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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,660 1,185 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.85% 9.38% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 10.27% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 825 997
10th Percentile £381 £388 £363
25th Percentile £460 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £663
90th Percentile £738 £870 £743
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 15
10th Percentile £16.24 £21.43 £23.65
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.50 £54.87
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 £46.23
% change year-on-year -17.13% -37.81% -26.91%

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 15,087 11,541 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.38% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 7,833 11,413
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 170 337
10th Percentile £18.11 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -7 232 £565 +2.73% 88
South London +7 35 £463 +8.50% 7
West London -3 25 £550 +10.00% 18
East London -5 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 74 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.13%) Confluence
3 50 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.84%) Apache
7 11 (0.66%) SAS
8 9 (0.54%) CMS
9 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.24%) nginx
12 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.18%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.12%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 73 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 33 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (1.02%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.48%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.36%) Finacle
10 6 (0.36%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.36%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 451 (27.17%) Azure
2 273 (16.45%) AWS
3 150 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (6.14%) GitHub
6 100 (6.02%) GCP
7 95 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (3.98%) Entra ID
9 60 (3.61%) SaaS
10 48 (2.89%) OCI
10 48 (2.89%) Serverless
11 44 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 43 (2.59%) PaaS
12 43 (2.59%) Snowflake
13 41 (2.47%) IaaS
14 39 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (2.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.58%) Firewall
2 46 (2.77%) Network Security
3 40 (2.41%) DNS
4 39 (2.35%) VPN
5 24 (1.45%) SAN
5 24 (1.45%) WAN
6 22 (1.33%) VLAN
7 18 (1.08%) NAS
8 17 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.96%) DHCP
10 14 (0.84%) BGP
10 14 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.72%) LAN
11 12 (0.72%) OSPF
12 11 (0.66%) VSAN
13 10 (0.60%) MPLS
14 9 (0.54%) DKIM
15 8 (0.48%) DMARC
16 7 (0.42%) SSL
16 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.65%) Power BI
2 79 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 50 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (2.29%) Metadata
7 37 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 35 (2.11%) Tableau
9 24 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (0.96%) DB2
13 15 (0.90%) MySQL
13 15 (0.90%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.84%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 107 (6.45%) JIRA
2 36 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.05%) Git
4 22 (1.33%) GitLab
5 14 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.42%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.42%) JUnit
8 7 (0.42%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.24%) LSMW
10 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.24%) Toad
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 540 (32.53%) Finance
2 489 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 164 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (8.98%) Banking
5 141 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.80%) Retail
7 55 (3.31%) Law
8 54 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (2.77%) Legal
10 28 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 26 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.51%) Marketing
14 22 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.27%) General Ledger
15 21 (1.27%) Local Government
16 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
17 16 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 281 (16.93%) Architect
2 219 (13.19%) Lead
3 211 (12.71%) Analyst
4 176 (10.60%) Senior
5 141 (8.49%) Business Analyst
6 137 (8.25%) Consultant
7 118 (7.11%) Project Manager
8 86 (5.18%) Data Engineer
8 86 (5.18%) Developer
9 69 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
10 58 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (3.43%) Migration Engineer
12 56 (3.37%) Migration Manager
13 52 (3.13%) Data Analyst
14 49 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
15 48 (2.89%) Migration Analyst
16 42 (2.53%) Lead Architect
17 40 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 37 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
19 35 (2.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.83%) REST
2 41 (2.47%) Middleware
3 37 (2.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 33 (1.99%) .NET
5 32 (1.93%) Kafka
6 25 (1.51%) PySpark
7 24 (1.45%) XML
8 22 (1.33%) Spring
9 20 (1.20%) SOAP
10 17 (1.02%) Spring Boot
11 16 (0.96%) SAML
12 15 (0.90%) JSON
12 15 (0.90%) OAuth
13 12 (0.72%) HTML
13 12 (0.72%) React
14 11 (0.66%) CSS
14 11 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
15 10 (0.60%) ADO
15 10 (0.60%) Web Services
16 9 (0.54%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.04%) Legacy Systems
2 109 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 65 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 42 (2.53%) Replication
7 37 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.87%) Product Ownership
12 25 (1.51%) Mainframe
13 24 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.84%) Clustering
16 14 (0.84%) Reference Data
17 13 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
17 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
17 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 120 (7.23%) Windows
2 43 (2.59%) Linux
3 30 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.51%) VMS
4 25 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.33%) Unix
6 11 (0.66%) zOS
7 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.30%) Android
10 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.24%) SUSE
10 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (35.30%) Data Migration
2 308 (18.55%) Agile
3 307 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 269 (16.20%) DevOps
5 227 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 201 (12.11%) CI/CD
8 192 (11.57%) Validation
9 189 (11.39%) Data Modelling
10 183 (11.02%) User Acceptance Testing
11 176 (10.60%) ERP
12 164 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
13 160 (9.64%) Analytics
14 157 (9.46%) ETL
15 148 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 140 (8.43%) Project Management
17 132 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (6.87%) Project Delivery
19 110 (6.63%) Decision-Making
19 110 (6.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 274 (16.51%) SQL
2 146 (8.80%) Python
3 88 (5.30%) Java
4 69 (4.16%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.69%) C#
7 18 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 16 (0.96%) Bicep
10 15 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.72%) VBA
12 11 (0.66%) Bash
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.48%) REXX
14 8 (0.48%) Ruby
15 7 (0.42%) Korn
16 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.36%) PHP
16 6 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 289 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.08%) Degree
4 55 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 39 (2.35%) PMP
6 36 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.90%) CISSP
13 13 (0.78%) CIMA
14 12 (0.72%) CBAP
14 12 (0.72%) IIBA
15 11 (0.66%) CCNP
15 11 (0.66%) CISM
15 11 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 81 (4.88%) QA
3 72 (4.34%) GDPR
4 32 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.45%) SLA
6 23 (1.39%) NIST
7 21 (1.27%) PMO
8 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.54%) IFRS
10 9 (0.54%) NCSC
10 9 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.48%) SEPA
12 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.30%) Basel III
13 5 (0.30%) GAAP
13 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 82 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.19%) Docker
3 48 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.78%) NFS
8 12 (0.72%) vSphere
9 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.24%) Firmware
11 4 (0.24%) Varnish
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.18%) Postfix
13 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 156 (9.40%) Terraform
2 100 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (2.41%) Ansible
5 31 (1.87%) SCCM
6 17 (1.02%) Grafana
7 14 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.66%) AirWatch
9 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.60%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.48%) vMotion
12 6 (0.36%) VxRail
13 5 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.24%) Argo
14 4 (0.24%) Avamar
14 4 (0.24%) Istio
14 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 377 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 152 (9.16%) Oracle
3 128 (7.71%) SAP
4 79 (4.76%) VMware
5 60 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 56 (3.37%) Databricks
6 56 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 50 (3.01%) Google
8 41 (2.47%) Cisco
9 35 (2.11%) Workday
10 30 (1.81%) CyberArk
11 26 (1.57%) Informatica
12 24 (1.45%) Citrix
13 22 (1.33%) Pure Storage
14 21 (1.27%) Avaloq
14 21 (1.27%) IBM
15 18 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.84%) Palo Alto