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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,124 1,241 1,434
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.68% 9.08% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 9.84% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 798 1,006
10th Percentile £371 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -2.32% -5.98%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £528
% change year-on-year - -0.49% -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 8
10th Percentile £16.74 - £21.59
25th Percentile £29.00 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -61.75% +25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £29.91 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.75 £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £65.25
% change year-on-year +59.05% -61.46% -4.74%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +4 301 £569 +3.41% 61
West London -3 52 £475 +22.58% 13
South London 0 35 £463 -0.54% 6
East London +5 12 £525 -2.78% 9
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
1 145 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 69 (3.25%) Confluence
3 48 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 28 (1.32%) Apache
6 27 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.66%) CMS
7 14 (0.66%) SAS
7 14 (0.66%) SharePoint 2013
8 9 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.42%) WordPress
9 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.24%) CICS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 78 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 23 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.71%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.61%) Temenos T24
8 12 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
10 9 (0.42%) iTrent
11 8 (0.38%) Loan IQ
11 8 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.33%) Finacle
12 7 (0.33%) Maximo
12 7 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 535 (25.19%) Azure
2 359 (16.90%) AWS
3 196 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 164 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
5 129 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (5.56%) GCP
7 99 (4.66%) SaaS
8 96 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (4.43%) Entra ID
10 71 (3.34%) GitHub
11 68 (3.20%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.06%) Serverless
13 58 (2.73%) Snowflake
14 54 (2.54%) OCI
15 52 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 49 (2.31%) dbt
17 48 (2.26%) PaaS
18 46 (2.17%) IaaS
19 44 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
19 44 (2.07%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.95%) Firewall
2 62 (2.92%) DNS
3 49 (2.31%) Network Security
4 48 (2.26%) VPN
5 39 (1.84%) VLAN
6 27 (1.27%) SAN
7 25 (1.18%) DHCP
7 25 (1.18%) WAN
8 23 (1.08%) BGP
8 23 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.85%) NAS
10 18 (0.85%) Wireless
11 16 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.61%) SSL
13 11 (0.52%) OSPF
14 10 (0.47%) 5G
14 10 (0.47%) DKIM
15 9 (0.42%) HTTP
15 9 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.00%) Power BI
2 86 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 82 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (3.11%) Data Lake
5 55 (2.59%) Metadata
6 50 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 30 (1.41%) Tableau
9 25 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.04%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.94%) NoSQL
12 18 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.85%) Db2
13 17 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.75%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 155 (7.30%) JIRA
2 60 (2.82%) Git
3 43 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.60%) GitLab
5 11 (0.52%) JUnit
6 9 (0.42%) Chocolatey
6 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.33%) Gradle
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
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%) Selenium
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
General
1 728 (34.27%) Finance
2 556 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 209 (9.84%) Banking
4 202 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 104 (4.90%) Retail
7 62 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 61 (2.87%) Law
9 60 (2.82%) Legal
10 36 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.60%) Marketing
12 33 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.32%) General Ledger
17 27 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.22%) Local Government
19 25 (1.18%) Billing
20 22 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 416 (19.59%) Architect
2 313 (14.74%) Lead
3 198 (9.32%) Analyst
4 192 (9.04%) Senior
5 176 (8.29%) Consultant
6 154 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 142 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 134 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
9 121 (5.70%) Business Analyst
10 106 (4.99%) Developer
11 66 (3.11%) Data Architect
12 63 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
13 62 (2.92%) Data Analyst
13 62 (2.92%) Data Migration Lead
14 51 (2.40%) Migration Engineer
15 49 (2.31%) Lead Architect
16 48 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
16 48 (2.26%) Migration Manager
17 44 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
18 42 (1.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.67%) REST
2 65 (3.06%) .NET
3 59 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 48 (2.26%) Kafka
5 45 (2.12%) Middleware
6 44 (2.07%) PySpark
7 33 (1.55%) SOAP
8 31 (1.46%) Spring
9 28 (1.32%) .NET Framework
9 28 (1.32%) XML
10 26 (1.22%) OAuth
10 26 (1.22%) React
11 25 (1.18%) SAML
11 25 (1.18%) Spring Boot
12 22 (1.04%) HTML
13 21 (0.99%) JSON
14 20 (0.94%) OpenID
15 19 (0.89%) Web Services
16 18 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
17 15 (0.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
2 167 (7.86%) Cloud Native
3 110 (5.18%) Data Centre
4 83 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 80 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 55 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 41 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 39 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 36 (1.69%) Replication
11 34 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.51%) Mainframe
13 24 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (0.99%) Clustering
15 20 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 17 (0.80%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.44%) Windows
2 74 (3.48%) Linux
3 29 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.27%) Unix
5 24 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.56%) VMS
8 11 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.38%) zOS
12 7 (0.33%) Solaris
13 6 (0.28%) Android
13 6 (0.28%) SUSE
14 5 (0.24%) AIX
15 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
18 1 (0.047%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (34.04%) Data Migration
2 413 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 365 (17.18%) Agile
4 331 (15.58%) DevOps
5 309 (14.55%) Validation
6 271 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 262 (12.34%) CI/CD
8 249 (11.72%) User Acceptance Testing
9 227 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
10 226 (10.64%) ERP
11 220 (10.36%) Data Modelling
12 217 (10.22%) Analytics
13 197 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
14 193 (9.09%) Roadmaps
15 172 (8.10%) ETL
16 158 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 153 (7.20%) AI
18 152 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 141 (6.64%) Change Management
20 140 (6.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 306 (14.41%) SQL
2 222 (10.45%) Python
3 98 (4.61%) Java
4 85 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 55 (2.59%) C#
6 44 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.55%) Bash
9 22 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.89%) Bicep
12 18 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.47%) Ruby
16 9 (0.42%) SOQL
16 9 (0.42%) VBA
17 8 (0.38%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.33%) SOSL
19 6 (0.28%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 305 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 258 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 101 (4.76%) Degree
4 55 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.35%) PMP
6 49 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 33 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.94%) CISSP
11 19 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.75%) CIMA
13 15 (0.71%) CISM
14 12 (0.56%) CCNP
14 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.52%) ACCA
16 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 105 (4.94%) QA
3 72 (3.39%) GDPR
4 46 (2.17%) PMO
5 32 (1.51%) SLA
6 30 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.04%) NIST
8 14 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.61%) SEPA
10 12 (0.56%) GRC
10 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.42%) NCSC
13 8 (0.38%) GMP
13 8 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
14 7 (0.33%) IFRS
15 6 (0.28%) PSD2
15 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.26%) Docker
2 48 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.75%) NFS
4 16 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.71%) vSphere
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.33%) Firmware
7 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.33%) Varnish
7 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Postfix
9 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.14%) KVM
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 152 (7.16%) Terraform
2 95 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 57 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (2.21%) Ansible
5 24 (1.13%) SCCM
6 19 (0.89%) Grafana
7 18 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.56%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
10 9 (0.42%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.33%) Argo
12 7 (0.33%) systemd
13 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.28%) vMotion
13 6 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 446 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 218 (10.26%) Oracle
3 171 (8.05%) SAP
4 118 (5.56%) Databricks
5 86 (4.05%) Google
6 82 (3.86%) VMware
7 70 (3.30%) ServiceNow
8 65 (3.06%) Cisco
9 60 (2.82%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.65%) IBM
11 31 (1.46%) Informatica
12 24 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.13%) Juniper
13 22 (1.04%) Citrix
14 21 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 20 (0.94%) Workday
16 19 (0.89%) IFS
17 18 (0.85%) Pure Storage
18 17 (0.80%) Adobe