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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,816 1,184 1,382
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.20% 9.42% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 10.22% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 811 997
10th Percentile £363 £388 £359
25th Percentile £453 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £707 £650
90th Percentile £750 £875 £750
England median daily rate £513 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 7
10th Percentile £19.40 £21.43 £23.85
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.50 £35.12
Median hourly rate £28.55 £23.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% -65.93% +52.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £28.54 £71.25
90th Percentile £73.38 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% -37.13% -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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 0 261 £550 - 87
South London +6 35 £463 +8.50% 3
West London +3 34 £440 -29.60% 9
East London -2 11 £473 -12.50% 5
North London +1 5 £325 -26.14% 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 91 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (2.97%) Confluence
4 23 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.94%) Apache
7 15 (0.83%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.17%) CICS
11 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 72 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 71 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.99%) Loan IQ
5 17 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.61%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 9 (0.50%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
11 6 (0.33%) Finacle
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 479 (26.38%) Azure
2 296 (16.30%) AWS
3 154 (8.48%) Power Platform
4 140 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (6.00%) GCP
6 105 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (5.51%) GitHub
8 90 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (3.74%) Entra ID
10 66 (3.63%) SaaS
11 51 (2.81%) Serverless
12 48 (2.64%) PaaS
13 47 (2.59%) Amazon S3
14 46 (2.53%) Snowflake
15 44 (2.42%) IaaS
15 44 (2.42%) OCI
16 42 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 41 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
18 38 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.46%) Firewall
2 46 (2.53%) DNS
3 45 (2.48%) Network Security
4 34 (1.87%) VPN
5 24 (1.32%) SAN
5 24 (1.32%) VLAN
6 23 (1.27%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) NAS
8 18 (0.99%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.83%) BGP
9 15 (0.83%) DHCP
10 13 (0.72%) OSPF
10 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.61%) HTTP
11 11 (0.61%) VSAN
12 10 (0.55%) MPLS
13 9 (0.50%) DKIM
13 9 (0.50%) LAN
13 9 (0.50%) SSL
13 9 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.38%) Power BI
2 74 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (3.58%) SQL Server
4 61 (3.36%) Data Lake
5 42 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (2.20%) Metadata
7 38 (2.09%) Tableau
8 28 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.21%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.16%) DB2
12 19 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.99%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.99%) NoSQL
13 18 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (0.94%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 123 (6.77%) JIRA
2 40 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.15%) Git
4 30 (1.65%) GitLab
5 14 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.44%) JUnit
8 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.28%) LSMW
11 4 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.22%) Mockito
11 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 579 (31.88%) Finance
2 501 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 166 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 149 (8.20%) Banking
6 77 (4.24%) Retail
7 55 (3.03%) Law
8 52 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.70%) Legal
10 29 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 29 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.49%) Marketing
11 27 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.16%) General Ledger
15 19 (1.05%) Local Government
16 18 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 330 (18.17%) Architect
2 258 (14.21%) Lead
3 202 (11.12%) Analyst
4 183 (10.08%) Senior
5 150 (8.26%) Consultant
6 132 (7.27%) Business Analyst
7 131 (7.21%) Project Manager
8 96 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 89 (4.90%) Developer
10 75 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
11 67 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 64 (3.52%) Migration Engineer
13 59 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
14 57 (3.14%) Migration Manager
15 52 (2.86%) Data Analyst
16 51 (2.81%) Data Architect
17 49 (2.70%) Data Migration Lead
18 48 (2.64%) Migration Analyst
19 47 (2.59%) Lead Architect
20 46 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.70%) REST
2 48 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 42 (2.31%) .NET
4 40 (2.20%) Middleware
5 39 (2.15%) Kafka
6 31 (1.71%) PySpark
7 22 (1.21%) Spring
8 21 (1.16%) SAML
8 21 (1.16%) SOAP
9 19 (1.05%) XML
10 18 (0.99%) OAuth
11 17 (0.94%) JSON
11 17 (0.94%) Spring Boot
12 16 (0.88%) React
13 15 (0.83%) HTML
14 14 (0.77%) Web Services
15 13 (0.72%) CSS
15 13 (0.72%) OpenID
16 12 (0.66%) .NET Framework
16 12 (0.66%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.31%) Legacy Systems
2 126 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 78 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 61 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 45 (2.48%) Replication
7 38 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 37 (2.04%) Mainframe
9 35 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (0.94%) Clustering
13 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.10%) Windows
2 52 (2.86%) Linux
3 29 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.32%) Unix
6 22 (1.21%) VMS
7 11 (0.61%) zOS
8 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.28%) Android
9 5 (0.28%) Solaris
10 4 (0.22%) SUSE
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.055%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (33.54%) Data Migration
2 325 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 316 (17.40%) Agile
4 291 (16.02%) DevOps
5 226 (12.44%) Validation
6 223 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (11.89%) CI/CD
8 199 (10.96%) Data Modelling
9 197 (10.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 196 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 182 (10.02%) ERP
12 171 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
13 157 (8.65%) Analytics
14 154 (8.48%) ETL
15 150 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 148 (8.15%) Project Management
17 145 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 122 (6.72%) Project Delivery
18 122 (6.72%) Roadmaps
19 118 (6.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 268 (14.76%) SQL
2 166 (9.14%) Python
3 87 (4.79%) Java
4 65 (3.58%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.76%) C#
6 30 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.88%) Bicep
9 16 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.77%) Bash
12 11 (0.61%) VBA
13 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.50%) Ruby
15 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.44%) REXX
16 6 (0.33%) PHP
16 6 (0.33%) Scala
17 5 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 314 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 261 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 102 (5.62%) Degree
4 53 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.53%) PMP
6 45 (2.48%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.94%) CISSP
12 16 (0.88%) CIMA
13 14 (0.77%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.72%) CISM
15 12 (0.66%) IIBA
15 12 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.61%) CBAP
16 11 (0.61%) CCNP
17 10 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 76 (4.19%) QA
3 69 (3.80%) GDPR
4 31 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.54%) SLA
6 26 (1.43%) PMO
7 25 (1.38%) NIST
8 13 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.66%) SEPA
10 11 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.61%) NCSC
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.50%) IFRS
13 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.39%) GAAP
13 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 87 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.53%) Docker
4 24 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.83%) NFS
7 14 (0.77%) vSphere
8 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.50%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) Varnish
10 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.28%) Postfix
12 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.17%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 165 (9.09%) Terraform
2 97 (5.34%) Kubernetes
3 71 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (2.42%) Ansible
5 29 (1.60%) SCCM
6 19 (1.05%) Grafana
7 15 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.61%) AirWatch
11 10 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
11 10 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.44%) vMotion
13 6 (0.33%) VxRail
14 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.28%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.28%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.22%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.22%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 390 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 165 (9.09%) Oracle
3 147 (8.09%) SAP
4 78 (4.30%) VMware
5 70 (3.85%) Databricks
6 59 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.19%) Google
7 58 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 43 (2.37%) Cisco
9 30 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.54%) Citrix
11 24 (1.32%) IBM
11 24 (1.32%) Workday
12 23 (1.27%) Informatica
13 22 (1.21%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.05%) Splunk
15 18 (0.99%) Avaloq
16 14 (0.77%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.77%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace