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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,841 1,173 1,357
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.21% 9.38% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.57% 10.17% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 794 981
10th Percentile £363 £388 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £871 £743
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 6
10th Percentile £16.36 £22.00 £34.62
25th Percentile £24.42 £22.79 £50.42
Median hourly rate £33.19 £29.90 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -55.70% +52.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.42 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.50 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £27.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.21% -31.50% -41.61%

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 15,918 11,536 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.22% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,645 7,806 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £808 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +1 266 £550 - 97
South London +9 34 £463 -3.14% 4
West London -2 31 £445 -3.78% 9
East London -3 11 £498 -2.45% 4
North London -1 4 £410 -6.82%
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 92 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.93%) Confluence
3 53 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.92%) Apache
7 14 (0.76%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.16%) CICS
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 74 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.98%) Loan IQ
4 17 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.76%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.54%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.54%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 9 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.33%) Finacle
12 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 485 (26.34%) Azure
2 301 (16.35%) AWS
3 154 (8.37%) Power Platform
4 133 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (5.76%) GCP
7 98 (5.32%) GitHub
8 89 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (3.97%) Entra ID
10 65 (3.53%) SaaS
11 52 (2.82%) Serverless
12 50 (2.72%) PaaS
13 48 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 48 (2.61%) Snowflake
14 45 (2.44%) IaaS
15 42 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (2.28%) OCI
16 39 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 34 (1.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.35%) Firewall
2 46 (2.50%) Network Security
3 42 (2.28%) DNS
4 32 (1.74%) VPN
5 26 (1.41%) VLAN
6 24 (1.30%) SAN
7 22 (1.20%) WAN
8 19 (1.03%) NAS
9 17 (0.92%) BGP
9 17 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.71%) DHCP
12 12 (0.65%) OSPF
13 11 (0.60%) HTTP
13 11 (0.60%) VSAN
14 10 (0.54%) Wireless
15 9 (0.49%) LAN
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
15 9 (0.49%) SSL
16 8 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (7.22%) Power BI
2 77 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.37%) Data Lake
5 46 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (2.39%) Metadata
7 37 (2.01%) Tableau
8 26 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.09%) DB2
10 20 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.81%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (6.79%) JIRA
2 40 (2.17%) Git
2 40 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.74%) GitLab
4 14 (0.76%) Artifactory
5 11 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (0.49%) JUnit
7 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.38%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.33%) Selenium
8 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.27%) Gradle
9 5 (0.27%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.27%) LSMW
9 5 (0.27%) Mockito
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 588 (31.94%) Finance
2 492 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 164 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (8.69%) Banking
5 148 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.24%) Retail
7 51 (2.77%) Law
7 51 (2.77%) Legal
8 47 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.41%) Marketing
12 24 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.20%) General Ledger
13 22 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.09%) Local Government
16 19 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 345 (18.74%) Architect
2 270 (14.67%) Lead
3 202 (10.97%) Analyst
4 184 (9.99%) Senior
5 150 (8.15%) Consultant
6 134 (7.28%) Project Manager
7 129 (7.01%) Business Analyst
8 100 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 88 (4.78%) Developer
10 84 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
12 60 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
12 60 (3.26%) Data Architect
13 58 (3.15%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (3.15%) Migration Manager
14 57 (3.10%) Data Analyst
15 52 (2.82%) Data Migration Lead
15 52 (2.82%) Migration Analyst
16 47 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
17 45 (2.44%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.72%) REST
2 48 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 43 (2.34%) .NET
4 41 (2.23%) Kafka
4 41 (2.23%) Middleware
5 30 (1.63%) PySpark
6 23 (1.25%) Spring
7 21 (1.14%) SOAP
8 19 (1.03%) Spring Boot
8 19 (1.03%) XML
9 18 (0.98%) JSON
9 18 (0.98%) SAML
10 17 (0.92%) OAuth
11 16 (0.87%) React
12 15 (0.81%) ADO
12 15 (0.81%) HTML
12 15 (0.81%) Web Services
13 13 (0.71%) .NET Framework
14 12 (0.65%) CSS
14 12 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.37%) Legacy Systems
2 130 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 77 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 50 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.61%) Replication
7 38 (2.06%) Mainframe
7 38 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 37 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 34 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.87%) Reference Data
15 15 (0.81%) Clustering
16 14 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 13 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.46%) Windows
2 54 (2.93%) Linux
3 25 (1.36%) Unix
3 25 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.14%) VMS
6 11 (0.60%) zOS
7 8 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.33%) Solaris
10 4 (0.22%) Android
10 4 (0.22%) SUSE
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (34.00%) Data Migration
2 327 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 317 (17.22%) Agile
4 294 (15.97%) DevOps
5 236 (12.82%) Validation
6 217 (11.79%) CI/CD
7 215 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (11.41%) Data Modelling
9 201 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 196 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 185 (10.05%) ERP
12 167 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
13 160 (8.69%) Analytics
14 153 (8.31%) ETL
14 153 (8.31%) Project Management
15 150 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 147 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 135 (7.33%) Roadmaps
18 126 (6.84%) Project Delivery
19 116 (6.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 266 (14.45%) SQL
2 168 (9.13%) Python
3 86 (4.67%) Java
4 60 (3.26%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.74%) C#
6 30 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 18 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.87%) Bicep
12 15 (0.81%) Bash
13 11 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.60%) VBA
14 10 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.43%) REXX
16 6 (0.33%) Scala
16 6 (0.33%) SOQL
17 5 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 314 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 261 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.49%) Degree
4 53 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.66%) PMP
6 47 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.81%) CIMA
11 15 (0.81%) CISSP
12 13 (0.71%) CISM
12 13 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.65%) IIBA
14 11 (0.60%) CBAP
14 11 (0.60%) CCNP
14 11 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 81 (4.40%) QA
3 66 (3.59%) GDPR
4 30 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.47%) SLA
6 25 (1.36%) NIST
6 25 (1.36%) PMO
7 13 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.65%) SEPA
9 11 (0.60%) NCSC
9 11 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.49%) IFRS
12 7 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.38%) GAAP
13 6 (0.33%) GRC
13 6 (0.33%) HL7
13 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 80 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.28%) Docker
2 42 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.87%) NFS
4 16 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.65%) vSphere
6 11 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.33%) Firmware
8 6 (0.33%) Postfix
8 6 (0.33%) Varnish
9 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.22%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 158 (8.58%) Terraform
2 91 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (2.39%) Ansible
5 22 (1.20%) SCCM
6 16 (0.87%) Grafana
6 16 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.60%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.43%) vMotion
12 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.33%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.33%) VxRail
13 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.22%) Avamar
14 4 (0.22%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 392 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 168 (9.13%) Oracle
3 153 (8.31%) SAP
4 78 (4.24%) Databricks
5 71 (3.86%) VMware
6 63 (3.42%) Google
7 56 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 56 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.44%) Cisco
9 32 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.52%) Citrix
11 24 (1.30%) Workday
12 22 (1.20%) IBM
13 21 (1.14%) Informatica
14 20 (1.09%) Pure Storage
15 17 (0.92%) Avaloq
16 16 (0.87%) Splunk
17 15 (0.81%) Palo Alto
18 14 (0.76%) Zscaler
19 13 (0.71%) Juniper