Re-Platforming Contract Job Trends in London

Re-Platforming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Re-Platforming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 362 360
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +120
Contract jobs citing Re-Platforming 20 19 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 20
10th Percentile £429 £416 £423
25th Percentile £466 £459 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% -11.94%
75th Percentile £638 £803 £653
90th Percentile £741 £1,138 £800
England median daily rate £525 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Re-Platforming 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 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Re-Platforming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Re-Platforming job vacancy trend in London

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Re-Platforming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Re-Platforming

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Re-Platforming in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Re-Platforming in London

Re-Platforming
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Re-Platforming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Re-Platforming

Re-Platforming
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 Re-Platforming within the London region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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 0 5 £625 -39.76% 2
Re-Platforming
England

Re-Platforming
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 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.00%) CICS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) NAS
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) 3D Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Re-Platforming Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) HATEOAS
2 2 (10.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (15.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Refactoring
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) Fintech
5 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Validation
6 1 (5.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.00%) PMP
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Kony
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) NetApp
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Percona