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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,330 1,195 1,259
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.08% 8.58% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.97% 9.49% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 820 892
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £735 £825 £750
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.27% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £67.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +112.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £66.75 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £21.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.99% -47.03% -37.98%

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 13,346 12,596 16,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.41% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,853 8,021 11,715
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.67% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 155 306
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.71 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.36% -15.86%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.06
90th Percentile £70.80 £80.45 £73.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.33% +11.41%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -4 198 £575 +4.36% 51
West London +5 27 £425 -15.00% 5
South London +14 20 £450 -17.05% 8
East London +1 14 £498 -0.50% 4
North London +9 5 £550 +33.33% 2
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 63 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (3.23%) Confluence
4 10 (0.75%) CMS
5 9 (0.68%) Apache
5 9 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.68%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.53%) SAS
8 6 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.45%) Mattermost
9 4 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.23%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Trello
10 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.075%) Notion
Business Applications
1 57 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.05%) SAP HR
5 12 (0.90%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.68%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 8 (0.60%) Endur
8 8 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
8 8 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.53%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.53%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 345 (25.94%) Azure
2 190 (14.29%) AWS
3 101 (7.59%) Power Platform
4 95 (7.14%) GitHub
5 87 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (6.09%) GCP
7 72 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (3.91%) SaaS
10 47 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (3.53%) Entra ID
11 39 (2.93%) OCI
11 39 (2.93%) Snowflake
12 38 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (2.78%) Serverless
14 32 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 29 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 22 (1.65%) dbt
18 21 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.66%) Firewall
2 41 (3.08%) Network Security
3 25 (1.88%) VPN
4 24 (1.80%) DNS
4 24 (1.80%) WAN
5 18 (1.35%) BGP
6 17 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.13%) LAN
7 15 (1.13%) OSPF
8 11 (0.83%) VLAN
9 10 (0.75%) DHCP
9 10 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.68%) DMARC
10 9 (0.68%) Skype
11 7 (0.53%) DKIM
12 6 (0.45%) MPLS
12 6 (0.45%) SAN
12 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.38%) VoIP
13 5 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.02%) Power BI
2 72 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 36 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.48%) Oracle Database
5 33 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 32 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (2.03%) Metadata
8 24 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 23 (1.73%) Tableau
10 17 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.13%) MySQL
12 15 (1.13%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.05%) Big Data
13 14 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (0.90%) DB2
Development Applications
1 89 (6.69%) JIRA
2 35 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.18%) GitLab
4 25 (1.88%) Git
5 16 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 11 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.45%) Maven
9 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.38%) Selenium
10 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.30%) Gradle
10 4 (0.30%) JUnit
10 4 (0.30%) Mockito
10 4 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.30%) Toad
11 3 (0.23%) ERwin
11 3 (0.23%) LSMW
11 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 429 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 404 (30.38%) Finance
3 126 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.42%) Banking
5 99 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 46 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.08%) Retail
8 34 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.95%) Legal
11 25 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.50%) Local Government
15 19 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.43%) Front Office
15 19 (1.43%) Marketing
15 19 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.35%) Back Office
16 18 (1.35%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 180 (13.53%) Analyst
2 166 (12.48%) Architect
3 132 (9.92%) Lead
4 125 (9.40%) Business Analyst
4 125 (9.40%) Senior
5 123 (9.25%) Consultant
6 104 (7.82%) Project Manager
7 81 (6.09%) Developer
8 57 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 50 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
9 50 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 48 (3.61%) Migration Engineer
11 43 (3.23%) Migration Manager
12 34 (2.56%) Migration Analyst
12 34 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (2.48%) Data Analyst
14 30 (2.26%) Azure Architect
15 26 (1.95%) Data Architect
16 24 (1.80%) Data Migration Lead
16 24 (1.80%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.01%) REST
2 36 (2.71%) .NET
3 34 (2.56%) Kafka
4 28 (2.11%) Middleware
5 27 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 25 (1.88%) XML
7 23 (1.73%) PySpark
8 14 (1.05%) HTML
8 14 (1.05%) JSON
8 14 (1.05%) Spring
8 14 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.98%) CSS
9 13 (0.98%) RESTful
10 12 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.90%) React
11 11 (0.83%) Node.js
12 10 (0.75%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.75%) GraphQL
12 10 (0.75%) Web Services
13 9 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 87 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.36%) Data Centre
4 42 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 37 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.03%) Replication
8 24 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.65%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.35%) Mainframe
12 16 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.90%) Clustering
15 9 (0.68%) NHS
15 9 (0.68%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.68%) Tandem
15 9 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.14%) Windows
2 40 (3.01%) Linux
3 28 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.58%) Unix
5 18 (1.35%) VMS
5 18 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.38%) zOS
9 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 3 (0.23%) Solaris
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.075%) AIX
12 1 (0.075%) VME
12 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (33.91%) Data Migration
2 274 (20.60%) Agile
3 245 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 227 (17.07%) DevOps
5 216 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (12.71%) CI/CD
7 152 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 144 (10.83%) Data Modelling
9 129 (9.70%) ETL
10 128 (9.62%) Project Management
11 123 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 119 (8.95%) Validation
13 116 (8.72%) Analytics
14 113 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
15 104 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
16 101 (7.59%) ERP
17 95 (7.14%) Project Delivery
18 91 (6.84%) Workshop Facilitation
19 80 (6.02%) Data Governance
20 78 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 252 (18.95%) SQL
2 133 (10.00%) Python
3 74 (5.56%) Java
4 68 (5.11%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.78%) C#
6 32 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.58%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.43%) Bash
8 19 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.20%) Bicep
9 16 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 12 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.68%) VBA
12 8 (0.60%) PHP
12 8 (0.60%) REXX
13 6 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.38%) Perl
14 5 (0.38%) R
14 5 (0.38%) Scala
15 4 (0.30%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 210 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.59%) Degree
4 44 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 42 (3.16%) PMP
7 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.13%) CCNP
12 14 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.90%) CBAP
15 11 (0.83%) IIBA
16 10 (0.75%) DV Cleared
17 8 (0.60%) CCIE
17 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.53%) CISSP
18 7 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.74%) QA
3 56 (4.21%) GDPR
4 20 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.90%) NIST
6 11 (0.83%) SLA
7 9 (0.68%) IFRS
7 9 (0.68%) PMO
8 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.53%) NCSC
9 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.45%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.45%) GRC
11 5 (0.38%) Basel III
11 5 (0.38%) GAAP
11 5 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.30%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 69 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 63 (4.74%) Docker
3 31 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.45%) vSphere
10 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.23%) KVM
11 2 (0.15%) RACF
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.075%) NFS
12 1 (0.075%) Postfix
12 1 (0.075%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.075%) Squid
12 1 (0.075%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 154 (11.58%) Terraform
2 102 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 51 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (3.16%) Ansible
5 24 (1.80%) SCCM
6 12 (0.90%) SCOM
7 9 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (0.68%) AirWatch
7 9 (0.68%) Grafana
8 6 (0.45%) Argo
8 6 (0.45%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.38%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.38%) Istio
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.30%) Pingdom
11 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 277 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 143 (10.75%) Oracle
3 122 (9.17%) SAP
4 57 (4.29%) Google
5 49 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 47 (3.53%) VMware
7 38 (2.86%) Databricks
8 37 (2.78%) Cisco
9 36 (2.71%) ServiceNow
10 35 (2.63%) Workday
11 22 (1.65%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.43%) Splunk
13 17 (1.28%) Avaloq
13 17 (1.28%) Citrix
13 17 (1.28%) Informatica
14 15 (1.13%) BMC
14 15 (1.13%) IBM
15 14 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.90%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.90%) Red Hat