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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Migration 178 203 268
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.05% 9.41% 9.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.87% 10.29% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 134 189
10th Percentile £372 £366 £450
25th Percentile £458 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -0.66% +3.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,638 1,973 2,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.49% 91.47% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,212 1,709
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £787 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.15 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +54.29% -50.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £107.13 £51.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +34.62% -49.51%

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 30 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 19 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.62%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) CMS
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Maximo
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.84%) Azure
2 25 (14.04%) AWS
3 17 (9.55%) GCP
4 16 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.30%) GitHub
7 10 (5.62%) SaaS
8 8 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.49%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.37%) IaaS
11 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.25%) PaaS
12 4 (2.25%) ShareGate
12 4 (2.25%) Slack
13 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) Firewall
2 5 (2.81%) DNS
2 5 (2.81%) Network Security
3 3 (1.69%) DHCP
3 3 (1.69%) VPN
4 2 (1.12%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.56%) MPLS
5 1 (0.56%) NAS
5 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.56%) NGFW
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) Power BI
2 8 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (4.49%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.25%) DataStage
4 4 (2.25%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.69%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.12%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.56%) Informix
Development Applications
1 15 (8.43%) JIRA
2 5 (2.81%) GitLab
3 4 (2.25%) Gradle
3 4 (2.25%) Maven
3 4 (2.25%) Selenium
3 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.69%) Git
5 2 (1.12%) Toad
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.56%) gulp
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.56%) webpack
6 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (41.57%) Finance
2 37 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.67%) Banking
5 10 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.06%) Front Office
6 9 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Back Office
7 7 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Legal
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.25%) Law
10 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Analyst
2 23 (12.92%) Business Analyst
3 22 (12.36%) Architect
4 18 (10.11%) Senior
5 17 (9.55%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.87%) Lead
7 12 (6.74%) Consultant
7 12 (6.74%) Developer
8 7 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.93%) Migration Manager
8 7 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (2.81%) Business IT Analyst
10 5 (2.81%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (2.81%) IT Business Analyst
10 5 (2.81%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.18%) XML
2 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.69%) PySpark
3 3 (1.69%) REST
3 3 (1.69%) SPFx
4 2 (1.12%) CSS
4 2 (1.12%) HTML
4 2 (1.12%) JSON
4 2 (1.12%) Middleware
4 2 (1.12%) Node.js
4 2 (1.12%) OpenID
4 2 (1.12%) React
4 2 (1.12%) SAML
4 2 (1.12%) XSLT
5 1 (0.56%) ADO
5 1 (0.56%) EDI
5 1 (0.56%) FpML
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.25%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.56%) Derivative
9 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.43%) Windows
2 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.37%) Linux
4 4 (2.25%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) AIX
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.90%) Data Migration
2 40 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (19.66%) Agile
4 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (12.92%) CI/CD
7 20 (11.24%) Analytics
7 20 (11.24%) DevOps
8 17 (9.55%) ETL
8 17 (9.55%) Project Delivery
9 16 (8.99%) Data Governance
9 16 (8.99%) Validation
10 15 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.87%) Data Cleansing
11 14 (7.87%) Data Modelling
11 14 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (7.87%) Project Management
11 14 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
12 13 (7.30%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.61%) SQL
2 13 (7.30%) Java
3 12 (6.74%) Python
4 11 (6.18%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.69%) Bash
5 3 (1.69%) C#
5 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.12%) C++
6 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.12%) Perl
6 2 (1.12%) PHP
6 2 (1.12%) Scala
6 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) COBOL
7 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.56%) Groovy
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.74%) Degree
4 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.69%) CBAP
7 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.12%) PMP
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) CFA
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) OCP
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) RHCE
8 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.87%) QA
3 11 (6.18%) GDPR
4 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.12%) EMIR
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) SEPA
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.93%) Docker
3 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Terraform
2 9 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.25%) Argo
5 3 (1.69%) SCCM
6 2 (1.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.56%) CASB
7 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.11%) Oracle
3 12 (6.74%) Google
4 8 (4.49%) SAP
5 7 (3.93%) Databricks
5 7 (3.93%) VMware
6 4 (2.25%) Adobe
6 4 (2.25%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.69%) Informatica
7 3 (1.69%) Murex
7 3 (1.69%) Workday
8 2 (1.12%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (1.12%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.12%) IBM
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.12%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (1.12%) Talend