Migration Contract Job Trends in South London

Migration
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 23 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in South London 11.22% 2.53% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.14% 2.84% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 10
10th Percentile - £388 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £543 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £561 £725 £684
90th Percentile £647 £763 £738
London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 211 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.37% 89.03% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 141 156
10th Percentile £297 £238 £189
25th Percentile £447 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £596
90th Percentile £641 £769 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 17
10th Percentile £51.03 - £18.20
25th Percentile £54.55 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £46.55 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.51% +55.17% -31.99%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £66.62 £80.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
% change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Migration job vacancy trend in South London

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in South London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in South London

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bromley +8 14 £425 -42.37% 9
Croydon +1 4 £578 +28.50% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £275 -
Merton -5 1 £550 +19.89%
Migration
London

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 7 (30.43%) Skype for Business
2 6 (26.09%) Mattermost
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (8.70%) Confluence
5 1 (4.35%) nginx
5 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) Google Sheets
4 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Skype
2 6 (26.09%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.35%) DataStage
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Analyst
2 7 (30.43%) Support Analyst
3 6 (26.09%) Messaging Analyst
3 6 (26.09%) Messaging Support
3 6 (26.09%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Exchange Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Implementation Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) boto
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Change Management
2 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Validation
6 2 (8.70%) ITSM
7 1 (4.35%) Agile
7 1 (4.35%) Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity
7 1 (4.35%) Cash Management
7 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis
7 1 (4.35%) Data Validation
7 1 (4.35%) Regression Testing
7 1 (4.35%) Straight-Through Processing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) SCOM
2 6 (26.09%) HP SiteScope
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Consul
4 1 (4.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (43.48%) Splunk
3 5 (21.74%) Remedy
4 4 (17.39%) BMC
4 4 (17.39%) Trend Micro
5 2 (8.70%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) VMware