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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Migration 166 195 277
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.65% 9.28% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 10.12% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 131 192
10th Percentile £363 £363 £463
25th Percentile £437 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.84% +5.09%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £689
90th Percentile £725 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £555 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.48% - +4.55%

All Process and 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 1,618 1,926 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.67% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,177 1,739
10th Percentile £327 £374 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.03% +1.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -24.26%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

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 5 November 2025.

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 14 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) CICS
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.60%) Maximo
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.60%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.60%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.60%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.49%) Azure
2 20 (12.05%) AWS
3 18 (10.84%) Power Platform
4 17 (10.24%) GCP
5 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.83%) SaaS
7 9 (5.42%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.82%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.61%) GitHub
9 6 (3.61%) IaaS
10 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.41%) PaaS
11 4 (2.41%) ShareGate
11 4 (2.41%) Slack
12 3 (1.81%) dbt
12 3 (1.81%) OCI
12 3 (1.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) DNS
2 3 (1.81%) Firewall
2 3 (1.81%) Network Security
3 2 (1.20%) DHCP
3 2 (1.20%) VLAN
3 2 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.60%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.60%) MPLS
4 1 (0.60%) NAS
4 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.60%) NGFW
4 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) Power BI
2 10 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.41%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.41%) DataStage
4 4 (2.41%) Metadata
4 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.81%) MySQL
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.20%) Big Data
6 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.20%) Tableau
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (8.43%) JIRA
2 5 (3.01%) GitLab
3 4 (2.41%) Gradle
3 4 (2.41%) Maven
3 4 (2.41%) Selenium
3 4 (2.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.20%) Git
5 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.60%) ERwin
5 1 (0.60%) gulp
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
5 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (43.98%) Finance
2 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.86%) Banking
4 22 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.42%) Front Office
6 9 (5.42%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.82%) Back Office
8 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.01%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.81%) Law
11 3 (1.81%) Legal
11 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.60%) Automotive
13 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.60%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (24.10%) Analyst
2 22 (13.25%) Architect
3 20 (12.05%) Business Analyst
4 16 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 12 (7.23%) Consultant
5 12 (7.23%) Lead
6 10 (6.02%) Developer
6 10 (6.02%) Senior
7 8 (4.82%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.22%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.01%) Business IT Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) IT Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) IT Business Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.41%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.63%) XML
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (2.41%) REST
4 3 (1.81%) CSS
4 3 (1.81%) HTML
4 3 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.81%) SPFx
4 3 (1.81%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.20%) JSON
5 2 (1.20%) Node.js
5 2 (1.20%) PySpark
5 2 (1.20%) React
5 2 (1.20%) Spring
5 2 (1.20%) XSLT
6 1 (0.60%) HTML5
6 1 (0.60%) Kafka
6 1 (0.60%) Murex MxML
6 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.60%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.82%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.81%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.20%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.20%) NHS
7 2 (1.20%) PKI
7 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Windows
2 5 (3.01%) Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) AIX
4 1 (0.60%) Solaris
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.13%) Data Migration
2 34 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (19.88%) Agile
4 32 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (10.24%) Analytics
6 17 (10.24%) DevOps
6 17 (10.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (9.04%) CI/CD
7 15 (9.04%) Data Governance
7 15 (9.04%) Data Modelling
7 15 (9.04%) ETL
7 15 (9.04%) Validation
8 14 (8.43%) Data Cleansing
8 14 (8.43%) Project Management
8 14 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 13 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (7.23%) Project Delivery
10 12 (7.23%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.06%) SQL
2 15 (9.04%) Java
2 15 (9.04%) Python
3 11 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.41%) Bash
6 3 (1.81%) C#
7 2 (1.20%) C++
7 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.60%) COBOL
8 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.60%) Groovy
8 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Scala
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.60%) VBScript
8 1 (0.60%) VC++
Qualifications
1 17 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.43%) Degree
2 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.81%) CBAP
6 2 (1.20%) PMP
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CFA
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) OCP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) RHCE
7 1 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.02%) QA
3 8 (4.82%) GDPR
4 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.20%) EMIR
5 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.61%) Docker
3 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (5.42%) Terraform
2 7 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.41%) Argo
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) CASB
4 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.60%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.04%) Oracle
3 12 (7.23%) Google
4 6 (3.61%) SAP
4 6 (3.61%) VMware
5 5 (3.01%) Databricks
6 4 (2.41%) Informatica
6 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.81%) Adobe
7 3 (1.81%) Cisco
7 3 (1.81%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.81%) IBM
7 3 (1.81%) Murex
7 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.81%) Workday
8 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.20%) Citrix
8 2 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.20%) Talend