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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,182 1,168 1,301
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.79% 8.79% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.13% 9.50% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 790 844
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £538 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +3.37% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 5
10th Percentile £28.03 - £21.37
25th Percentile £48.06 - £21.80
Median hourly rate £57.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.64% -28.14% -58.58%
75th Percentile £74.06 - £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £34.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -27.10% -44.80%

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 17,983 12,296 14,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.49% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,122 9,357
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 243 180
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.94 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.38%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £80.13 £64.95 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +9 332 £590 +6.79% 169
West London -10 54 £475 +31.94% 20
South London -14 23 £518 +21.76% 15
East London +1 11 £498 -7.87% 12
North London -8 1 £178 -67.73% 2
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
1 144 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 86 (3.94%) Confluence
3 53 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.47%) Apache
7 28 (1.28%) CMS
8 13 (0.60%) SAS
9 12 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.46%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.32%) JBoss
13 6 (0.27%) CICS
13 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.27%) WordPress
14 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.23%) IIS
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 63 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.092%) Windchill
7 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 93 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
4 26 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 22 (1.01%) NetSuite
6 20 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
7 18 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
8 17 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
9 14 (0.64%) Temenos T24
10 12 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.55%) SAP HCM
11 11 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
11 11 (0.50%) iTrent
11 11 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.46%) Aladdin
12 10 (0.46%) Maximo
13 9 (0.41%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.41%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 571 (26.17%) Azure
2 367 (16.82%) AWS
3 189 (8.66%) Power Platform
4 162 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
5 140 (6.42%) GCP
6 134 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (6.05%) Entra ID
8 112 (5.13%) SaaS
9 81 (3.71%) Serverless
10 75 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
10 75 (3.44%) GitHub
11 69 (3.16%) Snowflake
12 68 (3.12%) Amazon S3
13 62 (2.84%) dbt
14 52 (2.38%) OCI
15 51 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 46 (2.11%) OneDrive
16 46 (2.11%) Power Automate
17 45 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 44 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.12%) Firewall
2 73 (3.35%) DNS
3 58 (2.66%) Network Security
4 46 (2.11%) VPN
5 43 (1.97%) VLAN
6 37 (1.70%) BGP
6 37 (1.70%) WAN
7 32 (1.47%) DHCP
8 31 (1.42%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.87%) SAN
10 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.73%) Wireless
12 13 (0.60%) SSL
13 12 (0.55%) LAN
13 12 (0.55%) OSPF
14 10 (0.46%) Multicast
14 10 (0.46%) PSTN
15 9 (0.41%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.97%) Power BI
2 106 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 105 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (4.08%) Metadata
5 59 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (2.43%) Data Lake
7 52 (2.38%) Oracle Database
8 43 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 33 (1.51%) Delta Lake
11 30 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (0.82%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.78%) Db2
16 17 (0.78%) MongoDB
17 14 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
18 13 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 153 (7.01%) JIRA
2 87 (3.99%) Git
3 51 (2.34%) GitLab
4 45 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.46%) RStudio
6 9 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.27%) Ant
7 6 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.27%) Gradle
7 6 (0.27%) Liquibase
7 6 (0.27%) MSI
7 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.23%) JUnit
8 5 (0.23%) Mockito
8 5 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
8 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.23%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.18%) Gatling
General
1 730 (33.46%) Finance
2 608 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 265 (12.14%) Banking
4 229 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 185 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 98 (4.49%) Retail
7 76 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 63 (2.89%) Legal
9 52 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 43 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 38 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.60%) General Ledger
12 35 (1.60%) Marketing
13 34 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 32 (1.47%) Billing
15 32 (1.47%) Front Office
15 32 (1.47%) Local Government
16 31 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 422 (19.34%) Architect
2 288 (13.20%) Lead
3 222 (10.17%) Senior
4 212 (9.72%) Analyst
5 187 (8.57%) Consultant
6 153 (7.01%) Project Manager
7 139 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
8 137 (6.28%) Data Engineer
9 123 (5.64%) Developer
10 121 (5.55%) Business Analyst
11 80 (3.67%) Data Architect
12 63 (2.89%) Data Analyst
13 58 (2.66%) Network Engineer
14 52 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 47 (2.15%) Data Migration Lead
16 46 (2.11%) Administrator
17 44 (2.02%) Migration Engineer
18 43 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
19 40 (1.83%) Cloud Architect
20 39 (1.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (8.57%) Terraform
2 95 (4.35%) REST
3 91 (4.17%) .NET
4 58 (2.66%) PySpark
5 57 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 53 (2.43%) Kafka
7 44 (2.02%) Middleware
8 36 (1.65%) .NET Framework
9 32 (1.47%) JSON
10 31 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 30 (1.37%) Spring
12 27 (1.24%) XML
13 26 (1.19%) OAuth
14 25 (1.15%) React
15 24 (1.10%) SOAP
16 23 (1.05%) Web Services
17 22 (1.01%) HTML
18 17 (0.78%) SAML
19 16 (0.73%) ADO
19 16 (0.73%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 186 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 185 (8.48%) Legacy Systems
3 128 (5.87%) Data Centre
4 95 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 92 (4.22%) Data Structures
6 81 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 51 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 43 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
11 40 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.51%) Replication
13 30 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 30 (1.37%) Mainframe
14 29 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 26 (1.19%) Reference Data
16 25 (1.15%) Clustering
17 20 (0.92%) PKI
18 19 (0.87%) Reinsurance
19 18 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 171 (7.84%) Windows
2 88 (4.03%) Linux
3 44 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.70%) Unix
5 22 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.46%) macOS
9 10 (0.46%) VMS
10 5 (0.23%) Android
10 5 (0.23%) zOS
11 4 (0.18%) AIX
11 4 (0.18%) Solaris
11 4 (0.18%) SUSE
11 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (31.62%) Data Migration
2 585 (26.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 379 (17.37%) Agile
4 368 (16.87%) Validation
5 345 (15.81%) DevOps
6 307 (14.07%) CI/CD
7 260 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 247 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (11.04%) Roadmaps
10 240 (11.00%) Data Modelling
11 239 (10.95%) User Acceptance Testing
12 236 (10.82%) Analytics
13 209 (9.58%) AI
14 193 (8.85%) ERP
15 190 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 189 (8.66%) Data Governance
17 183 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
18 173 (7.93%) ETL
19 154 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
20 148 (6.78%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 356 (16.32%) SQL
2 253 (11.59%) Python
3 121 (5.55%) PowerShell
4 80 (3.67%) Java
5 72 (3.30%) C#
6 51 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 50 (2.29%) Bash
8 40 (1.83%) TypeScript
9 30 (1.37%) Bicep
10 22 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 19 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.46%) Perl
15 9 (0.41%) Korn
16 8 (0.37%) JCL
16 8 (0.37%) SOQL
17 7 (0.32%) R
17 7 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 302 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 267 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 103 (4.72%) Degree
4 56 (2.57%) Azure Certification
5 55 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.47%) PMP
7 32 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.19%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.87%) CCNP
14 18 (0.82%) CISSP
15 14 (0.64%) ACCA
16 13 (0.60%) CIMA
17 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.46%) CISM
19 8 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.50%) Data Quality
2 110 (5.04%) QA
3 56 (2.57%) GDPR
4 42 (1.92%) PMO
5 24 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.10%) NIST
6 23 (1.05%) GRC
6 23 (1.05%) SLA
7 16 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.60%) SEPA
11 9 (0.41%) IFRS
11 9 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.32%) NCSC
12 7 (0.32%) WCAG
13 6 (0.27%) GMP
13 6 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 135 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.84%) Docker
3 55 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.69%) vSphere
6 12 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) NFS
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) Varnish
12 2 (0.092%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.092%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 104 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.89%) Ansible
3 56 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.92%) Grafana
5 20 (0.92%) SCCM
6 13 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (0.46%) Control-M
8 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.37%) Karpenter
9 8 (0.37%) systemd
10 6 (0.27%) Argo
10 6 (0.27%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.27%) SCOM
11 5 (0.23%) Istio
11 5 (0.23%) vRealize
12 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 467 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 245 (11.23%) Oracle
3 194 (8.89%) SAP
4 161 (7.38%) Databricks
5 98 (4.49%) Google
6 85 (3.90%) VMware
7 80 (3.67%) Cisco
8 74 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.70%) Salesforce
10 41 (1.88%) IBM
11 35 (1.60%) Informatica
12 27 (1.24%) CyberArk
12 27 (1.24%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 25 (1.15%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.96%) Workday
17 18 (0.82%) Bloomberg
17 18 (0.82%) IFS
17 18 (0.82%) Juniper