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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,989 1,163 1,458
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.44% 9.28% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.74% 10.04% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 762 1,036
10th Percentile £373 £394 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +1.20% -9.42%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 8
10th Percentile £16.74 - £21.59
25th Percentile £25.15 - £22.89
Median hourly rate £51.50 £25.15 £56.87
Median % change year-on-year +104.77% -55.77% +28.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £29.91 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.75 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -37.13% -38.46%

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 16,939 11,581 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,285 7,760 11,134
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 212 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +16.24% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £50.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +3 286 £575 +4.55% 44
West London -10 42 £450 +25.87% 20
South London +8 32 £463 -2.63% 4
East London +4 12 £525 +2.94% 4
North London -3 4 £410 -25.45%
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
1 118 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.71%) Confluence
3 53 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.16%) Apache
7 13 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
8 12 (0.60%) SAS
9 10 (0.50%) CMS
10 8 (0.40%) WordPress
11 5 (0.25%) CICS
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.10%) IIS
14 2 (0.10%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 82 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 28 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 75 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 16 (0.80%) SAP ERP
5 15 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.55%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.50%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 9 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.40%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.40%) iTrent
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.35%) Maximo
11 7 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.30%) Finacle
12 6 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 504 (25.34%) Azure
2 336 (16.89%) AWS
3 166 (8.35%) Power Platform
4 160 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (5.73%) GCP
7 88 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
8 86 (4.32%) GitHub
9 79 (3.97%) Entra ID
10 68 (3.42%) SaaS
11 65 (3.27%) Serverless
12 61 (3.07%) Snowflake
13 54 (2.71%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.51%) PaaS
15 48 (2.41%) IaaS
16 43 (2.16%) dbt
17 42 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 41 (2.06%) OCI
19 40 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
20 38 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.97%) Firewall
2 51 (2.56%) DNS
2 51 (2.56%) Network Security
3 35 (1.76%) VPN
4 32 (1.61%) VLAN
5 24 (1.21%) SAN
6 21 (1.06%) BGP
6 21 (1.06%) WAN
7 18 (0.90%) NAS
8 17 (0.85%) DHCP
8 17 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.70%) Wireless
10 13 (0.65%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.55%) HTTP
12 10 (0.50%) OSPF
13 9 (0.45%) DKIM
13 9 (0.45%) LAN
13 9 (0.45%) SSL
13 9 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.34%) Power BI
2 77 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.12%) Data Lake
5 54 (2.71%) Metadata
6 49 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (1.76%) Tableau
8 26 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 24 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.96%) Delta Lake
13 17 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.85%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.85%) Db2
14 14 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (6.59%) JIRA
2 49 (2.46%) Git
3 45 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.61%) GitLab
5 11 (0.55%) JUnit
6 10 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.35%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.35%) Gradle
8 6 (0.30%) Ant
8 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.30%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.30%) Liquibase
8 6 (0.30%) Mockito
8 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.30%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.25%) Selenium
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 663 (33.33%) Finance
2 533 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 190 (9.55%) Banking
4 174 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 102 (5.13%) Retail
7 56 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.82%) Law
8 54 (2.71%) Legal
9 29 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 27 (1.36%) General Ledger
10 27 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.26%) Marketing
12 25 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.21%) Local Government
13 24 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 18 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 379 (19.05%) Architect
2 305 (15.33%) Lead
3 184 (9.25%) Analyst
4 182 (9.15%) Senior
5 168 (8.45%) Consultant
6 143 (7.19%) Project Manager
7 122 (6.13%) Data Engineer
8 113 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
9 108 (5.43%) Business Analyst
10 89 (4.47%) Developer
11 64 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
11 64 (3.22%) Data Architect
12 63 (3.17%) Data Analyst
12 63 (3.17%) Data Migration Lead
13 58 (2.92%) Migration Manager
14 53 (2.66%) Migration Engineer
15 52 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
16 50 (2.51%) Azure Engineer
17 46 (2.31%) Lead Architect
18 45 (2.26%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
1 56 (2.82%) REST
2 51 (2.56%) Kafka
3 48 (2.41%) .NET
4 43 (2.16%) Middleware
5 38 (1.91%) PySpark
6 29 (1.46%) Spring
7 27 (1.36%) SOAP
8 25 (1.26%) Spring Boot
9 22 (1.11%) .NET Framework
9 22 (1.11%) SAML
10 21 (1.06%) OAuth
11 20 (1.01%) React
12 19 (0.96%) XML
13 18 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (0.90%) Web Services
14 17 (0.85%) ADO
14 17 (0.85%) JSON
14 17 (0.85%) OpenID
15 15 (0.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
2 159 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 86 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.82%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 38 (1.91%) Replication
8 37 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 34 (1.71%) Mainframe
11 33 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.85%) CMDB
15 17 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.80%) Reference Data
16 16 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.23%) Windows
2 66 (3.32%) Linux
3 25 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.21%) Unix
5 22 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.85%) VMS
7 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.40%) Solaris
8 8 (0.40%) zOS
9 7 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.30%) SUSE
10 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) Android
11 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (34.74%) Data Migration
2 368 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 335 (16.84%) Agile
4 318 (15.99%) DevOps
5 281 (14.13%) Validation
6 247 (12.42%) CI/CD
7 239 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 220 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (10.86%) User Acceptance Testing
10 214 (10.76%) Data Modelling
11 206 (10.36%) ERP
12 184 (9.25%) Analytics
13 175 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
14 164 (8.25%) ETL
15 158 (7.94%) Roadmaps
16 153 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 144 (7.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 138 (6.94%) Project Management
19 129 (6.49%) Decision-Making
20 128 (6.44%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 278 (13.98%) SQL
2 199 (10.01%) Python
3 94 (4.73%) Java
4 75 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 38 (1.91%) C#
6 31 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 31 (1.56%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.26%) Bash
8 19 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 18 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.80%) Bicep
10 16 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.55%) Ruby
13 10 (0.50%) VBA
14 9 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.45%) SOQL
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.35%) SOSL
17 6 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 308 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 258 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 104 (5.23%) Degree
4 55 (2.77%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.51%) PMP
6 47 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.16%) CISSP
11 17 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.85%) CISM
12 16 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.75%) CIMA
14 14 (0.70%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.55%) CCNP
16 10 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.50%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.50%) IIBA
16 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.10%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.63%) QA
3 71 (3.57%) GDPR
4 31 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.56%) PMO
5 29 (1.46%) SLA
6 24 (1.21%) NIST
7 13 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 11 (0.55%) IFRS
9 11 (0.55%) SEPA
10 10 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.40%) GAAP
12 8 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.30%) HL7
15 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 91 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.51%) Docker
3 43 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.90%) NFS
6 17 (0.85%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.75%) vSphere
8 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.35%) Postfix
9 7 (0.35%) Varnish
10 6 (0.30%) Firmware
10 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.20%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.15%) KVM
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 149 (7.49%) Terraform
2 93 (4.68%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (2.56%) Ansible
5 23 (1.16%) SCCM
6 17 (0.85%) Grafana
6 17 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.55%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
11 9 (0.45%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.40%) vMotion
13 7 (0.35%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.30%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.30%) VxRail
15 5 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
16 4 (0.20%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 424 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 193 (9.70%) Oracle
3 158 (7.94%) SAP
4 96 (4.83%) Databricks
5 75 (3.77%) Google
6 73 (3.67%) VMware
7 62 (3.12%) ServiceNow
8 61 (3.07%) Salesforce
9 57 (2.87%) Cisco
10 32 (1.61%) CyberArk
11 30 (1.51%) Informatica
12 26 (1.31%) IBM
13 24 (1.21%) Citrix
14 23 (1.16%) Workday
15 20 (1.01%) Pure Storage
16 18 (0.90%) IFS
16 18 (0.90%) Juniper
17 17 (0.85%) Zscaler
18 15 (0.75%) Murex
18 15 (0.75%) Palo Alto