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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 21 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,513 1,215 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.55% 9.03% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.57% 9.95% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 839 900
10th Percentile £368 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £726 £853 £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% -37.50%

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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -5 204 £558 +1.36% 61
South London +12 32 £463 -3.14% 7
West London 0 25 £550 +10.00% 13
East London -2 13 £475 -5.00% 5
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 65 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.11%) Confluence
4 12 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.73%) SAS
6 10 (0.66%) Apache
6 10 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.59%) CMS
8 8 (0.53%) 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 57 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.066%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.93%) Loan IQ
4 14 (0.93%) 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
8 8 (0.53%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.46%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.40%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.40%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 400 (26.44%) Azure
2 222 (14.67%) AWS
3 107 (7.07%) Power Platform
4 104 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (6.68%) GitHub
6 85 (5.62%) GCP
7 77 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (3.77%) SaaS
10 56 (3.70%) Entra ID
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 38 (2.51%) Snowflake
15 36 (2.38%) Amazon S3
16 34 (2.25%) IaaS
17 32 (2.12%) PaaS
18 28 (1.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.63%) Firewall
2 45 (2.97%) Network Security
3 35 (2.31%) DNS
4 32 (2.12%) VPN
5 25 (1.65%) WAN
6 22 (1.45%) SAN
7 18 (1.19%) NAS
8 16 (1.06%) BGP
8 16 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.06%) VLAN
9 15 (0.99%) LAN
10 14 (0.93%) DHCP
10 14 (0.93%) OSPF
11 13 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.59%) DMARC
12 9 (0.59%) MPLS
13 8 (0.53%) DKIM
14 7 (0.46%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.40%) Wireless
16 5 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.75%) Power BI
2 76 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 41 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 31 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.05%) Oracle Database
8 28 (1.85%) Metadata
9 25 (1.65%) Tableau
10 17 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.99%) DB2
12 15 (0.99%) MySQL
12 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 100 (6.61%) JIRA
2 30 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.85%) Git
4 22 (1.45%) GitLab
5 15 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.46%) JUnit
8 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.33%) Selenium
8 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.26%) LSMW
9 4 (0.26%) Mockito
9 4 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.26%) Toad
10 3 (0.20%) ERwin
10 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 483 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 467 (30.87%) Finance
3 144 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (8.99%) Banking
5 128 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.30%) Retail
8 37 (2.45%) Legal
9 32 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.39%) Marketing
15 19 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.26%) Local Government
16 18 (1.19%) General Ledger
16 18 (1.19%) Law
17 17 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 206 (13.62%) Architect
2 203 (13.42%) Analyst
3 158 (10.44%) Lead
4 156 (10.31%) Senior
5 141 (9.32%) Business Analyst
5 141 (9.32%) Consultant
6 120 (7.93%) Project Manager
7 86 (5.68%) Developer
8 76 (5.02%) Data Engineer
9 59 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (3.37%) Migration Engineer
10 51 (3.37%) Migration Manager
11 44 (2.91%) Data Analyst
12 41 (2.71%) Migration Analyst
13 40 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.12%) Azure Architect
15 32 (2.12%) Cloud Engineer
16 31 (2.05%) Cloud Architect
16 31 (2.05%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.17%) REST
2 37 (2.45%) .NET
3 36 (2.38%) Middleware
4 31 (2.05%) Kafka
5 29 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 26 (1.72%) PySpark
6 26 (1.72%) XML
7 16 (1.06%) SOAP
7 16 (1.06%) Spring
7 16 (1.06%) Spring Boot
8 15 (0.99%) JSON
9 13 (0.86%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.86%) HTML
9 13 (0.86%) React
10 12 (0.79%) CSS
10 12 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.79%) SAML
11 11 (0.73%) Web Services
12 10 (0.66%) OAuth
12 10 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 62 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 51 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 40 (2.64%) Replication
7 37 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 31 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 28 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.45%) Mainframe
12 19 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (0.86%) Reference Data
16 12 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.73%) Tandem
18 10 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.40%) Windows
2 37 (2.45%) Linux
3 31 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.39%) Unix
6 17 (1.12%) VMS
7 10 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.66%) zOS
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
10 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (34.77%) Data Migration
2 301 (19.89%) Agile
3 283 (18.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 239 (15.80%) DevOps
5 221 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 168 (11.10%) Data Modelling
8 163 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 156 (10.31%) Validation
10 153 (10.11%) ETL
11 139 (9.19%) Project Management
12 135 (8.92%) Analytics
13 129 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
14 128 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 124 (8.20%) ERP
16 116 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
17 110 (7.27%) Project Delivery
18 105 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
19 94 (6.21%) Workshop Facilitation
20 92 (6.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 276 (18.24%) SQL
2 133 (8.79%) Python
3 83 (5.49%) Java
4 69 (4.56%) PowerShell
5 38 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 35 (2.31%) C#
7 23 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.19%) Bicep
8 18 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.99%) Bash
11 11 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.66%) VBA
13 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.53%) REXX
15 7 (0.46%) Korn
15 7 (0.46%) PHP
16 6 (0.40%) ABAP
17 5 (0.33%) R
17 5 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 254 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 215 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.61%) Degree
4 50 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.78%) PMP
6 41 (2.71%) PMI Certification
7 31 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.52%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.93%) CCNP
14 13 (0.86%) CBAP
14 13 (0.86%) CISSP
15 12 (0.79%) CIMA
15 12 (0.79%) IIBA
15 12 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.66%) DV Cleared
17 9 (0.59%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.09%) QA
3 68 (4.49%) GDPR
4 28 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.99%) PMO
5 15 (0.99%) SLA
6 14 (0.93%) NIST
7 10 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.66%) NCSC
7 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.59%) IFRS
8 9 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.46%) GRC
9 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.40%) SEPA
11 5 (0.33%) Basel III
11 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 73 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.83%) Docker
3 44 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.73%) NFS
8 9 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (0.53%) vSphere
10 7 (0.46%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) Varnish
12 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.066%) Firmware
13 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.066%) Postfix
13 1 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 159 (10.51%) Terraform
2 107 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 66 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (2.64%) Ansible
5 28 (1.85%) 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%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.53%) vMotion
9 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.46%) SCOM
10 6 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.33%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Argo
12 4 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.26%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 315 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.24%) Oracle
3 134 (8.86%) SAP
4 72 (4.76%) VMware
5 55 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.44%) Google
7 50 (3.30%) ServiceNow
8 46 (3.04%) Databricks
9 39 (2.58%) Cisco
10 33 (2.18%) Workday
11 25 (1.65%) Citrix
11 25 (1.65%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.59%) Informatica
13 20 (1.32%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.26%) Avaloq
15 17 (1.12%) IBM
16 16 (1.06%) Splunk
17 15 (0.99%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.93%) Palo Alto
19 13 (0.86%) Dynatrace