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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,666 1,189 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.86% 9.42% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 10.31% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 827 997
10th Percentile £375 £388 £363
25th Percentile £460 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £663
90th Percentile £738 £868 £743
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 15
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.43 £23.65
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.50 £54.87
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -72.94% +178.69%
75th Percentile £55.04 £28.54 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £46.23
% change year-on-year -17.13% -37.81% -26.91%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -6 234 £558 +1.36% 88
South London +6 36 £463 +8.50% 7
West London -4 26 £550 +10.00% 18
East London -3 9 £495 -4.81% 7
North London +4 5 £495 +20.00% 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 75 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.94%) Confluence
4 21 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.96%) Apache
5 16 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.66%) SAS
7 9 (0.54%) CMS
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.18%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) IIS
12 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
Applications
1 74 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.02%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.48%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.36%) Finacle
10 6 (0.36%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.36%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 455 (27.31%) Azure
2 274 (16.45%) AWS
3 153 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 118 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (6.12%) GitHub
6 101 (6.06%) GCP
7 96 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 62 (3.72%) SaaS
11 49 (2.94%) Serverless
12 47 (2.82%) OCI
13 46 (2.76%) PaaS
14 44 (2.64%) Amazon S3
14 44 (2.64%) IaaS
15 42 (2.52%) Snowflake
16 39 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
16 39 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
17 36 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 34 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.68%) Firewall
2 48 (2.88%) Network Security
3 43 (2.58%) DNS
4 40 (2.40%) VPN
5 24 (1.44%) SAN
5 24 (1.44%) WAN
6 22 (1.32%) VLAN
7 18 (1.08%) NAS
8 17 (1.02%) DHCP
8 17 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.84%) BGP
9 14 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.72%) LAN
10 12 (0.72%) OSPF
11 11 (0.66%) MPLS
11 11 (0.66%) VSAN
12 9 (0.54%) DKIM
13 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 7 (0.42%) HTTP
14 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.74%) Power BI
2 81 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 51 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 42 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (2.34%) Metadata
7 36 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 35 (2.10%) Tableau
9 23 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.90%) DB2
12 15 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.84%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.84%) MySQL
13 14 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 105 (6.30%) JIRA
2 37 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.10%) Git
4 22 (1.32%) GitLab
5 14 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.48%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.24%) LSMW
11 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.24%) Toad
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 542 (32.53%) Finance
2 494 (29.65%) Social Skills
3 167 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.12%) Banking
5 142 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.78%) Retail
7 58 (3.48%) Law
8 53 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (2.76%) Legal
10 29 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.50%) Marketing
14 22 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.26%) General Ledger
15 21 (1.26%) Local Government
16 17 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (17.17%) Architect
2 218 (13.09%) Lead
3 210 (12.61%) Analyst
4 175 (10.50%) Senior
5 139 (8.34%) Business Analyst
6 138 (8.28%) Consultant
7 117 (7.02%) Project Manager
8 87 (5.22%) Developer
9 86 (5.16%) Data Engineer
10 70 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 57 (3.42%) Migration Engineer
13 55 (3.30%) Data Analyst
14 54 (3.24%) Migration Manager
15 51 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
16 48 (2.88%) Migration Analyst
17 42 (2.52%) Lead Architect
18 40 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
19 38 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
20 35 (2.10%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.76%) REST
2 43 (2.58%) Middleware
3 36 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 33 (1.98%) .NET
5 32 (1.92%) Kafka
6 25 (1.50%) PySpark
7 24 (1.44%) XML
8 22 (1.32%) Spring
9 19 (1.14%) SOAP
10 17 (1.02%) SAML
10 17 (1.02%) Spring Boot
11 15 (0.90%) JSON
11 15 (0.90%) OAuth
12 12 (0.72%) HTML
12 12 (0.72%) React
13 11 (0.66%) CSS
13 11 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.60%) ADO
14 10 (0.60%) OpenID
14 10 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.06%) Legacy Systems
2 109 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 67 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 53 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.12%) Data Structures
6 41 (2.46%) Replication
7 37 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.86%) Product Ownership
11 25 (1.50%) Mainframe
12 24 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.84%) Clustering
15 14 (0.84%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.38%) Windows
2 47 (2.82%) Linux
3 30 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.50%) VMS
4 25 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.44%) Unix
6 11 (0.66%) zOS
7 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.30%) Android
10 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.24%) SUSE
10 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (35.17%) Data Migration
2 311 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 306 (18.37%) Agile
4 272 (16.33%) DevOps
5 229 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 202 (12.12%) CI/CD
8 194 (11.64%) Validation
9 189 (11.34%) Data Modelling
10 184 (11.04%) User Acceptance Testing
11 178 (10.68%) ERP
12 166 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
13 159 (9.54%) Analytics
14 158 (9.48%) ETL
15 149 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 138 (8.28%) Project Management
17 133 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (6.96%) Project Delivery
19 110 (6.60%) Decision-Making
19 110 (6.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 274 (16.45%) SQL
2 148 (8.88%) Python
3 89 (5.34%) Java
4 70 (4.20%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.68%) C#
7 18 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.02%) Bicep
8 17 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 17 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.78%) VBA
10 12 (0.72%) Bash
10 12 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.54%) Ruby
12 8 (0.48%) REXX
13 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.42%) Korn
14 6 (0.36%) PHP
14 6 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 293 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 245 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.06%) Degree
4 57 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 39 (2.34%) PMP
6 36 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.90%) CISSP
13 13 (0.78%) CIMA
14 12 (0.72%) CBAP
14 12 (0.72%) IIBA
15 11 (0.66%) CCNP
15 11 (0.66%) CISM
15 11 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.92%) QA
3 70 (4.20%) GDPR
4 32 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.44%) SLA
6 23 (1.38%) NIST
7 22 (1.32%) PMO
8 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.60%) NCSC
10 9 (0.54%) IFRS
10 9 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.48%) SEPA
12 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.30%) Basel III
13 5 (0.30%) GAAP
13 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 82 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.12%) Docker
3 48 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.90%) NFS
6 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.72%) vSphere
8 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.36%) Varnish
9 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.30%) Postfix
11 4 (0.24%) Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.18%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 157 (9.42%) Terraform
2 100 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.46%) Ansible
5 31 (1.86%) SCCM
6 17 (1.02%) Grafana
7 14 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.66%) AirWatch
9 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.60%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.48%) vMotion
12 6 (0.36%) VxRail
13 5 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.30%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.24%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 381 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 152 (9.12%) Oracle
3 130 (7.80%) SAP
4 79 (4.74%) VMware
5 61 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 56 (3.36%) Databricks
6 56 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 51 (3.06%) Google
8 41 (2.46%) Cisco
9 35 (2.10%) Workday
10 30 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.50%) Informatica
12 24 (1.44%) Citrix
13 22 (1.32%) Pure Storage
14 21 (1.26%) Avaloq
14 21 (1.26%) IBM
15 18 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.84%) Palo Alto