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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,250 1,317 1,499
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.84% 8.38% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 9.39% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 869 1,032
10th Percentile £375 £374 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.30% +0.66%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £675
90th Percentile £738 £778 £787
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 12
10th Percentile £18.92 £21.20 £28.53
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.44 £78.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +54.55%
75th Percentile - £28.63 £86.50
90th Percentile £63.27 £44.30 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +4.79% -64.18% +25.59%

All Process and 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 13,053 14,033 17,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,054 12,730
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.13 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -5 197 £553 -2.86% 238
West London +12 44 £360 -28.00% 12
South London +10 25 £425 -16.46% 6
East London +7 18 £525 +31.25% 6
North London +8 9 £550 +175.00%
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 65 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.16%) Confluence
3 30 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.04%) CMS
6 11 (0.88%) Apache
7 8 (0.64%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.56%) SAS
9 6 (0.48%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.48%) Mattermost
10 3 (0.24%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.080%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Notion
8 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 54 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.20%) Endur
3 15 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.12%) SAP HR
5 12 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
8 6 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.48%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.40%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 297 (23.76%) Azure
2 195 (15.60%) AWS
3 103 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 88 (7.04%) GCP
5 78 (6.24%) GitHub
6 77 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (4.80%) SaaS
8 58 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (3.60%) Entra ID
11 41 (3.28%) OCI
12 40 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (3.20%) Snowflake
13 35 (2.80%) Serverless
14 34 (2.72%) Amazon S3
14 34 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (1.68%) dbt
17 21 (1.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.48%) Firewall
2 33 (2.64%) DNS
3 31 (2.48%) Network Security
3 31 (2.48%) WAN
4 29 (2.32%) VPN
5 19 (1.52%) DHCP
5 19 (1.52%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.44%) LAN
7 16 (1.28%) BGP
8 14 (1.12%) OSPF
8 14 (1.12%) VLAN
9 10 (0.80%) DMARC
10 8 (0.64%) DKIM
10 8 (0.64%) MPLS
10 8 (0.64%) Skype
10 8 (0.64%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.56%) NAS
11 7 (0.56%) SAN
11 7 (0.56%) Wireless
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.32%) Power BI
2 66 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 35 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.32%) Data Lake
6 29 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 24 (1.92%) Metadata
9 21 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (1.68%) Tableau
10 19 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (1.12%) Big Data
15 13 (1.04%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
17 11 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 95 (7.60%) JIRA
2 31 (2.48%) Git
3 30 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.32%) GitLab
5 15 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.80%) Selenium
8 8 (0.64%) Maven
9 7 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.56%) ERwin
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.48%) Gradle
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) LSMW
11 5 (0.40%) Snyk
11 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
12 4 (0.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 403 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 391 (31.28%) Finance
3 141 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.16%) Banking
5 94 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 48 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.40%) Back Office
10 28 (2.24%) Retail
11 27 (2.16%) Local Government
12 26 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.84%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.84%) Marketing
13 23 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.68%) Front Office
15 20 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.52%) Legal
17 18 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 175 (14.00%) Analyst
2 165 (13.20%) Architect
3 117 (9.36%) Consultant
4 115 (9.20%) Business Analyst
5 110 (8.80%) Lead
6 102 (8.16%) Senior
7 101 (8.08%) Project Manager
8 79 (6.32%) Developer
9 53 (4.24%) Data Engineer
10 45 (3.60%) Migration Engineer
11 40 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (2.56%) Data Analyst
14 31 (2.48%) Azure Architect
15 30 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (2.16%) Data Architect
17 25 (2.00%) Migration Specialist
17 25 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
18 24 (1.92%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.92%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.12%) REST
2 29 (2.32%) .NET
2 29 (2.32%) XML
3 24 (1.92%) Kafka
4 19 (1.52%) Middleware
4 19 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (1.52%) PySpark
5 18 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 17 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (1.36%) React
7 15 (1.20%) CSS
8 14 (1.12%) Spring
9 13 (1.04%) HTML
9 13 (1.04%) SOAP
10 12 (0.96%) Node.js
11 11 (0.88%) JSON
11 11 (0.88%) RESTful
12 10 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.72%) Visualforce
14 8 (0.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 104 (8.32%) Legacy Systems
2 74 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 67 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 38 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 35 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.32%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.44%) Replication
11 17 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.96%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 10 (0.80%) Clustering
17 10 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 105 (8.40%) Windows
2 42 (3.36%) Linux
3 28 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.36%) Unix
6 11 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.64%) VMS
7 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.32%) Solaris
9 3 (0.24%) CentOS
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) zOS
11 1 (0.080%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.080%) VME
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (38.00%) Data Migration
2 254 (20.32%) Agile
3 214 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 186 (14.88%) DevOps
6 167 (13.36%) CI/CD
7 148 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 116 (9.28%) ETL
9 115 (9.20%) Analytics
10 108 (8.64%) Data Modelling
10 108 (8.64%) Project Management
11 105 (8.40%) User Acceptance Testing
11 105 (8.40%) Validation
12 103 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
13 101 (8.08%) ERP
14 93 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 83 (6.64%) Change Management
16 75 (6.00%) Data Governance
17 74 (5.92%) Containerisation
18 73 (5.84%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 230 (18.40%) SQL
2 137 (10.96%) Python
3 88 (7.04%) Java
4 69 (5.52%) PowerShell
5 46 (3.68%) C#
6 37 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.68%) Bash
8 18 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.04%) Bicep
11 12 (0.96%) Go
11 12 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.88%) C++
13 9 (0.72%) ABAP
13 9 (0.72%) Groovy
14 6 (0.48%) PHP
15 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 168 (13.44%) Security Cleared
2 150 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.68%) Degree
4 36 (2.88%) PMI Certification
5 32 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 32 (2.56%) PMP
6 30 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.20%) CCNP
11 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.64%) CCIE
15 7 (0.56%) CBAP
15 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.56%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.48%) CISSP
16 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 65 (5.20%) QA
3 45 (3.60%) GDPR
4 19 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.04%) SLA
6 12 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.96%) NIST
6 12 (0.96%) PMO
7 7 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.48%) EMIR
8 6 (0.48%) WCAG
9 5 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.40%) IFRS
10 4 (0.32%) GRC
10 4 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.32%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) NCSC
10 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 75 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 70 (5.60%) Docker
3 27 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.40%) vSphere
8 4 (0.32%) KVM
8 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.16%) Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.080%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.080%) Squid
11 1 (0.080%) Varnish
11 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 117 (9.36%) Terraform
2 101 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.96%) Ansible
4 30 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.60%) SCCM
6 11 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.88%) SCOM
7 8 (0.64%) Argo
7 8 (0.64%) Grafana
7 8 (0.64%) Puppet
7 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.48%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
11 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 224 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 134 (10.72%) Oracle
3 120 (9.60%) SAP
4 57 (4.56%) Google
5 56 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.28%) VMware
7 34 (2.72%) Cisco
7 34 (2.72%) Workday
8 32 (2.56%) Databricks
9 28 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.60%) Splunk
11 16 (1.28%) IBM
12 15 (1.20%) Citrix
13 14 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.12%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.04%) Informatica
14 13 (1.04%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.96%) Juniper
16 10 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.80%) Murex