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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,138 1,238 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.64% 9.02% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.95% 9.78% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 794 986
10th Percentile £370 £375 £372
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 8
10th Percentile £16.74 - £21.59
25th Percentile £29.00 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -61.75% +10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £87.75 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -1.46%

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 17,889 12,658 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.21% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,794 8,473 10,216
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 250 195
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.54 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £29.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -16.90% -12.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +5 309 £575 +9.52% 107
West London -5 54 £475 +22.58% 21
South London +1 35 £463 +1.09% 8
East London +5 13 £538 -20.37% 13
North London -8 1 £178 -67.73%
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 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 71 (3.32%) Confluence
3 51 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.40%) Apache
6 14 (0.65%) CMS
6 14 (0.65%) SAS
6 14 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
7 9 (0.42%) WordPress
8 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.23%) CICS
11 4 (0.19%) HCL Notes
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 71 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 80 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 23 (1.08%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.70%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.65%) Temenos T24
8 12 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.42%) iTrent
11 8 (0.37%) Finacle
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
12 7 (0.33%) Maximo
12 7 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 546 (25.54%) Azure
2 355 (16.60%) AWS
3 206 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 168 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
5 131 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (5.66%) GCP
7 101 (4.72%) Entra ID
7 101 (4.72%) SaaS
8 98 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (3.27%) Serverless
10 68 (3.18%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.18%) GitHub
11 57 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 54 (2.53%) OCI
13 52 (2.43%) dbt
14 51 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 50 (2.34%) PaaS
16 47 (2.20%) IaaS
16 47 (2.20%) OneDrive
17 46 (2.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.02%) Firewall
2 67 (3.13%) DNS
3 50 (2.34%) Network Security
4 48 (2.25%) VPN
5 40 (1.87%) VLAN
6 29 (1.36%) DHCP
7 27 (1.26%) WAN
8 24 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.08%) BGP
10 22 (1.03%) SAN
11 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.84%) Wireless
13 17 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.61%) SSL
15 12 (0.56%) NAS
16 11 (0.51%) OSPF
17 10 (0.47%) 5G
18 9 (0.42%) DKIM
18 9 (0.42%) HTTP
18 9 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (8.33%) Power BI
2 92 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 85 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 54 (2.53%) Metadata
6 51 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 31 (1.45%) Tableau
9 28 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 26 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.03%) Delta Lake
12 19 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 18 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.80%) Db2
15 15 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 158 (7.39%) JIRA
2 67 (3.13%) Git
3 43 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.59%) GitLab
5 12 (0.56%) JUnit
6 9 (0.42%) Chocolatey
7 8 (0.37%) Gradle
7 8 (0.37%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.37%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.33%) Mockito
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.28%) Ant
9 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.19%) MSI
10 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
General
1 732 (34.24%) Finance
2 562 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.15%) Banking
4 203 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 104 (4.86%) Retail
7 59 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 59 (2.76%) Law
7 59 (2.76%) Legal
8 38 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (1.59%) Marketing
10 33 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.31%) General Ledger
14 27 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.22%) Billing
15 26 (1.22%) Local Government
16 23 (1.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 407 (19.04%) Architect
2 318 (14.87%) Lead
3 199 (9.31%) Senior
4 196 (9.17%) Analyst
5 182 (8.51%) Consultant
6 157 (7.34%) Project Manager
7 145 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 135 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (5.57%) Business Analyst
10 108 (5.05%) Developer
11 65 (3.04%) Data Architect
12 61 (2.85%) Data Migration Lead
13 59 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
14 58 (2.71%) Data Analyst
15 51 (2.39%) Migration Engineer
16 49 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
16 49 (2.29%) Lead Architect
16 49 (2.29%) Migration Manager
17 44 (2.06%) Network Engineer
18 43 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (3.74%) REST
2 72 (3.37%) .NET
3 63 (2.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 50 (2.34%) Kafka
5 45 (2.10%) PySpark
6 40 (1.87%) Middleware
7 34 (1.59%) Spring
8 29 (1.36%) .NET Framework
8 29 (1.36%) SOAP
9 28 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 27 (1.26%) OAuth
10 27 (1.26%) React
10 27 (1.26%) XML
11 25 (1.17%) SAML
12 24 (1.12%) JSON
13 22 (1.03%) HTML
14 20 (0.94%) OpenID
15 19 (0.89%) Web Services
16 17 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
17 15 (0.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
2 170 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 115 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.79%) Data Structures
5 77 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 56 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 42 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 35 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.50%) Mainframe
13 31 (1.45%) Replication
14 29 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 26 (1.22%) Clustering
16 25 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
18 18 (0.84%) FMCG
19 17 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 164 (7.67%) Windows
2 76 (3.55%) Linux
3 33 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 24 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.56%) VMS
8 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.33%) Solaris
10 6 (0.28%) Android
10 6 (0.28%) SUSE
10 6 (0.28%) zOS
11 5 (0.23%) AIX
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (33.63%) Data Migration
2 425 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 367 (17.17%) Agile
4 330 (15.43%) DevOps
5 311 (14.55%) Validation
6 269 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 267 (12.49%) CI/CD
8 251 (11.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 230 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
10 224 (10.48%) ERP
11 222 (10.38%) Analytics
12 221 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 202 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
14 197 (9.21%) Roadmaps
15 169 (7.90%) ETL
16 160 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 157 (7.34%) AI
18 154 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
19 144 (6.74%) Change Management
20 142 (6.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 315 (14.73%) SQL
2 225 (10.52%) Python
3 99 (4.63%) Java
4 94 (4.40%) PowerShell
5 62 (2.90%) C#
6 45 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 37 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.54%) Bash
9 22 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 21 (0.98%) Bicep
11 20 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.47%) Ruby
16 9 (0.42%) SOQL
16 9 (0.42%) VBA
17 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.33%) SOSL
19 6 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 295 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 254 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 103 (4.82%) Degree
4 56 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.34%) PMP
6 49 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.94%) CISSP
11 20 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.80%) CIMA
14 15 (0.70%) CISM
15 13 (0.61%) ACCA
15 13 (0.61%) CCNP
16 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.05%) QA
3 69 (3.23%) GDPR
4 48 (2.25%) PMO
5 33 (1.54%) SLA
6 30 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.08%) NIST
8 14 (0.65%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.56%) GRC
10 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.56%) SEPA
11 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.42%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) GMP
13 8 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
13 8 (0.37%) IFRS
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 114 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 49 (2.29%) Docker
3 45 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.70%) vSphere
6 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.47%) NFS
8 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.33%) Firmware
10 7 (0.33%) Varnish
10 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.28%) Postfix
12 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (7.16%) Terraform
2 97 (4.54%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (2.39%) Ansible
5 26 (1.22%) SCCM
6 17 (0.80%) Grafana
6 17 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.37%) systemd
10 8 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.28%) Argo
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
11 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.28%) VxRail
12 5 (0.23%) Avamar
12 5 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 456 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 219 (10.24%) Oracle
3 169 (7.90%) SAP
4 121 (5.66%) Databricks
5 86 (4.02%) Google
6 80 (3.74%) VMware
7 71 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 67 (3.13%) Cisco
9 60 (2.81%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.59%) IBM
11 30 (1.40%) Informatica
12 25 (1.17%) Juniper
13 24 (1.12%) CyberArk
13 24 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.12%) Zscaler
14 22 (1.03%) Citrix
15 20 (0.94%) Workday
16 19 (0.89%) IFS
17 16 (0.75%) Adobe
17 16 (0.75%) Fortinet