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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,140 1,188 1,404
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.67% 8.81% 8.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.98% 9.53% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 768 963
10th Percentile £367 £365 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £755
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.93% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 8
10th Percentile £29.00 - £21.59
25th Percentile £50.75 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £58.50 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.60% -61.75% -1.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £96.25 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 17,870 12,469 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 92.49% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,292 9,981
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £688
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 287 258 190
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -14.89% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +7 320 £575 +4.55% 81
West London -8 53 £500 +42.86% 28
South London -5 26 £485 +10.86% 8
East London +10 15 £525 -22.22% 11
North London -9 1 £178 -67.73% 3
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
1 150 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 71 (3.32%) Confluence
3 53 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 30 (1.40%) Apache
7 18 (0.84%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
9 9 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) CICS
12 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.19%) JBoss
13 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 68 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
4 23 (1.07%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
6 19 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
8 13 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.61%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.61%) Temenos T24
9 11 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.47%) iTrent
11 9 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 8 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
12 8 (0.37%) Maximo
12 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.33%) Finacle
13 7 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 541 (25.28%) Azure
2 370 (17.29%) AWS
3 211 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 166 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
5 129 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (5.84%) GCP
7 108 (5.05%) Entra ID
8 106 (4.95%) SaaS
9 94 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
10 75 (3.50%) Serverless
11 70 (3.27%) GitHub
12 67 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 61 (2.85%) Snowflake
14 58 (2.71%) OCI
15 56 (2.62%) dbt
16 50 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
16 50 (2.34%) Power Automate
17 47 (2.20%) OneDrive
17 47 (2.20%) PaaS
18 46 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.79%) Firewall
2 70 (3.27%) DNS
3 49 (2.29%) Network Security
4 47 (2.20%) VPN
5 41 (1.92%) VLAN
6 31 (1.45%) WAN
7 29 (1.36%) BGP
7 29 (1.36%) DHCP
8 24 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.84%) SAN
10 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.79%) Wireless
11 16 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.70%) SSL
13 11 (0.51%) OSPF
14 10 (0.47%) 5G
14 10 (0.47%) NX-OS
14 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.42%) DKIM
15 9 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (8.46%) Power BI
2 96 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 94 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (3.04%) Metadata
5 62 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 53 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.73%) Oracle Database
8 31 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 29 (1.36%) Delta Lake
10 27 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (1.21%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.17%) Tableau
13 22 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (0.93%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.79%) Db2
17 14 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (7.15%) JIRA
2 68 (3.18%) Git
3 45 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.92%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) JUnit
5 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
6 9 (0.42%) Gradle
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.37%) Mockito
7 8 (0.37%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.33%) Chocolatey
9 6 (0.28%) Ant
9 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.23%) RStudio
11 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.19%) MSI
11 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 714 (33.36%) Finance
2 568 (26.54%) Social Skills
3 212 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (9.86%) Banking
5 163 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.00%) Retail
7 68 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 58 (2.71%) Law
9 56 (2.62%) Legal
10 38 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 34 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.59%) Marketing
12 34 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.54%) Billing
13 33 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.50%) General Ledger
15 26 (1.21%) Front Office
16 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 433 (20.23%) Architect
2 316 (14.77%) Lead
3 196 (9.16%) Senior
4 189 (8.83%) Analyst
5 180 (8.41%) Consultant
6 149 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 133 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
8 131 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 108 (5.05%) Developer
10 106 (4.95%) Business Analyst
11 81 (3.79%) Data Architect
12 59 (2.76%) Data Analyst
13 58 (2.71%) Data Migration Lead
14 56 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
14 56 (2.62%) Lead Architect
15 51 (2.38%) Network Engineer
16 48 (2.24%) Administrator
17 45 (2.10%) Migration Engineer
18 44 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
19 42 (1.96%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (7.29%) Terraform
2 92 (4.30%) REST
3 79 (3.69%) .NET
4 67 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
5 54 (2.52%) Kafka
6 53 (2.48%) PySpark
7 45 (2.10%) Middleware
8 33 (1.54%) Spring
9 30 (1.40%) .NET Framework
10 28 (1.31%) JSON
10 28 (1.31%) OAuth
10 28 (1.31%) SOAP
10 28 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 27 (1.26%) React
12 26 (1.21%) XML
13 23 (1.07%) HTML
13 23 (1.07%) SAML
14 20 (0.93%) OpenID
15 19 (0.89%) Web Services
16 16 (0.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 181 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
2 177 (8.27%) Cloud Native
3 127 (5.93%) Data Centre
4 83 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 77 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 57 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 39 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 32 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.50%) Mainframe
12 30 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 29 (1.36%) Clustering
14 28 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
15 27 (1.26%) Replication
16 20 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
17 19 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 18 (0.84%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 167 (7.80%) Windows
2 83 (3.88%) Linux
3 32 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.36%) Unix
5 23 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.65%) VMS
8 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.28%) Android
11 6 (0.28%) SUSE
12 5 (0.23%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) Solaris
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.19%) zOS
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.047%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (32.62%) Data Migration
2 463 (21.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 369 (17.24%) Agile
4 332 (15.51%) DevOps
5 331 (15.47%) Validation
6 283 (13.22%) CI/CD
7 282 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 258 (12.06%) User Acceptance Testing
9 245 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
10 236 (11.03%) Data Modelling
11 226 (10.56%) Analytics
12 225 (10.51%) ERP
13 209 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
13 209 (9.77%) Roadmaps
14 176 (8.22%) AI
15 168 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 163 (7.62%) ETL
17 162 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 157 (7.34%) Data Governance
19 151 (7.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 328 (15.33%) SQL
2 242 (11.31%) Python
3 98 (4.58%) PowerShell
4 90 (4.21%) Java
5 68 (3.18%) C#
6 44 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 36 (1.68%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.64%) Bash
9 22 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 21 (0.98%) Bicep
10 21 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.42%) Ruby
14 9 (0.42%) SOQL
15 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.37%) Perl
15 8 (0.37%) VBA
16 7 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 306 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 268 (12.52%) SC Cleared
3 104 (4.86%) Degree
4 57 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.29%) PMI Certification
5 49 (2.29%) PMP
6 34 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.79%) CISSP
12 16 (0.75%) CCNP
12 16 (0.75%) CIMA
13 15 (0.70%) ACCA
14 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.51%) CISM
16 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.05%) QA
3 60 (2.80%) GDPR
4 43 (2.01%) PMO
5 34 (1.59%) SLA
6 26 (1.21%) NIST
7 24 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.79%) GRC
9 14 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.56%) SEPA
12 9 (0.42%) IFRS
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 6 (0.28%) GMP
15 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.28%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 122 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.43%) Docker
3 50 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.70%) vSphere
6 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.33%) NFS
8 7 (0.33%) Varnish
8 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.28%) Firmware
9 6 (0.28%) Postfix
10 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.14%) Ceph
12 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 93 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 60 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 59 (2.76%) Ansible
4 24 (1.12%) SCCM
5 21 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.89%) Grafana
7 17 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.37%) systemd
12 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
12 6 (0.28%) VxRail
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) Avamar
13 5 (0.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 462 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 231 (10.79%) Oracle
3 172 (8.04%) SAP
4 139 (6.50%) Databricks
5 84 (3.93%) Google
5 84 (3.93%) VMware
6 74 (3.46%) Cisco
7 72 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 50 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.59%) IBM
10 33 (1.54%) Informatica
11 26 (1.21%) Zscaler
12 23 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 23 (1.07%) Workday
13 21 (0.98%) Juniper
14 17 (0.79%) Adobe
14 17 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.75%) IFS
15 16 (0.75%) Splunk