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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,289 1,182 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.10% 8.53% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 9.45% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 807 873
10th Percentile £370 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £773
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.80%
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 £57.99
% change year-on-year +14.32% -62.06% -7.95%

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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
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 222 152 259
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 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -6 190 £565 +2.68% 39
West London +10 30 £360 -28.00% 5
South London +12 22 £450 -17.05% 4
East London +1 14 £498 +10.56% 4
North London +8 4 £525 +14.94% 1
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 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.57%) Confluence
3 42 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.85%) CMS
5 9 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.70%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.62%) 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 (0.23%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.23%) 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 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.09%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 9 (0.70%) Endur
6 9 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.70%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 8 (0.62%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.62%) Oracle FAH
7 8 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.54%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.54%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 326 (25.29%) Azure
2 189 (14.66%) AWS
3 96 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 94 (7.29%) GitHub
5 78 (6.05%) GCP
6 77 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (3.88%) SaaS
10 47 (3.65%) Entra ID
11 41 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (3.10%) OCI
13 37 (2.87%) Serverless
14 36 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (2.72%) Snowflake
16 34 (2.64%) Amazon S3
17 29 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 22 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
20 20 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.73%) Firewall
2 40 (3.10%) Network Security
3 26 (2.02%) VPN
4 24 (1.86%) WAN
5 22 (1.71%) DNS
6 19 (1.47%) BGP
7 17 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.24%) LAN
8 16 (1.24%) OSPF
9 10 (0.78%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.78%) VLAN
10 9 (0.70%) DHCP
10 9 (0.70%) DMARC
10 9 (0.70%) Skype
11 7 (0.54%) DKIM
11 7 (0.54%) 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 (5.82%) Power BI
2 67 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.48%) Oracle Database
5 32 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.71%) Metadata
9 19 (1.47%) Tableau
10 17 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.16%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.09%) Big Data
12 14 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.93%) DB2
13 12 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 87 (6.75%) JIRA
2 35 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.33%) GitLab
4 26 (2.02%) Git
5 17 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.85%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.47%) Maven
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.39%) Snyk
10 4 (0.31%) Gradle
10 4 (0.31%) JUnit
10 4 (0.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.31%) Toad
11 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.23%) LSMW
11 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 400 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 383 (29.71%) Finance
3 121 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.53%) Banking
5 100 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.64%) Retail
9 27 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.78%) Back Office
11 23 (1.78%) Legal
12 21 (1.63%) Local Government
12 21 (1.63%) Marketing
12 21 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.47%) Front Office
14 17 (1.32%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (13.11%) Analyst
2 154 (11.95%) Architect
3 128 (9.93%) Lead
4 124 (9.62%) Business Analyst
5 120 (9.31%) Senior
6 119 (9.23%) Consultant
7 105 (8.15%) Project Manager
8 86 (6.67%) Developer
9 52 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 51 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 46 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (3.18%) Migration Engineer
13 38 (2.95%) Migration Manager
14 33 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.33%) Azure Architect
15 30 (2.33%) Data Analyst
16 29 (2.25%) Migration Analyst
17 26 (2.02%) Data Architect
18 24 (1.86%) Data Migration Lead
19 22 (1.71%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.26%) REST
2 39 (3.03%) .NET
3 33 (2.56%) Kafka
4 32 (2.48%) XML
5 26 (2.02%) Middleware
6 25 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 22 (1.71%) PySpark
8 17 (1.32%) CSS
9 16 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.09%) HTML
11 13 (1.01%) JSON
11 13 (1.01%) RESTful
11 13 (1.01%) Spring
12 12 (0.93%) React
13 11 (0.85%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.85%) Node.js
13 11 (0.85%) Web Services
14 10 (0.78%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.30%) Legacy Systems
2 82 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 36 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (1.94%) Replication
9 24 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.24%) Mainframe
13 15 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.93%) Clustering
16 9 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
17 8 (0.62%) PKI
17 8 (0.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 92 (7.14%) Windows
2 38 (2.95%) Linux
3 28 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.55%) Unix
5 18 (1.40%) VMS
6 17 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.31%) zOS
10 3 (0.23%) Solaris
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.16%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.078%) AIX
12 1 (0.078%) VME
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (34.21%) Data Migration
2 269 (20.87%) Agile
3 226 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 216 (16.76%) DevOps
5 203 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (12.96%) CI/CD
7 142 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 131 (10.16%) Data Modelling
9 123 (9.54%) ETL
10 121 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 120 (9.31%) Project Management
12 109 (8.46%) Validation
13 107 (8.30%) Analytics
14 106 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
15 101 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
16 95 (7.37%) ERP
17 89 (6.90%) Project Delivery
18 86 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
19 76 (5.90%) Roadmaps
20 73 (5.66%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 242 (18.77%) SQL
2 127 (9.85%) Python
3 75 (5.82%) Java
4 68 (5.28%) PowerShell
5 38 (2.95%) C#
6 32 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.78%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.47%) Bash
8 19 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.24%) Bicep
10 14 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.70%) PHP
13 8 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.62%) REXX
13 8 (0.62%) VBA
14 6 (0.47%) Go
15 5 (0.39%) ABAP
15 5 (0.39%) R
15 5 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 208 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 182 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.84%) Degree
4 41 (3.18%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.95%) PMP
7 26 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.24%) CCNP
10 14 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.70%) CCIE
11 9 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.62%) CBAP
13 7 (0.54%) CISSP
13 7 (0.54%) MCSA
13 7 (0.54%) MCSE
13 7 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.89%) QA
3 52 (4.03%) GDPR
4 24 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.24%) NIST
6 11 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.85%) SLA
7 9 (0.70%) PMO
8 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.54%) IFRS
9 7 (0.54%) 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 (5.12%) Active Directory
1 66 (5.12%) Docker
2 27 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.23%) 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
1 152 (11.79%) Terraform
2 106 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.41%) Ansible
3 44 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.47%) SCCM
5 12 (0.93%) SCOM
6 11 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (0.70%) 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 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 249 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 140 (10.86%) Oracle
3 127 (9.85%) SAP
4 56 (4.34%) Google
5 49 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.10%) VMware
7 37 (2.87%) Cisco
8 36 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.79%) Workday
9 35 (2.72%) Databricks
10 19 (1.47%) Splunk
11 18 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 16 (1.24%) Informatica
13 15 (1.16%) Avaloq
13 15 (1.16%) BMC
13 15 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.09%) Citrix
14 14 (1.09%) IBM
15 13 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.93%) Juniper