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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,900 1,138 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.29% 9.28% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 10.06% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 748 1,019
10th Percentile £363 £392 £350
25th Percentile £453 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +1.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £645
90th Percentile £750 £815 £738
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £25.12 £21.59
25th Percentile £25.15 - £22.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £56.87
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -55.77% +28.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.26 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.25 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 16,377 11,309 15,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.27% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,582 11,066
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 194 315
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +15.18% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.23 £63.60 £66.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 0 270 £575 +4.55% 49
South London +6 34 £463 -16.85% 7
West London -15 28 £445 +92.64% 13
East London -1 13 £513 +0.49% 3
North London -2 4 £410 -3.81%
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 99 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.84%) Confluence
3 51 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.21%) Apache
5 23 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.63%) SAS
7 8 (0.42%) CMS
7 8 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.26%) CICS
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.21%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Drupal
11 2 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 69 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 76 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 15 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) SAP ERP
5 14 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.58%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.53%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 9 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.37%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
11 6 (0.32%) Finacle
11 6 (0.32%) iTrent
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 506 (26.63%) Azure
2 327 (17.21%) AWS
3 158 (8.32%) Power Platform
4 140 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (6.00%) GCP
7 94 (4.95%) GitHub
8 88 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (4.11%) Entra ID
10 67 (3.53%) SaaS
11 59 (3.11%) Serverless
12 55 (2.89%) Snowflake
13 52 (2.74%) Amazon S3
13 52 (2.74%) PaaS
14 47 (2.47%) IaaS
15 40 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (2.11%) dbt
16 38 (2.00%) OCI
17 36 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
18 34 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.05%) Firewall
2 51 (2.68%) Network Security
3 46 (2.42%) DNS
4 34 (1.79%) VPN
5 29 (1.53%) VLAN
6 24 (1.26%) SAN
7 22 (1.16%) WAN
8 18 (0.95%) BGP
8 18 (0.95%) NAS
9 17 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.84%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.74%) DHCP
12 13 (0.68%) Wireless
13 12 (0.63%) VSAN
14 11 (0.58%) HTTP
14 11 (0.58%) OSPF
15 10 (0.53%) LAN
15 10 (0.53%) SSL
16 9 (0.47%) DKIM
16 9 (0.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (7.16%) Power BI
2 77 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (3.58%) SQL Server
4 61 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 48 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (2.47%) Metadata
7 38 (2.00%) Tableau
8 24 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (1.21%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.11%) DB2
11 20 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 19 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 18 (0.95%) Delta Lake
14 17 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (0.89%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (6.68%) JIRA
2 45 (2.37%) Git
2 45 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 33 (1.74%) GitLab
4 14 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 11 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (0.53%) JUnit
7 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.37%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.37%) Gradle
8 6 (0.32%) Liquibase
8 6 (0.32%) LSMW
8 6 (0.32%) Mockito
8 6 (0.32%) Selenium
8 6 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 624 (32.84%) Finance
2 502 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 176 (9.26%) Banking
4 168 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 151 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.42%) Retail
7 55 (2.89%) Law
8 50 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.63%) Legal
9 29 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 25 (1.32%) Marketing
11 24 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.16%) General Ledger
13 22 (1.16%) Local Government
13 22 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 370 (19.47%) Architect
2 285 (15.00%) Lead
3 187 (9.84%) Analyst
4 176 (9.26%) Senior
5 153 (8.05%) Consultant
6 135 (7.11%) Project Manager
7 120 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 109 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 102 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.37%) Developer
11 64 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (3.32%) Data Architect
13 61 (3.21%) Data Analyst
14 59 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
15 57 (3.00%) Migration Engineer
16 56 (2.95%) Migration Manager
17 52 (2.74%) Data Migration Lead
18 51 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
19 46 (2.42%) Lead Architect
19 46 (2.42%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.53%) REST
2 47 (2.47%) .NET
3 45 (2.37%) Kafka
3 45 (2.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 42 (2.21%) Middleware
5 32 (1.68%) PySpark
6 25 (1.32%) Spring
7 20 (1.05%) SAML
7 20 (1.05%) SOAP
7 20 (1.05%) Spring Boot
8 19 (1.00%) JSON
8 19 (1.00%) OAuth
8 19 (1.00%) React
9 17 (0.89%) XML
10 16 (0.84%) .NET Framework
10 16 (0.84%) ADO
11 15 (0.79%) Web Services
12 14 (0.74%) HTML
13 13 (0.68%) OpenID
14 12 (0.63%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.74%) Legacy Systems
2 141 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 77 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 57 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.21%) Replication
7 38 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 37 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.84%) Mainframe
10 32 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.89%) CMDB
14 17 (0.89%) Reference Data
15 15 (0.79%) Clustering
15 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.21%) Windows
2 61 (3.21%) Linux
3 23 (1.21%) Windows 10
4 22 (1.16%) Unix
4 22 (1.16%) VMS
4 22 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.47%) zOS
7 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.37%) Solaris
8 5 (0.26%) SUSE
9 4 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (33.89%) Data Migration
2 334 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 321 (16.89%) Agile
4 316 (16.63%) DevOps
5 245 (12.89%) Validation
6 234 (12.32%) CI/CD
7 220 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 206 (10.84%) Data Modelling
10 205 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 187 (9.84%) ERP
12 173 (9.11%) Analytics
13 169 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
14 157 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 153 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (8.05%) ETL
16 150 (7.89%) Roadmaps
17 144 (7.58%) Project Management
18 123 (6.47%) Project Delivery
19 119 (6.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 270 (14.21%) SQL
2 188 (9.89%) Python
3 89 (4.68%) Java
4 66 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 35 (1.84%) C#
6 31 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 24 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.16%) Bash
9 19 (1.00%) Bicep
9 19 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 18 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.58%) Ruby
12 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.53%) VBA
13 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.32%) COBOL
14 6 (0.32%) Scala
15 5 (0.26%) ABAP
15 5 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 322 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 271 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 103 (5.42%) Degree
4 54 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.42%) PMP
6 43 (2.26%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.00%) CISSP
11 18 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.84%) CISM
14 15 (0.79%) CIMA
15 14 (0.74%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.63%) CCNP
16 12 (0.63%) IIBA
17 11 (0.58%) CBAP
18 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
19 9 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.79%) QA
3 63 (3.32%) GDPR
4 30 (1.58%) SLA
5 28 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.42%) PMO
7 23 (1.21%) NIST
8 13 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.63%) NCSC
10 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.58%) SEPA
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) IFRS
12 8 (0.42%) GAAP
13 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.37%) GRC
14 6 (0.32%) HL7
15 5 (0.26%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.42%) Docker
3 44 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.95%) NFS
7 15 (0.79%) vSphere
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.37%) Postfix
9 7 (0.37%) Varnish
9 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.32%) Firmware
11 4 (0.21%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 166 (8.74%) Terraform
2 95 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 49 (2.58%) Ansible
5 22 (1.16%) SCCM
6 18 (0.95%) Grafana
7 16 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.58%) AirWatch
11 10 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
12 9 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.42%) vMotion
14 7 (0.37%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.32%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.32%) VxRail
16 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
17 4 (0.21%) Avamar
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 402 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.79%) Oracle
3 151 (7.95%) SAP
4 88 (4.63%) Databricks
5 75 (3.95%) VMware
6 69 (3.63%) Google
7 61 (3.21%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 50 (2.63%) Cisco
10 31 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 28 (1.47%) Citrix
12 24 (1.26%) Informatica
13 23 (1.21%) Workday
14 22 (1.16%) IBM
15 20 (1.05%) Pure Storage
16 16 (0.84%) Avaloq
16 16 (0.84%) Zscaler
17 15 (0.79%) Juniper
17 15 (0.79%) Palo Alto
17 15 (0.79%) Splunk