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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,159 1,182 1,393
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.68% 8.83% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 9.55% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 769 937
10th Percentile £365 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 8
10th Percentile £35.13 - £21.59
25th Percentile £50.88 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £59.75 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +137.57% -61.75% -1.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £95.88 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £59.40
% change year-on-year +59.05% -57.66% -15.14%

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 17,989 12,382 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.46% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,195 9,826
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £660 £675 £681
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 289 255 186
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -10.49% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +6 321 £575 +4.55% 119
West London -7 51 £475 +46.15% 40
South London -10 25 £474 +11.47% 9
East London +8 15 £538 -11.52% 11
North London -9 1 £178 -67.73% 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
1 153 (7.09%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.38%) Confluence
3 51 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 32 (1.48%) Apache
7 22 (1.02%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
9 9 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.28%) CICS
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.28%) WordPress
12 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.19%) JBoss
13 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 67 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.093%) Windchill
8 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 87 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 26 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 24 (1.11%) NetSuite
6 21 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
7 18 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
8 17 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
10 13 (0.60%) Temenos T24
11 12 (0.56%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.51%) iTrent
12 11 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
13 10 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
13 10 (0.46%) SAP MDG
14 8 (0.37%) Maximo
15 7 (0.32%) Finacle
15 7 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 6 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 548 (25.38%) Azure
2 369 (17.09%) AWS
3 212 (9.82%) Power Platform
4 167 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
5 126 (5.84%) GCP
6 115 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 105 (4.86%) SaaS
8 93 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (3.61%) Serverless
10 76 (3.52%) GitHub
11 68 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.01%) Snowflake
13 61 (2.83%) dbt
14 56 (2.59%) OCI
15 46 (2.13%) OneDrive
15 46 (2.13%) Power Automate
16 45 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
17 44 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 44 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.12%) Firewall
2 67 (3.10%) DNS
3 57 (2.64%) Network Security
4 44 (2.04%) VPN
5 43 (1.99%) VLAN
6 36 (1.67%) BGP
7 35 (1.62%) WAN
8 29 (1.34%) DHCP
9 24 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.79%) Wireless
12 16 (0.74%) SAN
12 16 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.69%) SSL
14 11 (0.51%) 5G
14 11 (0.51%) OSPF
15 10 (0.46%) NX-OS
15 10 (0.46%) PSTN
15 10 (0.46%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (8.20%) Power BI
2 98 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 81 (3.75%) Metadata
5 64 (2.96%) Data Lake
6 58 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 35 (1.62%) Delta Lake
9 33 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.11%) Tableau
14 20 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.79%) Db2
16 17 (0.79%) NoSQL
17 16 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (7.04%) JIRA
2 69 (3.20%) Git
3 40 (1.85%) GitLab
3 40 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) JUnit
4 10 (0.46%) Liquibase
5 9 (0.42%) Gradle
5 9 (0.42%) Mockito
5 9 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.37%) RStudio
7 7 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.28%) Ant
8 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.23%) Chocolatey
10 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.19%) MSI
10 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 719 (33.30%) Finance
2 595 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 229 (10.61%) Banking
4 215 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 109 (5.05%) Retail
7 73 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.55%) Legal
9 53 (2.45%) Law
10 39 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 39 (1.81%) Marketing
11 38 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (1.67%) Billing
13 36 (1.67%) General Ledger
13 36 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.34%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.20%) Front Office
17 25 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 434 (20.10%) Architect
2 311 (14.40%) Lead
3 195 (9.03%) Senior
4 191 (8.85%) Analyst
5 185 (8.57%) Consultant
6 157 (7.27%) Project Manager
7 138 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
8 135 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 111 (5.14%) Developer
10 108 (5.00%) Business Analyst
11 85 (3.94%) Data Architect
12 60 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 55 (2.55%) Lead Architect
14 53 (2.45%) Cloud Architect
14 53 (2.45%) Network Engineer
15 51 (2.36%) Data Migration Lead
16 48 (2.22%) Administrator
17 42 (1.95%) Migration Engineer
18 41 (1.90%) Azure Engineer
18 41 (1.90%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (7.09%) Terraform
2 91 (4.21%) REST
3 81 (3.75%) .NET
4 63 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 58 (2.69%) Kafka
6 57 (2.64%) PySpark
7 45 (2.08%) Middleware
8 32 (1.48%) .NET Framework
8 32 (1.48%) Spring
9 30 (1.39%) JSON
9 30 (1.39%) Spring Boot
10 29 (1.34%) XML
11 27 (1.25%) OAuth
11 27 (1.25%) React
12 26 (1.20%) SOAP
13 25 (1.16%) HTML
14 21 (0.97%) SAML
15 20 (0.93%) Web Services
16 19 (0.88%) OpenID
17 18 (0.83%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 178 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 175 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 131 (6.07%) Data Centre
4 86 (3.98%) Data Structures
5 81 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 37 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 35 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
12 31 (1.44%) Mainframe
12 31 (1.44%) Replication
13 30 (1.39%) Clustering
14 29 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.93%) FMCG
16 19 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 169 (7.83%) Windows
2 83 (3.84%) Linux
3 34 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.44%) Unix
5 20 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.56%) VMS
8 9 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.28%) SUSE
9 6 (0.28%) zOS
10 5 (0.23%) AIX
10 5 (0.23%) Solaris
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.046%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (32.24%) Data Migration
2 501 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 377 (17.46%) Agile
4 338 (15.66%) Validation
5 329 (15.24%) DevOps
6 292 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 284 (13.15%) CI/CD
8 254 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 250 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
10 240 (11.12%) Data Modelling
11 233 (10.79%) Analytics
12 218 (10.10%) ERP
13 213 (9.87%) Roadmaps
14 205 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
15 185 (8.57%) AI
16 174 (8.06%) Data Governance
17 173 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 162 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
19 161 (7.46%) ETL
20 149 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 332 (15.38%) SQL
2 243 (11.26%) Python
3 106 (4.91%) PowerShell
4 86 (3.98%) Java
5 71 (3.29%) C#
6 46 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 38 (1.76%) TypeScript
8 34 (1.57%) Bash
9 21 (0.97%) Bicep
9 21 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 20 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.42%) Perl
13 9 (0.42%) SOQL
14 8 (0.37%) JCL
15 7 (0.32%) COBOL
15 7 (0.32%) Ruby
15 7 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 310 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 268 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 104 (4.82%) Degree
4 55 (2.55%) PMI Certification
4 55 (2.55%) PMP
5 54 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.83%) CISSP
11 17 (0.79%) CCNP
12 15 (0.69%) ACCA
13 14 (0.65%) CIMA
14 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.51%) CISM
16 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.23%) QA
3 58 (2.69%) GDPR
4 47 (2.18%) PMO
5 28 (1.30%) SLA
6 26 (1.20%) NIST
7 21 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 16 (0.74%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.60%) SEPA
12 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) IFRS
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) GMP
15 6 (0.28%) HL7
15 6 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.41%) Docker
3 50 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.69%) vSphere
6 13 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.28%) Firmware
11 5 (0.23%) NFS
11 5 (0.23%) Varnish
11 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.19%) Postfix
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.046%) RACF
Systems Management
1 94 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 61 (2.83%) Ansible
3 56 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (1.02%) SCCM
6 15 (0.69%) Grafana
6 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 13 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.37%) systemd
11 7 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.32%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
12 6 (0.28%) VxRail
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) Control-M
13 5 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 471 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 235 (10.88%) Oracle
3 176 (8.15%) SAP
4 152 (7.04%) Databricks
5 86 (3.98%) Google
6 82 (3.80%) Cisco
7 81 (3.75%) VMware
8 73 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 53 (2.45%) Salesforce
10 38 (1.76%) IBM
11 37 (1.71%) Informatica
12 23 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 23 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 20 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 20 (0.93%) Juniper
13 20 (0.93%) Workday
14 16 (0.74%) Adobe
14 16 (0.74%) IFS
15 15 (0.69%) Splunk