Migration Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Migration England / London
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	31	26	27
Rank change year-on-year	-5	+1
Contract jobs citing Migration	1263	1348	1427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	6.17%	6.31%	6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	7.12%	7.39%	7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	868	889	972
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+2.50%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	4	9
Median hourly rate	£17.83	£21.13	£16.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.62%	+32.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.70	£16.13	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£162.50	£140.05	£30.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.00	£20.50	£17.00
% change year-on-year	-31.70%	+20.58%

Migration is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17729	18243	19239
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.64%	85.33%	82.15%
Number of daily rates quoted	12696	13342	13634
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£630	£628	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	188	156	260
Median hourly rate	£26.50	£21.00	£21.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.19%	-2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£46.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Migration as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Migration in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Migration in London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Migration in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Migration in London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Migration in London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Migration in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-8	193	£493	+10.67%	29
Westminster	+8	11	£250	-24.52%
Canary Wharf	+1	8	£110	-74.11%
Docklands, London	+6	6	£600	+30.43%
Croydon	0	6	£450	+18.42%	1
West End of London	+12	5	£491	+176.76%	7
Ealing	-	3	£350	-
Paddington	+3	2	£228	-
Heathrow	+3	2	£350	-48.14%
Harrow	+6	1	£425	-
Twickenham	+4	1	£363	-23.68%
Greenford	+3	1	£475	+493.75%
Brentford	-3	1	-	-
Uxbridge	-10	1	-	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-11	1	£600	-
Chiswick	-	1	£375	-
Moorgate	-	1	-	-
Stockley Park	-	1	-	-
Chessington	-	1	-	-
Hounslow	-	1	-	-	1
Migration England

Migration
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Migration also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Migration.

1	620 (25.70%)	Data Migration
2	604 (25.04%)	Finance
3	501 (20.77%)	Windows
4	391 (16.21%)	Agile Software Development
5	379 (15.71%)	SQL
6	371 (15.38%)	Microsoft
7	337 (13.97%)	Banking
8	295 (12.23%)	Office 365
9	269 (11.15%)	Linux
10	264 (10.95%)	Data Centre
11	261 (10.82%)	Active Directory
12	248 (10.28%)	Oracle
13	237 (9.83%)	Security Cleared
14	236 (9.78%)	Microsoft Azure
14	236 (9.78%)	SQL Server

15	229 (9.49%)	Project Management
16	211 (8.75%)	Amazon AWS
17	209 (8.67%)	Java
18	204 (8.46%)	DevOps
19	198 (8.21%)	SC Cleared
20	190 (7.88%)	Analytical Skills
21	189 (7.84%)	Stakeholder Management
22	176 (7.30%)	Business Intelligence
23	166 (6.88%)	ETL
24	164 (6.80%)	VMware
25	161 (6.67%)	SharePoint
26	157 (6.51%)	SAP
27	150 (6.22%)	Cisco
28	145 (6.01%)	Unix
28	145 (6.01%)	PowerShell

Migration
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	161 (6.67%)	SharePoint
2	59 (2.45%)	MS Exchange
3	50 (2.07%)	CMS
4	46 (1.91%)	SharePoint 2013
5	44 (1.82%)	SAS
6	40 (1.66%)	Skype for Business
7	39 (1.62%)	SharePoint 2010
8	31 (1.29%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	29 (1.20%)	Confluence
10	27 (1.12%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	25 (1.04%)	Tomcat
12	24 (1.00%)	Adobe Experience Manager
13	22 (0.91%)	Apache
13	22 (0.91%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	15 (0.62%)	Drupal
14	15 (0.62%)	WebSphere
15	14 (0.58%)	Exchange Server 2007
15	14 (0.58%)	IIS
15	14 (0.58%)	WebLogic
16	11 (0.46%)	JBoss

Applications
1	98 (4.06%)	Microsoft Excel
2	94 (3.90%)	Microsoft Office
3	27 (1.12%)	MS Visio
4	24 (1.00%)	Microsoft Project
5	14 (0.58%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	9 (0.37%)	Spreadsheet
7	3 (0.12%)	Acrobat
8	2 (0.083%)	Photoshop
9	1 (0.041%)	Adobe Creative Suite

Business Applications
1	82 (3.40%)	Dynamics CRM
2	27 (1.12%)	Oracle EBS
3	25 (1.04%)	Dynamics AX
3	25 (1.04%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	17 (0.70%)	Dynamics NAV
5	14 (0.58%)	SAP S/4HANA
6	12 (0.50%)	Oracle ERP
6	12 (0.50%)	Oracle Payables
6	12 (0.50%)	SAP HR
7	11 (0.46%)	Oracle iRecruitment
8	10 (0.41%)	Oracle Receivables
9	9 (0.37%)	Oracle Financials
9	9 (0.37%)	Oracle General Ledger
9	9 (0.37%)	SAP MM
9	9 (0.37%)	SAP Oil and Gas
10	8 (0.33%)	SAP ERP
11	7 (0.29%)	ION MarketView
11	7 (0.29%)	Oracle Retail
11	7 (0.29%)	Sage 50
11	7 (0.29%)	SAP FI

Cloud Services
1	295 (12.23%)	Office 365
2	236 (9.78%)	Microsoft Azure
3	211 (8.75%)	Amazon AWS
4	61 (2.53%)	IaaS
5	42 (1.74%)	PaaS
6	41 (1.70%)	Azure Active Directory
7	36 (1.49%)	OneDrive
8	33 (1.37%)	SaaS
9	21 (0.87%)	G Suite
9	21 (0.87%)	OpenShift
10	18 (0.75%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	16 (0.66%)	Dynamics 365
12	15 (0.62%)	GitHub
12	15 (0.62%)	SuccessFactors
13	14 (0.58%)	Amazon EC2
13	14 (0.58%)	Yammer
14	12 (0.50%)	Amazon S3
15	10 (0.41%)	Cloud Computing
16	8 (0.33%)	Oracle CX
16	8 (0.33%)	Oracle Service Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	99 (4.10%)	Firewall
2	93 (3.86%)	WAN
3	80 (3.32%)	SAN
4	77 (3.19%)	LAN
5	70 (2.90%)	DNS
6	51 (2.11%)	VPN
7	50 (2.07%)	TCP/IP
8	48 (1.99%)	Skype
9	41 (1.70%)	DHCP
10	37 (1.53%)	VoIP
11	27 (1.12%)	BGP
12	24 (1.00%)	MPLS
13	23 (0.95%)	Cisco Nexus
14	22 (0.91%)	OSPF
14	22 (0.91%)	SSL
14	22 (0.91%)	Wireless
15	21 (0.87%)	Internet
16	20 (0.83%)	HTTP
17	19 (0.79%)	Cisco IOS
17	19 (0.79%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	236 (9.78%)	SQL Server
2	113 (4.68%)	Data Warehouse
3	101 (4.19%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	72 (2.99%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	66 (2.74%)	Oracle Database
6	53 (2.20%)	Big Data
7	51 (2.11%)	SQL Server 2008
8	42 (1.74%)	Relational Database
9	36 (1.49%)	MySQL
10	35 (1.45%)	Hadoop
11	34 (1.41%)	SQL Server 2012
12	33 (1.37%)	BusinessObjects
13	31 (1.29%)	PostgreSQL
13	31 (1.29%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	30 (1.24%)	SQL Server 2014
15	25 (1.04%)	Power BI
16	20 (0.83%)	RDBMS
17	19 (0.79%)	DB2
18	18 (0.75%)	MongoDB
18	18 (0.75%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	59 (2.45%)	Jenkins
2	57 (2.36%)	Git (software)
2	57 (2.36%)	JIRA
3	35 (1.45%)	Team Foundation Server
4	32 (1.33%)	Visual Studio
5	29 (1.20%)	TeamCity
6	22 (0.91%)	Subversion
7	16 (0.66%)	Talend Open Studio
8	14 (0.58%)	ERwin
9	12 (0.50%)	Cucumber
9	12 (0.50%)	JUnit
9	12 (0.50%)	PowerDesigner
10	10 (0.41%)	Octopus Deploy
10	10 (0.41%)	Selenium
11	9 (0.37%)	LoadRunner
11	9 (0.37%)	Maven
12	8 (0.33%)	Bitbucket
13	7 (0.29%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	6 (0.25%)	LSMW
14	6 (0.25%)	Oracle Forms

General
1	604 (25.04%)	Finance
2	337 (13.97%)	Banking
3	122 (5.06%)	Investment Banking
4	101 (4.19%)	Retail
5	79 (3.28%)	Front Office
6	60 (2.49%)	Legal
7	55 (2.28%)	Marketing
8	44 (1.82%)	Telecoms
9	42 (1.74%)	Law
10	40 (1.66%)	Back Office
11	32 (1.33%)	Advertising
12	26 (1.08%)	Publishing
13	25 (1.04%)	Financial Institution
14	22 (0.91%)	Manufacturing
15	20 (0.83%)	Pharmaceutical
16	17 (0.70%)	Retail Banking
17	16 (0.66%)	Billing
18	11 (0.46%)	General Ledger
19	10 (0.41%)	Corporate Banking
20	9 (0.37%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	377 (15.63%)	Analyst
2	361 (14.97%)	Developer
3	282 (11.69%)	Architect
4	270 (11.19%)	Project Manager
5	208 (8.62%)	Consultant
6	170 (7.05%)	Business Analyst
7	107 (4.44%)	Data Analyst
8	84 (3.48%)	DevOps Engineer
9	76 (3.15%)	Migration Manager
10	74 (3.07%)	Migration Analyst
11	60 (2.49%)	Administrator
11	60 (2.49%)	Data Architect
11	60 (2.49%)	Solutions Architect
11	60 (2.49%)	Technical Architect
12	59 (2.45%)	Java Developer
13	56 (2.32%)	Windows Engineer
14	54 (2.24%)	Migration Project Manager
15	53 (2.20%)	Migration Engineer
16	50 (2.07%)	Network Engineer
17	49 (2.03%)	DBA

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	117 (4.85%)	.NET
2	66 (2.74%)	HTML
3	62 (2.57%)	Web Services
4	51 (2.11%)	XML
5	43 (1.78%)	CSS
6	41 (1.70%)	Middleware
7	31 (1.29%)	jQuery
8	26 (1.08%)	RESTful
9	25 (1.04%)	Oracle Fusion
10	23 (0.95%)	Spring
11	22 (0.91%)	JSON
12	21 (0.87%)	ASP.NET
13	20 (0.83%)	AngularJS
13	20 (0.83%)	HTML5
13	20 (0.83%)	REST
13	20 (0.83%)	WCF
14	18 (0.75%)	J2EE
15	17 (0.70%)	Hibernate
15	17 (0.70%)	SOAP
15	17 (0.70%)	TIBCO EMS

Miscellaneous
1	264 (10.95%)	Data Centre
2	190 (7.88%)	Analytical Skills
3	60 (2.49%)	Management Information System
4	53 (2.20%)	Computer Science
5	49 (2.03%)	Derivative
6	45 (1.87%)	Fixed Income
7	37 (1.53%)	Virtual Team
8	36 (1.49%)	Replication
9	35 (1.45%)	Equities
9	35 (1.45%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	34 (1.41%)	Greenfield Project
11	26 (1.08%)	Data Structures
12	25 (1.04%)	User Experience
13	23 (0.95%)	Equity Derivative
13	23 (0.95%)	Mainframe
13	23 (0.95%)	Public Cloud
14	18 (0.75%)	NHS
15	16 (0.66%)	Fintech
16	15 (0.62%)	Reference Data
16	15 (0.62%)	SWIFT

Operating Systems
1	501 (20.77%)	Windows
2	269 (11.15%)	Linux
3	145 (6.01%)	Unix
4	137 (5.68%)	Windows Server
5	113 (4.68%)	Windows 10
6	101 (4.19%)	Windows Server 2012
7	82 (3.40%)	Windows Server 2008
8	78 (3.23%)	Solaris
9	61 (2.53%)	AIX
10	56 (2.32%)	Windows 7
11	55 (2.28%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	26 (1.08%)	Windows Server 2003
13	20 (0.83%)	VMS
14	18 (0.75%)	CentOS
15	15 (0.62%)	Android
16	13 (0.54%)	Windows XP
17	11 (0.46%)	Windows 8
18	7 (0.29%)	Apple iOS
19	4 (0.17%)	Ubuntu
19	4 (0.17%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	620 (25.70%)	Data Migration
2	391 (16.21%)	Agile Software Development
3	229 (9.49%)	Project Management
4	204 (8.46%)	DevOps
5	189 (7.84%)	Stakeholder Management
6	176 (7.30%)	Business Intelligence
7	166 (6.88%)	ETL
8	138 (5.72%)	CRM
9	122 (5.06%)	Data Modelling
10	110 (4.56%)	ITIL
10	110 (4.56%)	PRINCE2
11	92 (3.81%)	ERP
12	88 (3.65%)	Change Management
13	85 (3.52%)	Scrum
14	81 (3.36%)	Business Analysis
15	77 (3.19%)	User Acceptance Testing
16	74 (3.07%)	Open Source
16	74 (3.07%)	SDLC
17	73 (3.03%)	Continuous Integration
18	71 (2.94%)	Configuration Management

Programming Languages
1	379 (15.71%)	SQL
2	209 (8.67%)	Java
3	145 (6.01%)	PowerShell
4	141 (5.85%)	Python
5	96 (3.98%)	C#
6	74 (3.07%)	JavaScript
7	64 (2.65%)	Perl
8	63 (2.61%)	T-SQL
9	51 (2.11%)	Bash Shell
10	43 (1.78%)	C++
11	41 (1.70%)	Ruby
12	30 (1.24%)	C
13	27 (1.12%)	VB
14	26 (1.08%)	VBA
15	25 (1.04%)	PHP
16	22 (0.91%)	PL/SQL
17	19 (0.79%)	Shell Script
18	15 (0.62%)	VBScript
19	14 (0.58%)	Scala
20	13 (0.54%)	Apex Code

Qualifications
1	237 (9.83%)	Security Cleared
2	198 (8.21%)	SC Cleared
3	105 (4.35%)	Degree
4	62 (2.57%)	Cisco Certification
5	47 (1.95%)	Microsoft Certification
6	38 (1.58%)	CCNP
7	28 (1.16%)	CCNA
8	27 (1.12%)	Computer Science Degree
9	26 (1.08%)	PMI Certification
10	25 (1.04%)	CCIE
11	24 (1.00%)	MCSE
11	24 (1.00%)	PMP
12	22 (0.91%)	PRINCE2 Certification
13	17 (0.70%)	MCITP
14	16 (0.66%)	DV Cleared
15	14 (0.58%)	ITIL Certification
16	13 (0.54%)	MCP
16	13 (0.54%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17	12 (0.50%)	MCTS
17	12 (0.50%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	66 (2.74%)	QA
2	45 (1.87%)	Data Quality
3	17 (0.70%)	PMO
4	12 (0.50%)	ISO 20022
4	12 (0.50%)	SLA
5	10 (0.41%)	GxP
6	9 (0.37%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	8 (0.33%)	MiFID
8	6 (0.25%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	6 (0.25%)	PCI DSS
8	6 (0.25%)	PMBOK
9	5 (0.21%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	4 (0.17%)	JSP 440
11	3 (0.12%)	GDPR
11	3 (0.12%)	GMP
11	3 (0.12%)	P3O
12	2 (0.083%)	FATCA
12	2 (0.083%)	IFRS
13	1 (0.041%)	Basel III
13	1 (0.041%)	ISO/IEC 20000

System Software
1	261 (10.82%)	Active Directory
2	92 (3.81%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	62 (2.57%)	Docker
4	41 (1.70%)	Hyper-V
5	29 (1.20%)	XenApp
6	24 (1.00%)	vSphere
7	22 (0.91%)	VMware ESXi
8	19 (0.79%)	Virtual Machines
9	17 (0.70%)	Microsoft App-V
10	12 (0.50%)	Virtual Servers
11	10 (0.41%)	NFS
12	9 (0.37%)	XenDesktop
13	8 (0.33%)	Virtual Desktop
14	6 (0.25%)	Oracle RAC
14	6 (0.25%)	Xen
15	5 (0.21%)	DFS Replication
16	4 (0.17%)	LXC
16	4 (0.17%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
16	4 (0.17%)	VMware Server
17	3 (0.12%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	114 (4.73%)	Puppet
2	88 (3.65%)	Ansible
3	84 (3.48%)	SCCM
4	52 (2.16%)	Opscode Chef
5	27 (1.12%)	Kubernetes
6	21 (0.87%)	Cisco CUCM
6	21 (0.87%)	Terraform
7	19 (0.79%)	SCOM
8	18 (0.75%)	Forefront Identity Manager
9	16 (0.66%)	Microsoft Intune
9	16 (0.66%)	vCenter Server
10	15 (0.62%)	Nagios
11	14 (0.58%)	Kibana
12	11 (0.46%)	NetBackup
12	11 (0.46%)	Prometheus
13	10 (0.41%)	Backup Exec
14	9 (0.37%)	Grafana
14	9 (0.37%)	ITRS Geneos
14	9 (0.37%)	ZABBIX
15	7 (0.29%)	PowerCLI

Vendors
1	371 (15.38%)	Microsoft
2	248 (10.28%)	Oracle
3	164 (6.80%)	VMware
4	157 (6.51%)	SAP
5	150 (6.22%)	Cisco
6	93 (3.86%)	Citrix
7	88 (3.65%)	IBM
8	63 (2.61%)	Red Hat
9	60 (2.49%)	Salesforce.com
10	41 (1.70%)	Google
11	36 (1.49%)	NetApp
12	34 (1.41%)	HP
13	32 (1.33%)	Adobe
14	29 (1.20%)	Informatica
14	29 (1.20%)	Splunk
15	26 (1.08%)	TIBCO
16	23 (0.95%)	Juniper
17	20 (0.83%)	F5
18	19 (0.79%)	Sybase
18	19 (0.79%)	Tableau