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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,565 1,211 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.61% 9.06% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 9.96% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 839 914
10th Percentile £375 £387 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £707 £675
90th Percentile £735 £853 £750
England median daily rate £519 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.64% +3.77% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 12
10th Percentile £15.87 £21.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.50 £67.94
Median hourly rate £22.24 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -72.94% +148.18%
75th Percentile £29.31 £25.50 £86.50
90th Percentile £65.25 £29.90 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% -42.50% -37.98%

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 14,672 12,161 16,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.13% 90.96% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,836 7,963 11,510
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 157 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.86 £71.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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% 77
South London +11 33 £469 -1.83% 6
West London 0 26 £600 +20.00% 10
East London -4 12 £485 -3.00% 10
North London +3 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 68 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (2.94%) Confluence
4 13 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.64%) Apache
6 10 (0.64%) SAS
7 8 (0.51%) CMS
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.19%) Mattermost
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
Applications
1 60 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.064%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.09%) Loan IQ
5 14 (0.89%) SAP HR
6 13 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 9 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.51%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.45%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.38%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 415 (26.52%) Azure
2 235 (15.02%) AWS
3 117 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 110 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (6.45%) GitHub
6 88 (5.62%) GCP
7 84 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (3.58%) Entra ID
10 54 (3.45%) SaaS
11 50 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (2.94%) Serverless
13 45 (2.88%) OCI
14 43 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (2.75%) Snowflake
15 42 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 40 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 38 (2.43%) IaaS
18 36 (2.30%) PaaS
19 32 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.60%) Firewall
2 45 (2.88%) Network Security
3 39 (2.49%) DNS
4 32 (2.04%) VPN
5 25 (1.60%) SAN
5 25 (1.60%) WAN
6 19 (1.21%) NAS
7 17 (1.09%) BGP
7 17 (1.09%) VLAN
8 16 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.96%) DHCP
9 15 (0.96%) LAN
9 15 (0.96%) OSPF
10 14 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.70%) MPLS
12 9 (0.58%) DMARC
13 8 (0.51%) DKIM
14 7 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.38%) Cisco Wireless
15 6 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.07%) Power BI
2 80 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 43 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (2.11%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.79%) Metadata
7 28 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 27 (1.73%) Tableau
9 17 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.02%) DB2
11 15 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.96%) MySQL
12 14 (0.89%) Big Data
12 14 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 103 (6.58%) JIRA
2 34 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.85%) Git
4 25 (1.60%) GitLab
5 15 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.38%) JUnit
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.38%) Selenium
9 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.26%) LSMW
10 4 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.26%) Toad
11 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.19%) ERwin
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 489 (31.25%) Finance
1 489 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 151 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
3 146 (9.33%) Banking
4 134 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 57 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.13%) Retail
7 40 (2.56%) Legal
8 30 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 27 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.34%) Law
12 21 (1.34%) Local Government
12 21 (1.34%) Marketing
13 20 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.15%) General Ledger
15 17 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (13.87%) Architect
2 207 (13.23%) Analyst
3 175 (11.18%) Lead
4 167 (10.67%) Senior
5 144 (9.20%) Business Analyst
6 143 (9.14%) Consultant
7 122 (7.80%) Project Manager
8 87 (5.56%) Developer
9 77 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 64 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.45%) Migration Manager
12 52 (3.32%) Migration Engineer
13 44 (2.81%) Data Analyst
13 44 (2.81%) Migration Analyst
14 42 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.17%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.17%) Data Migration Lead
17 33 (2.11%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.00%) REST
2 38 (2.43%) .NET
3 37 (2.36%) Middleware
4 34 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 30 (1.92%) Kafka
6 25 (1.60%) PySpark
6 25 (1.60%) XML
7 17 (1.09%) SOAP
8 16 (1.02%) JSON
9 15 (0.96%) Spring
9 15 (0.96%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.83%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.83%) HTML
10 13 (0.83%) SAML
11 12 (0.77%) CSS
11 12 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.77%) React
12 11 (0.70%) OAuth
13 10 (0.64%) ARM Templates
13 10 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.63%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (6.39%) Cloud Native
3 67 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 48 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 40 (2.56%) Replication
7 36 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 32 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.60%) Mainframe
12 17 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.77%) Tandem
16 11 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 116 (7.41%) Windows
2 38 (2.43%) Linux
3 32 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.34%) Unix
6 17 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (0.70%) zOS
8 10 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.26%) Android
11 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.19%) Solaris
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.064%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (34.76%) Data Migration
2 306 (19.55%) Agile
3 298 (19.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 252 (16.10%) DevOps
5 225 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (11.95%) CI/CD
7 174 (11.12%) Data Modelling
8 170 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 163 (10.42%) Validation
10 157 (10.03%) ETL
11 142 (9.07%) Project Management
12 139 (8.88%) Analytics
13 138 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
14 136 (8.69%) ERP
15 132 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 128 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
17 114 (7.28%) Project Delivery
18 109 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 100 (6.39%) Decision-Making
20 94 (6.01%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 283 (18.08%) SQL
2 136 (8.69%) Python
3 81 (5.18%) Java
4 67 (4.28%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 36 (2.30%) C#
7 21 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.28%) Bicep
9 19 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.83%) Bash
12 12 (0.77%) VBA
13 10 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.51%) REXX
16 7 (0.45%) Korn
16 7 (0.45%) PHP
17 6 (0.38%) ABAP
18 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 265 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 227 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.39%) Degree
4 54 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.75%) PMP
6 42 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.89%) CCNP
13 14 (0.89%) CISSP
14 13 (0.83%) CBAP
14 13 (0.83%) CIMA
15 12 (0.77%) IIBA
16 11 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.64%) CISM
17 10 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.92%) QA
3 70 (4.47%) GDPR
4 31 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.21%) SLA
6 17 (1.09%) NIST
7 15 (0.96%) PMO
8 11 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.58%) IFRS
10 9 (0.58%) NCSC
10 9 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 7 (0.45%) SEPA
12 5 (0.32%) Basel III
12 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 76 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 63 (4.03%) Docker
3 46 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.77%) NFS
7 8 (0.51%) vSphere
8 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.19%) RACF
9 3 (0.19%) Varnish
10 2 (0.13%) Postfix
10 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.064%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.064%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (10.42%) Terraform
2 109 (6.96%) Kubernetes
3 70 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (2.49%) Ansible
5 29 (1.85%) SCCM
6 16 (1.02%) Grafana
7 12 (0.77%) AirWatch
8 11 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (0.51%) vMotion
11 7 (0.45%) SCOM
12 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.26%) Argo
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.26%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 334 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 159 (10.16%) Oracle
3 131 (8.37%) SAP
4 78 (4.98%) VMware
5 55 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 53 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 51 (3.26%) Google
8 45 (2.88%) Databricks
9 40 (2.56%) Cisco
10 36 (2.30%) Workday
11 26 (1.66%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.53%) Citrix
13 23 (1.47%) Informatica
14 22 (1.41%) Pure Storage
15 19 (1.21%) Avaloq
15 19 (1.21%) Splunk
16 17 (1.09%) IBM
17 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.89%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.89%) Palo Alto