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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,244 1,310 1,510
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.83% 8.40% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 9.41% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 861 1,039
10th Percentile £375 £363 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.08% +0.89%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 12
10th Percentile £18.92 £21.20 £28.53
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.44 £78.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +73.47%
75th Percentile - £28.63 £86.50
90th Percentile £63.27 £44.30 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -64.62% +26.58%

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 13,010 13,919 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,971 12,826
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £656 £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 262 166 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.38 £18.70
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +3.21% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.38 £76.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -6 198 £565 -1.31% 239
West London +12 44 £388 -22.50% 13
South London +11 26 £425 -16.46% 6
East London +7 18 £525 +31.25% 5
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 64 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 51 (4.10%) Confluence
3 31 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.05%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 38 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.21%) Endur
3 15 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.13%) 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 (23.87%) Azure
2 198 (15.92%) AWS
3 103 (8.28%) Power Platform
4 89 (7.15%) GCP
5 79 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (6.03%) GitHub
7 60 (4.82%) SaaS
8 57 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (3.62%) Entra ID
11 41 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (3.30%) OCI
12 40 (3.22%) Snowflake
13 35 (2.81%) Serverless
14 34 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 34 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (1.69%) dbt
17 21 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.42%) Firewall
2 34 (2.73%) DNS
3 31 (2.49%) WAN
4 30 (2.41%) Network Security
4 30 (2.41%) VPN
5 19 (1.53%) DHCP
5 19 (1.53%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.45%) LAN
7 16 (1.29%) BGP
8 14 (1.13%) OSPF
8 14 (1.13%) 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%) SAN
11 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.56%) Wireless
12 6 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.35%) Power BI
2 66 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 35 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 29 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 29 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.93%) Metadata
7 24 (1.93%) Oracle Database
8 21 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.69%) Tableau
9 19 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.05%) Big Data
13 13 (1.05%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (7.40%) JIRA
2 31 (2.49%) Git
3 30 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.33%) GitLab
5 15 (1.21%) 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
1 401 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 393 (31.59%) Finance
3 141 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.04%) Banking
5 95 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 47 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.41%) Back Office
10 28 (2.25%) Retail
11 27 (2.17%) Local Government
12 26 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.85%) Marketing
14 21 (1.69%) Front Office
14 21 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.53%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.53%) Legal
17 16 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 173 (13.91%) Analyst
2 167 (13.42%) Architect
3 117 (9.41%) Consultant
4 114 (9.16%) Business Analyst
5 109 (8.76%) Lead
6 102 (8.20%) Project Manager
6 102 (8.20%) Senior
7 77 (6.19%) Developer
8 53 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.46%) Migration Engineer
10 40 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (2.57%) Data Analyst
13 31 (2.49%) Azure Architect
14 28 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
15 27 (2.17%) Data Architect
16 25 (2.01%) Migration Specialist
16 25 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 24 (1.93%) Data Migration Lead
17 24 (1.93%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.14%) REST
2 29 (2.33%) .NET
2 29 (2.33%) XML
3 24 (1.93%) Kafka
4 19 (1.53%) Middleware
4 19 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (1.53%) PySpark
5 18 (1.45%) Spring Boot
6 17 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (1.37%) React
7 15 (1.21%) CSS
8 14 (1.13%) Spring
9 13 (1.05%) HTML
9 13 (1.05%) 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
1 106 (8.52%) Legacy Systems
2 72 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 67 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 39 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 35 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.29%) Replication
12 14 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.96%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.88%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.80%) Clustering
17 8 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 105 (8.44%) Windows
2 45 (3.62%) Linux
3 29 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.21%) Unix
6 13 (1.05%) 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
1 468 (37.62%) Data Migration
2 248 (19.94%) Agile
3 213 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 185 (14.87%) DevOps
6 165 (13.26%) CI/CD
7 148 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 114 (9.16%) Analytics
9 112 (9.00%) ETL
10 107 (8.60%) Project Management
11 106 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 105 (8.44%) Validation
13 104 (8.36%) Data Modelling
14 103 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
15 102 (8.20%) ERP
16 91 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (6.59%) Change Management
18 75 (6.03%) Data Governance
19 74 (5.95%) Containerisation
19 74 (5.95%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 225 (18.09%) SQL
2 137 (11.01%) Python
3 88 (7.07%) Java
4 70 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 46 (3.70%) C#
6 37 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.69%) Bash
8 18 (1.45%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.05%) Bicep
10 13 (1.05%) PL/SQL
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 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.40%) SOQL
14 5 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 166 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 148 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 95 (7.64%) Degree
4 36 (2.89%) PMI Certification
5 32 (2.57%) Azure Certification
5 32 (2.57%) PMP
6 29 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.21%) CCNP
11 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.64%) CCIE
15 7 (0.56%) CBAP
15 7 (0.56%) CISSP
15 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.56%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 65 (5.23%) QA
3 46 (3.70%) GDPR
4 21 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.13%) NIST
6 13 (1.05%) SLA
7 12 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.96%) PMO
8 7 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.48%) EMIR
9 6 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.48%) WCAG
10 5 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.40%) IFRS
10 5 (0.40%) NCSC
11 4 (0.32%) GRC
11 4 (0.32%) MiFID
11 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 77 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 70 (5.63%) Docker
3 28 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.48%) vSphere
8 4 (0.32%) KVM
8 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
11 1 (0.080%) Squid
11 1 (0.080%) Varnish
11 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 115 (9.24%) Terraform
2 101 (8.12%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.97%) Ansible
4 30 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.61%) 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
1 223 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 132 (10.61%) Oracle
3 119 (9.57%) SAP
4 57 (4.58%) Google
5 55 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.38%) VMware
7 34 (2.73%) Cisco
7 34 (2.73%) Workday
8 32 (2.57%) Databricks
9 28 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.61%) Splunk
11 16 (1.29%) IBM
12 15 (1.21%) Citrix
13 14 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.13%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 13 (1.05%) Informatica
15 12 (0.96%) Juniper
16 10 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.80%) Murex