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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 276 174 187
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.32% 9.50% 8.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.15% 10.12% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 105 132
10th Percentile £405 £364 £364
25th Percentile £450 £441 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £774 £770 £711
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 2,099 1,719 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.06% 93.83% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 1,102 1,341
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £556
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%

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 8 July 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 17 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.81%) SharePoint 2013
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.81%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.81%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.09%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.72%) iTrent
5 2 (0.72%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.72%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.36%) Maximo
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.36%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.01%) Azure
2 46 (16.67%) AWS
3 22 (7.97%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.07%) GCP
5 11 (3.99%) GitHub
5 11 (3.99%) Serverless
6 9 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.90%) SaaS
8 7 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.54%) OCI
8 7 (2.54%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.17%) dbt
10 5 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.81%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.90%) Firewall
2 6 (2.17%) Network Security
3 5 (1.81%) DNS
4 4 (1.45%) VLAN
4 4 (1.45%) VPN
5 3 (1.09%) VSAN
5 3 (1.09%) WAN
6 2 (0.72%) BGP
6 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.72%) LAN
6 2 (0.72%) MPLS
6 2 (0.72%) OSPF
6 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) Wireless
7 1 (0.36%) 802.11
7 1 (0.36%) DVB
7 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.25%) Power BI
2 12 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.54%) Metadata
5 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.45%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.09%) Tableau
9 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.72%) OLAP
9 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.16%) JIRA
2 6 (2.17%) GitLab
3 5 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) Gradle
5 1 (0.36%) JUnit
5 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.36%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
5 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (32.97%) Finance
2 53 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.87%) Banking
5 15 (5.43%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.99%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.62%) Law
9 6 (2.17%) Retail
10 5 (1.81%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Front Office
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.72%) Back Office
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) International Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (18.48%) Architect
2 36 (13.04%) Consultant
2 36 (13.04%) Lead
3 32 (11.59%) Analyst
4 20 (7.25%) Project Manager
4 20 (7.25%) Senior
5 18 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 17 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.43%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.71%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.71%) Data Migration Lead
9 11 (3.99%) Azure Architect
9 11 (3.99%) Migration Analyst
10 10 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Developer
11 9 (3.26%) Data Migration Analyst
11 9 (3.26%) Migration Manager
11 9 (3.26%) Migration Project Manager
11 9 (3.26%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.62%) Kafka
3 9 (3.26%) REST
4 6 (2.17%) PySpark
5 5 (1.81%) Middleware
5 5 (1.81%) React
6 4 (1.45%) JSON
6 4 (1.45%) RESTful
6 4 (1.45%) Spring
7 3 (1.09%) .NET
7 3 (1.09%) XML
8 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) EDI
8 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.72%) Flash
8 2 (0.72%) Redux
8 2 (0.72%) SOAP
8 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.36%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.42%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.42%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (2.90%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.90%) Mainframe
3 7 (2.54%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.54%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.54%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.81%) Derivative
4 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.45%) Replication
6 3 (1.09%) Equities
6 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.72%) Clustering
7 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.72%) NHS
7 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.35%) Windows
2 5 (1.81%) Linux
3 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) SUSE
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.78%) Data Migration
2 57 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (14.13%) Agile
3 39 (14.13%) Validation
4 36 (13.04%) Project Delivery
5 33 (11.96%) CI/CD
6 31 (11.23%) DevOps
6 31 (11.23%) ERP
7 30 (10.87%) Analytics
8 28 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (9.06%) Data Modelling
9 25 (9.06%) ETL
10 23 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (7.61%) Project Management
13 20 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.52%) Data Governance
15 15 (5.43%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.04%) SQL
2 28 (10.14%) Python
3 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.17%) Java
5 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.45%) Bicep
7 3 (1.09%) Bash
7 3 (1.09%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) ABAP
8 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.99%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.99%) PMP
4 7 (2.54%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.54%) Degree
5 4 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CCNA
7 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.36%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) CISA
8 1 (0.36%) CWNA
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.07%) GDPR
3 11 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.90%) NIST
4 8 (2.90%) QA
5 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.81%) PMO
7 3 (1.09%) GRC
7 3 (1.09%) IFRS
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.72%) NCSC
8 2 (0.72%) PSD2
8 2 (0.72%) SEPA
8 2 (0.72%) SLA
9 1 (0.36%) GAAP
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (2.90%) Docker
2 7 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.72%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.07%) Terraform
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) SCCM
5 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) vMotion
6 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.68%) Oracle
3 24 (8.70%) SAP
4 13 (4.71%) Databricks
5 9 (3.26%) Google
6 8 (2.90%) Citrix
6 8 (2.90%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.17%) Workday
8 5 (1.81%) Cisco
8 5 (1.81%) VMware
9 4 (1.45%) IFS
9 4 (1.45%) Informatica
9 4 (1.45%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.09%) IBM
10 3 (1.09%) Murex
10 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.72%) Adobe
11 2 (0.72%) Remedy