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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,261 1,312 1,468
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.98% 8.37% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.77% 9.33% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 868 1,003
10th Percentile £375 £380 £410
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +0.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £520 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.73% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.43 £28.53
25th Percentile £20.68 £21.50 £78.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +97.67%
75th Percentile - £28.63 £86.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £44.30 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% -67.15% +32.50%

All Process and 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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -4 198 £565 -0.88% 48
West London +13 41 £415 -17.00% 10
South London +14 24 £425 -21.66% 5
East London +10 18 £525 +16.67% 6
North London +10 9 £550 +20.42%
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 67 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 51 (4.04%) Confluence
3 31 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.03%) CMS
6 11 (0.87%) Apache
7 8 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.63%) SAS
7 8 (0.63%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.48%) Mattermost
10 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
13 1 (0.079%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 46 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Notion
8 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 52 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (1.19%) Endur
5 14 (1.11%) SAP HR
6 11 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
9 6 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.48%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 289 (22.92%) Azure
2 193 (15.31%) AWS
3 95 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 83 (6.58%) GCP
5 77 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (5.95%) GitHub
7 61 (4.84%) SaaS
8 54 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.65%) Entra ID
11 43 (3.41%) Snowflake
12 41 (3.25%) OCI
13 36 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
14 35 (2.78%) Serverless
15 34 (2.70%) Amazon S3
16 32 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 30 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 24 (1.90%) dbt
20 23 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.68%) Firewall
2 33 (2.62%) DNS
3 32 (2.54%) Network Security
4 30 (2.38%) WAN
5 29 (2.30%) VPN
6 19 (1.51%) BGP
6 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
7 18 (1.43%) DHCP
8 16 (1.27%) OSPF
9 15 (1.19%) LAN
10 14 (1.11%) VLAN
11 10 (0.79%) DMARC
12 8 (0.63%) DKIM
12 8 (0.63%) MPLS
12 8 (0.63%) Skype
12 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.63%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.56%) NAS
13 7 (0.56%) SAN
13 7 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.87%) Power BI
2 66 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 32 (2.54%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (2.22%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 27 (2.14%) Metadata
7 27 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.59%) Tableau
9 19 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.19%) Big Data
13 15 (1.19%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (1.11%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 97 (7.69%) JIRA
2 28 (2.22%) GitLab
3 26 (2.06%) Git
3 26 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.19%) SonarQube
5 13 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.79%) Selenium
7 8 (0.63%) Maven
8 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.48%) Gradle
9 5 (0.40%) Snyk
9 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.32%) ERwin
10 4 (0.32%) JUnit
10 4 (0.32%) Mockito
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.32%) TestRail
10 4 (0.32%) Toad
11 3 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 398 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 387 (30.69%) Finance
3 143 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.69%) Banking
6 46 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.38%) Back Office
10 28 (2.22%) Local Government
11 27 (2.14%) Retail
12 26 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.82%) Marketing
15 22 (1.74%) Legal
16 21 (1.67%) Front Office
17 18 (1.43%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 182 (14.43%) Analyst
2 160 (12.69%) Architect
3 118 (9.36%) Business Analyst
4 113 (8.96%) Consultant
5 112 (8.88%) Lead
6 111 (8.80%) Senior
7 105 (8.33%) Project Manager
8 84 (6.66%) Developer
9 53 (4.20%) Data Engineer
10 42 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
11 39 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (2.46%) Data Analyst
15 29 (2.30%) Migration Analyst
16 27 (2.14%) Migration Manager
17 26 (2.06%) Azure Architect
17 26 (2.06%) Data Architect
18 24 (1.90%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.01%) REST
2 29 (2.30%) .NET
2 29 (2.30%) XML
3 24 (1.90%) Kafka
4 21 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (1.67%) PySpark
5 19 (1.51%) Middleware
6 18 (1.43%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (1.27%) React
8 14 (1.11%) CSS
9 13 (1.03%) SOAP
10 12 (0.95%) Spring
11 11 (0.87%) Node.js
11 11 (0.87%) RESTful
12 10 (0.79%) GraphQL
12 10 (0.79%) HTML
13 9 (0.71%) JSON
14 8 (0.63%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.17%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 68 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 38 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 36 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.74%) Replication
11 17 (1.35%) Mainframe
12 16 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.87%) Clustering
16 10 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (0.79%) Reinsurance
17 9 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.85%) Windows
2 40 (3.17%) Linux
3 27 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.35%) Unix
6 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.63%) VMS
7 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.32%) Solaris
9 3 (0.24%) CentOS
9 3 (0.24%) zOS
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.079%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.079%) VME
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (37.51%) Data Migration
2 261 (20.70%) Agile
3 217 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 180 (14.27%) DevOps
6 164 (13.01%) CI/CD
7 151 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 119 (9.44%) ETL
9 116 (9.20%) Data Modelling
10 112 (8.88%) Project Management
11 110 (8.72%) User Acceptance Testing
12 109 (8.64%) Analytics
13 106 (8.41%) Validation
14 99 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (7.77%) ERP
16 93 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (6.66%) Change Management
18 78 (6.19%) Data Governance
19 77 (6.11%) Project Delivery
20 72 (5.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 232 (18.40%) SQL
2 136 (10.79%) Python
3 86 (6.82%) Java
4 64 (5.08%) PowerShell
5 43 (3.41%) C#
6 32 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.67%) Bash
8 18 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.11%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.03%) Bicep
10 13 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.79%) Go
13 9 (0.71%) PHP
14 8 (0.63%) REXX
15 7 (0.56%) C++
16 6 (0.48%) ABAP
16 6 (0.48%) Groovy
17 5 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 165 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 146 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.22%) Degree
4 39 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 35 (2.78%) PMP
6 30 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.27%) CCNP
12 15 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.63%) CCIE
14 8 (0.63%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.56%) CBAP
15 7 (0.56%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.48%) CCNA
16 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.31%) QA
3 50 (3.97%) GDPR
4 20 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.03%) NIST
6 12 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.87%) PMO
8 9 (0.71%) SLA
9 7 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.48%) EMIR
10 6 (0.48%) WCAG
11 5 (0.40%) GRC
11 5 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.40%) IFRS
12 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.32%) MiFID
12 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.24%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (5.55%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.39%) Docker
3 25 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.32%) vSphere
9 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
11 1 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.079%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.079%) Squid
11 1 (0.079%) Varnish
11 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.079%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (9.36%) Terraform
2 97 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.85%) Ansible
4 25 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.59%) SCCM
6 11 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.87%) SCOM
7 8 (0.63%) Argo
7 8 (0.63%) Grafana
8 6 (0.48%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.40%) Puppet
9 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) CASB
Vendors
1 222 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 136 (10.79%) Oracle
3 119 (9.44%) SAP
4 58 (4.60%) Google
5 57 (4.52%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.85%) VMware
7 35 (2.78%) Cisco
8 34 (2.70%) Databricks
8 34 (2.70%) Workday
9 26 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.43%) Splunk
11 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.19%) IBM
12 14 (1.11%) BMC
12 14 (1.11%) Informatica
12 14 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.03%) Citrix
14 12 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.95%) Juniper
14 12 (0.95%) Red Hat