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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,515 1,195 1,274
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.53% 8.91% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.56% 9.80% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 824 914
10th Percentile £374 £388 £366
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £701 £675
90th Percentile £736 £846 £750
England median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 12
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.50 £67.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -72.94% +148.18%
75th Percentile £29.73 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% -42.50% -36.76%

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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -7 205 £570 +3.64% 56
South London +9 33 £463 -3.14% 12
West London -2 26 £575 +15.00% 12
East London -1 12 £485 -3.00% 5
North London +4 6 £448 +8.48% 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 64 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.10%) Confluence
4 12 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.73%) Apache
5 11 (0.73%) SAS
6 10 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.53%) CMS
8 7 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.33%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.26%) nginx
12 3 (0.20%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.20%) Mattermost
12 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Appian
13 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 56 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.066%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.92%) Loan IQ
4 14 (0.92%) SAP HR
5 12 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 10 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 8 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.46%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.46%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.40%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 400 (26.40%) Azure
2 223 (14.72%) AWS
3 109 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (6.60%) GitHub
6 85 (5.61%) GCP
7 79 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 55 (3.63%) SaaS
11 50 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 41 (2.71%) OCI
12 41 (2.71%) Serverless
13 40 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (2.57%) Snowflake
15 37 (2.44%) Amazon S3
16 35 (2.31%) IaaS
17 32 (2.11%) PaaS
18 28 (1.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.69%) Firewall
2 45 (2.97%) Network Security
3 38 (2.51%) DNS
4 32 (2.11%) VPN
5 25 (1.65%) WAN
6 23 (1.52%) SAN
7 18 (1.19%) NAS
8 17 (1.12%) VLAN
9 16 (1.06%) BGP
9 16 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.99%) DHCP
10 15 (0.99%) LAN
11 14 (0.92%) OSPF
11 14 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.66%) MPLS
13 9 (0.59%) DMARC
14 8 (0.53%) DKIM
15 7 (0.46%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.40%) Wireless
17 5 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.87%) Power BI
2 78 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (5.02%) SQL Server
4 42 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 32 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.91%) Oracle Database
9 27 (1.78%) Metadata
10 25 (1.65%) Tableau
11 17 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.99%) DB2
13 15 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 15 (0.99%) MySQL
13 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
14 14 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (6.60%) JIRA
2 31 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.91%) Git
4 22 (1.45%) GitLab
5 15 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.33%) Chocolatey
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.33%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.26%) LSMW
10 4 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.26%) Toad
11 3 (0.20%) ERwin
11 3 (0.20%) Mockito
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 481 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 472 (31.16%) Finance
3 147 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.17%) Banking
5 128 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.23%) Retail
8 38 (2.51%) Legal
9 32 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.39%) Marketing
15 20 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.25%) Law
16 19 (1.25%) Local Government
17 18 (1.19%) General Ledger
18 17 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 208 (13.73%) Architect
2 201 (13.27%) Analyst
3 160 (10.56%) Lead
4 157 (10.36%) Senior
5 142 (9.37%) Business Analyst
6 141 (9.31%) Consultant
7 120 (7.92%) Project Manager
8 87 (5.74%) Developer
9 77 (5.08%) Data Engineer
10 61 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
11 52 (3.43%) Migration Manager
12 51 (3.37%) Migration Engineer
13 43 (2.84%) Data Analyst
14 42 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (2.71%) Migration Analyst
16 38 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
17 32 (2.11%) Azure Architect
17 32 (2.11%) Cloud Architect
17 32 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
17 32 (2.11%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.17%) REST
2 37 (2.44%) .NET
2 37 (2.44%) Middleware
3 31 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 30 (1.98%) Kafka
5 25 (1.65%) PySpark
5 25 (1.65%) XML
6 17 (1.12%) SOAP
7 15 (0.99%) JSON
7 15 (0.99%) Spring
7 15 (0.99%) Spring Boot
8 13 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.86%) HTML
9 12 (0.79%) CSS
9 12 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
9 12 (0.79%) React
10 11 (0.73%) SAML
10 11 (0.73%) Web Services
11 10 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 64 (4.22%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.97%) Data Structures
6 38 (2.51%) Replication
7 37 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 33 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.45%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.86%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.73%) Tandem
15 11 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.33%) Windows
2 38 (2.51%) Linux
3 31 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.45%) Unix
4 22 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.12%) VMS
6 10 (0.66%) zOS
7 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.26%) Android
10 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.26%) Solaris
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (34.72%) Data Migration
2 300 (19.80%) Agile
3 288 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 240 (15.84%) DevOps
5 223 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 169 (11.16%) Data Modelling
8 162 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 156 (10.30%) Validation
10 155 (10.23%) ETL
11 141 (9.31%) Project Management
12 136 (8.98%) Analytics
13 130 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 127 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 125 (8.25%) ERP
16 118 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
17 110 (7.26%) Project Delivery
18 104 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 95 (6.27%) Decision-Making
20 93 (6.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 274 (18.09%) SQL
2 131 (8.65%) Python
3 81 (5.35%) Java
4 68 (4.49%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 36 (2.38%) C#
7 21 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.19%) Bicep
9 17 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.92%) Bash
12 12 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.66%) VBA
14 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.53%) REXX
16 7 (0.46%) Korn
16 7 (0.46%) PHP
17 6 (0.40%) ABAP
18 5 (0.33%) R
18 5 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 258 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 219 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 98 (6.47%) Degree
4 49 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.84%) PMP
6 42 (2.77%) PMI Certification
7 31 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.52%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.92%) CCNP
13 14 (0.92%) CISSP
14 13 (0.86%) CBAP
15 12 (0.79%) CIMA
15 12 (0.79%) IIBA
16 11 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.66%) CISM
17 10 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.32%) Data Quality
2 76 (5.02%) QA
3 69 (4.55%) GDPR
4 29 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.06%) SLA
6 15 (0.99%) NIST
6 15 (0.99%) PMO
7 10 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.59%) IFRS
8 9 (0.59%) NCSC
9 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.46%) GRC
9 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.46%) SEPA
10 6 (0.40%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.33%) Basel III
11 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 75 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.76%) Docker
3 45 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.79%) NFS
8 8 (0.53%) vSphere
9 7 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.20%) Varnish
11 2 (0.13%) Postfix
11 2 (0.13%) RACF
11 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.066%) Firmware
12 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.066%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 156 (10.30%) Terraform
2 106 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.71%) Ansible
5 29 (1.91%) SCCM
6 12 (0.79%) AirWatch
6 12 (0.79%) Grafana
7 10 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (0.53%) vMotion
9 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.46%) SCOM
10 6 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.33%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Argo
12 4 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.26%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.20%) HP SiteScope
13 3 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 315 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.23%) Oracle
3 132 (8.71%) SAP
4 74 (4.88%) VMware
5 54 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.37%) Google
6 51 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 46 (3.04%) Databricks
8 38 (2.51%) Cisco
9 34 (2.24%) Workday
10 26 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.65%) Citrix
12 23 (1.52%) Informatica
13 20 (1.32%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.25%) Avaloq
15 17 (1.12%) IBM
16 16 (1.06%) Splunk
17 15 (0.99%) MuleSoft
18 13 (0.86%) Dynatrace
18 13 (0.86%) Palo Alto