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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,274 1,184 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.07% 8.51% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 9.42% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 808 870
10th Percentile £370 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.83% -0.53%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £757
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £19.79 £21.50 £82.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +134.48%
75th Percentile - £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.06 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +14.32% -63.48% -4.37%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -7 189 £565 +2.68% 44
West London +9 30 £360 -28.00% 6
South London +10 22 £450 -17.05% 5
East London +1 14 £498 +10.56% 4
North London +8 4 £525 +14.94%
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 63 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.61%) Confluence
3 42 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.86%) CMS
5 9 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.71%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 6 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.47%) Mattermost
8 5 (0.39%) SAS
9 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.24%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.078%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.078%) Notion
Business Applications
1 58 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.10%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 9 (0.71%) Endur
6 9 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.71%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.55%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.55%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 320 (25.12%) Azure
2 190 (14.91%) AWS
3 95 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 94 (7.38%) GitHub
5 79 (6.20%) GCP
6 77 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (3.92%) SaaS
10 47 (3.69%) Entra ID
11 40 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
11 40 (3.14%) OCI
12 36 (2.83%) Serverless
13 35 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 34 (2.67%) Amazon S3
15 33 (2.59%) Snowflake
16 29 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 25 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 22 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
19 20 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.71%) Firewall
2 40 (3.14%) Network Security
3 26 (2.04%) VPN
4 24 (1.88%) WAN
5 22 (1.73%) DNS
6 19 (1.49%) BGP
7 17 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.26%) LAN
8 16 (1.26%) OSPF
9 10 (0.78%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.78%) VLAN
10 9 (0.71%) DHCP
10 9 (0.71%) DMARC
10 9 (0.71%) Skype
11 7 (0.55%) DKIM
11 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.47%) HTTP
13 5 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.89%) Power BI
2 66 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.43%) Oracle Database
7 30 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.73%) Metadata
10 19 (1.49%) Tableau
11 17 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.18%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.10%) Big Data
14 14 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (0.94%) DB2
15 12 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 86 (6.75%) JIRA
2 35 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.28%) GitLab
4 26 (2.04%) Git
5 16 (1.26%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.86%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.47%) Maven
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.39%) Snyk
10 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.31%) Gradle
10 4 (0.31%) JUnit
10 4 (0.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.31%) Toad
11 3 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.24%) LSMW
11 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 381 (29.91%) Finance
3 120 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.24%) Banking
5 100 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.51%) Retail
9 27 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.81%) Back Office
12 22 (1.73%) Legal
13 21 (1.65%) Local Government
13 21 (1.65%) Marketing
13 21 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.49%) Front Office
15 17 (1.33%) General Ledger
15 17 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (13.19%) Analyst
2 152 (11.93%) Architect
3 128 (10.05%) Lead
4 122 (9.58%) Business Analyst
5 118 (9.26%) Senior
6 116 (9.11%) Consultant
7 103 (8.08%) Project Manager
8 85 (6.67%) Developer
9 52 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 51 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 46 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (3.22%) Migration Engineer
13 37 (2.90%) Migration Manager
14 33 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.35%) Data Analyst
16 29 (2.28%) Azure Architect
16 29 (2.28%) Migration Analyst
17 26 (2.04%) Data Architect
18 24 (1.88%) Data Migration Lead
19 22 (1.73%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.22%) REST
2 38 (2.98%) .NET
3 32 (2.51%) Kafka
3 32 (2.51%) XML
4 26 (2.04%) Middleware
5 25 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (1.73%) PySpark
7 17 (1.33%) CSS
7 17 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 14 (1.10%) HTML
9 13 (1.02%) JSON
9 13 (1.02%) RESTful
9 13 (1.02%) Spring
10 12 (0.94%) React
11 11 (0.86%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.86%) Node.js
12 10 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 10 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (0.78%) SOAP
12 10 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
2 81 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 34 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 28 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (1.96%) Replication
8 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.26%) Mainframe
13 13 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.94%) Clustering
15 9 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.14%) Windows
2 36 (2.83%) Linux
3 28 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.41%) Unix
4 18 (1.41%) VMS
5 17 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.31%) zOS
9 3 (0.24%) Solaris
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) CentOS
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.078%) AIX
11 1 (0.078%) VME
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (34.14%) Data Migration
2 265 (20.80%) Agile
3 222 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 216 (16.95%) DevOps
5 200 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (13.11%) CI/CD
7 142 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 129 (10.13%) Data Modelling
9 122 (9.58%) ETL
10 121 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 118 (9.26%) Project Management
12 106 (8.32%) Analytics
13 104 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
13 104 (8.16%) Validation
14 100 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (7.30%) ERP
16 88 (6.91%) Project Delivery
17 83 (6.51%) Workshop Facilitation
18 75 (5.89%) Roadmaps
19 73 (5.73%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 236 (18.52%) SQL
2 127 (9.97%) Python
3 76 (5.97%) Java
4 68 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.90%) C#
6 32 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.73%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.49%) Bash
8 19 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.26%) Bicep
10 12 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.71%) PHP
11 9 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.63%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.63%) REXX
12 8 (0.63%) VBA
13 6 (0.47%) Go
14 5 (0.39%) ABAP
14 5 (0.39%) R
14 5 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 181 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.93%) Degree
4 40 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 39 (3.06%) PMI Certification
6 37 (2.90%) PMP
7 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.26%) CCNP
10 14 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.71%) CCIE
11 9 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.63%) CBAP
13 7 (0.55%) CISSP
13 7 (0.55%) MCSA
13 7 (0.55%) MCSE
14 6 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 62 (4.87%) QA
3 52 (4.08%) GDPR
4 23 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.26%) NIST
6 11 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.71%) PMO
7 9 (0.71%) SLA
8 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.55%) IFRS
9 7 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.47%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) NCSC
11 5 (0.39%) Basel III
11 5 (0.39%) EMIR
11 5 (0.39%) GAAP
11 5 (0.39%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.39%) WCAG
12 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 66 (5.18%) Active Directory
1 66 (5.18%) Docker
2 26 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.24%) KVM
9 2 (0.16%) RACF
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.078%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.078%) Squid
10 1 (0.078%) Varnish
10 1 (0.078%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 151 (11.85%) Terraform
2 106 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.45%) Ansible
3 44 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.49%) SCCM
5 12 (0.94%) SCOM
6 11 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (0.71%) Grafana
8 6 (0.47%) AirWatch
8 6 (0.47%) Argo
8 6 (0.47%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.39%) Data Guard
9 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (0.31%) Istio
10 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
10 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 245 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 139 (10.91%) Oracle
3 127 (9.97%) SAP
4 56 (4.40%) Google
5 49 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.06%) VMware
7 37 (2.90%) Cisco
8 36 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.83%) Workday
9 33 (2.59%) Databricks
10 19 (1.49%) Splunk
11 17 (1.33%) CyberArk
12 16 (1.26%) Informatica
13 15 (1.18%) Avaloq
13 15 (1.18%) BMC
13 15 (1.18%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.10%) Citrix
15 13 (1.02%) IBM
15 13 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.94%) Juniper