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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,553 1,189 1,301
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.62% 9.19% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.70% 10.09% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 832 936
10th Percentile £375 £388 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £675
90th Percentile £735 £863 £750
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 13
10th Percentile £15.74 £21.40 £23.45
25th Percentile £19.13 £21.50 £45.98
Median hourly rate £22.21 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -72.94% +161.54%
75th Percentile £29.73 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £24.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.73% -49.47% -26.92%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -6 219 £575 +4.55% 41
South London +11 30 £500 +4.71% 4
West London +1 26 £600 +20.00% 9
East London -3 11 £485 -3.00% 6
North London +3 6 £448 +8.48% 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 67 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.03%) Confluence
4 13 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.71%) Apache
5 11 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.64%) SAS
7 8 (0.52%) CMS
8 7 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.26%) nginx
12 3 (0.19%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WordPress
13 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 59 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.064%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.09%) Loan IQ
4 16 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.90%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 8 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.32%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
10 5 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 421 (27.11%) Azure
2 239 (15.39%) AWS
3 119 (7.66%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (6.50%) GitHub
6 89 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (5.54%) GCP
8 71 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (3.73%) Entra ID
10 56 (3.61%) SaaS
11 47 (3.03%) Serverless
12 46 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (2.77%) Snowflake
14 41 (2.64%) Amazon S3
14 41 (2.64%) OCI
15 40 (2.58%) IaaS
16 39 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
17 38 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 38 (2.45%) PaaS
18 30 (1.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.44%) Firewall
2 44 (2.83%) Network Security
3 40 (2.58%) DNS
4 33 (2.12%) VPN
5 24 (1.55%) SAN
5 24 (1.55%) WAN
6 18 (1.16%) NAS
7 17 (1.09%) VLAN
8 16 (1.03%) BGP
8 16 (1.03%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.97%) DHCP
10 14 (0.90%) LAN
10 14 (0.90%) OSPF
10 14 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.71%) MPLS
12 9 (0.58%) DMARC
13 8 (0.52%) DKIM
14 5 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (0.32%) Multicast
14 5 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.18%) Power BI
2 81 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (5.09%) SQL Server
4 43 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (2.19%) Data Lake
7 33 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.80%) Metadata
9 27 (1.74%) Tableau
10 25 (1.61%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.09%) DB2
12 17 (1.09%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (0.97%) MySQL
14 14 (0.90%) Big Data
15 13 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (6.50%) JIRA
2 34 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.00%) Git
4 23 (1.48%) GitLab
5 14 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.39%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.32%) JUnit
10 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.26%) LSMW
10 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.26%) Toad
11 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.19%) Postman
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 484 (31.17%) Finance
2 480 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 151 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.34%) Banking
5 134 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.22%) Retail
8 40 (2.58%) Legal
9 28 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.67%) Law
11 25 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.35%) Marketing
15 20 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.29%) Local Government
16 18 (1.16%) General Ledger
17 17 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 237 (15.26%) Architect
2 203 (13.07%) Analyst
3 176 (11.33%) Lead
4 168 (10.82%) Senior
5 145 (9.34%) Business Analyst
6 137 (8.82%) Consultant
7 121 (7.79%) Project Manager
8 89 (5.73%) Developer
9 74 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 65 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.48%) Migration Manager
12 51 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
13 46 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.90%) Data Analyst
15 44 (2.83%) Migration Analyst
16 40 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.51%) Azure Architect
18 36 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
19 35 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
20 33 (2.12%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.90%) REST
2 39 (2.51%) .NET
3 37 (2.38%) Middleware
4 35 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 29 (1.87%) Kafka
6 24 (1.55%) XML
7 22 (1.42%) PySpark
8 18 (1.16%) Spring
9 17 (1.09%) SOAP
10 16 (1.03%) JSON
11 14 (0.90%) Spring Boot
12 12 (0.77%) HTML
12 12 (0.77%) SAML
13 11 (0.71%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.71%) CSS
13 11 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (0.71%) React
13 11 (0.71%) Web Services
14 10 (0.64%) ADO
14 10 (0.64%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.69%) Legacy Systems
2 102 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 63 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 38 (2.45%) Replication
7 37 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 32 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 30 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.67%) Mainframe
12 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.77%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.77%) Tandem
15 11 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 114 (7.34%) Windows
2 36 (2.32%) Linux
3 32 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.22%) Unix
5 19 (1.22%) VMS
6 12 (0.77%) zOS
7 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.26%) Android
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.064%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (35.35%) Data Migration
2 304 (19.58%) Agile
3 302 (19.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (16.48%) DevOps
5 219 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (12.30%) CI/CD
7 171 (11.01%) Data Modelling
8 170 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 164 (10.56%) Validation
10 157 (10.11%) ETL
11 145 (9.34%) User Acceptance Testing
12 143 (9.21%) Analytics
13 135 (8.69%) ERP
13 135 (8.69%) Project Management
14 131 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 128 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
16 112 (7.21%) Project Delivery
17 111 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 101 (6.50%) Decision-Making
19 95 (6.12%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 277 (17.84%) SQL
2 130 (8.37%) Python
3 85 (5.47%) Java
4 63 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 35 (2.25%) C#
5 35 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.29%) Bicep
8 19 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.77%) Bash
11 11 (0.71%) VBA
12 10 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.52%) REXX
14 7 (0.45%) Korn
14 7 (0.45%) PHP
15 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.32%) Scala
16 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 263 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 225 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.63%) Degree
4 53 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.64%) PMP
6 39 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.90%) CISSP
12 14 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.84%) CBAP
13 13 (0.84%) CCNP
13 13 (0.84%) CIMA
14 12 (0.77%) IIBA
15 11 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.64%) CISM
16 10 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (8.37%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.09%) QA
3 66 (4.25%) GDPR
4 31 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.29%) SLA
6 18 (1.16%) NIST
7 13 (0.84%) PMO
8 11 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.58%) IFRS
9 9 (0.58%) NCSC
9 9 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.52%) SEPA
11 7 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
12 5 (0.32%) Basel III
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 75 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.99%) Docker
3 44 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.84%) NFS
7 8 (0.52%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.26%) Varnish
10 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.19%) Postfix
10 3 (0.19%) RACF
11 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.064%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 160 (10.30%) Terraform
2 111 (7.15%) Kubernetes
3 69 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (2.45%) Ansible
5 29 (1.87%) SCCM
6 16 (1.03%) Grafana
7 12 (0.77%) AirWatch
8 11 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (0.52%) vMotion
11 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.26%) Argo
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.26%) SCOM
14 3 (0.19%) Control-M
14 3 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 337 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 146 (9.40%) Oracle
3 128 (8.24%) SAP
4 76 (4.89%) VMware
5 52 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 48 (3.09%) Google
8 44 (2.83%) Databricks
9 37 (2.38%) Cisco
10 34 (2.19%) Workday
11 27 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.55%) Citrix
12 24 (1.55%) Informatica
13 22 (1.42%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.22%) Avaloq
15 17 (1.09%) IBM
16 16 (1.03%) Splunk
17 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 13 (0.84%) Dynatrace
18 13 (0.84%) Palo Alto