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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,973 1,144 1,431
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.43% 9.28% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.75% 10.05% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 745 1,024
10th Percentile £367 £388 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 8
10th Percentile £15.43 £25.14 £21.59
25th Percentile £25.15 - £22.89
Median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £56.87
Median % change year-on-year +76.94% -55.77% +28.51%
75th Percentile £71.25 £32.29 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.76 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.43% -37.13% -38.46%

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 16,789 11,383 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.79% 92.33% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,185 7,624 11,131
10th Percentile £360 £344 £343
25th Percentile £434 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -24.29%
75th Percentile £58.94 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +4 280 £575 +4.55% 90
West London -5 40 £445 +92.64% 32
South London +8 33 £463 -3.14% 4
East London +2 12 £525 +2.94% 5
North London -2 4 £410 -25.45%
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
1 115 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 57 (2.89%) Confluence
3 54 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.17%) Apache
7 13 (0.66%) SharePoint 2013
8 12 (0.61%) SAS
9 10 (0.51%) CMS
10 6 (0.30%) WordPress
11 5 (0.25%) CICS
12 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.10%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.10%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 78 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 74 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 16 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (0.81%) SAP ERP
5 15 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.71%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.56%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.51%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.41%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.41%) iTrent
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.35%) Maximo
11 7 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.30%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 505 (25.60%) Azure
2 333 (16.88%) AWS
3 168 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 159 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (5.88%) GCP
7 88 (4.46%) GitHub
8 87 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (3.95%) Entra ID
10 65 (3.29%) SaaS
11 63 (3.19%) Serverless
12 60 (3.04%) Snowflake
13 53 (2.69%) Amazon S3
14 49 (2.48%) PaaS
15 48 (2.43%) IaaS
16 43 (2.18%) dbt
17 42 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
18 40 (2.03%) OCI
19 38 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
19 38 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.00%) Firewall
2 52 (2.64%) Network Security
3 50 (2.53%) DNS
4 34 (1.72%) VPN
5 32 (1.62%) VLAN
6 24 (1.22%) SAN
7 21 (1.06%) BGP
7 21 (1.06%) WAN
8 18 (0.91%) NAS
9 17 (0.86%) DHCP
9 17 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.71%) Wireless
12 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.56%) HTTP
13 11 (0.56%) OSPF
14 10 (0.51%) SSL
15 9 (0.46%) DKIM
15 9 (0.46%) LAN
15 9 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.45%) Power BI
2 79 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 63 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 54 (2.74%) Metadata
6 47 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (1.77%) Tableau
8 26 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 25 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.96%) Delta Lake
13 18 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.86%) Db2
15 14 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
17 12 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (6.64%) JIRA
2 48 (2.43%) Git
3 45 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.67%) GitLab
5 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.56%) JUnit
7 10 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.35%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.35%) Gradle
9 6 (0.30%) Ant
9 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.30%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.30%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.30%) Mockito
9 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Selenium
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 659 (33.40%) Finance
2 532 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 190 (9.63%) Banking
4 176 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 96 (4.87%) Retail
7 56 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.84%) Law
8 54 (2.74%) Legal
9 30 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 27 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.32%) Marketing
11 26 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.27%) Local Government
12 25 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.22%) General Ledger
13 24 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 18 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 371 (18.80%) Architect
2 298 (15.10%) Lead
3 192 (9.73%) Analyst
4 179 (9.07%) Senior
5 162 (8.21%) Consultant
6 142 (7.20%) Project Manager
7 119 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 117 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 109 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.46%) Developer
11 65 (3.29%) Data Architect
12 63 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (3.19%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.99%) Data Migration Lead
14 58 (2.94%) Migration Engineer
15 56 (2.84%) Migration Manager
16 54 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
18 45 (2.28%) Migration Analyst
19 44 (2.23%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 54 (2.74%) REST
3 47 (2.38%) .NET
3 47 (2.38%) Kafka
4 43 (2.18%) Middleware
5 37 (1.88%) PySpark
6 29 (1.47%) Spring
7 26 (1.32%) SOAP
8 25 (1.27%) Spring Boot
9 23 (1.17%) SAML
10 22 (1.12%) OAuth
11 21 (1.06%) XML
12 19 (0.96%) .NET Framework
12 19 (0.96%) HTML
12 19 (0.96%) React
13 18 (0.91%) JSON
13 18 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (0.91%) Web Services
14 17 (0.86%) ADO
15 16 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.87%) Legacy Systems
2 154 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 84 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 74 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.98%) Replication
8 36 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 34 (1.72%) Mainframe
11 32 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.86%) CMDB
14 17 (0.86%) Reference Data
15 16 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
16 15 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.23%) Windows
2 66 (3.35%) Linux
3 26 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.27%) Unix
5 23 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.86%) VMS
7 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.41%) Solaris
8 8 (0.41%) zOS
9 6 (0.30%) SUSE
9 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.20%) AIX
10 4 (0.20%) Android
10 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (34.67%) Data Migration
2 365 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 333 (16.88%) Agile
4 320 (16.22%) DevOps
5 274 (13.89%) Validation
6 244 (12.37%) CI/CD
7 235 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 231 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
9 219 (11.10%) Data Modelling
10 215 (10.90%) User Acceptance Testing
11 199 (10.09%) ERP
12 181 (9.17%) Analytics
13 176 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
14 166 (8.41%) ETL
15 154 (7.81%) Roadmaps
16 150 (7.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 149 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 143 (7.25%) Project Management
19 131 (6.64%) Project Delivery
20 129 (6.54%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 275 (13.94%) SQL
2 193 (9.78%) Python
3 94 (4.76%) Java
4 74 (3.75%) PowerShell
5 38 (1.93%) C#
6 32 (1.62%) JavaScript
7 30 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 24 (1.22%) Bash
9 19 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 18 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.76%) Bicep
13 11 (0.56%) Ruby
14 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.46%) SOQL
14 9 (0.46%) VBA
15 8 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.35%) SOSL
17 6 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 321 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 267 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 107 (5.42%) Degree
4 53 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.48%) PMP
6 45 (2.28%) PMI Certification
7 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.06%) CISSP
11 19 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.86%) CISM
13 16 (0.81%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.76%) CIMA
15 14 (0.71%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.61%) IIBA
17 11 (0.56%) CBAP
17 11 (0.56%) CCNP
18 10 (0.51%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 88 (4.46%) QA
3 68 (3.45%) GDPR
4 32 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.57%) PMO
6 29 (1.47%) SLA
7 25 (1.27%) NIST
8 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.56%) SEPA
11 10 (0.51%) IFRS
11 10 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.46%) NCSC
13 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.41%) GAAP
13 8 (0.41%) GRC
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.30%) HL7
16 5 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 91 (4.61%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.43%) Docker
3 42 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.91%) NFS
6 16 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.71%) vSphere
8 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.35%) Postfix
9 7 (0.35%) Varnish
10 6 (0.30%) Firmware
10 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.20%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.15%) KVM
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 154 (7.81%) Terraform
2 92 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (2.53%) Ansible
5 23 (1.17%) SCCM
6 18 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.86%) Grafana
8 15 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (0.71%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.56%) AirWatch
11 10 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
12 9 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.41%) vMotion
14 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.35%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.30%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.30%) VxRail
16 5 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
17 4 (0.20%) Avamar
17 4 (0.20%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 419 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 190 (9.63%) Oracle
3 156 (7.91%) SAP
4 96 (4.87%) Databricks
5 74 (3.75%) Google
6 72 (3.65%) VMware
7 62 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 61 (3.09%) Salesforce
9 55 (2.79%) Cisco
10 32 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 28 (1.42%) Informatica
12 25 (1.27%) IBM
13 24 (1.22%) Citrix
14 23 (1.17%) Workday
15 20 (1.01%) Pure Storage
16 17 (0.86%) Juniper
17 16 (0.81%) Avaloq
17 16 (0.81%) IFS
17 16 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.81%) Splunk