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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Migration 183 199 268
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.10% 9.26% 9.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.89% 10.10% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 129 189
10th Percentile £376 £390 £450
25th Percentile £458 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
Central London median daily rate £555 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% +3.41% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 1,681 1,971 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.82% 91.72% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,206 1,702
10th Percentile £337 £375 £363
25th Percentile £416 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £757 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +54.55% -47.62%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -48.06%

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 26 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 20 (10.93%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.64%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.09%) CMS
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) CICS
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Maximo
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.55%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.68%) Azure
2 27 (14.75%) AWS
3 19 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 17 (9.29%) GCP
5 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.10%) GitHub
7 11 (6.01%) SaaS
8 9 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.37%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.37%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.28%) IaaS
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.19%) PaaS
13 4 (2.19%) ShareGate
13 4 (2.19%) Slack
14 3 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (1.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Firewall
2 5 (2.73%) DNS
2 5 (2.73%) Network Security
3 3 (1.64%) DHCP
3 3 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) Internet
5 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.55%) MPLS
5 1 (0.55%) NAS
5 1 (0.55%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.55%) NGFW
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.20%) Power BI
2 9 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.37%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.73%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.19%) DataStage
5 4 (2.19%) Metadata
5 4 (2.19%) MySQL
5 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.64%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.09%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.74%) JIRA
2 5 (2.73%) GitLab
3 4 (2.19%) Gradle
3 4 (2.19%) Maven
3 4 (2.19%) Selenium
3 4 (2.19%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.64%) Git
5 2 (1.09%) Toad
6 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.55%) ERwin
6 1 (0.55%) gulp
6 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.55%) Postman
6 1 (0.55%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.55%) webpack
6 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (42.08%) Finance
2 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.38%) Banking
5 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.92%) Front Office
6 9 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.83%) Back Office
9 5 (2.73%) Legal
10 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.19%) Law
11 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Automotive
13 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.40%) Analyst
2 24 (13.11%) Business Analyst
3 22 (12.02%) Architect
4 19 (10.38%) Senior
5 18 (9.84%) Project Manager
6 13 (7.10%) Developer
6 13 (7.10%) Lead
7 12 (6.56%) Consultant
8 7 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Data Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Migration Manager
8 7 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.28%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.28%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (3.28%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) IT Business Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.01%) XML
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (2.19%) REST
4 3 (1.64%) CSS
4 3 (1.64%) HTML
4 3 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.64%) PySpark
4 3 (1.64%) SPFx
5 2 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (1.09%) Middleware
5 2 (1.09%) Node.js
5 2 (1.09%) OpenID
5 2 (1.09%) React
5 2 (1.09%) SAML
5 2 (1.09%) XSLT
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.55%) Sass
6 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.65%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.65%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.19%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.09%) NHS
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
8 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.74%) Windows
2 8 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.83%) Linux
4 4 (2.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.55%) AIX
6 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.69%) Data Migration
2 41 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (19.67%) Agile
4 30 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (12.57%) CI/CD
7 20 (10.93%) Analytics
7 20 (10.93%) DevOps
8 18 (9.84%) ETL
9 17 (9.29%) Project Delivery
9 17 (9.29%) Validation
10 16 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (8.74%) Data Governance
10 16 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (8.20%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.20%) Project Management
12 14 (7.65%) Data Cleansing
12 14 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
13 13 (7.10%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.75%) SQL
2 14 (7.65%) Java
2 14 (7.65%) Python
3 12 (6.56%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.19%) Bash
5 3 (1.64%) C#
5 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.09%) C++
6 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.09%) Perl
6 2 (1.09%) PHP
6 2 (1.09%) Scala
6 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.55%) COBOL
7 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.55%) Groovy
7 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.10%) Degree
4 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.64%) CBAP
8 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.09%) PMP
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) CFA
9 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) OCP
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
9 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.65%) QA
3 11 (6.01%) GDPR
4 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.09%) EMIR
6 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.09%) NIST
6 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) SEPA
7 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.83%) Docker
3 5 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Terraform
2 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.19%) Argo
5 3 (1.64%) SCCM
6 2 (1.09%) Ansible
7 1 (0.55%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.55%) CASB
7 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.55%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.84%) Oracle
3 11 (6.01%) Google
4 9 (4.92%) SAP
5 8 (4.37%) VMware
6 7 (3.83%) Databricks
7 4 (2.19%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.64%) Adobe
8 3 (1.64%) Informatica
8 3 (1.64%) Murex
8 3 (1.64%) Workday
9 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.09%) Cisco
9 2 (1.09%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.09%) IBM
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) Talend