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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,146 1,182 1,401
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.67% 8.78% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.98% 9.49% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 765 957
10th Percentile £365 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £771
England median daily rate £525 £516 £532
% change year-on-year +1.69% -2.87% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 8
10th Percentile £34.40 - £21.59
25th Percentile £51.13 - £39.94
Median hourly rate £59.75 £25.15 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +137.57% -61.75% -1.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £96.38 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.46% -4.29%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +8 324 £575 +9.52% 81
West London -12 51 £475 +46.15% 45
South London -14 25 £485 +14.12% 9
East London +8 15 £538 -11.52% 8
North London -7 1 £178 -67.73%
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
1 153 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 74 (3.45%) Confluence
3 50 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.54%) Apache Spark
6 30 (1.40%) Apache
7 20 (0.93%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) SharePoint 2013
9 9 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.28%) CICS
10 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.28%) WordPress
11 5 (0.23%) HCL Notes
11 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.19%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 68 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.093%) Windchill
8 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 87 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 24 (1.12%) NetSuite
5 22 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 21 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
7 19 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
8 15 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
9 13 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
9 13 (0.61%) Temenos T24
10 12 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
10 12 (0.56%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.47%) iTrent
11 10 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
12 9 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 9 (0.42%) SAP MDG
13 8 (0.37%) Maximo
13 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
14 7 (0.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 543 (25.30%) Azure
2 369 (17.19%) AWS
3 213 (9.93%) Power Platform
4 164 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
6 119 (5.55%) GCP
7 109 (5.08%) Entra ID
8 104 (4.85%) SaaS
9 91 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
10 75 (3.49%) Serverless
11 73 (3.40%) GitHub
12 63 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 60 (2.80%) Snowflake
14 59 (2.75%) OCI
15 55 (2.56%) dbt
16 49 (2.28%) Power Automate
17 47 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 46 (2.14%) OneDrive
19 44 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
20 42 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.15%) Firewall
2 67 (3.12%) DNS
3 56 (2.61%) Network Security
4 47 (2.19%) VPN
5 43 (2.00%) VLAN
6 36 (1.68%) BGP
7 35 (1.63%) WAN
8 29 (1.35%) DHCP
9 25 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.79%) Wireless
12 16 (0.75%) SAN
12 16 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.70%) SSL
14 11 (0.51%) 5G
14 11 (0.51%) OSPF
15 10 (0.47%) NX-OS
15 10 (0.47%) PSTN
15 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (8.39%) Power BI
2 96 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 70 (3.26%) Metadata
5 59 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 51 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.77%) Oracle Database
8 33 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.40%) Delta Lake
10 26 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 26 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (1.16%) Tableau
12 22 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (0.84%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (0.75%) Db2
17 15 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (7.08%) JIRA
2 67 (3.12%) Git
3 41 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.86%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) JUnit
5 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
5 10 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.42%) Gradle
6 9 (0.42%) Mockito
7 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.33%) RStudio
7 7 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.28%) Ant
8 6 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.28%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.19%) MSI
9 4 (0.19%) PowerBuilder
9 4 (0.19%) Subversion
9 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 705 (32.85%) Finance
2 586 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 215 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
3 215 (10.02%) Banking
4 163 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 108 (5.03%) Retail
6 73 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.61%) Law
8 54 (2.52%) Legal
9 39 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.72%) Marketing
12 36 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.58%) General Ledger
13 34 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.49%) Billing
15 27 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.21%) Front Office
17 25 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 429 (19.99%) Architect
2 317 (14.77%) Lead
3 196 (9.13%) Analyst
3 196 (9.13%) Senior
4 183 (8.53%) Consultant
5 154 (7.18%) Project Manager
6 134 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
7 131 (6.10%) Data Engineer
8 110 (5.13%) Business Analyst
9 109 (5.08%) Developer
10 80 (3.73%) Data Architect
11 61 (2.84%) Data Analyst
12 56 (2.61%) Data Migration Lead
12 56 (2.61%) Lead Architect
13 54 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
14 53 (2.47%) Network Engineer
15 47 (2.19%) Administrator
16 43 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 43 (2.00%) Migration Engineer
17 41 (1.91%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (7.18%) Terraform
2 91 (4.24%) REST
3 80 (3.73%) .NET
4 65 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 56 (2.61%) Kafka
6 52 (2.42%) PySpark
7 46 (2.14%) Middleware
8 34 (1.58%) Spring
9 31 (1.44%) .NET Framework
10 30 (1.40%) JSON
10 30 (1.40%) Spring Boot
11 28 (1.30%) XML
12 27 (1.26%) React
12 27 (1.26%) SOAP
13 26 (1.21%) OAuth
14 24 (1.12%) HTML
15 21 (0.98%) SAML
16 20 (0.93%) Web Services
17 18 (0.84%) OpenID
18 17 (0.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 178 (8.29%) Legacy Systems
2 175 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 128 (5.96%) Data Centre
4 84 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 77 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 37 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 32 (1.49%) Mainframe
12 30 (1.40%) Clustering
12 30 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 30 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.30%) Replication
14 19 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (0.89%) FMCG
15 18 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 170 (7.92%) Windows
2 84 (3.91%) Linux
3 34 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.40%) Unix
5 23 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.65%) VMS
8 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.28%) Android
11 6 (0.28%) SUSE
12 5 (0.23%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) Solaris
12 5 (0.23%) zOS
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (32.39%) Data Migration
2 485 (22.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (17.43%) Agile
4 331 (15.42%) Validation
5 325 (15.14%) DevOps
6 292 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 277 (12.91%) CI/CD
8 257 (11.98%) User Acceptance Testing
9 246 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
10 234 (10.90%) Data Modelling
11 226 (10.53%) Analytics
11 226 (10.53%) ERP
12 212 (9.88%) Roadmaps
13 207 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
14 182 (8.48%) AI
15 172 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 164 (7.64%) Data Governance
17 162 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 157 (7.32%) ETL
19 149 (6.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 323 (15.05%) SQL
2 242 (11.28%) Python
3 99 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 91 (4.24%) Java
5 69 (3.22%) C#
6 45 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 37 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.63%) Bash
9 21 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 19 (0.89%) Bicep
10 19 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.42%) SOQL
15 8 (0.37%) JCL
15 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.37%) Perl
15 8 (0.37%) Ruby
15 8 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 313 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 270 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 104 (4.85%) Degree
4 54 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 53 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 53 (2.47%) PMP
6 33 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.79%) CCNP
11 17 (0.79%) CISSP
12 15 (0.70%) ACCA
13 14 (0.65%) CIMA
14 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.51%) CISM
16 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 110 (5.13%) QA
3 57 (2.66%) GDPR
4 43 (2.00%) PMO
5 29 (1.35%) SLA
6 28 (1.30%) NIST
7 24 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.89%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.47%) SEPA
13 9 (0.42%) NCSC
14 8 (0.37%) IFRS
15 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.28%) GMP
16 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.28%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 123 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.33%) Docker
3 49 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.70%) vSphere
6 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.28%) Firmware
9 6 (0.28%) NFS
9 6 (0.28%) Varnish
9 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.23%) Postfix
10 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) Squid
Systems Management
1 93 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 60 (2.80%) Ansible
3 56 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.07%) SCCM
5 21 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.75%) Grafana
7 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
8 14 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.37%) systemd
12 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.28%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
12 6 (0.28%) VxRail
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.23%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 463 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 234 (10.90%) Oracle
3 175 (8.15%) SAP
4 143 (6.66%) Databricks
5 83 (3.87%) Cisco
6 81 (3.77%) Google
6 81 (3.77%) VMware
7 73 (3.40%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.77%) IBM
10 33 (1.54%) Informatica
11 26 (1.21%) Zscaler
12 23 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 21 (0.98%) Juniper
13 21 (0.98%) Workday
14 20 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.75%) Adobe
15 16 (0.75%) IFS
16 15 (0.70%) Murex