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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,212 1,308 1,558
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.71% 8.35% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 9.37% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 861 1,073
10th Percentile £375 £363 £407
25th Percentile £450 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £654 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £799
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.30 £67.00
25th Percentile - £21.62 £82.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.40 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% -66.59% +73.47%
75th Percentile - £42.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £45.08 £56.70 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -49.25% +29.59%

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 12,857 13,965 18,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.14% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,458 8,984 13,161
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 163 244
10th Percentile £17.93 £17.30 £18.52
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £46.81 £56.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -7 189 £553 -3.91% 430
West London +12 42 £360 -28.00% 15
South London +14 25 £425 -16.46% 8
East London +7 17 £533 +33.13% 4
North London +9 8 £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 60 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.96%) Confluence
3 28 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.99%) Apache
5 12 (0.99%) CMS
6 8 (0.66%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.50%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.41%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.25%) nginx
10 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.083%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.083%) CICS
12 1 (0.083%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 34 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
4 4 (0.33%) Trello
5 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.17%) Notion
7 1 (0.083%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 56 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.24%) Endur
4 14 (1.16%) SAP HR
5 12 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.66%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.50%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.41%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
11 5 (0.41%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 292 (24.09%) Azure
2 195 (16.09%) AWS
3 95 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 92 (7.59%) GCP
5 73 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
6 72 (5.94%) GitHub
7 60 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (4.87%) SaaS
9 48 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.80%) Entra ID
11 40 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
11 40 (3.30%) Snowflake
12 37 (3.05%) OCI
13 35 (2.89%) Amazon S3
13 35 (2.89%) Serverless
14 32 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 31 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 24 (1.98%) dbt
18 21 (1.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.37%) Firewall
2 31 (2.56%) VPN
2 31 (2.56%) WAN
3 30 (2.48%) DNS
4 26 (2.15%) Network Security
5 19 (1.57%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.49%) LAN
7 16 (1.32%) BGP
7 16 (1.32%) DHCP
8 14 (1.16%) OSPF
9 13 (1.07%) VLAN
10 10 (0.83%) DMARC
11 8 (0.66%) DKIM
11 8 (0.66%) MPLS
11 8 (0.66%) Skype
11 8 (0.66%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.58%) SAN
12 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.58%) Wireless
13 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.02%) Power BI
2 68 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 36 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.15%) Data Lake
5 26 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 23 (1.90%) Metadata
9 21 (1.73%) Tableau
10 18 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.24%) Big Data
13 14 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.07%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (7.59%) JIRA
2 30 (2.48%) Git
2 30 (2.48%) GitLab
3 29 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.24%) SonarQube
5 12 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.83%) Selenium
7 8 (0.66%) Maven
8 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.58%) ERwin
9 6 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.50%) Gradle
9 6 (0.50%) LSMW
10 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.41%) Snyk
10 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.33%) Postman
11 4 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 395 (32.59%) Finance
2 387 (31.93%) Social Skills
3 138 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.33%) Banking
5 91 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (2.64%) Back Office
9 27 (2.23%) Local Government
9 27 (2.23%) Retail
10 26 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.90%) Marketing
13 22 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.73%) Front Office
14 21 (1.73%) Legal
15 20 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.49%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 167 (13.78%) Analyst
2 166 (13.70%) Architect
3 110 (9.08%) Consultant
4 107 (8.83%) Business Analyst
5 106 (8.75%) Lead
6 105 (8.66%) Project Manager
7 99 (8.17%) Senior
8 73 (6.02%) Developer
9 54 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 42 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (3.14%) Migration Engineer
12 36 (2.97%) Data Analyst
12 36 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (2.81%) Azure Architect
13 34 (2.81%) Data Architect
14 29 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (1.98%) Cloud Architect
15 24 (1.98%) Migration Specialist
16 23 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
17 22 (1.82%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.05%) REST
2 29 (2.39%) XML
3 27 (2.23%) .NET
3 27 (2.23%) Kafka
4 20 (1.65%) Spring Boot
5 19 (1.57%) PySpark
6 18 (1.49%) Middleware
7 17 (1.40%) React
7 17 (1.40%) Spring
8 16 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (1.24%) CSS
9 15 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (1.07%) HTML
11 12 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.99%) JSON
11 12 (0.99%) SOAP
12 11 (0.91%) Node.js
12 11 (0.91%) RESTful
13 10 (0.83%) GraphQL
14 8 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.50%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 59 (4.87%) Data Centre
4 37 (3.05%) Data Structures
4 37 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 18 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.16%) Replication
9 14 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.99%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.99%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.66%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 96 (7.92%) Windows
2 46 (3.80%) Linux
3 23 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.07%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.66%) VMS
7 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.33%) Solaris
9 3 (0.25%) CentOS
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.083%) Android
11 1 (0.083%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.083%) VME
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (37.29%) Data Migration
2 251 (20.71%) Agile
3 216 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (15.18%) DevOps
4 184 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 161 (13.28%) CI/CD
6 142 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 110 (9.08%) Project Management
8 109 (8.99%) Analytics
9 108 (8.91%) ETL
10 107 (8.83%) Data Modelling
11 103 (8.50%) ERP
12 102 (8.42%) User Acceptance Testing
13 101 (8.33%) Validation
14 97 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
15 90 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (6.60%) Change Management
17 76 (6.27%) Data Governance
18 74 (6.11%) Containerisation
19 71 (5.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.07%) SQL
2 142 (11.72%) Python
3 88 (7.26%) Java
4 67 (5.53%) PowerShell
5 44 (3.63%) C#
6 38 (3.14%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.65%) Bash
8 18 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.24%) Bicep
10 15 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.16%) Apex Code
12 13 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.99%) Go
14 11 (0.91%) C++
15 9 (0.74%) ABAP
15 9 (0.74%) Groovy
16 5 (0.41%) COBOL
16 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 151 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 135 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.92%) Degree
4 37 (3.05%) PMI Certification
5 35 (2.89%) PMP
6 34 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.24%) CCNP
10 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.66%) CBAP
13 8 (0.66%) CCIE
14 7 (0.58%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.50%) CISSP
15 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.03%) QA
3 44 (3.63%) GDPR
4 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.24%) NIST
6 13 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.99%) SLA
8 10 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.50%) EMIR
9 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.50%) WCAG
10 5 (0.41%) GRC
10 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.41%) IFRS
11 4 (0.33%) MiFID
11 4 (0.33%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 69 (5.69%) Docker
3 25 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.41%) vSphere
8 4 (0.33%) KVM
9 3 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.17%) Firmware
10 2 (0.17%) RACF
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.083%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.083%) Squid
Systems Management
1 111 (9.16%) Terraform
2 98 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.89%) Ansible
4 30 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.24%) SCCM
6 10 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.74%) SCOM
7 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.66%) Puppet
9 7 (0.58%) Argo
10 6 (0.50%) Grafana
10 6 (0.50%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.33%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.25%) Rancher
14 2 (0.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 218 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.15%) Oracle
3 118 (9.74%) SAP
4 58 (4.79%) Google
5 53 (4.37%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.05%) VMware
7 33 (2.72%) Cisco
7 33 (2.72%) Workday
8 27 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 26 (2.15%) Databricks
10 17 (1.40%) Splunk
11 15 (1.24%) Citrix
11 15 (1.24%) IBM
12 14 (1.16%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.99%) Informatica
13 12 (0.99%) Juniper
14 10 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.83%) Murex