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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,372 1,202 1,271
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.22% 8.81% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.16% 9.73% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 820 914
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £729 £839 £750
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £67.94
Median hourly rate £23.63 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -72.94% +123.68%
75th Percentile £26.08 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -45.00% -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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
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 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -7 192 £575 +4.55% 80
West London +2 26 £525 +5.00% 7
South London +7 21 £438 -8.38% 7
East London -1 13 £495 -4.81% 7
North London +8 7 £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 60 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (3.06%) Confluence
4 10 (0.73%) Apache
4 10 (0.73%) CMS
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.44%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.44%) SAS
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.22%) LiveLink
9 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
10 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 54 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Trello
10 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.073%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 55 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.02%) Loan IQ
3 14 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (1.02%) SAP HR
4 12 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (0.66%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 8 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
8 8 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.58%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.51%) Endur
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 356 (25.95%) Azure
2 198 (14.43%) AWS
3 101 (7.36%) GitHub
4 99 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 90 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (5.90%) GCP
7 72 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (3.64%) SaaS
10 47 (3.43%) Entra ID
11 38 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 38 (2.77%) OCI
12 37 (2.70%) Snowflake
13 35 (2.55%) Serverless
14 34 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 29 (2.11%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.82%) IaaS
17 24 (1.75%) dbt
17 24 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.74%) Firewall
2 42 (3.06%) Network Security
3 30 (2.19%) VPN
4 29 (2.11%) DNS
5 25 (1.82%) WAN
6 17 (1.24%) BGP
6 17 (1.24%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.17%) LAN
7 16 (1.17%) SAN
8 14 (1.02%) OSPF
9 13 (0.95%) NAS
9 13 (0.95%) VLAN
10 12 (0.87%) DHCP
11 10 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 9 (0.66%) DMARC
12 9 (0.66%) Skype
12 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.58%) DKIM
14 7 (0.51%) MPLS
15 5 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.83%) Power BI
2 73 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.41%) Oracle Database
5 33 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 33 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (1.90%) Metadata
7 24 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.68%) Tableau
9 18 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.17%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.09%) MySQL
13 14 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.95%) DB2
15 12 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 91 (6.63%) JIRA
2 33 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.82%) GitLab
4 22 (1.60%) Git
5 15 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 7 (0.51%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.29%) JUnit
9 4 (0.29%) Mockito
9 4 (0.29%) Selenium
9 4 (0.29%) Toad
10 3 (0.22%) ERwin
10 3 (0.22%) LSMW
10 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.15%) DBeaver
General
1 445 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 416 (30.32%) Finance
3 131 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.38%) Banking
5 110 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.21%) Retail
8 33 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.11%) Legal
10 27 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 20 (1.46%) Front Office
13 20 (1.46%) Local Government
14 19 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.31%) Back Office
15 18 (1.31%) General Ledger
15 18 (1.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 186 (13.56%) Analyst
2 184 (13.41%) Architect
3 138 (10.06%) Lead
4 135 (9.84%) Senior
5 128 (9.33%) Business Analyst
6 126 (9.18%) Consultant
7 106 (7.73%) Project Manager
8 87 (6.34%) Developer
9 60 (4.37%) Data Engineer
10 51 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
11 46 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 45 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
13 42 (3.06%) Migration Manager
14 36 (2.62%) Data Analyst
15 35 (2.55%) Migration Analyst
16 34 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.19%) Azure Architect
18 28 (2.04%) Cloud Architect
19 27 (1.97%) Data Architect
20 25 (1.82%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.13%) REST
2 34 (2.48%) .NET
3 33 (2.41%) Middleware
4 30 (2.19%) Kafka
5 27 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
6 26 (1.90%) XML
7 22 (1.60%) PySpark
8 16 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.09%) Spring
10 14 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.02%) HTML
10 14 (1.02%) JSON
10 14 (1.02%) React
11 13 (0.95%) CSS
11 13 (0.95%) SOAP
12 11 (0.80%) RESTful
12 11 (0.80%) Web Services
13 10 (0.73%) ARM Templates
13 10 (0.73%) Node.js
14 9 (0.66%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.60%) Legacy Systems
2 89 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 57 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 43 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 42 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (2.48%) Replication
8 28 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 27 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.46%) Mainframe
12 17 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.80%) Clustering
15 10 (0.73%) NHS
15 10 (0.73%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.73%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.22%) Windows
2 38 (2.77%) Linux
3 28 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.53%) Unix
5 19 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.31%) VMS
7 10 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.51%) zOS
10 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.29%) Android
12 3 (0.22%) CentOS
12 3 (0.22%) Solaris
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (34.55%) Data Migration
2 277 (20.19%) Agile
3 258 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 225 (16.40%) DevOps
5 220 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 172 (12.54%) CI/CD
7 157 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 150 (10.93%) Data Modelling
9 136 (9.91%) Validation
10 134 (9.77%) ETL
11 130 (9.48%) Project Management
12 127 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
13 121 (8.82%) Analytics
13 121 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 109 (7.94%) ERP
15 106 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
16 98 (7.14%) Project Delivery
17 90 (6.56%) Workshop Facilitation
18 89 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 81 (5.90%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 260 (18.95%) SQL
2 125 (9.11%) Python
3 78 (5.69%) Java
4 65 (4.74%) PowerShell
5 33 (2.41%) C#
5 33 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.60%) PL/SQL
7 19 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.31%) Bash
9 17 (1.24%) Bicep
10 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 13 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.73%) VBA
12 8 (0.58%) PHP
12 8 (0.58%) REXX
13 6 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.36%) Korn
14 5 (0.36%) Perl
14 5 (0.36%) R
14 5 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 224 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 192 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.36%) Degree
4 46 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 43 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 42 (3.06%) PMP
7 26 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.02%) CCNP
13 13 (0.95%) CBAP
14 12 (0.87%) IIBA
15 10 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.66%) CIMA
16 9 (0.66%) DV Cleared
17 7 (0.51%) CISSP
17 7 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 70 (5.10%) QA
3 60 (4.37%) GDPR
4 21 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.95%) SLA
6 12 (0.87%) NIST
7 10 (0.73%) PMO
8 9 (0.66%) IFRS
8 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.58%) NCSC
10 7 (0.51%) GRC
10 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.36%) Basel III
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.36%) GAAP
12 5 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.36%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 68 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 58 (4.23%) Docker
3 43 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.66%) NFS
6 9 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (0.58%) vSphere
8 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) RACF
10 2 (0.15%) Varnish
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.073%) Postfix
11 1 (0.073%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.073%) Squid
11 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 150 (10.93%) Terraform
2 103 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 56 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.99%) Ansible
5 27 (1.97%) SCCM
6 12 (0.87%) Grafana
6 12 (0.87%) SCOM
7 10 (0.73%) AirWatch
8 9 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.51%) vMotion
10 6 (0.44%) Argo
10 6 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.44%) HP SiteScope
11 5 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.36%) Istio
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 289 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 146 (10.64%) Oracle
3 123 (8.97%) SAP
4 63 (4.59%) VMware
5 50 (3.64%) Google
6 44 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.99%) Databricks
8 40 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.70%) Cisco
10 31 (2.26%) Workday
11 22 (1.60%) CyberArk
12 21 (1.53%) Informatica
13 20 (1.46%) Citrix
13 20 (1.46%) Splunk
14 17 (1.24%) Avaloq
15 14 (1.02%) BMC
15 14 (1.02%) IBM
16 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.95%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.95%) Pure Storage