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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,713 1,194 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.94% 9.41% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.12% 10.28% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 824 981
10th Percentile £375 £388 £356
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 £661
90th Percentile £750 £875 £750
England median daily rate £515 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -4.19% +1.42% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 13
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.43 £28.60
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -72.94% +178.69%
75th Percentile £55.04 £28.54 £86.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £43.77 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £48.12
% change year-on-year -17.13% -40.25% -23.93%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -5 243 £550 - 88
South London +8 37 £463 +8.50% 7
West London -3 27 £550 +10.00% 18
East London -6 9 £495 -1.00% 7
North London +4 5 £495 +20.00% 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 75 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.86%) Confluence
4 21 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.93%) Apache
5 16 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.64%) SAS
7 8 (0.47%) CMS
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.23%) nginx
10 4 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.18%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) IIS
12 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
Applications
1 74 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.82%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 60 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.99%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.58%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.58%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 9 (0.53%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.35%) Finacle
10 6 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.35%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 462 (26.97%) Azure
2 284 (16.58%) AWS
3 155 (9.05%) Power Platform
4 121 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (6.01%) GCP
6 102 (5.95%) GitHub
7 100 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (5.55%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (3.91%) Entra ID
10 65 (3.79%) SaaS
11 55 (3.21%) Serverless
12 49 (2.86%) Amazon S3
13 48 (2.80%) PaaS
14 47 (2.74%) OCI
15 46 (2.69%) IaaS
16 43 (2.51%) Snowflake
17 40 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 36 (2.10%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.73%) Firewall
2 48 (2.80%) Network Security
3 44 (2.57%) DNS
4 40 (2.34%) VPN
5 24 (1.40%) SAN
5 24 (1.40%) WAN
6 21 (1.23%) VLAN
7 18 (1.05%) NAS
8 17 (0.99%) DHCP
8 17 (0.99%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.82%) BGP
9 14 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.70%) LAN
10 12 (0.70%) OSPF
11 11 (0.64%) MPLS
11 11 (0.64%) VSAN
12 9 (0.53%) DKIM
13 8 (0.47%) DMARC
13 8 (0.47%) HTTP
14 7 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.65%) Power BI
2 79 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 53 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (2.34%) Tableau
7 38 (2.22%) Metadata
8 36 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (1.11%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.93%) DB2
13 16 (0.93%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.82%) MySQL
15 14 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 102 (5.95%) JIRA
2 38 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.04%) Git
4 22 (1.28%) GitLab
5 14 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.47%) JUnit
7 8 (0.47%) Selenium
8 7 (0.41%) Chocolatey
9 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.23%) Gradle
11 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Mockito
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Toad
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 555 (32.40%) Finance
2 505 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 174 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.99%) Banking
5 144 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.91%) Retail
7 58 (3.39%) Law
8 54 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (2.63%) Legal
10 29 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.58%) Marketing
11 27 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.23%) General Ledger
14 21 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.23%) Local Government
15 16 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 302 (17.63%) Architect
2 225 (13.13%) Lead
3 208 (12.14%) Analyst
4 182 (10.62%) Senior
5 140 (8.17%) Consultant
6 139 (8.11%) Business Analyst
7 119 (6.95%) Project Manager
8 89 (5.20%) Data Engineer
9 87 (5.08%) Developer
10 71 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
11 62 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
12 56 (3.27%) Migration Engineer
13 55 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
13 55 (3.21%) Migration Manager
14 54 (3.15%) Data Analyst
15 48 (2.80%) Migration Analyst
16 44 (2.57%) Lead Architect
17 41 (2.39%) Data Architect
17 41 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.69%) REST
2 43 (2.51%) Middleware
3 41 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
4 34 (1.98%) .NET
5 33 (1.93%) Kafka
6 28 (1.63%) PySpark
7 23 (1.34%) Spring
7 23 (1.34%) XML
8 20 (1.17%) SAML
9 19 (1.11%) SOAP
10 18 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 15 (0.88%) JSON
11 15 (0.88%) OAuth
12 13 (0.76%) HTML
12 13 (0.76%) OpenID
12 13 (0.76%) React
13 12 (0.70%) CSS
14 11 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
15 10 (0.58%) ADO
15 10 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.87%) Legacy Systems
2 117 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 68 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 54 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 41 (2.39%) Replication
7 37 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 36 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 32 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.52%) Mainframe
13 25 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.82%) Clustering
16 14 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.82%) Reference Data
17 13 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 13 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.41%) Windows
2 50 (2.92%) Linux
3 30 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.46%) VMS
6 24 (1.40%) Unix
7 11 (0.64%) zOS
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.29%) Android
11 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.23%) SUSE
12 3 (0.18%) Solaris
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.058%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (34.50%) Data Migration
2 317 (18.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (18.27%) Agile
4 283 (16.52%) DevOps
5 237 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 209 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 206 (12.03%) CI/CD
8 198 (11.56%) Validation
9 189 (11.03%) Data Modelling
10 183 (10.68%) ERP
10 183 (10.68%) User Acceptance Testing
11 167 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
12 161 (9.40%) Analytics
13 155 (9.05%) ETL
14 149 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 140 (8.17%) Infrastructure as Code
16 139 (8.11%) Project Management
17 116 (6.77%) Project Delivery
18 112 (6.54%) Decision-Making
18 112 (6.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 275 (16.05%) SQL
2 153 (8.93%) Python
3 91 (5.31%) Java
4 69 (4.03%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.63%) C#
7 19 (1.11%) Bicep
8 18 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 17 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.76%) VBA
11 12 (0.70%) Bash
12 9 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.53%) Ruby
13 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.47%) REXX
14 7 (0.41%) Korn
15 6 (0.35%) PHP
15 6 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 304 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 255 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.84%) Degree
4 56 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.34%) PMP
6 37 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.88%) CIMA
12 15 (0.88%) CISSP
13 12 (0.70%) CBAP
13 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.70%) IIBA
14 11 (0.64%) CCNP
14 11 (0.64%) CISM
14 11 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.79%) QA
3 72 (4.20%) GDPR
4 33 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.46%) PMO
5 25 (1.46%) SLA
6 24 (1.40%) NIST
7 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.64%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.58%) NCSC
8 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.53%) IFRS
10 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.47%) SEPA
11 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.29%) Basel III
12 5 (0.29%) GAAP
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 83 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.98%) Docker
3 47 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.88%) NFS
7 14 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.70%) vSphere
9 8 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.35%) Varnish
10 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.29%) Postfix
12 4 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.18%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (9.52%) Terraform
2 104 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.39%) Ansible
5 31 (1.81%) SCCM
6 17 (0.99%) Grafana
7 14 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.64%) AirWatch
9 11 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.58%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.47%) vMotion
12 6 (0.35%) VxRail
13 5 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.29%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.23%) Argo
14 4 (0.23%) Istio
14 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 388 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 155 (9.05%) Oracle
3 128 (7.47%) SAP
4 78 (4.55%) VMware
5 61 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.39%) Databricks
8 51 (2.98%) Google
9 44 (2.57%) Cisco
10 33 (1.93%) Workday
11 30 (1.75%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.52%) Citrix
13 25 (1.46%) Informatica
14 22 (1.28%) IBM
14 22 (1.28%) Pure Storage
15 21 (1.23%) Avaloq
16 19 (1.11%) Splunk
17 16 (0.93%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.82%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.82%) Palo Alto