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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,154 1,179 1,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.69% 8.79% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.03% 9.50% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 796 849
10th Percentile £372 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £537 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 6
10th Percentile £27.07 - £21.45
25th Percentile £45.38 - £25.10
Median hourly rate £57.00 £25.15 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.64% -49.19% -17.15%
75th Percentile £74.38 - £69.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -33.82% -41.31%

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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £663 £675
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 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +9 333 £590 +7.27% 186
West London -7 55 £475 +33.80% 21
South London -12 20 £485 +14.12% 17
East London 0 12 £470 -12.96% 12
North London -9 1 £178 -67.73% 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
1 147 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 82 (3.81%) Confluence
3 52 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.49%) Apache
7 27 (1.25%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) SAS
9 12 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
10 9 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.32%) JBoss
13 6 (0.28%) CICS
13 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.28%) WordPress
14 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.19%) IIS
15 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 62 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.093%) Windchill
7 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 86 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
4 27 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 23 (1.07%) NetSuite
6 20 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
7 18 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
8 17 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
9 14 (0.65%) Temenos T24
10 12 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.56%) SAP HCM
11 11 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
11 11 (0.51%) iTrent
11 11 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.46%) Aladdin
12 10 (0.46%) Maximo
13 9 (0.42%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.42%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 548 (25.44%) Azure
2 361 (16.76%) AWS
3 183 (8.50%) Power Platform
4 163 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
5 138 (6.41%) GCP
6 128 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (5.80%) Entra ID
8 104 (4.83%) SaaS
9 73 (3.39%) Serverless
10 72 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
11 69 (3.20%) Snowflake
12 65 (3.02%) GitHub
13 63 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 61 (2.83%) dbt
15 51 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 50 (2.32%) OCI
17 47 (2.18%) OneDrive
18 44 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 44 (2.04%) Power Automate
19 40 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.18%) Firewall
2 72 (3.34%) DNS
3 56 (2.60%) Network Security
4 45 (2.09%) VPN
5 41 (1.90%) VLAN
6 38 (1.76%) BGP
7 36 (1.67%) WAN
8 31 (1.44%) DHCP
8 31 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.79%) SAN
10 16 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.70%) Wireless
12 13 (0.60%) SSL
13 12 (0.56%) OSPF
14 11 (0.51%) LAN
15 10 (0.46%) Multicast
15 10 (0.46%) NX-OS
15 10 (0.46%) PSTN
16 9 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (6.92%) Power BI
2 101 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 100 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (3.81%) Metadata
5 56 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 48 (2.23%) Oracle Database
8 40 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 33 (1.53%) Delta Lake
11 27 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (0.84%) Db2
14 18 (0.84%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.74%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 151 (7.01%) JIRA
2 84 (3.90%) Git
3 49 (2.27%) GitLab
4 41 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.46%) RStudio
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.28%) Ant
7 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.28%) Gradle
7 6 (0.28%) Liquibase
7 6 (0.28%) MSI
7 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.23%) JUnit
8 5 (0.23%) Mockito
8 5 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
8 5 (0.23%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.19%) LSMW
9 4 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 708 (32.87%) Finance
2 597 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 259 (12.02%) Banking
4 222 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 176 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 98 (4.55%) Retail
7 75 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 61 (2.83%) Legal
9 49 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 38 (1.76%) Marketing
11 38 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.53%) Front Office
12 33 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 33 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.53%) Local Government
13 32 (1.49%) General Ledger
14 31 (1.44%) Billing
14 31 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 414 (19.22%) Architect
2 287 (13.32%) Lead
3 206 (9.56%) Analyst
3 206 (9.56%) Senior
4 182 (8.45%) Consultant
5 152 (7.06%) Project Manager
6 135 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
7 133 (6.17%) Data Engineer
8 123 (5.71%) Developer
9 119 (5.52%) Business Analyst
10 82 (3.81%) Data Architect
11 63 (2.92%) Data Analyst
12 58 (2.69%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.27%) Data Migration Lead
13 49 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 47 (2.18%) Administrator
15 45 (2.09%) Migration Engineer
16 41 (1.90%) Azure Engineer
17 40 (1.86%) Cloud Architect
18 38 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.99%) Terraform
2 90 (4.18%) REST
3 85 (3.95%) .NET
4 62 (2.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 56 (2.60%) PySpark
6 53 (2.46%) Kafka
7 42 (1.95%) Middleware
8 34 (1.58%) .NET Framework
9 32 (1.49%) JSON
10 28 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 28 (1.30%) XML
11 27 (1.25%) Spring
12 25 (1.16%) React
12 25 (1.16%) SOAP
13 24 (1.11%) OAuth
14 23 (1.07%) HTML
14 23 (1.07%) Web Services
15 16 (0.74%) CSS
15 16 (0.74%) SAML
16 15 (0.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 178 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
3 126 (5.85%) Data Centre
4 93 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 93 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 76 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 69 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
9 40 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.44%) Mainframe
12 30 (1.39%) Replication
13 29 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 27 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
15 26 (1.21%) Clustering
16 25 (1.16%) Reference Data
17 19 (0.88%) PKI
18 18 (0.84%) FMCG
18 18 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 171 (7.94%) Windows
2 85 (3.95%) Linux
3 42 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.67%) Unix
5 22 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.46%) VMS
9 6 (0.28%) AIX
9 6 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.28%) Solaris
10 5 (0.23%) zOS
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.14%) SUSE
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (31.48%) Data Migration
2 562 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 373 (17.32%) Agile
4 360 (16.71%) Validation
5 330 (15.32%) DevOps
6 293 (13.60%) CI/CD
7 258 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 244 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (11.05%) User Acceptance Testing
10 234 (10.86%) Data Modelling
11 231 (10.72%) Roadmaps
12 227 (10.54%) Analytics
13 201 (9.33%) AI
14 187 (8.68%) ERP
15 184 (8.54%) Data Governance
16 179 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
18 166 (7.71%) ETL
19 148 (6.87%) Project Delivery
20 143 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 347 (16.11%) SQL
2 246 (11.42%) Python
3 114 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 78 (3.62%) Java
5 70 (3.25%) C#
6 50 (2.32%) JavaScript
7 46 (2.14%) Bash
8 37 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.16%) Bicep
10 21 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.46%) Perl
15 9 (0.42%) Korn
16 8 (0.37%) JCL
16 8 (0.37%) SOQL
17 7 (0.32%) R
17 7 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 294 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 100 (4.64%) Degree
4 57 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 56 (2.60%) PMP
6 52 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.07%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.88%) CCNP
12 17 (0.79%) CISSP
13 13 (0.60%) ACCA
14 12 (0.56%) CIMA
14 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.42%) CISM
17 8 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 109 (5.06%) QA
3 55 (2.55%) GDPR
4 40 (1.86%) PMO
5 24 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.11%) NIST
6 23 (1.07%) GRC
6 23 (1.07%) SLA
7 16 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.60%) SEPA
10 9 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.37%) IFRS
12 7 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.32%) NCSC
13 6 (0.28%) GMP
13 6 (0.28%) GxP
13 6 (0.28%) WCAG
14 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 135 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.65%) Docker
3 54 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.70%) vSphere
6 13 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.14%) NFS
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) Varnish
12 2 (0.093%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 98 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 62 (2.88%) Ansible
3 57 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.93%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Grafana
7 13 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.42%) Control-M
11 8 (0.37%) Karpenter
11 8 (0.37%) systemd
12 6 (0.28%) Argo
12 6 (0.28%) Data Guard
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
13 5 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.23%) Istio
13 5 (0.23%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 451 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 248 (11.51%) Oracle
3 188 (8.73%) SAP
4 156 (7.24%) Databricks
5 97 (4.50%) Google
6 84 (3.90%) VMware
7 79 (3.67%) Cisco
8 72 (3.34%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.79%) Salesforce
10 41 (1.90%) IBM
11 35 (1.62%) Informatica
12 27 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.16%) CyberArk
13 25 (1.16%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 20 (0.93%) Workday
16 19 (0.88%) Bloomberg
17 18 (0.84%) IFS
17 18 (0.84%) Juniper