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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,144 1,184 1,360
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.64% 8.86% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.99% 9.57% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,471 780 902
10th Percentile £368 £364 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 8
10th Percentile £27.07 - £21.59
25th Percentile £45.38 - £31.70
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 £78.50 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £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 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +6 333 £575 +4.55% 200
West London -12 51 £475 +46.15% 36
South London -14 23 £485 +14.12% 14
East London +4 14 £525 -2.78% 14
North London -8 1 £178 -67.73% 1
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
1 148 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 77 (3.59%) Confluence
3 52 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.49%) Apache
7 22 (1.03%) CMS
8 15 (0.70%) SAS
9 12 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
10 8 (0.37%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.33%) JBoss
12 6 (0.28%) CICS
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.28%) WordPress
13 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
13 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.093%) Windchill
7 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 81 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
4 26 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 24 (1.12%) NetSuite
6 20 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
7 16 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
8 13 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
8 13 (0.61%) Temenos T24
9 12 (0.56%) SAP ERP
10 11 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
10 11 (0.51%) iTrent
10 11 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.47%) Maximo
12 9 (0.42%) Aladdin
12 9 (0.42%) SAP MDG
13 8 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
14 6 (0.28%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 542 (25.28%) Azure
2 365 (17.02%) AWS
3 196 (9.14%) Power Platform
4 162 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (6.34%) GCP
6 121 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (5.46%) Entra ID
8 102 (4.76%) SaaS
9 80 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
10 77 (3.59%) Serverless
11 68 (3.17%) Snowflake
12 66 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 65 (3.03%) GitHub
14 59 (2.75%) dbt
15 51 (2.38%) OCI
16 49 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 45 (2.10%) OneDrive
18 44 (2.05%) Power Automate
19 43 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
20 42 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 96 (4.48%) Firewall
2 71 (3.31%) DNS
3 58 (2.71%) Network Security
4 49 (2.29%) VPN
5 47 (2.19%) VLAN
6 38 (1.77%) BGP
7 35 (1.63%) WAN
8 30 (1.40%) DHCP
9 29 (1.35%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.84%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.79%) SAN
12 16 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.75%) Wireless
13 15 (0.70%) SSL
14 12 (0.56%) OSPF
15 10 (0.47%) 5G
15 10 (0.47%) Multicast
15 10 (0.47%) NX-OS
15 10 (0.47%) PSTN
15 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (7.60%) Power BI
2 96 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 79 (3.68%) Metadata
4 61 (2.85%) Data Lake
5 55 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (2.01%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 33 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 19 (0.89%) Tableau
15 17 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (0.75%) Db2
16 16 (0.75%) NoSQL
17 15 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (7.14%) JIRA
2 78 (3.64%) Git
3 46 (2.15%) GitLab
4 40 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.47%) RStudio
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.33%) Liquibase
8 6 (0.28%) Ant
8 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.28%) Gradle
8 6 (0.28%) JUnit
8 6 (0.28%) Mockito
8 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.23%) Chocolatey
10 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.19%) MSI
10 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 718 (33.49%) Finance
2 594 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 249 (11.61%) Banking
4 219 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 107 (4.99%) Retail
7 74 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.57%) Legal
9 45 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 38 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (1.73%) Marketing
11 37 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.68%) Law
13 35 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.59%) General Ledger
15 32 (1.49%) Billing
15 32 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.45%) Front Office
16 31 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 425 (19.82%) Architect
2 299 (13.95%) Lead
3 202 (9.42%) Senior
4 189 (8.82%) Analyst
5 180 (8.40%) Consultant
6 154 (7.18%) Project Manager
7 136 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
8 126 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 116 (5.41%) Developer
10 110 (5.13%) Business Analyst
11 88 (4.10%) Data Architect
12 61 (2.85%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.75%) Network Engineer
14 53 (2.47%) Data Migration Lead
15 52 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
16 47 (2.19%) Administrator
17 45 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
18 43 (2.01%) Migration Engineer
19 42 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
20 41 (1.91%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (7.84%) Terraform
2 86 (4.01%) REST
3 83 (3.87%) .NET
4 62 (2.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 59 (2.75%) PySpark
6 54 (2.52%) Kafka
7 48 (2.24%) Middleware
8 35 (1.63%) .NET Framework
9 31 (1.45%) JSON
10 28 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 28 (1.31%) XML
11 27 (1.26%) OAuth
11 27 (1.26%) React
12 26 (1.21%) Spring
13 24 (1.12%) HTML
14 22 (1.03%) SAML
14 22 (1.03%) SOAP
14 22 (1.03%) Web Services
15 19 (0.89%) OpenID
16 17 (0.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 175 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 127 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 91 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 89 (4.15%) Data Structures
6 70 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 40 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
10 38 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.49%) Replication
13 31 (1.45%) Clustering
14 30 (1.40%) Mainframe
15 29 (1.35%) Public Cloud
16 26 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
17 19 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
17 19 (0.89%) FMCG
17 19 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.44%) Windows
2 86 (4.01%) Linux
3 36 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.35%) Unix
5 23 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.56%) VMS
8 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.28%) AIX
9 6 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.28%) Solaris
9 6 (0.28%) SUSE
10 5 (0.23%) zOS
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (30.92%) Data Migration
2 532 (24.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 372 (17.35%) Agile
4 346 (16.14%) Validation
5 326 (15.21%) DevOps
6 286 (13.34%) CI/CD
7 276 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 247 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 234 (10.91%) Analytics
11 231 (10.77%) Data Modelling
12 221 (10.31%) Roadmaps
13 203 (9.47%) ERP
14 196 (9.14%) AI
15 191 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
16 177 (8.26%) Data Governance
17 176 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
18 159 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 158 (7.37%) ETL
20 152 (7.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 324 (15.11%) SQL
2 242 (11.29%) Python
3 110 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 79 (3.68%) Java
5 70 (3.26%) C#
6 47 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 39 (1.82%) Bash
8 37 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.12%) Bicep
10 20 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 17 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.47%) Perl
15 9 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.37%) JCL
16 8 (0.37%) SOQL
17 7 (0.33%) COBOL
17 7 (0.33%) Korn
17 7 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 301 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 261 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 97 (4.52%) Degree
4 57 (2.66%) PMI Certification
4 57 (2.66%) PMP
5 56 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 21 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (0.89%) CCNP
12 18 (0.84%) CISSP
13 15 (0.70%) ACCA
14 14 (0.65%) CIMA
15 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.51%) CISM
17 7 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (10.49%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.04%) QA
3 57 (2.66%) GDPR
4 45 (2.10%) PMO
5 27 (1.26%) NIST
6 26 (1.21%) SLA
7 23 (1.07%) GRC
7 23 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.61%) SEPA
11 8 (0.37%) IFRS
11 8 (0.37%) NCSC
11 8 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.33%) GxP
13 6 (0.28%) GMP
13 6 (0.28%) HL7
13 6 (0.28%) WCAG
14 5 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 129 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.52%) Docker
3 53 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.84%) vSphere
6 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.28%) Firmware
11 5 (0.23%) NFS
11 5 (0.23%) Varnish
11 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.19%) Postfix
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.03%) Ansible
3 55 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (1.07%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Grafana
6 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 13 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.37%) systemd
11 7 (0.33%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) Control-M
13 5 (0.23%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 452 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 239 (11.15%) Oracle
3 179 (8.35%) SAP
4 153 (7.14%) Databricks
5 92 (4.29%) Google
6 85 (3.96%) Cisco
7 84 (3.92%) VMware
8 75 (3.50%) ServiceNow
9 56 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.96%) IBM
11 35 (1.63%) Informatica
12 26 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.21%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.17%) CyberArk
14 22 (1.03%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.03%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.98%) Workday
16 20 (0.93%) Juniper
17 18 (0.84%) Bloomberg
17 18 (0.84%) IFS