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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,816 1,156 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.20% 9.35% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.56% 10.14% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 783 992
10th Percentile £363 £388 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £875 £743
England median daily rate £515 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -3.15% +1.29% -4.33%
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 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -42.24%

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 15,715 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -1 261 £550 - 105
South London +9 34 £463 -3.14% 5
West London 0 30 £445 -28.80% 9
East London -1 11 £498 -2.45% 4
North London -1 4 £410 -6.82% 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 93 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.97%) Confluence
2 54 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.94%) Apache
6 14 (0.77%) SAS
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.17%) CICS
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 74 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.99%) Loan IQ
4 17 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.72%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 9 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.33%) Finacle
12 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 475 (26.16%) Azure
2 295 (16.24%) AWS
3 152 (8.37%) Power Platform
4 134 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (5.73%) GCP
7 98 (5.40%) GitHub
8 89 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 66 (3.63%) SaaS
11 51 (2.81%) Serverless
12 50 (2.75%) PaaS
13 49 (2.70%) Amazon S3
14 48 (2.64%) Snowflake
15 45 (2.48%) IaaS
16 43 (2.37%) OCI
17 41 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
18 39 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 37 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 34 (1.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.41%) Firewall
2 46 (2.53%) Network Security
3 44 (2.42%) DNS
4 32 (1.76%) VPN
5 26 (1.43%) VLAN
6 24 (1.32%) SAN
7 22 (1.21%) WAN
8 19 (1.05%) NAS
9 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.88%) BGP
11 15 (0.83%) DHCP
12 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.66%) OSPF
14 11 (0.61%) HTTP
14 11 (0.61%) VSAN
15 9 (0.50%) LAN
15 9 (0.50%) MPLS
15 9 (0.50%) SSL
15 9 (0.50%) Wireless
16 8 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.21%) Power BI
2 75 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (3.47%) Data Lake
3 63 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 44 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (2.37%) Metadata
6 37 (2.04%) Tableau
7 26 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (1.21%) Oracle Database
8 22 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (1.10%) DB2
10 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
11 18 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 18 (0.99%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.83%) Delta Lake
14 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (6.88%) JIRA
2 40 (2.20%) Git
2 40 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.71%) GitLab
4 14 (0.77%) Artifactory
5 11 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (0.50%) JUnit
7 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.33%) Selenium
8 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.28%) Gradle
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.28%) LSMW
9 5 (0.28%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 579 (31.88%) Finance
2 492 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 162 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.54%) Banking
5 146 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.19%) Retail
7 51 (2.81%) Law
8 50 (2.75%) Legal
9 48 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.43%) Marketing
13 23 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.21%) General Ledger
15 21 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (1.05%) Local Government
17 19 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 338 (18.61%) Architect
2 260 (14.32%) Lead
3 203 (11.18%) Analyst
4 182 (10.02%) Senior
5 151 (8.31%) Consultant
6 134 (7.38%) Project Manager
7 130 (7.16%) Business Analyst
8 97 (5.34%) Data Engineer
9 87 (4.79%) Developer
10 82 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
12 59 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.19%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (3.19%) Migration Manager
14 57 (3.14%) Data Analyst
14 57 (3.14%) Data Architect
15 52 (2.86%) Migration Analyst
16 50 (2.75%) Data Migration Lead
17 46 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
18 45 (2.48%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) REST
2 49 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 43 (2.37%) .NET
4 41 (2.26%) Middleware
5 38 (2.09%) Kafka
6 30 (1.65%) PySpark
7 23 (1.27%) Spring
8 22 (1.21%) SOAP
9 19 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.05%) XML
10 18 (0.99%) SAML
11 17 (0.94%) JSON
11 17 (0.94%) OAuth
12 16 (0.88%) React
12 16 (0.88%) Web Services
13 15 (0.83%) HTML
14 13 (0.72%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.72%) ADO
15 12 (0.66%) CSS
15 12 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.37%) Legacy Systems
2 128 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 77 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 61 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 50 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.64%) Replication
7 39 (2.15%) Mainframe
8 37 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 36 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 34 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.88%) Clustering
14 16 (0.88%) Reference Data
15 15 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 13 (0.72%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.61%) Windows
2 52 (2.86%) Linux
3 27 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.32%) Unix
5 22 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.16%) VMS
7 11 (0.61%) zOS
8 8 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.33%) Solaris
11 4 (0.22%) Android
11 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) AIX
14 1 (0.055%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (33.98%) Data Migration
2 325 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (17.24%) Agile
4 289 (15.91%) DevOps
5 231 (12.72%) Validation
6 217 (11.95%) CI/CD
7 214 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
8 203 (11.18%) Data Modelling
9 198 (10.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 196 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 184 (10.13%) ERP
12 166 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
13 157 (8.65%) Analytics
14 153 (8.43%) Project Management
15 152 (8.37%) ETL
16 149 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 148 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 131 (7.21%) Roadmaps
19 125 (6.88%) Project Delivery
20 116 (6.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 265 (14.59%) SQL
2 166 (9.14%) Python
3 84 (4.63%) Java
4 62 (3.41%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.76%) C#
6 30 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.94%) Bicep
10 16 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.83%) Bash
12 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.61%) VBA
13 10 (0.55%) Ruby
14 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.44%) REXX
15 6 (0.33%) Scala
15 6 (0.33%) SOQL
16 5 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 310 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 258 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 102 (5.62%) Degree
4 53 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.70%) PMP
6 47 (2.59%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.83%) CIMA
11 15 (0.83%) CISSP
12 13 (0.72%) CISM
12 13 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.66%) IIBA
14 11 (0.61%) CBAP
14 11 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CCNP
16 9 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.35%) QA
3 66 (3.63%) GDPR
4 30 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.49%) SLA
6 25 (1.38%) NIST
6 25 (1.38%) PMO
7 13 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.66%) SEPA
9 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.55%) NCSC
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.50%) IFRS
11 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.39%) GAAP
12 6 (0.33%) HL7
12 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.28%) Basel III
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 82 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.31%) Docker
4 28 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.88%) NFS
5 16 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.66%) vSphere
7 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) Firmware
9 6 (0.33%) Postfix
9 6 (0.33%) Varnish
9 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.22%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.17%) 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
1 157 (8.65%) Terraform
2 91 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (2.42%) Ansible
5 24 (1.32%) SCCM
6 16 (0.88%) Grafana
6 16 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.61%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.44%) vMotion
12 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.33%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.33%) VxRail
13 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.22%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.22%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 386 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.14%) Oracle
3 152 (8.37%) SAP
4 76 (4.19%) Databricks
5 71 (3.91%) VMware
6 62 (3.41%) Google
7 56 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 56 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.42%) Cisco
9 33 (1.82%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.54%) Citrix
11 24 (1.32%) Workday
12 23 (1.27%) IBM
13 21 (1.16%) Informatica
14 20 (1.10%) Pure Storage
15 17 (0.94%) Avaloq
16 16 (0.88%) Splunk
17 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
18 14 (0.77%) Zscaler
19 13 (0.72%) Juniper