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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,251 1,325 1,520
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.89% 8.33% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 9.31% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 870 1,047
10th Percentile £375 £375 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.51% +0.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 12
10th Percentile £18.92 £21.22 £28.53
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.50 £78.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +54.55%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £63.27 £41.20 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -65.67% +21.82%

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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -7 200 £565 -1.74% 48
West London +13 44 £360 -28.00% 10
South London +12 25 £425 -16.46% 3
East London +8 18 £525 +31.25% 3
North London +9 9 £550 +20.42%
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 67 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.16%) Confluence
3 28 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.04%) CMS
6 11 (0.88%) Apache
7 8 (0.64%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.56%) SAS
9 6 (0.48%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.48%) Mattermost
10 3 (0.24%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.080%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 45 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Notion
8 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 52 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.20%) Endur
3 15 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.12%) SAP HR
5 11 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.56%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
8 6 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.48%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 294 (23.50%) Azure
2 199 (15.91%) AWS
3 99 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 87 (6.95%) GCP
5 79 (6.31%) GitHub
6 73 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (4.96%) SaaS
8 57 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (3.60%) Entra ID
11 41 (3.28%) Snowflake
12 40 (3.20%) OCI
13 35 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 35 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
14 34 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 34 (2.72%) Serverless
15 33 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 22 (1.76%) dbt
18 21 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.48%) Firewall
2 33 (2.64%) DNS
3 32 (2.56%) Network Security
4 30 (2.40%) WAN
5 28 (2.24%) VPN
6 19 (1.52%) DHCP
7 18 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.36%) LAN
9 16 (1.28%) BGP
10 14 (1.12%) OSPF
10 14 (1.12%) VLAN
11 10 (0.80%) DMARC
12 8 (0.64%) DKIM
12 8 (0.64%) MPLS
12 8 (0.64%) Skype
12 8 (0.64%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.56%) NAS
13 7 (0.56%) SAN
13 7 (0.56%) Wireless
14 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.16%) Power BI
2 67 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (2.64%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.32%) Data Lake
6 29 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 25 (2.00%) Metadata
9 21 (1.68%) Tableau
10 19 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.20%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.12%) Big Data
15 13 (1.04%) MySQL
16 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 95 (7.59%) JIRA
2 31 (2.48%) Git
3 30 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.32%) GitLab
5 15 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.80%) Selenium
8 8 (0.64%) Maven
9 7 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.56%) ERwin
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.48%) Gradle
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) Snyk
11 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.40%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
12 4 (0.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 401 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 386 (30.86%) Finance
3 142 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.91%) Banking
5 96 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 47 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.40%) Back Office
10 28 (2.24%) Retail
11 27 (2.16%) Local Government
12 25 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.84%) Marketing
15 22 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.68%) Front Office
16 21 (1.68%) Legal
17 18 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 180 (14.39%) Analyst
2 166 (13.27%) Architect
3 116 (9.27%) Business Analyst
4 111 (8.87%) Consultant
4 111 (8.87%) Lead
5 104 (8.31%) Senior
6 100 (7.99%) Project Manager
7 81 (6.47%) Developer
8 54 (4.32%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.44%) Migration Engineer
10 39 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (2.56%) Data Analyst
13 31 (2.48%) Azure Architect
13 31 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (2.32%) Data Architect
15 28 (2.24%) Migration Analyst
16 25 (2.00%) Migration Manager
16 25 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
17 24 (1.92%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.20%) REST
2 30 (2.40%) .NET
3 29 (2.32%) XML
4 24 (1.92%) Kafka
5 19 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 19 (1.52%) PySpark
6 18 (1.44%) Middleware
6 18 (1.44%) Spring Boot
7 17 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
7 17 (1.36%) React
8 15 (1.20%) CSS
9 14 (1.12%) SOAP
9 14 (1.12%) Spring
10 13 (1.04%) HTML
11 12 (0.96%) Node.js
12 11 (0.88%) JSON
12 11 (0.88%) RESTful
13 10 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.72%) Visualforce
15 8 (0.64%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.23%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (6.08%) Cloud Native
3 67 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 37 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 35 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.60%) Replication
10 17 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 13 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.96%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.88%) Clustering
16 10 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 103 (8.23%) Windows
2 42 (3.36%) Linux
3 29 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.52%) Unix
5 18 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.64%) VMS
7 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.32%) Solaris
9 3 (0.24%) CentOS
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) zOS
11 1 (0.080%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.080%) VME
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (37.89%) Data Migration
2 257 (20.54%) Agile
3 218 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
4 196 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 187 (14.95%) DevOps
6 169 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 149 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 119 (9.51%) ETL
9 112 (8.95%) Analytics
10 110 (8.79%) Data Modelling
11 109 (8.71%) Project Management
12 108 (8.63%) User Acceptance Testing
13 105 (8.39%) Validation
14 102 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (7.83%) ERP
16 94 (7.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (6.55%) Change Management
18 76 (6.08%) Data Governance
19 75 (6.00%) Containerisation
20 72 (5.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 231 (18.47%) SQL
2 137 (10.95%) Python
3 88 (7.03%) Java
4 68 (5.44%) PowerShell
5 46 (3.68%) C#
6 36 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.68%) Bash
8 18 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.04%) Bicep
13 12 (0.96%) Go
14 11 (0.88%) C++
15 9 (0.72%) Groovy
15 9 (0.72%) PHP
16 6 (0.48%) ABAP
16 6 (0.48%) Perl
17 5 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 171 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 152 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 93 (7.43%) Degree
4 37 (2.96%) PMI Certification
5 33 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 33 (2.64%) PMP
6 30 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.20%) CCNP
11 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.64%) CCIE
15 7 (0.56%) CBAP
15 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.56%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.48%) CISSP
16 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.36%) QA
3 48 (3.84%) GDPR
4 20 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.04%) NIST
6 12 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.88%) PMO
8 10 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.48%) EMIR
10 6 (0.48%) WCAG
11 5 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.40%) IFRS
12 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.32%) GRC
12 4 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.32%) MiFID
12 4 (0.32%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 72 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 70 (5.60%) Docker
3 27 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.40%) vSphere
8 4 (0.32%) KVM
8 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.16%) Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.080%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.080%) Squid
11 1 (0.080%) Varnish
11 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (9.43%) Terraform
2 101 (8.07%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.96%) Ansible
4 28 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.60%) SCCM
6 11 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.88%) SCOM
7 8 (0.64%) Argo
7 8 (0.64%) Grafana
7 8 (0.64%) Puppet
7 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.48%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
11 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 222 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 134 (10.71%) Oracle
3 120 (9.59%) SAP
4 56 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 55 (4.40%) Google
6 39 (3.12%) VMware
7 34 (2.72%) Workday
8 33 (2.64%) Cisco
8 33 (2.64%) Databricks
9 27 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.60%) Splunk
11 15 (1.20%) IBM
12 14 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.04%) Citrix
13 13 (1.04%) Informatica
13 13 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.96%) Juniper
15 11 (0.88%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.80%) MuleSoft