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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,159 1,172 1,318
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.73% 8.77% 8.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.09% 9.47% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 781 864
10th Percentile £368 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £534 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.71% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 7
10th Percentile £26.10 - £21.52
25th Percentile £42.69 - £28.40
Median hourly rate £56.75 £25.15 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.65% -60.70% -4.48%
75th Percentile £74.69 - £71.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 17,861 12,373 14,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.58% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,170 9,513
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 241 181
10th Percentile £16.19 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.15
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -17.81% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +9 337 £588 +6.82% 197
West London -11 53 £475 +35.71% 41
South London -13 22 £485 +14.12% 10
East London +2 14 £525 -2.78% 13
North London -9 1 £178 -67.73% 1
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
1 148 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 80 (3.71%) Confluence
3 52 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.57%) Apache
6 33 (1.53%) Apache Spark
7 26 (1.20%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) SAS
9 12 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
10 9 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.32%) JBoss
13 6 (0.28%) CICS
13 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.28%) WordPress
14 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 63 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.093%) Windchill
8 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 79 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 26 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 24 (1.11%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
7 18 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
8 16 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.65%) Temenos T24
10 13 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
11 12 (0.56%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.51%) Aladdin
12 11 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
12 11 (0.51%) iTrent
12 11 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
12 11 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.46%) Maximo
13 10 (0.46%) SAP HCM
14 9 (0.42%) SAP MDG
15 8 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 544 (25.20%) Azure
2 358 (16.58%) AWS
3 189 (8.75%) Power Platform
4 165 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 133 (6.16%) GCP
6 125 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (5.42%) Entra ID
8 104 (4.82%) SaaS
9 76 (3.52%) Serverless
10 71 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
11 67 (3.10%) Snowflake
12 64 (2.96%) Amazon S3
13 63 (2.92%) GitHub
14 60 (2.78%) dbt
15 50 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 50 (2.32%) OCI
16 45 (2.08%) OneDrive
16 45 (2.08%) Power Automate
17 44 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 42 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.21%) Firewall
2 71 (3.29%) DNS
3 56 (2.59%) Network Security
4 45 (2.08%) VPN
5 40 (1.85%) VLAN
6 38 (1.76%) BGP
7 35 (1.62%) WAN
8 31 (1.44%) DHCP
9 30 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.79%) SAN
11 16 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.69%) Wireless
13 12 (0.56%) OSPF
13 12 (0.56%) SSL
14 11 (0.51%) LAN
14 11 (0.51%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.46%) 5G
15 10 (0.46%) Multicast
15 10 (0.46%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (7.13%) Power BI
2 98 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 81 (3.75%) Metadata
5 58 (2.69%) Data Lake
6 53 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 36 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 32 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 27 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.83%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.83%) Tableau
15 16 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.74%) Db2
16 15 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 151 (6.99%) JIRA
2 78 (3.61%) Git
3 48 (2.22%) GitLab
4 41 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.46%) RStudio
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.32%) Liquibase
8 6 (0.28%) Ant
8 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.28%) Gradle
8 6 (0.28%) JUnit
8 6 (0.28%) Mockito
8 6 (0.28%) MSI
8 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
10 4 (0.19%) Chocolatey
10 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 705 (32.65%) Finance
2 602 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 249 (11.53%) Banking
4 223 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 98 (4.54%) Retail
7 76 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.64%) Legal
9 44 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 38 (1.76%) Marketing
11 37 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.48%) Front Office
14 32 (1.48%) General Ledger
14 32 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 32 (1.48%) Local Government
15 31 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.39%) Billing
17 27 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 423 (19.59%) Architect
2 289 (13.39%) Lead
3 208 (9.63%) Senior
4 201 (9.31%) Analyst
5 182 (8.43%) Consultant
6 156 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 137 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
8 132 (6.11%) Data Engineer
9 119 (5.51%) Business Analyst
10 117 (5.42%) Developer
11 87 (4.03%) Data Architect
12 63 (2.92%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.73%) Network Engineer
14 52 (2.41%) Data Migration Lead
15 47 (2.18%) Administrator
16 45 (2.08%) Cloud Architect
16 45 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
17 44 (2.04%) Migration Engineer
18 42 (1.95%) Azure Engineer
19 39 (1.81%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.97%) Terraform
2 87 (4.03%) REST
3 85 (3.94%) .NET
4 62 (2.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 59 (2.73%) PySpark
6 53 (2.45%) Kafka
7 44 (2.04%) Middleware
8 35 (1.62%) .NET Framework
9 32 (1.48%) JSON
10 28 (1.30%) XML
11 27 (1.25%) React
11 27 (1.25%) Spring Boot
12 26 (1.20%) Spring
13 25 (1.16%) SOAP
14 24 (1.11%) HTML
15 23 (1.07%) OAuth
15 23 (1.07%) Web Services
16 19 (0.88%) SAML
17 17 (0.79%) CSS
18 16 (0.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 180 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 176 (8.15%) Legacy Systems
3 129 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 92 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 91 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 76 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 69 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 45 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
10 38 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.39%) Mainframe
13 29 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 29 (1.34%) Replication
14 27 (1.25%) Clustering
15 25 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (0.97%) Reference Data
17 19 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.83%) Reinsurance
18 18 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (8.06%) Windows
2 87 (4.03%) Linux
3 37 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.53%) Unix
5 25 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.37%) VMS
10 6 (0.28%) AIX
10 6 (0.28%) Android
10 6 (0.28%) Solaris
11 5 (0.23%) zOS
12 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.093%) SUSE
14 2 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (31.50%) Data Migration
2 554 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 375 (17.37%) Agile
4 350 (16.21%) Validation
5 330 (15.28%) DevOps
6 289 (13.39%) CI/CD
7 262 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 248 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 237 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
10 232 (10.75%) Data Modelling
11 230 (10.65%) Analytics
12 224 (10.38%) Roadmaps
13 200 (9.26%) AI
14 192 (8.89%) ERP
15 183 (8.48%) Data Governance
16 180 (8.34%) Business Intelligence
17 178 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 161 (7.46%) ETL
19 152 (7.04%) Project Delivery
20 147 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 342 (15.84%) SQL
2 245 (11.35%) Python
3 111 (5.14%) PowerShell
4 74 (3.43%) Java
5 70 (3.24%) C#
6 49 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 42 (1.95%) Bash
8 37 (1.71%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.20%) Bicep
10 20 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 17 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.46%) Perl
14 8 (0.37%) JCL
14 8 (0.37%) Korn
14 8 (0.37%) SOQL
15 7 (0.32%) COBOL
15 7 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 302 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 267 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 100 (4.63%) Degree
4 58 (2.69%) PMI Certification
5 57 (2.64%) PMP
6 54 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.88%) CCNP
13 17 (0.79%) CISSP
14 15 (0.69%) ACCA
15 14 (0.65%) CIMA
16 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.42%) CISM
19 7 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (10.88%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.00%) QA
3 57 (2.64%) GDPR
4 41 (1.90%) PMO
5 25 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.16%) NIST
6 24 (1.11%) SLA
7 23 (1.07%) GRC
8 16 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.60%) SEPA
11 10 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.37%) IFRS
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.28%) GMP
14 6 (0.28%) HL7
14 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.50%) Docker
3 51 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.69%) vSphere
6 13 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.23%) NFS
9 5 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.19%) Postfix
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.046%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 100 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 62 (2.87%) Ansible
3 57 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (0.97%) SCCM
6 15 (0.69%) Grafana
7 13 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.37%) systemd
11 7 (0.32%) Control-M
11 7 (0.32%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.19%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 452 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 243 (11.26%) Oracle
3 180 (8.34%) SAP
4 153 (7.09%) Databricks
5 97 (4.49%) Google
6 82 (3.80%) Cisco
7 81 (3.75%) VMware
8 71 (3.29%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.73%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.81%) IBM
11 35 (1.62%) Informatica
12 27 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.16%) CyberArk
13 25 (1.16%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 20 (0.93%) Workday
16 19 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 19 (0.88%) Juniper
17 18 (0.83%) IFS