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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,469 1,211 1,256
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.42% 8.94% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.41% 9.86% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 836 896
10th Percentile £366 £381 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £863 £750
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £67.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +136.11%
75th Percentile £30.59 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £66.75 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.08% -44.38% -38.46%

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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -6 200 £550 - 55
South London +13 33 £450 -5.76% 10
West London -5 25 £525 +5.00% 9
East London -3 12 £485 -3.00% 6
North London +7 7 £495 +20.00% 3
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 60 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.27%) Confluence
3 45 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.68%) Apache
4 10 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.61%) CMS
6 8 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.54%) SAS
6 8 (0.54%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
8 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.20%) LiveLink
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Drupal
10 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 58 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.068%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.95%) Loan IQ
4 14 (0.95%) SAP HR
5 12 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 9 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 8 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
9 8 (0.54%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.41%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
12 5 (0.34%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 385 (26.21%) Azure
2 211 (14.36%) AWS
3 107 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 104 (7.08%) GitHub
5 97 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (5.51%) GCP
7 79 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (3.68%) SaaS
10 53 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (3.54%) Entra ID
12 44 (3.00%) Serverless
13 42 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 40 (2.72%) OCI
15 39 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 39 (2.65%) Snowflake
16 37 (2.52%) Amazon S3
17 31 (2.11%) IaaS
18 30 (2.04%) PaaS
19 27 (1.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.77%) Firewall
2 45 (3.06%) Network Security
3 32 (2.18%) VPN
4 31 (2.11%) DNS
5 24 (1.63%) WAN
6 20 (1.36%) SAN
7 17 (1.16%) BGP
7 17 (1.16%) NAS
8 16 (1.09%) LAN
8 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.09%) VLAN
9 14 (0.95%) DHCP
9 14 (0.95%) OSPF
10 11 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.68%) Unified Communications
12 9 (0.61%) DMARC
13 8 (0.54%) DKIM
13 8 (0.54%) Skype
14 7 (0.48%) MPLS
14 7 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.85%) Power BI
2 74 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 32 (2.18%) Oracle Database
8 28 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 27 (1.84%) Metadata
9 27 (1.84%) Tableau
10 18 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.02%) DB2
12 15 (1.02%) MySQL
13 14 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 96 (6.54%) JIRA
2 29 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.70%) Git
4 24 (1.63%) GitLab
5 15 (1.02%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.34%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.27%) Mockito
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
8 4 (0.27%) Toad
9 3 (0.20%) Chocolatey
9 3 (0.20%) ERwin
9 3 (0.20%) LSMW
9 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 486 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 446 (30.36%) Finance
3 141 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.51%) Banking
5 121 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 55 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.13%) Retail
8 33 (2.25%) Legal
8 33 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 27 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.57%) Local Government
10 23 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.29%) Front Office
14 19 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.29%) Law
14 19 (1.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 200 (13.61%) Analyst
2 197 (13.41%) Architect
3 147 (10.01%) Senior
4 146 (9.94%) Lead
5 139 (9.46%) Business Analyst
6 137 (9.33%) Consultant
7 112 (7.62%) Project Manager
8 88 (5.99%) Developer
9 78 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 57 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
11 53 (3.61%) Migration Engineer
12 47 (3.20%) Migration Manager
13 42 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 42 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.65%) Migration Analyst
15 38 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (2.18%) Azure Architect
17 31 (2.11%) Cloud Architect
18 30 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
19 29 (1.97%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.20%) REST
2 37 (2.52%) .NET
3 35 (2.38%) Middleware
4 32 (2.18%) Kafka
5 28 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 27 (1.84%) XML
7 25 (1.70%) PySpark
8 17 (1.16%) Spring
9 16 (1.09%) SOAP
9 16 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 14 (0.95%) JSON
11 13 (0.88%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.88%) HTML
11 13 (0.88%) React
12 12 (0.82%) CSS
13 11 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (0.75%) Web Services
14 10 (0.68%) ARM Templates
14 10 (0.68%) RESTful
14 10 (0.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.58%) Legacy Systems
2 90 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 58 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 47 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 44 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 37 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.52%) Replication
7 33 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 27 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.50%) Mainframe
12 17 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.68%) Clustering
15 10 (0.68%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.68%) Tandem
15 10 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.15%) Windows
2 39 (2.65%) Linux
3 29 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.36%) Unix
6 17 (1.16%) VMS
7 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.61%) zOS
9 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.27%) Android
10 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.27%) Solaris
11 3 (0.20%) CentOS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (34.92%) Data Migration
2 293 (19.95%) Agile
3 275 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 233 (15.86%) DevOps
5 229 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 163 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 162 (11.03%) Data Modelling
9 148 (10.07%) Validation
10 147 (10.01%) ETL
11 132 (8.99%) Project Management
12 128 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 128 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
13 126 (8.58%) Analytics
14 120 (8.17%) ERP
15 114 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
16 102 (6.94%) Project Delivery
17 100 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 93 (6.33%) Workshop Facilitation
19 86 (5.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 273 (18.58%) SQL
2 133 (9.05%) Python
3 76 (5.17%) Java
4 68 (4.63%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 36 (2.45%) C#
7 21 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.16%) Bash
9 17 (1.16%) Bicep
10 15 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.75%) VBA
13 9 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.54%) PHP
14 8 (0.54%) REXX
15 6 (0.41%) ABAP
16 5 (0.34%) Korn
16 5 (0.34%) R
16 5 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 245 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 206 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.88%) Degree
4 51 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.72%) PMI Certification
5 40 (2.72%) PMP
6 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.02%) CCNP
13 13 (0.88%) CBAP
14 12 (0.82%) CIMA
14 12 (0.82%) CISSP
14 12 (0.82%) IIBA
14 12 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.68%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.54%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 75 (5.11%) QA
3 67 (4.56%) GDPR
4 26 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.95%) PMO
6 13 (0.88%) SLA
7 12 (0.82%) NIST
8 10 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.54%) IFRS
10 8 (0.54%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) GRC
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.34%) Basel III
12 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 71 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.74%) Docker
3 45 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.75%) NFS
8 9 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (0.54%) vSphere
10 7 (0.48%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 3 (0.20%) KVM
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Varnish
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.068%) Firmware
13 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.068%) Postfix
13 1 (0.068%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 155 (10.55%) Terraform
2 104 (7.08%) Kubernetes
3 61 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (2.86%) Ansible
5 27 (1.84%) SCCM
6 12 (0.82%) AirWatch
7 11 (0.75%) Grafana
7 11 (0.75%) SCOM
8 9 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.54%) vMotion
10 6 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.34%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.27%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 309 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 152 (10.35%) Oracle
3 135 (9.19%) SAP
4 70 (4.77%) VMware
5 52 (3.54%) Google
6 50 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 45 (3.06%) Databricks
7 45 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.79%) Cisco
9 30 (2.04%) Workday
10 25 (1.70%) Citrix
11 24 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.63%) Informatica
12 19 (1.29%) Splunk
13 18 (1.23%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.16%) Avaloq
15 16 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.02%) IBM
16 15 (1.02%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.88%) BMC