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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,089 1,242 1,490
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.56% 9.12% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 9.90% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 805 1,047
10th Percentile £369 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% -8.09%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £745
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 9
10th Percentile £16.30 - £21.66
25th Percentile £26.52 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £55.50 £25.15 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.68% -60.70% +9.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.53 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.88 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.12
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.67% -36.36%

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 17,596 12,550 15,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.20% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,685 8,395 10,963
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £441 £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 £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +4 296 £550 - 107
West London -4 48 £475 +14.46% 42
South London -3 33 £463 +3.06% 4
East London +2 12 £525 -2.78% 10
North London -6 4 £410 -25.45%
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
1 129 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.82%) Confluence
3 44 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 25 (1.20%) Apache
7 13 (0.62%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) SAS
7 13 (0.62%) SharePoint 2013
8 8 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.38%) WordPress
9 6 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.24%) CICS
11 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.14%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 78 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.05%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
5 19 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
7 15 (0.72%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.57%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.48%) Temenos T24
10 9 (0.43%) iTrent
10 9 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
11 8 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.34%) Maximo
12 7 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 522 (24.99%) Azure
2 366 (17.52%) AWS
3 180 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 159 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (5.46%) GCP
7 91 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
8 90 (4.31%) Entra ID
9 86 (4.12%) SaaS
10 79 (3.78%) GitHub
11 63 (3.02%) Serverless
12 59 (2.82%) Snowflake
13 57 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 49 (2.35%) PaaS
16 48 (2.30%) OCI
17 46 (2.20%) dbt
18 45 (2.15%) IaaS
19 42 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 40 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.73%) Firewall
2 55 (2.63%) DNS
3 45 (2.15%) Network Security
4 41 (1.96%) VPN
5 34 (1.63%) VLAN
6 27 (1.29%) SAN
7 22 (1.05%) BGP
7 22 (1.05%) WAN
8 20 (0.96%) NAS
9 18 (0.86%) DHCP
10 17 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.81%) Wireless
11 15 (0.72%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.53%) SSL
13 10 (0.48%) 5G
13 10 (0.48%) DKIM
13 10 (0.48%) OSPF
14 9 (0.43%) HTTP
15 8 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (7.66%) Power BI
2 82 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 65 (3.11%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.82%) Metadata
6 51 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (1.63%) Tableau
8 29 (1.39%) Oracle Database
9 25 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.96%) Delta Lake
12 20 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.81%) Db2
15 16 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 144 (6.89%) JIRA
2 52 (2.49%) Git
3 42 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.53%) GitLab
5 11 (0.53%) JUnit
6 10 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.34%) Gradle
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.29%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.29%) Mockito
9 6 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.24%) Selenium
11 4 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 711 (34.04%) Finance
2 552 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 202 (9.67%) Banking
4 195 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.12%) Retail
7 62 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.87%) Legal
9 58 (2.78%) Law
10 35 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (1.48%) Marketing
13 29 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.34%) General Ledger
14 28 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.29%) Local Government
16 26 (1.24%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.20%) Billing
18 24 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 408 (19.53%) Architect
2 315 (15.08%) Lead
3 204 (9.77%) Analyst
4 178 (8.52%) Consultant
5 177 (8.47%) Senior
6 149 (7.13%) Project Manager
7 141 (6.75%) Data Engineer
8 125 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (5.84%) Business Analyst
10 94 (4.50%) Developer
11 66 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
12 65 (3.11%) Data Architect
13 64 (3.06%) Data Analyst
14 61 (2.92%) Data Migration Lead
15 59 (2.82%) Migration Engineer
16 52 (2.49%) Migration Manager
17 51 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
18 49 (2.35%) Lead Architect
19 48 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
20 45 (2.15%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.35%) REST
2 57 (2.73%) .NET
3 53 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 48 (2.30%) Kafka
5 45 (2.15%) Middleware
6 43 (2.06%) PySpark
7 31 (1.48%) SOAP
8 30 (1.44%) Spring
9 27 (1.29%) XML
10 26 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 25 (1.20%) React
12 24 (1.15%) OAuth
12 24 (1.15%) SAML
12 24 (1.15%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.01%) JSON
14 19 (0.91%) OpenID
15 18 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
16 17 (0.81%) HTML
17 15 (0.72%) Web Services
18 13 (0.62%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.86%) Legacy Systems
2 174 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 96 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 82 (3.93%) Data Structures
5 75 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 49 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 41 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 39 (1.87%) Replication
9 37 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 35 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 34 (1.63%) Mainframe
11 34 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.70%) Windows
2 66 (3.16%) Linux
3 24 (1.15%) Windows 10
3 24 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.10%) Unix
5 14 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.57%) VMS
7 10 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.38%) zOS
9 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.34%) Solaris
10 6 (0.29%) Android
10 6 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) CentOS
13 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (34.18%) Data Migration
2 399 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 350 (16.75%) Agile
4 336 (16.08%) DevOps
5 307 (14.70%) Validation
6 262 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 256 (12.25%) CI/CD
8 239 (11.44%) User Acceptance Testing
9 232 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 220 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 216 (10.34%) ERP
12 215 (10.29%) Analytics
13 187 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
14 184 (8.81%) Roadmaps
15 167 (7.99%) ETL
16 153 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 143 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 142 (6.80%) AI
19 141 (6.75%) Data Governance
20 140 (6.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 286 (13.69%) SQL
2 216 (10.34%) Python
3 96 (4.60%) Java
4 72 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 44 (2.11%) C#
6 35 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 26 (1.24%) Bash
9 20 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 19 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 18 (0.86%) Bicep
12 16 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.72%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.53%) Ruby
15 10 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.48%) VBA
16 9 (0.43%) SOQL
17 8 (0.38%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.34%) SOSL
19 6 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 292 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 245 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 99 (4.74%) Degree
4 56 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.35%) PMP
6 46 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.01%) CISSP
12 17 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.77%) CIMA
14 15 (0.72%) CISM
15 12 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.57%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.48%) CCNP
17 9 (0.43%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.38%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 99 (4.74%) QA
3 73 (3.49%) GDPR
4 43 (2.06%) PMO
5 31 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.34%) SLA
7 23 (1.10%) NIST
8 14 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.62%) SEPA
10 10 (0.48%) GRC
10 10 (0.48%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.43%) IFRS
12 7 (0.34%) GMP
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.29%) GxP
13 6 (0.29%) HL7
13 6 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.44%) Docker
3 43 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.86%) NFS
5 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.72%) vSphere
7 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.34%) Postfix
8 7 (0.34%) Varnish
8 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.29%) Firmware
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 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 146 (6.99%) Terraform
2 96 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 55 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (2.06%) Ansible
5 26 (1.24%) SCCM
6 19 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.77%) Grafana
8 13 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.38%) vMotion
13 7 (0.34%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.29%) AirWatch
14 6 (0.29%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.29%) VxRail
15 5 (0.24%) Argo
15 5 (0.24%) Avamar
15 5 (0.24%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 438 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 208 (9.96%) Oracle
3 173 (8.28%) SAP
4 113 (5.41%) Databricks
5 81 (3.88%) Google
6 75 (3.59%) VMware
7 65 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 62 (2.97%) Salesforce
9 59 (2.82%) Cisco
10 31 (1.48%) IBM
11 27 (1.29%) Informatica
12 26 (1.24%) CyberArk
13 24 (1.15%) Citrix
14 20 (0.96%) Juniper
14 20 (0.96%) Pure Storage
15 19 (0.91%) IFS
15 19 (0.91%) Workday
16 18 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.81%) Zscaler
18 15 (0.72%) Adobe