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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,804 1,156 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.21% 9.35% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.57% 10.14% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 783 992
10th Percentile £363 £388 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £875 £743
England median daily rate £514 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -3.34% +1.29% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 6
10th Percentile £16.36 £22.00 £34.62
25th Percentile £24.42 £22.79 £50.42
Median hourly rate £33.19 £29.90 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -55.70% +52.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.42 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.50 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -42.24%

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 15,594 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,437 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +1 254 £550 - 90
South London +9 34 £463 -3.14% 4
West London -5 30 £445 -28.80% 8
East London -1 11 £498 -2.45% 4
North London -1 4 £410 -6.82% 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 93 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.99%) Confluence
2 54 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.94%) Apache
6 14 (0.78%) SAS
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.17%) CICS
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 74 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 74 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.00%) Loan IQ
4 17 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.61%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
11 6 (0.33%) Finacle
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 471 (26.11%) Azure
2 294 (16.30%) AWS
3 148 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 133 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (5.71%) GCP
7 98 (5.43%) GitHub
8 89 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 66 (3.66%) SaaS
11 50 (2.77%) PaaS
11 50 (2.77%) Serverless
12 49 (2.72%) Amazon S3
13 48 (2.66%) Snowflake
14 45 (2.49%) IaaS
15 43 (2.38%) OCI
16 41 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 34 (1.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.43%) Firewall
2 46 (2.55%) Network Security
3 44 (2.44%) DNS
4 32 (1.77%) VPN
5 26 (1.44%) VLAN
6 24 (1.33%) SAN
7 22 (1.22%) WAN
8 19 (1.05%) NAS
9 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.89%) BGP
11 15 (0.83%) DHCP
12 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.67%) 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 8 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.04%) Power BI
2 75 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 43 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (2.33%) Metadata
7 37 (2.05%) Tableau
8 26 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (1.11%) DB2
11 18 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 18 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.83%) Delta Lake
14 14 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (6.87%) JIRA
2 40 (2.22%) Git
3 39 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.72%) GitLab
5 14 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.50%) 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%) Gradle
10 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.28%) LSMW
10 5 (0.28%) Mockito
11 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 575 (31.87%) Finance
2 491 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 161 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.48%) Banking
5 145 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.21%) Retail
7 51 (2.83%) Law
8 50 (2.77%) Legal
9 48 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.44%) Marketing
13 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.16%) General Ledger
14 21 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.05%) Local Government
16 19 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 333 (18.46%) Architect
2 260 (14.41%) Lead
3 200 (11.09%) Analyst
4 181 (10.03%) Senior
5 151 (8.37%) Consultant
6 133 (7.37%) Project Manager
7 130 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 97 (5.38%) Data Engineer
9 86 (4.77%) Developer
10 79 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 58 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
12 58 (3.22%) Migration Engineer
12 58 (3.22%) Migration Manager
13 54 (2.99%) Data Analyst
13 54 (2.99%) Data Architect
14 50 (2.77%) Data Migration Lead
14 50 (2.77%) Migration Analyst
15 45 (2.49%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (2.49%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
1 49 (2.72%) REST
2 43 (2.38%) .NET
3 40 (2.22%) Middleware
4 38 (2.11%) Kafka
5 30 (1.66%) PySpark
6 22 (1.22%) SOAP
6 22 (1.22%) Spring
7 19 (1.05%) XML
8 18 (1.00%) SAML
8 18 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 17 (0.94%) JSON
9 17 (0.94%) OAuth
10 16 (0.89%) React
10 16 (0.89%) Web Services
11 15 (0.83%) HTML
12 13 (0.72%) .NET Framework
12 13 (0.72%) ADO
13 12 (0.67%) CSS
13 12 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
2 125 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 77 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 61 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 50 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.66%) Replication
7 39 (2.16%) Mainframe
8 37 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 36 (2.00%) Product Ownership
10 35 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
12 30 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.89%) Clustering
16 15 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.83%) Reference Data
17 14 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 13 (0.72%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.65%) Windows
2 52 (2.88%) Linux
3 27 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.33%) Unix
5 22 (1.22%) Windows 10
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 4 (0.22%) Android
11 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) AIX
14 1 (0.055%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (33.92%) Data Migration
2 323 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (17.35%) Agile
4 287 (15.91%) DevOps
5 229 (12.69%) Validation
6 214 (11.86%) CI/CD
6 214 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (11.14%) Data Modelling
8 197 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 190 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 180 (9.98%) ERP
11 162 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
12 153 (8.48%) Analytics
13 152 (8.43%) ETL
13 152 (8.43%) Project Management
14 149 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 145 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
16 127 (7.04%) Roadmaps
17 125 (6.93%) Project Delivery
18 116 (6.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 263 (14.58%) SQL
2 165 (9.15%) Python
3 83 (4.60%) Java
4 62 (3.44%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.77%) C#
6 30 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.94%) Bicep
10 16 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.83%) Bash
12 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.61%) VBA
13 10 (0.55%) Ruby
14 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.44%) REXX
15 6 (0.33%) Scala
15 6 (0.33%) SOQL
16 5 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 305 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 253 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.54%) Degree
4 52 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 48 (2.66%) PMP
6 46 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.83%) CIMA
11 15 (0.83%) CISSP
12 13 (0.72%) CISM
12 13 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.67%) IIBA
14 11 (0.61%) CBAP
14 11 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CCNP
16 9 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.32%) QA
3 66 (3.66%) GDPR
4 28 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.50%) SLA
6 25 (1.39%) NIST
6 25 (1.39%) PMO
7 13 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.67%) SEPA
9 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.55%) NCSC
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.50%) IFRS
11 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.39%) GAAP
12 6 (0.33%) HL7
13 5 (0.28%) Basel III
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.33%) Docker
4 28 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.89%) NFS
5 16 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.67%) vSphere
7 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) Firmware
9 6 (0.33%) Postfix
9 6 (0.33%) Varnish
9 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.22%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 156 (8.65%) Terraform
2 89 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 65 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (2.44%) Ansible
5 24 (1.33%) SCCM
6 16 (0.89%) Grafana
6 16 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.61%) AirWatch
10 10 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.44%) vMotion
12 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.33%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.33%) VxRail
13 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.22%) Avamar
14 4 (0.22%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 381 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 163 (9.04%) Oracle
3 150 (8.31%) SAP
4 73 (4.05%) Databricks
5 71 (3.94%) VMware
6 61 (3.38%) Google
7 56 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 56 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.44%) Cisco
9 33 (1.83%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.55%) Citrix
11 23 (1.27%) IBM
11 23 (1.27%) Workday
12 21 (1.16%) Informatica
13 20 (1.11%) Pure Storage
14 17 (0.94%) Avaloq
15 16 (0.89%) Splunk
16 15 (0.83%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.78%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.72%) Juniper