Migration Contract Job Trends in London

Migration
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 21 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,601 1,178 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.74% 9.19% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.86% 10.09% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 826 943
10th Percentile £377 £388 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £675
90th Percentile £738 £869 £750
England median daily rate £520 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 13
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.40 £23.45
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.50 £45.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +178.69%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.36 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.13% -39.47% -26.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Migration job vacancy trend in London

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in London

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the London region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 218 £575 +4.55% 85
South London +10 32 £475 -0.52% 6
West London +2 26 £600 +20.00% 13
East London -9 8 £463 -7.50% 7
North London +4 6 £448 +8.48%
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 69 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (3.06%) Confluence
4 19 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.94%) Apache
6 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.62%) SAS
8 9 (0.56%) CMS
9 7 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.25%) nginx
12 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) Appian
13 2 (0.12%) IIS
13 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
Applications
1 66 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.062%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.06%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 14 (0.87%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 8 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.37%) Finacle
10 6 (0.37%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.37%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.37%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 437 (27.30%) Azure
2 250 (15.62%) AWS
3 132 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 110 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (6.37%) GitHub
6 96 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (5.56%) GCP
8 80 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (3.69%) Entra ID
10 56 (3.50%) SaaS
11 48 (3.00%) Serverless
12 45 (2.81%) OCI
13 43 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 42 (2.62%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 39 (2.44%) IaaS
16 39 (2.44%) PaaS
17 38 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 33 (2.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.37%) Firewall
2 45 (2.81%) Network Security
3 40 (2.50%) DNS
4 33 (2.06%) VPN
5 24 (1.50%) SAN
5 24 (1.50%) WAN
6 18 (1.12%) NAS
7 17 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.00%) DHCP
9 15 (0.94%) VLAN
10 13 (0.81%) BGP
10 13 (0.81%) LAN
10 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.69%) OSPF
12 10 (0.62%) MPLS
13 9 (0.56%) DKIM
13 9 (0.56%) DMARC
14 7 (0.44%) VSAN
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco Wireless
15 6 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.75%) Power BI
2 83 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 44 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (2.69%) Data Lake
6 40 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (2.25%) Metadata
8 32 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 32 (2.00%) Tableau
9 24 (1.50%) Oracle Database
10 18 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.06%) DB2
11 17 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.00%) MySQL
12 16 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.94%) Big Data
14 14 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.56%) JIRA
2 35 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.00%) Git
4 24 (1.50%) GitLab
5 14 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.44%) Selenium
8 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.37%) JUnit
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.25%) LSMW
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.25%) Toad
10 3 (0.19%) ERwin
10 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 511 (31.92%) Finance
2 493 (30.79%) Social Skills
3 157 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.24%) Banking
5 139 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (3.25%) Retail
8 41 (2.56%) Legal
9 36 (2.25%) Law
10 28 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.50%) Marketing
14 23 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.31%) Local Government
17 18 (1.12%) General Ledger
17 18 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 246 (15.37%) Architect
2 209 (13.05%) Analyst
3 196 (12.24%) Lead
4 170 (10.62%) Senior
5 144 (8.99%) Business Analyst
6 142 (8.87%) Consultant
7 121 (7.56%) Project Manager
8 88 (5.50%) Developer
9 85 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 65 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
11 56 (3.50%) Migration Manager
12 54 (3.37%) Migration Engineer
13 50 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (3.06%) Data Analyst
15 45 (2.81%) Migration Analyst
16 41 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
18 37 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.25%) Azure Architect
20 33 (2.06%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.75%) REST
2 37 (2.31%) Middleware
3 36 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 35 (2.19%) .NET
5 31 (1.94%) Kafka
6 25 (1.56%) PySpark
7 24 (1.50%) XML
8 20 (1.25%) Spring
9 19 (1.19%) SOAP
10 15 (0.94%) JSON
10 15 (0.94%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.81%) HTML
12 12 (0.75%) CSS
12 12 (0.75%) React
12 12 (0.75%) SAML
13 11 (0.69%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.62%) ADO
14 10 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.62%) OAuth
15 9 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.06%) Legacy Systems
2 106 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 64 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 39 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.37%) Replication
8 34 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 32 (2.00%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.62%) Mainframe
12 19 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.87%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
17 12 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.87%) Windows
2 40 (2.50%) Linux
3 30 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.44%) Unix
6 21 (1.31%) VMS
7 12 (0.75%) zOS
8 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.062%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (35.79%) Data Migration
2 317 (19.80%) Agile
3 304 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 265 (16.55%) DevOps
5 224 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
6 198 (12.37%) CI/CD
7 185 (11.56%) Data Modelling
8 183 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 174 (10.87%) Validation
10 161 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 159 (9.93%) ETL
12 152 (9.49%) ERP
13 151 (9.43%) Analytics
14 143 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
15 140 (8.74%) Project Management
16 132 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 126 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 114 (7.12%) Project Delivery
19 106 (6.62%) Decision-Making
20 99 (6.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 288 (17.99%) SQL
2 144 (8.99%) Python
3 83 (5.18%) Java
4 65 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 33 (2.06%) C#
6 30 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.31%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.06%) Bicep
10 14 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.75%) VBA
12 11 (0.69%) Bash
13 8 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.50%) REXX
14 7 (0.44%) Korn
14 7 (0.44%) PHP
15 6 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.37%) Scala
16 5 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 273 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.25%) Degree
4 53 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.62%) PMP
6 40 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.81%) CBAP
12 13 (0.81%) CIMA
12 13 (0.81%) CISSP
13 12 (0.75%) CCNP
13 12 (0.75%) IIBA
14 11 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.62%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.18%) QA
3 69 (4.31%) GDPR
4 31 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.31%) SLA
6 20 (1.25%) NIST
7 17 (1.06%) PMO
8 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.56%) IFRS
9 9 (0.56%) NCSC
9 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.50%) SEPA
11 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.31%) Basel III
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 76 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.62%) Docker
3 46 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.81%) NFS
7 8 (0.50%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.25%) Varnish
10 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) Postfix
10 3 (0.19%) RACF
11 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.062%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 159 (9.93%) Terraform
2 106 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 70 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (2.37%) Ansible
5 29 (1.81%) SCCM
6 17 (1.06%) Grafana
7 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.69%) AirWatch
9 10 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (0.50%) vMotion
11 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.25%) Argo
13 4 (0.25%) Istio
13 4 (0.25%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.25%) Rancher
13 4 (0.25%) SCOM
14 3 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 354 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 153 (9.56%) Oracle
3 128 (8.00%) SAP
4 77 (4.81%) VMware
5 52 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.19%) Databricks
6 51 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 49 (3.06%) Google
8 36 (2.25%) Cisco
9 35 (2.19%) Workday
10 27 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 26 (1.62%) Informatica
12 24 (1.50%) Citrix
13 22 (1.37%) Pure Storage
14 21 (1.31%) Avaloq
15 17 (1.06%) IBM
16 16 (1.00%) MuleSoft
16 16 (1.00%) Splunk
17 14 (0.87%) Palo Alto
18 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace