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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,310 1,189 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.07% 8.48% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.93% 9.39% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 814 882
10th Percentile £368 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -2.78% -0.53%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £688
90th Percentile £725 £821 £774
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £82.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +112.50%
75th Percentile - £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.12 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £25.08 £22.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year +13.98% -60.40% -11.81%

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 13,189 12,665 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,082 11,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 276
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.69
25th Percentile £24.69 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.45 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -8 193 £565 +2.63% 42
West London +6 28 £360 -28.00% 2
South London +15 21 £450 -17.05% 6
East London +2 14 £498 -0.50% 5
North London +6 5 £550 +33.33% 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 63 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.44%) Confluence
3 42 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.76%) CMS
5 9 (0.69%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 6 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.46%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.46%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.46%) SAS
8 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.23%) LiveLink
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Trello
9 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.076%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.076%) Notion
Business Applications
1 55 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.07%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 9 (0.69%) Endur
6 9 (0.69%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.69%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 8 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
7 8 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.53%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.53%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 335 (25.57%) Azure
2 198 (15.11%) AWS
3 98 (7.48%) GitHub
3 98 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 83 (6.34%) GCP
5 80 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (3.89%) SaaS
9 47 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 42 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (3.13%) OCI
12 39 (2.98%) Serverless
13 38 (2.90%) Snowflake
14 37 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 31 (2.37%) Amazon S3
15 31 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 25 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 22 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (1.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.58%) Firewall
2 40 (3.05%) Network Security
3 26 (1.98%) VPN
4 23 (1.76%) DNS
4 23 (1.76%) WAN
5 19 (1.45%) BGP
6 16 (1.22%) LAN
6 16 (1.22%) OSPF
6 16 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.76%) Unified Communications
7 10 (0.76%) VLAN
8 9 (0.69%) DHCP
8 9 (0.69%) DMARC
8 9 (0.69%) Skype
9 7 (0.53%) DKIM
9 7 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (0.46%) HTTP
11 5 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.95%) Power BI
2 69 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 36 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 31 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 26 (1.98%) Metadata
8 23 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.60%) Tableau
10 17 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.15%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.07%) Big Data
13 14 (1.07%) MySQL
13 14 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (0.99%) DB2
Development Applications
1 87 (6.64%) JIRA
2 35 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.29%) GitLab
4 27 (2.06%) Git
5 17 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.92%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.46%) Maven
7 6 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.38%) Selenium
8 5 (0.38%) Snyk
9 4 (0.31%) Gradle
9 4 (0.31%) JUnit
9 4 (0.31%) Mockito
9 4 (0.31%) Toad
10 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.23%) LSMW
10 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 411 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 390 (29.77%) Finance
3 125 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.40%) Banking
5 97 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (2.90%) Retail
8 34 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (1.83%) Legal
10 24 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.76%) Back Office
12 22 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.60%) Local Government
14 19 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.45%) Front Office
14 19 (1.45%) Marketing
15 18 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.30%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 176 (13.44%) Analyst
2 161 (12.29%) Architect
3 129 (9.85%) Lead
4 127 (9.69%) Business Analyst
5 122 (9.31%) Senior
6 121 (9.24%) Consultant
7 101 (7.71%) Project Manager
8 85 (6.49%) Developer
9 56 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 54 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.21%) Migration Engineer
13 39 (2.98%) Migration Manager
14 35 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.44%) Data Analyst
16 31 (2.37%) Migration Analyst
17 29 (2.21%) Azure Architect
18 26 (1.98%) Data Architect
19 24 (1.83%) Data Migration Lead
20 22 (1.68%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.13%) REST
2 39 (2.98%) .NET
3 34 (2.60%) Kafka
4 30 (2.29%) XML
5 26 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 25 (1.91%) Middleware
7 23 (1.76%) PySpark
8 17 (1.30%) CSS
9 15 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.07%) HTML
10 14 (1.07%) JSON
11 13 (0.99%) RESTful
11 13 (0.99%) Spring
12 12 (0.92%) React
13 11 (0.84%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.84%) Node.js
13 11 (0.84%) Web Services
14 10 (0.76%) ARM Templates
14 10 (0.76%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.17%) Legacy Systems
2 91 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 37 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.91%) Replication
9 24 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.60%) Product Ownership
12 18 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.37%) Mainframe
13 16 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.92%) Clustering
16 8 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.61%) NHS
16 8 (0.61%) PKI
16 8 (0.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.95%) Windows
2 39 (2.98%) Linux
3 28 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.60%) Unix
5 18 (1.37%) VMS
6 16 (1.22%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.38%) zOS
10 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.23%) CentOS
11 3 (0.23%) Solaris
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.15%) Android
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.076%) AIX
13 1 (0.076%) VME
13 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (34.12%) Data Migration
2 270 (20.61%) Agile
3 229 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 223 (17.02%) DevOps
5 209 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (13.36%) CI/CD
7 146 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 136 (10.38%) Data Modelling
9 126 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 125 (9.54%) ETL
11 118 (9.01%) Project Management
12 115 (8.78%) Validation
13 110 (8.40%) Analytics
14 106 (8.09%) User Acceptance Testing
15 102 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
16 98 (7.48%) ERP
17 90 (6.87%) Project Delivery
18 85 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
19 79 (6.03%) Roadmaps
20 74 (5.65%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 249 (19.01%) SQL
2 137 (10.46%) Python
3 74 (5.65%) Java
4 68 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.82%) C#
6 32 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.45%) Bash
8 19 (1.45%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.22%) Bicep
11 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.69%) VBA
13 8 (0.61%) PHP
13 8 (0.61%) REXX
14 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.46%) Go
16 5 (0.38%) Perl
16 5 (0.38%) R
16 5 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 212 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 186 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.79%) Degree
4 42 (3.21%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.05%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.90%) PMP
7 27 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.83%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.22%) CCNP
12 15 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.76%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.69%) CCIE
16 8 (0.61%) CBAP
17 7 (0.53%) CISSP
17 7 (0.53%) IIBA
17 7 (0.53%) MCSA
17 7 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 65 (4.96%) QA
3 53 (4.05%) GDPR
4 23 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.22%) NIST
6 11 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.84%) SLA
7 9 (0.69%) PMO
8 8 (0.61%) IFRS
8 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.46%) GRC
10 6 (0.46%) NCSC
11 5 (0.38%) Basel III
11 5 (0.38%) EMIR
11 5 (0.38%) GAAP
11 5 (0.38%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.38%) WCAG
12 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (5.27%) Docker
2 67 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.46%) vSphere
9 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.23%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) RACF
10 2 (0.15%) Varnish
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.076%) Postfix
11 1 (0.076%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.076%) Squid
11 1 (0.076%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (11.91%) Terraform
2 111 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 47 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (3.36%) Ansible
5 20 (1.53%) SCCM
6 12 (0.92%) SCOM
7 11 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.69%) Grafana
9 8 (0.61%) AirWatch
10 6 (0.46%) Argo
10 6 (0.46%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.38%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 259 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.84%) Oracle
3 121 (9.24%) SAP
4 58 (4.43%) Google
5 50 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.21%) VMware
7 38 (2.90%) Cisco
8 37 (2.82%) Databricks
9 36 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.75%) Workday
10 20 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 19 (1.45%) Splunk
12 16 (1.22%) Informatica
13 15 (1.15%) Avaloq
13 15 (1.15%) BMC
13 15 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.15%) IBM
14 14 (1.07%) Citrix
15 12 (0.92%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.92%) Remedy