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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,859 1,146 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.19% 9.38% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 10.17% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 762 1,004
10th Percentile £363 £388 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £738
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £24.13 £21.59
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.12 £22.89
Median hourly rate £51.50 £25.15 £56.87
Median % change year-on-year +104.77% -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 16,137 11,264 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.21% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,779 7,595 11,054
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 182 310
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.67 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% +13.83% -29.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.23 £66.78
England median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +2 262 £550 - 103
South London +3 34 £463 -3.14% 5
West London -14 28 £450 -2.70% 8
East London -1 12 £500 -1.96% 5
North London -1 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 91 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.85%) Confluence
2 53 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.24%) Apache
4 23 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.70%) SAS
6 6 (0.32%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) CICS
7 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 67 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 73 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 16 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.81%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.70%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.65%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.54%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
13 6 (0.32%) Finacle
13 6 (0.32%) iTrent
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 494 (26.57%) Azure
2 309 (16.62%) AWS
3 155 (8.34%) Power Platform
4 133 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (5.76%) GCP
7 93 (5.00%) GitHub
8 89 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
9 76 (4.09%) Entra ID
10 63 (3.39%) SaaS
11 56 (3.01%) Serverless
12 51 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 51 (2.74%) PaaS
13 50 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 46 (2.47%) IaaS
15 42 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (2.15%) OCI
17 37 (1.99%) dbt
18 35 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 34 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.09%) Firewall
2 47 (2.53%) Network Security
3 43 (2.31%) DNS
4 32 (1.72%) VPN
5 28 (1.51%) VLAN
6 24 (1.29%) SAN
7 22 (1.18%) WAN
8 18 (0.97%) NAS
9 17 (0.91%) BGP
9 17 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.70%) DHCP
12 12 (0.65%) OSPF
12 12 (0.65%) Wireless
13 11 (0.59%) HTTP
13 11 (0.59%) VSAN
14 9 (0.48%) LAN
14 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 9 (0.48%) SSL
15 8 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.26%) Power BI
2 77 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 47 (2.53%) Metadata
6 46 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (2.04%) Tableau
8 25 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.13%) DB2
10 21 (1.13%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.97%) Delta Lake
13 17 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 121 (6.51%) JIRA
2 45 (2.42%) Git
3 41 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.78%) GitLab
5 14 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.48%) JUnit
8 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.32%) Gradle
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.32%) Selenium
9 6 (0.32%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.27%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.27%) LSMW
10 5 (0.27%) Mockito
11 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 601 (32.33%) Finance
2 488 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 171 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (8.82%) Banking
5 146 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.41%) Retail
7 52 (2.80%) Law
8 50 (2.69%) Legal
9 45 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.40%) Marketing
12 24 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.18%) General Ledger
13 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.13%) Local Government
14 21 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 354 (19.04%) Architect
2 279 (15.01%) Lead
3 192 (10.33%) Analyst
4 181 (9.74%) Senior
5 151 (8.12%) Consultant
6 133 (7.15%) Project Manager
7 125 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 105 (5.65%) Data Engineer
9 93 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.84%) Developer
11 62 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
11 62 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
12 61 (3.28%) Data Architect
13 60 (3.23%) Data Analyst
14 56 (3.01%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.01%) Migration Manager
15 51 (2.74%) Data Migration Lead
16 49 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 46 (2.47%) Migration Analyst
18 45 (2.42%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.58%) REST
2 47 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 46 (2.47%) Kafka
4 44 (2.37%) .NET
5 41 (2.21%) Middleware
6 33 (1.78%) PySpark
7 23 (1.24%) Spring
8 20 (1.08%) SOAP
9 19 (1.02%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.02%) XML
10 18 (0.97%) JSON
10 18 (0.97%) SAML
11 17 (0.91%) OAuth
11 17 (0.91%) React
12 15 (0.81%) .NET Framework
12 15 (0.81%) ADO
12 15 (0.81%) HTML
12 15 (0.81%) Web Services
13 12 (0.65%) CSS
13 12 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 160 (8.61%) Legacy Systems
2 131 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 75 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 53 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.31%) Replication
7 38 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.99%) Mainframe
8 37 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 33 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 29 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.86%) Reference Data
16 15 (0.81%) Clustering
16 15 (0.81%) CMDB
17 13 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.08%) Windows
2 58 (3.12%) Linux
3 22 (1.18%) Unix
3 22 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.13%) VMS
5 20 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.54%) zOS
7 9 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.32%) Solaris
10 5 (0.27%) SUSE
11 4 (0.22%) Android
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) AIX
13 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.054%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (33.78%) Data Migration
2 322 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 315 (16.94%) Agile
4 301 (16.19%) DevOps
5 237 (12.75%) Validation
6 220 (11.83%) CI/CD
7 216 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (11.51%) Data Modelling
9 201 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 201 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 186 (10.01%) ERP
11 168 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
12 163 (8.77%) Analytics
13 152 (8.18%) ETL
14 149 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 147 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 145 (7.80%) Project Management
17 141 (7.58%) Roadmaps
18 125 (6.72%) Project Delivery
19 117 (6.29%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 264 (14.20%) SQL
2 181 (9.74%) Python
3 88 (4.73%) Java
4 60 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 33 (1.78%) C#
6 32 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.91%) Bash
9 17 (0.91%) Bicep
9 17 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.59%) Ruby
11 10 (0.54%) VBA
12 8 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.32%) COBOL
13 6 (0.32%) JCL
13 6 (0.32%) Scala
14 5 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 312 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 258 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 102 (5.49%) Degree
4 53 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.47%) PMP
6 43 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 29 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.91%) CISSP
13 15 (0.81%) CIMA
13 15 (0.81%) CISM
14 14 (0.75%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.65%) IIBA
16 11 (0.59%) CBAP
16 11 (0.59%) CCNP
17 10 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.52%) QA
3 63 (3.39%) GDPR
4 29 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.51%) SLA
6 25 (1.34%) PMO
7 24 (1.29%) NIST
8 13 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.65%) NCSC
10 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.59%) SEPA
11 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.48%) IFRS
13 7 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.38%) GAAP
13 7 (0.38%) GRC
14 6 (0.32%) HL7
15 5 (0.27%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.31%) Docker
2 43 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.97%) NFS
4 18 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.70%) vSphere
6 11 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.38%) Postfix
7 7 (0.38%) Varnish
8 6 (0.32%) Firmware
8 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.22%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 160 (8.61%) Terraform
2 92 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 64 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (2.53%) Ansible
5 22 (1.18%) SCCM
6 16 (0.86%) Grafana
6 16 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.59%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.43%) vMotion
12 7 (0.38%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.32%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.32%) VxRail
14 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (0.22%) Avamar
15 4 (0.22%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 390 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 168 (9.04%) Oracle
3 147 (7.91%) SAP
4 83 (4.46%) Databricks
5 73 (3.93%) VMware
6 64 (3.44%) Google
7 57 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.58%) Cisco
10 31 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 28 (1.51%) Citrix
12 24 (1.29%) IBM
12 24 (1.29%) Informatica
13 23 (1.24%) Workday
14 20 (1.08%) Pure Storage
15 17 (0.91%) Avaloq
16 16 (0.86%) Zscaler
17 15 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 15 (0.81%) Splunk
18 14 (0.75%) Juniper