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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,284 1,270 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.01% 8.38% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.85% 9.31% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 849 966
10th Percentile £363 £381 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.44% -1.10%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.43 £28.53
25th Percentile £20.61 £21.50 £78.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +97.67%
75th Percentile - £28.63 £86.50
90th Percentile £68.81 £44.30 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.25 £75.75
% change year-on-year +13.03% -70.63% +24.69%

All Process and 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 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -6 208 £550 -1.43% 36
West London +8 37 £415 -15.95% 6
South London +14 25 £450 -17.05% 16
East London +10 19 £513 +13.89% 14
North London +7 6 £509 +11.38%
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 66 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.82%) Confluence
3 30 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.86%) Apache
6 10 (0.78%) CMS
7 8 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.62%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.55%) SAS
9 6 (0.47%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.47%) Mattermost
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.23%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.23%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.16%) IIS
12 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 46 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Notion
9 1 (0.078%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 57 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (1.17%) Endur
5 14 (1.09%) SAP HR
6 12 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.62%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.47%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.39%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 312 (24.30%) Azure
2 198 (15.42%) AWS
3 101 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 83 (6.46%) GitHub
5 81 (6.31%) GCP
6 76 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (4.44%) SaaS
9 53 (4.13%) Entra ID
10 42 (3.27%) Snowflake
11 40 (3.12%) OCI
12 39 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
13 38 (2.96%) Serverless
14 36 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 34 (2.65%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 24 (1.87%) dbt
18 23 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.75%) Firewall
2 33 (2.57%) DNS
2 33 (2.57%) Network Security
3 28 (2.18%) VPN
3 28 (2.18%) WAN
4 18 (1.40%) BGP
4 18 (1.40%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.32%) DHCP
6 15 (1.17%) LAN
6 15 (1.17%) OSPF
7 13 (1.01%) VLAN
8 10 (0.78%) DMARC
9 8 (0.62%) DKIM
9 8 (0.62%) Skype
9 8 (0.62%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.55%) MPLS
10 7 (0.55%) NAS
10 7 (0.55%) SAN
10 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.15%) Power BI
2 69 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.18%) Oracle Database
8 22 (1.71%) Metadata
8 22 (1.71%) Tableau
9 20 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.17%) Big Data
13 15 (1.17%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.09%) MySQL
15 13 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 95 (7.40%) JIRA
2 29 (2.26%) GitLab
2 29 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.02%) Git
4 16 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 13 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.78%) Selenium
7 8 (0.62%) Maven
8 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.47%) Gradle
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.39%) Snyk
10 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.31%) JUnit
10 4 (0.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.31%) Toad
11 3 (0.23%) Postman
11 3 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.23%) TestRail
11 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 392 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 377 (29.36%) Finance
3 141 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 98 (7.63%) Banking
6 44 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.41%) Back Office
10 26 (2.02%) Retail
11 24 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.87%) Local Government
12 23 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.71%) Legal
13 22 (1.71%) Marketing
13 22 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.64%) Front Office
15 20 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.17%) General Ledger
16 15 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (13.86%) Analyst
2 164 (12.77%) Architect
3 124 (9.66%) Business Analyst
3 124 (9.66%) Lead
4 115 (8.96%) Senior
5 110 (8.57%) Consultant
6 104 (8.10%) Project Manager
7 89 (6.93%) Developer
8 53 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (3.35%) Migration Engineer
10 41 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (2.49%) Data Analyst
13 31 (2.41%) Azure Architect
14 30 (2.34%) Migration Analyst
15 28 (2.18%) Migration Manager
16 26 (2.02%) Data Architect
17 25 (1.95%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.87%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.04%) REST
2 34 (2.65%) .NET
3 29 (2.26%) XML
4 27 (2.10%) Kafka
5 22 (1.71%) Middleware
6 21 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (1.64%) PySpark
7 19 (1.48%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.32%) React
9 16 (1.25%) JSON
10 13 (1.01%) CSS
11 12 (0.93%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.93%) RESTful
11 12 (0.93%) Spring
12 11 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
12 11 (0.86%) Node.js
12 11 (0.86%) SOAP
13 10 (0.78%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.70%) HTML
15 7 (0.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
2 78 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.53%) Data Centre
4 36 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 34 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.18%) Replication
8 27 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.32%) Mainframe
11 16 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.93%) Clustering
14 12 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.79%) Windows
2 40 (3.12%) Linux
3 28 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.40%) Unix
5 17 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.01%) VMS
7 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.31%) zOS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.078%) VME
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (35.59%) Data Migration
2 260 (20.25%) Agile
3 215 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 197 (15.34%) DevOps
6 173 (13.47%) CI/CD
7 147 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 122 (9.50%) ETL
9 120 (9.35%) Data Modelling
10 116 (9.03%) Analytics
11 109 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 109 (8.49%) Project Management
12 108 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
13 106 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
14 101 (7.87%) Validation
15 97 (7.55%) ERP
16 77 (6.00%) Data Governance
16 77 (6.00%) Roadmaps
17 74 (5.76%) Change Management
17 74 (5.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 245 (19.08%) SQL
2 141 (10.98%) Python
3 87 (6.78%) Java
4 65 (5.06%) PowerShell
5 44 (3.43%) C#
6 30 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.56%) Bash
7 20 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.48%) Bicep
8 19 (1.48%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.70%) Go
11 9 (0.70%) PHP
12 8 (0.62%) REXX
13 7 (0.55%) VBA
14 6 (0.47%) C++
15 5 (0.39%) Perl
15 5 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 152 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.85%) Degree
4 38 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 33 (2.57%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.34%) PMP
7 28 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.25%) CCNP
12 15 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.70%) CCIE
14 9 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.55%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.39%) CCNA
17 5 (0.39%) CFA
17 5 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 69 (5.37%) QA
3 49 (3.82%) GDPR
4 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.01%) PMO
6 12 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.93%) NIST
7 8 (0.62%) SLA
8 7 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.47%) EMIR
9 6 (0.47%) GRC
9 6 (0.47%) IFRS
9 6 (0.47%) NCSC
9 6 (0.47%) WCAG
10 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 70 (5.45%) Docker
3 28 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.55%) vSphere
8 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.23%) KVM
9 2 (0.16%) RACF
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.078%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.078%) Squid
10 1 (0.078%) Varnish
10 1 (0.078%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 139 (10.83%) Terraform
2 107 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.04%) Ansible
4 28 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.56%) SCCM
6 12 (0.93%) SCOM
7 10 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.70%) Grafana
9 8 (0.62%) Argo
10 6 (0.47%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.31%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.31%) Puppet
12 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.23%) Istio
13 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.23%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 243 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 136 (10.59%) Oracle
3 123 (9.58%) SAP
4 60 (4.67%) Google
5 51 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.12%) VMware
7 36 (2.80%) Cisco
8 35 (2.73%) Workday
9 34 (2.65%) Databricks
10 31 (2.41%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.40%) Splunk
12 16 (1.25%) Citrix
12 16 (1.25%) Informatica
13 15 (1.17%) BMC
14 14 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.09%) IBM
14 14 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.01%) Juniper
16 12 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.93%) Red Hat