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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,815 1,169 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.21% 9.38% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 10.18% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 793 1,000
10th Percentile £363 £388 £360
25th Percentile £451 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £701 £650
90th Percentile £750 £875 £750
England median daily rate £513 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 7
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.43 £23.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.50 £35.12
Median hourly rate £28.55 £23.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% -65.93% +52.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £28.54 £71.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% -37.13% -41.61%

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 15,718 11,485 15,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.19% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,513 7,782 11,264
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 172 317
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.85
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -1 259 £550 - 93
South London +2 35 £463 -3.14% 3
West London -1 34 £445 -28.80% 7
East London -4 10 £495 -8.33% 6
North London +1 5 £325 -26.14% 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 89 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 55 (3.03%) Confluence
3 54 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.94%) Apache
7 15 (0.83%) SAS
8 6 (0.33%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) CICS
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 74 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 73 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.99%) Loan IQ
3 18 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 11 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.33%) Finacle
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 473 (26.06%) Azure
2 299 (16.47%) AWS
3 150 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 135 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
5 106 (5.84%) GCP
6 102 (5.62%) GitHub
7 89 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (3.69%) SaaS
9 65 (3.58%) Entra ID
10 51 (2.81%) Serverless
11 50 (2.75%) PaaS
12 49 (2.70%) Amazon S3
13 47 (2.59%) Snowflake
14 45 (2.48%) IaaS
14 45 (2.48%) OCI
15 41 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (1.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.35%) Firewall
2 45 (2.48%) Network Security
3 44 (2.42%) DNS
4 32 (1.76%) VPN
5 24 (1.32%) SAN
6 23 (1.27%) VLAN
7 22 (1.21%) WAN
8 19 (1.05%) NAS
9 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.83%) DHCP
11 14 (0.77%) BGP
12 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.66%) OSPF
14 11 (0.61%) HTTP
14 11 (0.61%) VSAN
15 9 (0.50%) LAN
15 9 (0.50%) MPLS
15 9 (0.50%) SSL
15 9 (0.50%) Wireless
16 7 (0.39%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.11%) Power BI
2 75 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 45 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (2.15%) Metadata
7 38 (2.09%) Tableau
8 28 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.21%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.16%) DB2
12 20 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (1.05%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (0.94%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.88%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 124 (6.83%) JIRA
2 41 (2.26%) Git
3 39 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.71%) GitLab
5 14 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.44%) JUnit
8 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.33%) Selenium
9 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.28%) LSMW
11 4 (0.22%) Gradle
11 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.22%) Mockito
11 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 575 (31.68%) Finance
2 501 (27.60%) Social Skills
3 165 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.43%) Banking
5 150 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 77 (4.24%) Retail
7 52 (2.87%) Law
8 51 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.64%) Legal
10 29 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.49%) Marketing
12 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.16%) General Ledger
16 20 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (1.05%) Local Government
18 18 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 334 (18.40%) Architect
2 258 (14.21%) Lead
3 205 (11.29%) Analyst
4 185 (10.19%) Senior
5 149 (8.21%) Consultant
6 133 (7.33%) Business Analyst
7 130 (7.16%) Project Manager
8 98 (5.40%) Data Engineer
9 90 (4.96%) Developer
10 74 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
12 64 (3.53%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.20%) Migration Manager
14 54 (2.98%) Data Analyst
15 52 (2.87%) Data Architect
16 51 (2.81%) Migration Analyst
17 49 (2.70%) Data Migration Lead
18 46 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
18 46 (2.53%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
1 49 (2.70%) REST
2 44 (2.42%) .NET
3 41 (2.26%) Middleware
4 40 (2.20%) Kafka
5 30 (1.65%) PySpark
6 21 (1.16%) SAML
6 21 (1.16%) SOAP
6 21 (1.16%) Spring
7 19 (1.05%) XML
8 18 (0.99%) OAuth
9 17 (0.94%) JSON
9 17 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 15 (0.83%) React
10 15 (0.83%) Web Services
11 14 (0.77%) HTML
12 13 (0.72%) ADO
12 13 (0.72%) OpenID
13 12 (0.66%) .NET Framework
13 12 (0.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
2 128 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 79 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 62 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 44 (2.42%) Replication
7 38 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 37 (2.04%) Mainframe
9 36 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.94%) Clustering
15 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 14 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 13 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
18 13 (0.72%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.00%) Windows
2 51 (2.81%) Linux
3 29 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.32%) Unix
6 21 (1.16%) VMS
7 11 (0.61%) zOS
8 8 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.33%) Solaris
11 5 (0.28%) Android
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) AIX
15 1 (0.055%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (33.94%) Data Migration
2 324 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 316 (17.41%) Agile
4 291 (16.03%) DevOps
5 226 (12.45%) Validation
6 218 (12.01%) CI/CD
6 218 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
7 200 (11.02%) Data Modelling
8 196 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
9 195 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 182 (10.03%) ERP
11 165 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
12 155 (8.54%) Analytics
12 155 (8.54%) ETL
13 149 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 148 (8.15%) Project Management
15 144 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 126 (6.94%) Roadmaps
17 124 (6.83%) Project Delivery
18 120 (6.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 271 (14.93%) SQL
2 166 (9.15%) Python
3 86 (4.74%) Java
4 63 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 33 (1.82%) C#
6 30 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.94%) Bicep
10 16 (0.88%) Bash
10 16 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.83%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.61%) VBA
13 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.55%) Ruby
14 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.44%) REXX
15 6 (0.33%) PHP
15 6 (0.33%) Scala
16 5 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 320 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 267 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.56%) Degree
4 53 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 47 (2.59%) PMP
6 46 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.88%) CISSP
13 15 (0.83%) CIMA
14 14 (0.77%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.72%) CISM
16 12 (0.66%) IIBA
17 11 (0.61%) CBAP
17 11 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 9 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 75 (4.13%) QA
3 68 (3.75%) GDPR
4 30 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.54%) SLA
6 26 (1.43%) PMO
7 25 (1.38%) NIST
8 13 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.66%) SEPA
10 11 (0.61%) NCSC
11 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.50%) IFRS
13 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.39%) GAAP
13 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) Basel III
15 5 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 83 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.42%) Docker
4 25 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.88%) NFS
7 13 (0.72%) vSphere
8 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.50%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.39%) Varnish
11 6 (0.33%) Firmware
11 6 (0.33%) Postfix
11 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.22%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.055%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (8.82%) Terraform
2 94 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (2.42%) Ansible
5 26 (1.43%) SCCM
6 18 (0.99%) Grafana
7 15 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.61%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
11 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.44%) vMotion
13 6 (0.33%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.33%) VxRail
14 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.28%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.22%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.22%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 384 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 167 (9.20%) Oracle
3 149 (8.21%) SAP
4 76 (4.19%) VMware
5 70 (3.86%) Databricks
6 59 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.20%) Google
7 58 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.31%) Cisco
9 31 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.54%) Citrix
11 25 (1.38%) IBM
12 24 (1.32%) Workday
13 23 (1.27%) Informatica
14 21 (1.16%) Pure Storage
15 18 (0.99%) Splunk
16 17 (0.94%) Avaloq
17 14 (0.77%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.77%) Zscaler
18 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace