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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,663 1,190 1,382
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.85% 9.36% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.99% 10.24% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 829 995
10th Percentile £375 £388 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £662
90th Percentile £738 £865 £741
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 15
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.43 £23.65
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.50 £54.87
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -72.94% +178.69%
75th Percentile £55.04 £28.54 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £43.12
% change year-on-year -17.13% -33.32% -31.83%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -5 231 £565 +2.73% 88
South London +8 36 £469 -1.83% 7
West London -2 25 £525 +5.00% 18
East London -10 7 £475 -5.00% 7
North London +4 5 £495 +20.00% 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 74 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.13%) Confluence
3 50 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.84%) Apache
7 11 (0.66%) SAS
8 9 (0.54%) CMS
9 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.24%) nginx
12 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.18%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) Appian
13 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
Applications
1 73 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.060%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.02%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.54%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 7 (0.42%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.36%) Finacle
10 6 (0.36%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.36%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
11 5 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 454 (27.30%) Azure
2 268 (16.12%) AWS
3 146 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 115 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (6.19%) GitHub
6 99 (5.95%) GCP
7 96 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (5.53%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (3.91%) Entra ID
10 58 (3.49%) SaaS
11 48 (2.89%) OCI
11 48 (2.89%) Serverless
12 44 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.59%) PaaS
13 43 (2.59%) Snowflake
14 41 (2.47%) IaaS
15 40 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.57%) Firewall
2 48 (2.89%) Network Security
3 40 (2.41%) DNS
4 39 (2.35%) VPN
5 25 (1.50%) WAN
6 24 (1.44%) SAN
7 22 (1.32%) VLAN
8 18 (1.08%) NAS
8 18 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.96%) DHCP
10 14 (0.84%) BGP
10 14 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.72%) LAN
11 12 (0.72%) OSPF
12 11 (0.66%) VSAN
13 10 (0.60%) MPLS
14 9 (0.54%) DKIM
14 9 (0.54%) DMARC
15 7 (0.42%) HTTP
15 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.40%) Power BI
2 79 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 48 (2.89%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (2.22%) Metadata
6 37 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (2.04%) Tableau
8 24 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.20%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.96%) DB2
12 15 (0.90%) MySQL
12 15 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.84%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 107 (6.43%) JIRA
2 36 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.04%) Git
4 22 (1.32%) GitLab
5 14 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.42%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.42%) JUnit
8 7 (0.42%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.24%) LSMW
10 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.24%) Toad
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 540 (32.47%) Finance
2 496 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 167 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (9.02%) Banking
5 142 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.73%) Retail
7 56 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.13%) Law
9 47 (2.83%) Legal
10 28 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (1.50%) Marketing
12 23 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 23 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.26%) General Ledger
13 21 (1.26%) Local Government
14 18 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (16.60%) Architect
2 215 (12.93%) Lead
3 212 (12.75%) Analyst
4 174 (10.46%) Senior
5 143 (8.60%) Business Analyst
6 140 (8.42%) Consultant
7 120 (7.22%) Project Manager
8 87 (5.23%) Data Engineer
9 85 (5.11%) Developer
10 69 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
11 57 (3.43%) Migration Engineer
12 56 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 55 (3.31%) Migration Manager
14 52 (3.13%) Data Analyst
15 48 (2.89%) Migration Analyst
16 47 (2.83%) Cloud Architect
17 40 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.35%) Lead Architect
19 37 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
20 34 (2.04%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.83%) REST
2 41 (2.47%) Middleware
3 37 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 34 (2.04%) .NET
5 32 (1.92%) Kafka
6 26 (1.56%) PySpark
7 24 (1.44%) XML
8 21 (1.26%) Spring
9 20 (1.20%) SOAP
10 16 (0.96%) JSON
10 16 (0.96%) Spring Boot
11 15 (0.90%) SAML
12 14 (0.84%) OAuth
13 12 (0.72%) React
14 11 (0.66%) HTML
14 11 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
15 10 (0.60%) ADO
15 10 (0.60%) CSS
15 10 (0.60%) Web Services
16 9 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.02%) Legacy Systems
2 108 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 53 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 42 (2.53%) Replication
7 39 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 32 (1.92%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.50%) Mainframe
13 24 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.84%) Reference Data
17 13 (0.78%) Clustering
17 13 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
17 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
17 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.28%) Windows
2 45 (2.71%) Linux
3 30 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.50%) VMS
5 24 (1.44%) Unix
5 24 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.66%) zOS
7 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.30%) Android
10 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.24%) SUSE
10 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (35.18%) Data Migration
2 310 (18.64%) Agile
2 310 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (16.18%) DevOps
4 228 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 201 (12.09%) CI/CD
7 193 (11.61%) Validation
8 189 (11.37%) Data Modelling
9 182 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 172 (10.34%) ERP
11 160 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
12 158 (9.50%) ETL
13 157 (9.44%) Analytics
14 145 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 141 (8.48%) Project Management
16 132 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 116 (6.98%) Project Delivery
18 111 (6.67%) Decision-Making
18 111 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 275 (16.54%) SQL
2 146 (8.78%) Python
3 87 (5.23%) Java
4 69 (4.15%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.80%) C#
6 28 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 16 (0.96%) Bicep
10 15 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.72%) VBA
12 11 (0.66%) Bash
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.48%) REXX
15 7 (0.42%) Korn
15 7 (0.42%) Ruby
16 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.36%) PHP
16 6 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 291 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 242 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.13%) Degree
4 55 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.41%) PMP
6 37 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.90%) CISSP
13 13 (0.78%) CIMA
14 12 (0.72%) CBAP
14 12 (0.72%) IIBA
15 11 (0.66%) CCNP
15 11 (0.66%) CISM
15 11 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 83 (4.99%) QA
3 70 (4.21%) GDPR
4 31 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.44%) SLA
6 22 (1.32%) NIST
7 21 (1.26%) PMO
8 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.54%) IFRS
10 9 (0.54%) NCSC
10 9 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.48%) SEPA
12 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.30%) Basel III
13 5 (0.30%) GAAP
13 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 80 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.19%) Docker
3 48 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.78%) NFS
8 12 (0.72%) vSphere
9 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.24%) Firmware
11 4 (0.24%) Varnish
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.18%) Postfix
13 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 157 (9.44%) Terraform
2 100 (6.01%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.47%) Ansible
5 31 (1.86%) SCCM
6 17 (1.02%) Grafana
7 13 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.66%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.60%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.48%) vMotion
12 6 (0.36%) VxRail
13 5 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.24%) Argo
14 4 (0.24%) Avamar
14 4 (0.24%) Istio
14 4 (0.24%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 373 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 152 (9.14%) Oracle
3 127 (7.64%) SAP
4 80 (4.81%) VMware
5 59 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 57 (3.43%) Databricks
7 55 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 50 (3.01%) Google
9 41 (2.47%) Cisco
10 35 (2.10%) Workday
11 29 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.56%) Informatica
13 24 (1.44%) Citrix
14 22 (1.32%) Pure Storage
15 21 (1.26%) Avaloq
16 20 (1.20%) IBM
17 18 (1.08%) MuleSoft
17 18 (1.08%) Splunk
18 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.84%) Palo Alto