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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,746 1,187 1,364
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.04% 9.34% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 10.16% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 823 980
10th Percentile £373 £388 £350
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £660
90th Percentile £750 £875 £750
England median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +2.27% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 12
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.43 £26.42
25th Percentile £20.04 £21.50 £59.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -65.93% +107.69%
75th Percentile £61.34 £28.54 £86.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% -49.70% -20.95%

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 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -2 247 £558 +1.36% 103
South London +7 37 £463 +8.50% 6
West London -6 26 £563 -10.00% 20
East London -3 12 £475 -12.04% 7
North London +1 5 £495 +12.50%
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 83 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 55 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (2.75%) Confluence
4 21 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.03%) Apache
7 14 (0.80%) SAS
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.23%) nginx
11 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 74 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 64 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.97%) Loan IQ
4 17 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.57%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.34%) Finacle
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.34%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 464 (26.58%) Azure
2 295 (16.90%) AWS
3 153 (8.76%) Power Platform
4 127 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (6.01%) GCP
6 103 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.61%) GitHub
8 95 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (3.89%) SaaS
10 65 (3.72%) Entra ID
11 54 (3.09%) Serverless
12 51 (2.92%) Amazon S3
13 48 (2.75%) OCI
13 48 (2.75%) PaaS
14 45 (2.58%) IaaS
15 43 (2.46%) Snowflake
16 42 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 39 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
18 34 (1.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.58%) Firewall
2 47 (2.69%) DNS
3 46 (2.63%) Network Security
4 37 (2.12%) VPN
5 24 (1.37%) WAN
6 23 (1.32%) SAN
7 21 (1.20%) VLAN
8 18 (1.03%) NAS
9 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.86%) DHCP
11 14 (0.80%) BGP
11 14 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.69%) LAN
12 12 (0.69%) OSPF
13 11 (0.63%) DKIM
13 11 (0.63%) VSAN
14 10 (0.57%) MPLS
15 9 (0.52%) DMARC
15 9 (0.52%) HTTP
16 7 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.50%) Power BI
2 81 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 56 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 41 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (2.35%) Tableau
6 37 (2.12%) Metadata
7 34 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (0.92%) DB2
13 16 (0.92%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (0.86%) Delta Lake
14 15 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 109 (6.24%) JIRA
2 39 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.12%) Git
4 24 (1.37%) GitLab
5 14 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.46%) JUnit
7 8 (0.46%) Selenium
8 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.40%) Chocolatey
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.29%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Gradle
11 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.23%) Mockito
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Toad
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 565 (32.36%) Finance
2 502 (28.75%) Social Skills
3 172 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.76%) Banking
5 150 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.95%) Retail
7 56 (3.21%) Law
8 54 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (2.63%) Legal
10 30 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.55%) Marketing
13 26 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.15%) General Ledger
16 20 (1.15%) Local Government
17 19 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 309 (17.70%) Architect
2 240 (13.75%) Lead
3 205 (11.74%) Analyst
4 184 (10.54%) Senior
5 141 (8.08%) Consultant
6 138 (7.90%) Business Analyst
7 120 (6.87%) Project Manager
8 91 (5.21%) Data Engineer
9 87 (4.98%) Developer
10 71 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
12 59 (3.38%) Migration Engineer
12 59 (3.38%) Migration Manager
13 55 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
14 53 (3.04%) Data Analyst
15 48 (2.75%) Lead Architect
15 48 (2.75%) Migration Analyst
16 45 (2.58%) Data Architect
17 41 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 41 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.58%) REST
2 42 (2.41%) Middleware
2 42 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 37 (2.12%) .NET
4 35 (2.00%) Kafka
5 29 (1.66%) PySpark
6 24 (1.37%) XML
7 23 (1.32%) Spring
8 20 (1.15%) SAML
9 19 (1.09%) SOAP
10 18 (1.03%) OAuth
10 18 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 16 (0.92%) JSON
12 13 (0.74%) OpenID
13 12 (0.69%) HTML
13 12 (0.69%) React
14 11 (0.63%) CSS
15 10 (0.57%) ADO
15 10 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
15 10 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 118 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 70 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 58 (3.32%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 41 (2.35%) Replication
7 37 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 36 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.55%) Mainframe
12 25 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.86%) Clustering
14 15 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.80%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.27%) Windows
2 53 (3.04%) Linux
3 29 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.32%) VMS
6 22 (1.26%) Unix
7 11 (0.63%) zOS
8 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.29%) Android
9 5 (0.29%) Solaris
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) SUSE
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (34.08%) Data Migration
2 319 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (17.93%) Agile
4 288 (16.49%) DevOps
5 229 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
6 213 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 204 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 203 (11.63%) Validation
9 194 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 191 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 184 (10.54%) ERP
12 171 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
13 158 (9.05%) Analytics
14 154 (8.82%) ETL
15 150 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 144 (8.25%) Project Management
17 142 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
18 117 (6.70%) Project Delivery
19 116 (6.64%) Roadmaps
20 115 (6.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 276 (15.81%) SQL
2 155 (8.88%) Python
3 92 (5.27%) Java
4 64 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.78%) C#
6 29 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.03%) Bicep
8 18 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 18 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.74%) Bash
9 13 (0.74%) VBA
10 12 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.52%) Ruby
12 8 (0.46%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.46%) REXX
12 8 (0.46%) Scala
13 7 (0.40%) Korn
14 6 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 316 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 264 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.73%) Degree
4 54 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.29%) PMP
6 38 (2.18%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.92%) CIMA
13 15 (0.86%) CISSP
14 13 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.69%) IIBA
16 11 (0.63%) CBAP
16 11 (0.63%) CISM
16 11 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.36%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.52%) QA
3 68 (3.89%) GDPR
4 31 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.49%) SLA
6 25 (1.43%) PMO
7 24 (1.37%) NIST
8 13 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.63%) NCSC
10 9 (0.52%) IFRS
10 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.46%) SEPA
12 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.34%) GAAP
14 5 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 83 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.69%) Docker
2 47 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.86%) NFS
6 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.74%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.34%) Varnish
9 6 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.29%) Postfix
11 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (9.34%) Terraform
2 103 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.35%) Ansible
5 30 (1.72%) SCCM
6 19 (1.09%) Grafana
7 15 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.63%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.57%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.57%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.46%) vMotion
12 6 (0.34%) VxRail
13 5 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.29%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.29%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.23%) Rancher
14 4 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 387 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.22%) Oracle
3 134 (7.67%) SAP
4 79 (4.52%) VMware
5 61 (3.49%) Databricks
5 61 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 58 (3.32%) Google
7 57 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.52%) Cisco
9 33 (1.89%) Workday
10 29 (1.66%) CyberArk
11 26 (1.49%) Citrix
12 23 (1.32%) Informatica
13 22 (1.26%) IBM
13 22 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 21 (1.20%) Avaloq
15 19 (1.09%) Splunk
16 13 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.74%) Juniper
16 13 (0.74%) MuleSoft