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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,598 1,179 1,322
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.72% 9.22% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.83% 10.12% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 825 949
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 £738 £870 £750
England median daily rate £520 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 13
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.40 £23.45
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.50 £45.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +178.69%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.36 £29.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £43.12
% change year-on-year -17.13% -33.32% -33.16%

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 14,757 11,654 16,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.76% 91.18% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,899 7,809 11,494
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 162 342
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £71.75 £77.25 £69.43
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 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 19 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 19 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 -6 220 £575 +4.55% 90
South London +11 33 £469 -1.83% 6
West London +3 26 £600 +20.00% 16
East London -10 8 £463 -7.50% 7
North London +4 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 70 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.07%) Confluence
2 49 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.94%) Apache
5 14 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.63%) SAS
7 9 (0.56%) CMS
8 7 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.25%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
Applications
1 67 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.063%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.06%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.63%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.38%) Finacle
9 6 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.38%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 437 (27.35%) Azure
2 252 (15.77%) AWS
3 134 (8.39%) Power Platform
4 110 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (6.26%) GitHub
6 96 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (5.57%) GCP
8 80 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (3.63%) Entra ID
10 57 (3.57%) SaaS
11 48 (3.00%) Serverless
12 45 (2.82%) OCI
13 43 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 42 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 41 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (2.44%) IaaS
17 39 (2.44%) PaaS
18 38 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 33 (2.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.32%) Firewall
2 44 (2.75%) Network Security
3 39 (2.44%) DNS
4 32 (2.00%) VPN
5 24 (1.50%) WAN
6 23 (1.44%) SAN
7 18 (1.13%) NAS
8 17 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.94%) DHCP
9 15 (0.94%) VLAN
10 13 (0.81%) BGP
10 13 (0.81%) LAN
10 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.69%) OSPF
12 10 (0.63%) MPLS
13 9 (0.56%) DKIM
13 9 (0.56%) DMARC
14 7 (0.44%) VSAN
15 6 (0.38%) Cisco Wireless
15 6 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.82%) Power BI
2 83 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 44 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (2.69%) Data Lake
6 39 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (2.25%) Metadata
8 33 (2.07%) Tableau
9 32 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.06%) DB2
12 17 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.00%) MySQL
13 16 (1.00%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.94%) Big Data
15 14 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.57%) JIRA
2 35 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.00%) Git
4 23 (1.44%) GitLab
5 14 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.44%) Selenium
8 6 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.38%) JUnit
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.25%) LSMW
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.25%) Toad
10 3 (0.19%) ERwin
10 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 511 (31.98%) Finance
2 489 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 155 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.07%) Banking
5 140 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (3.25%) Retail
8 42 (2.63%) Legal
9 37 (2.32%) Law
10 28 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.50%) Marketing
13 23 (1.44%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.31%) Local Government
16 18 (1.13%) General Ledger
17 17 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (15.58%) Architect
2 209 (13.08%) Analyst
3 194 (12.14%) Lead
4 170 (10.64%) Senior
5 143 (8.95%) Business Analyst
6 137 (8.57%) Consultant
7 124 (7.76%) Project Manager
8 85 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 84 (5.26%) Developer
10 64 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
11 57 (3.57%) Migration Manager
12 54 (3.38%) Migration Engineer
13 51 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (3.07%) Data Analyst
15 45 (2.82%) Migration Analyst
16 40 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
18 37 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.25%) Azure Architect
20 34 (2.13%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.57%) REST
2 36 (2.25%) Middleware
2 36 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (2.13%) .NET
4 29 (1.81%) Kafka
5 25 (1.56%) PySpark
6 24 (1.50%) XML
7 20 (1.25%) Spring
8 19 (1.19%) SOAP
9 16 (1.00%) JSON
10 15 (0.94%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.81%) HTML
11 13 (0.81%) React
12 12 (0.75%) CSS
12 12 (0.75%) SAML
13 11 (0.69%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.63%) ADO
14 10 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.63%) OAuth
15 9 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.14%) Legacy Systems
2 106 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 65 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 39 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.32%) Replication
8 34 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.63%) Mainframe
11 19 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.88%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.81%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.82%) Windows
2 41 (2.57%) Linux
3 30 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.44%) Unix
6 21 (1.31%) VMS
7 12 (0.75%) zOS
8 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.31%) Android
10 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.19%) Solaris
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.063%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (35.61%) Data Migration
2 318 (19.90%) Agile
3 305 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 265 (16.58%) DevOps
5 218 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (12.27%) CI/CD
7 187 (11.70%) Data Modelling
8 185 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (11.01%) Validation
10 162 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 159 (9.95%) ETL
12 153 (9.57%) ERP
13 147 (9.20%) Analytics
14 144 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
15 143 (8.95%) Project Management
16 130 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 128 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 115 (7.20%) Project Delivery
19 106 (6.63%) Decision-Making
20 100 (6.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 278 (17.40%) SQL
2 143 (8.95%) Python
3 80 (5.01%) Java
4 63 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 32 (2.00%) C#
6 30 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.00%) Bicep
10 14 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.81%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.75%) VBA
13 11 (0.69%) Bash
14 8 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.50%) REXX
15 7 (0.44%) Korn
15 7 (0.44%) PHP
16 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.38%) Scala
17 5 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 275 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 233 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.38%) Degree
4 53 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.63%) PMP
6 40 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.81%) CBAP
12 13 (0.81%) CIMA
13 12 (0.75%) CISSP
13 12 (0.75%) IIBA
14 11 (0.69%) CCNP
14 11 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.63%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.19%) QA
3 69 (4.32%) GDPR
4 31 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.31%) SLA
6 20 (1.25%) NIST
7 18 (1.13%) PMO
8 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.56%) IFRS
9 9 (0.56%) NCSC
9 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.50%) SEPA
11 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.31%) Basel III
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.63%) Docker
3 45 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.81%) NFS
7 8 (0.50%) vSphere
8 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.25%) Varnish
10 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) Postfix
10 3 (0.19%) RACF
11 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.063%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 157 (9.82%) Terraform
2 105 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 70 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (2.32%) Ansible
5 29 (1.81%) SCCM
6 17 (1.06%) Grafana
7 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.69%) AirWatch
9 10 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (0.50%) vMotion
11 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.25%) Argo
12 4 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.25%) Istio
12 4 (0.25%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.25%) Rancher
12 4 (0.25%) SCOM
13 3 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 354 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 148 (9.26%) Oracle
3 123 (7.70%) SAP
4 76 (4.76%) VMware
5 53 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 50 (3.13%) Databricks
8 49 (3.07%) Google
9 36 (2.25%) Cisco
10 35 (2.19%) Workday
11 27 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.63%) Informatica
13 23 (1.44%) Citrix
14 22 (1.38%) Pure Storage
15 21 (1.31%) Avaloq
16 17 (1.06%) IBM
17 16 (1.00%) MuleSoft
17 16 (1.00%) Splunk
18 14 (0.88%) Palo Alto
19 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace