0.99%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.99%) Murex
12 1 (0.49%) iManage
12 1 (0.49%) Okta
12 1 (0.49%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.49%) Screaming Frog