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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,108 1,245 1,475
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.64% 9.12% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.97% 9.90% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,474 801 1,036
10th Percentile £371 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 8
10th Percentile £15.87 - £21.59
25th Percentile £27.76 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £58.50 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.60% -61.75% +25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £92.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -23.36%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 0 294 £550 - 51
West London -5 50 £475 +14.46% 13
South London -4 33 £463 -0.54% 6
East London +2 12 £525 -2.78% 12
North London -6 3 £325 -40.91%
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
1 135 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 61 (2.89%) Confluence
3 44 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (1.23%) Apache
7 15 (0.71%) SAS
8 13 (0.62%) CMS
8 13 (0.62%) SharePoint 2013
9 8 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.24%) CICS
12 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.14%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.14%) JBoss
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 79 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 22 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 19 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.71%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.47%) Temenos T24
10 9 (0.43%) iTrent
10 9 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.33%) Maximo
12 7 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.28%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 528 (25.05%) Azure
2 360 (17.08%) AWS
3 185 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 160 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (5.60%) GCP
7 93 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
8 91 (4.32%) Entra ID
9 90 (4.27%) SaaS
10 77 (3.65%) GitHub
11 64 (3.04%) Serverless
12 62 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 58 (2.75%) Snowflake
14 51 (2.42%) OCI
15 49 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (2.23%) PaaS
17 45 (2.13%) dbt
18 44 (2.09%) IaaS
19 43 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
20 40 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.89%) Firewall
2 57 (2.70%) DNS
3 45 (2.13%) Network Security
3 45 (2.13%) VPN
4 38 (1.80%) VLAN
5 27 (1.28%) SAN
6 23 (1.09%) BGP
6 23 (1.09%) WAN
7 20 (0.95%) DHCP
7 20 (0.95%) NAS
8 18 (0.85%) Wireless
9 17 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.81%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.52%) OSPF
11 11 (0.52%) SSL
12 10 (0.47%) 5G
12 10 (0.47%) DKIM
12 10 (0.47%) HTTP
13 9 (0.43%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (7.64%) Power BI
2 82 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 65 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 56 (2.66%) Metadata
6 50 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 32 (1.52%) Tableau
8 24 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.95%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.95%) NoSQL
12 18 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.85%) Db2
13 16 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.71%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 148 (7.02%) JIRA
2 56 (2.66%) Git
3 44 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.61%) GitLab
5 11 (0.52%) JUnit
6 10 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.33%) Gradle
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.28%) Ant
9 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.28%) Mockito
9 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.24%) Selenium
11 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.19%) LSMW
11 4 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 718 (34.06%) Finance
2 545 (25.85%) Social Skills
3 205 (9.72%) Banking
4 197 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.08%) Retail
7 64 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (2.94%) Legal
9 59 (2.80%) Law
10 35 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.61%) Marketing
11 34 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.33%) General Ledger
14 28 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.23%) Billing
15 26 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.23%) Local Government
16 23 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (19.26%) Architect
2 316 (14.99%) Lead
3 201 (9.54%) Analyst
4 185 (8.78%) Senior
5 181 (8.59%) Consultant
6 152 (7.21%) Project Manager
7 138 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 126 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (5.79%) Business Analyst
10 101 (4.79%) Developer
11 64 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
11 64 (3.04%) Data Architect
12 61 (2.89%) Data Analyst
13 60 (2.85%) Data Migration Lead
14 57 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
15 50 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
15 50 (2.37%) Migration Manager
16 49 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
16 49 (2.32%) Lead Architect
17 44 (2.09%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (3.56%) REST
2 63 (2.99%) .NET
3 55 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 48 (2.28%) Kafka
5 46 (2.18%) Middleware
6 42 (1.99%) PySpark
7 33 (1.57%) SOAP
8 31 (1.47%) Spring
9 27 (1.28%) .NET Framework
9 27 (1.28%) XML
10 25 (1.19%) React
10 25 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 24 (1.14%) OAuth
11 24 (1.14%) SAML
12 20 (0.95%) JSON
13 19 (0.90%) HTML
13 19 (0.90%) OpenID
14 18 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
15 15 (0.71%) Web Services
16 12 (0.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 184 (8.73%) Legacy Systems
2 167 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 108 (5.12%) Data Centre
4 82 (3.89%) Data Structures
5 77 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 53 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 42 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 39 (1.85%) Replication
9 37 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
12 32 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.52%) Mainframe
13 22 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (0.81%) FMCG
16 16 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.97%) Windows
2 71 (3.37%) Linux
3 25 (1.19%) Unix
3 25 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.57%) VMS
7 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.38%) zOS
9 7 (0.33%) Solaris
10 6 (0.28%) Android
10 6 (0.28%) SUSE
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (33.97%) Data Migration
2 411 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 358 (16.98%) Agile
4 339 (16.08%) DevOps
5 312 (14.80%) Validation
6 263 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 258 (12.24%) CI/CD
8 247 (11.72%) User Acceptance Testing
9 229 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
10 220 (10.44%) Data Modelling
10 220 (10.44%) ERP
11 215 (10.20%) Analytics
12 188 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
13 187 (8.87%) Roadmaps
14 170 (8.06%) ETL
15 153 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 149 (7.07%) AI
17 148 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 143 (6.78%) Project Management
19 139 (6.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 290 (13.76%) SQL
2 218 (10.34%) Python
3 94 (4.46%) Java
4 79 (3.75%) PowerShell
5 51 (2.42%) C#
6 39 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.66%) TypeScript
8 29 (1.38%) Bash
9 19 (0.90%) Bicep
9 19 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 18 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.52%) Ruby
13 10 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.43%) SOQL
14 9 (0.43%) VBA
15 8 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.33%) SOSL
17 6 (0.28%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 296 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 249 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 100 (4.74%) Degree
4 55 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.32%) PMP
6 48 (2.28%) PMI Certification
7 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.00%) CISSP
12 18 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.76%) CIMA
13 16 (0.76%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.71%) CISM
15 12 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.52%) CCNP
17 10 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.43%) ACCA
18 9 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 102 (4.84%) QA
3 71 (3.37%) GDPR
4 46 (2.18%) PMO
5 31 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.33%) SLA
7 22 (1.04%) NIST
8 14 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.62%) SEPA
10 11 (0.52%) GRC
10 11 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.47%) NCSC
11 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.38%) GMP
13 7 (0.33%) GxP
13 7 (0.33%) IFRS
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.28%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 99 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.28%) Docker
3 45 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.85%) NFS
5 18 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.71%) vSphere
7 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.28%) Firmware
9 6 (0.28%) Postfix
9 6 (0.28%) Varnish
10 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.095%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 151 (7.16%) Terraform
2 96 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 52 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (2.18%) Ansible
5 23 (1.09%) SCCM
6 19 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.81%) Grafana
8 13 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
11 9 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.38%) vMotion
13 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.28%) systemd
13 6 (0.28%) VxRail
14 5 (0.24%) Argo
14 5 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.24%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 438 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 215 (10.20%) Oracle
3 175 (8.30%) SAP
4 112 (5.31%) Databricks
5 87 (4.13%) Google
6 77 (3.65%) VMware
7 68 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 61 (2.89%) Cisco
8 61 (2.89%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.57%) IBM
10 32 (1.52%) Informatica
11 26 (1.23%) Citrix
12 23 (1.09%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.09%) Juniper
13 22 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.95%) Pure Storage
14 20 (0.95%) Workday
15 19 (0.90%) IFS
16 18 (0.85%) Zscaler
17 16 (0.76%) Adobe