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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 271 165 185
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.16% 9.48% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.02% 10.12% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 100 135
10th Percentile £406 £361 £371
25th Percentile £450 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £648
90th Percentile £779 £775 £708
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -14.73%
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 £44.46 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +28.31% - -

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 2,082 1,631 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.71% 93.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,042 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.80 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £56.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £73.75 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.29% +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 25 June 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 16 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.11%) Apache
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.21%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.85%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.85%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.74%) iTrent
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.74%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.74%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.37%) Maximo
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.40%) Azure
2 47 (17.34%) AWS
3 22 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.17%) GCP
5 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.06%) GitHub
6 11 (4.06%) Serverless
7 9 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.32%) OCI
8 7 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.21%) dbt
9 6 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.21%) SaaS
10 5 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.48%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.48%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) Firewall
1 6 (2.21%) Network Security
2 4 (1.48%) VLAN
3 3 (1.11%) DNS
3 3 (1.11%) VPN
3 3 (1.11%) VSAN
3 3 (1.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.74%) BGP
4 2 (0.74%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.74%) LAN
4 2 (0.74%) MPLS
4 2 (0.74%) OSPF
4 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.74%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.74%) Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) HSRP
5 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.38%) Power BI
2 14 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.58%) Metadata
5 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.48%) Data Mart
7 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.11%) Tableau
9 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.74%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.74%) OLAP
9 2 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.74%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.21%) GitLab
3 5 (1.85%) Git
3 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) Gradle
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.37%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) MSI
5 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (35.06%) Finance
2 53 (19.56%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.81%) Banking
4 28 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.54%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.43%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.95%) Law
10 6 (2.21%) Legal
11 5 (1.85%) Retail
12 4 (1.48%) Front Office
13 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.74%) Back Office
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.74%) International Banking
14 2 (0.74%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (18.08%) Architect
2 39 (14.39%) Lead
3 37 (13.65%) Consultant
4 28 (10.33%) Analyst
5 22 (8.12%) Senior
6 21 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 16 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.54%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.54%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.80%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.80%) Data Migration Lead
10 11 (4.06%) Azure Architect
10 11 (4.06%) Migration Analyst
10 11 (4.06%) Migration Manager
10 11 (4.06%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.69%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.32%) Data Migration Analyst
12 9 (3.32%) Developer
12 9 (3.32%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.32%) Kafka
3 7 (2.58%) Middleware
3 7 (2.58%) REST
4 6 (2.21%) PySpark
5 4 (1.48%) React
5 4 (1.48%) RESTful
5 4 (1.48%) Spring
5 4 (1.48%) XML
6 3 (1.11%) .NET
6 3 (1.11%) JSON
7 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.74%) ADO
7 2 (0.74%) EDI
7 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.74%) Flash
7 2 (0.74%) Redux
7 2 (0.74%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.95%) Mainframe
3 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Derivative
6 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.48%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.48%) Replication
8 3 (1.11%) Equities
8 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.74%) BYOD
9 2 (0.74%) Clustering
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.06%) Windows
2 5 (1.85%) Linux
3 4 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.74%) SUSE
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.06%) Data Migration
2 57 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (15.13%) Agile
4 40 (14.76%) Validation
5 35 (12.92%) Project Delivery
6 33 (12.18%) CI/CD
7 30 (11.07%) Analytics
7 30 (11.07%) DevOps
7 30 (11.07%) ERP
8 27 (9.96%) ETL
8 27 (9.96%) User Acceptance Testing
9 24 (8.86%) Data Modelling
10 22 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (8.12%) Project Management
10 22 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (7.01%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.64%) Data Governance
15 16 (5.90%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.39%) SQL
2 25 (9.23%) Python
3 7 (2.58%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.21%) Java
5 4 (1.48%) Bicep
5 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.11%) Bash
6 3 (1.11%) C#
7 2 (0.74%) ABAP
7 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.80%) PMP
4 12 (4.43%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.58%) Degree
6 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CCNA
8 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.37%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) CISA
9 1 (0.37%) CWNA
9 1 (0.37%) MCSA
9 1 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.90%) GDPR
3 13 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.69%) NIST
5 8 (2.95%) QA
6 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.85%) PMO
8 4 (1.48%) GAAP
8 4 (1.48%) IFRS
9 3 (1.11%) GRC
10 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.74%) NCSC
10 2 (0.74%) PSD2
10 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.74%) SEPA
10 2 (0.74%) SLA
11 1 (0.37%) HL7
11 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (2.58%) Docker
2 6 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.17%) Kubernetes
1 14 (5.17%) Terraform
2 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.11%) Ansible
4 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.37%) Grafana
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) SCCM
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) vMotion
5 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.65%) Oracle
3 26 (9.59%) SAP
4 13 (4.80%) Databricks
5 10 (3.69%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.32%) Workday
7 8 (2.95%) Citrix
7 8 (2.95%) Google
8 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.85%) Cisco
9 5 (1.85%) Informatica
9 5 (1.85%) VMware
10 4 (1.48%) IFS
10 4 (1.48%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.11%) IBM
11 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.74%) Adobe
12 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.74%) Murex
12 2 (0.74%) Remedy