Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,060 4,456 6,805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.10% 7.90% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 8.81% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,078 3,140 4,803
10th Percentile £334 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £631
90th Percentile £713 £748 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 50 48
10th Percentile £16.20 £18.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.13 £35.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +166.10% +55.20%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £59.81
90th Percentile - £85.25 £69.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -42.86% +235.09% +34.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England -1 2,610 £525 -4.55% 747
London +1 1,405 £540 -8.86% 340
UK excluding London -4 1,246 £500 - 432
Work from Home -4 1,173 £525 -1.87% 425
South East -2 333 £500 -4.76% 83
North of England -4 320 £500 -4.76% 105
Midlands -6 177 £525 +5.00% 87
North West 0 173 £500 - 56
South West -2 167 £475 -13.64% 45
Yorkshire -2 130 £500 -9.09% 40
Scotland 0 129 £491 +0.93% 51
West Midlands -6 114 £525 +3.96% 62
East of England -12 105 £525 +10.53% 49
East Midlands +2 62 £515 +8.42% 24
Wales +13 24 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +17 19 £550 +29.41% 10
Northern Ireland -2 6 - - 14

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 188 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 104 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (1.99%) Confluence
4 29 (0.95%) CMS
5 21 (0.69%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2007
7 16 (0.52%) IIS
7 16 (0.52%) SAS
8 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 13 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
9 12 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2003
9 12 (0.39%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.26%) JBoss
11 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.23%) Drupal
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.098%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.065%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.065%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 121 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.49%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.46%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.39%) SAP MDG
9 11 (0.36%) NEC Housing
10 10 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
10 10 (0.33%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
13 7 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
13 7 (0.23%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 694 (22.68%) Azure
2 353 (11.54%) AWS
3 229 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 183 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 153 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 133 (4.35%) GCP
7 112 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (3.20%) Entra ID
9 85 (2.78%) SaaS
10 65 (2.12%) PaaS
11 58 (1.90%) Serverless
12 57 (1.86%) IaaS
13 55 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 51 (1.67%) OCI
14 51 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 50 (1.63%) GitHub
16 44 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
17 41 (1.34%) OneDrive
18 37 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
19 34 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.25%) Firewall
2 74 (2.42%) DNS
3 65 (2.12%) WAN
4 62 (2.03%) VPN
5 60 (1.96%) LAN
6 46 (1.50%) Network Security
7 43 (1.41%) SAN
8 41 (1.34%) DHCP
9 39 (1.27%) MPLS
10 30 (0.98%) Wireless
11 29 (0.95%) BGP
12 27 (0.88%) DMZ
12 27 (0.88%) IPsec
13 26 (0.85%) FTP
13 26 (0.85%) TCP/IP
14 24 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.59%) VoIP
17 17 (0.56%) Internet
17 17 (0.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 143 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (4.18%) Power BI
4 88 (2.88%) Oracle Database
5 86 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (1.54%) Big Data
9 42 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.31%) MySQL
11 38 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
13 32 (1.05%) Tableau
14 30 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 28 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
16 26 (0.85%) Metadata
17 24 (0.78%) MongoDB
18 23 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
19 20 (0.65%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 138 (4.51%) JIRA
2 58 (1.90%) Git
3 47 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.01%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.82%) GitLab
6 22 (0.72%) Selenium
7 18 (0.59%) JUnit
8 17 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.42%) ERwin
11 11 (0.36%) LSMW
11 11 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.29%) JMeter
12 9 (0.29%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.29%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) Postman
13 8 (0.26%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 688 (22.48%) Finance
2 687 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 316 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 231 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 220 (7.19%) Banking
6 85 (2.78%) Retail
7 74 (2.42%) Legal
8 69 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 66 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 62 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 46 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (1.44%) Marketing
14 37 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.08%) Billing
16 32 (1.05%) Local Government
17 29 (0.95%) Law
18 27 (0.88%) Back Office
19 26 (0.85%) Investment Banking
20 19 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 531 (17.35%) Architect
2 325 (10.62%) Analyst
3 315 (10.29%) Consultant
4 293 (9.58%) Project Manager
5 270 (8.82%) Developer
6 246 (8.04%) Senior
7 199 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
8 182 (5.95%) Lead
9 150 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 125 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
11 118 (3.86%) Data Engineer
12 97 (3.17%) Network Engineer
13 93 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 86 (2.81%) Migration Manager
15 82 (2.68%) Data Analyst
16 79 (2.58%) Data Architect
17 65 (2.12%) Migration Project Manager
18 63 (2.06%) Technical Architect
19 62 (2.03%) DBA
20 61 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (2.88%) .NET
2 62 (2.03%) REST
2 62 (2.03%) Web Services
3 50 (1.63%) JSON
4 38 (1.24%) LDAP
4 38 (1.24%) XML
5 37 (1.21%) CSS
5 37 (1.21%) Spring
6 33 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.05%) HTML
8 30 (0.98%) Kafka
9 29 (0.95%) Middleware
9 29 (0.95%) SailPoint
9 29 (0.95%) SOAP
10 28 (0.92%) WCF
11 26 (0.85%) React
12 23 (0.75%) Spring Boot
13 22 (0.72%) SAML
14 20 (0.65%) AngularJS
15 19 (0.62%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 120 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 88 (2.88%) Replication
4 78 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 53 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 50 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 38 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 27 (0.88%) Clustering
13 27 (0.88%) NHS
14 26 (0.85%) Taxonomies
15 24 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.69%) PKI
17 20 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 337 (11.01%) Windows
2 183 (5.98%) Linux
3 106 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 94 (3.07%) Unix
5 67 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 44 (1.44%) VMS
7 41 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 33 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (0.52%) Solaris
12 15 (0.49%) Apple iOS
13 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
14 12 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
15 9 (0.29%) CentOS
16 8 (0.26%) Android
16 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.20%) AIX
17 6 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (31.67%) Data Migration
2 479 (15.65%) Agile
3 381 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (10.23%) DevOps
5 257 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 253 (8.27%) Project Management
7 187 (6.11%) CI/CD
8 184 (6.01%) Project Delivery
9 177 (5.78%) Data Modelling
10 171 (5.59%) ETL
11 169 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
12 167 (5.46%) Data Management
13 162 (5.29%) Analytics
14 149 (4.87%) ERP
15 147 (4.80%) Change Management
15 147 (4.80%) Computer Science
16 146 (4.77%) Roadmaps
17 131 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 130 (4.25%) CRM
18 130 (4.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 452 (14.77%) SQL
2 190 (6.21%) PowerShell
3 174 (5.69%) Python
4 139 (4.54%) Java
5 98 (3.20%) C#
6 80 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 32 (1.05%) Bash
8 32 (1.05%) PHP
9 29 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.82%) ABAP
10 25 (0.82%) Perl
11 24 (0.78%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.46%) Go
14 11 (0.36%) Bicep
14 11 (0.36%) Scala
15 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.26%) C++
15 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 382 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 272 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 246 (8.04%) Degree
4 85 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 62 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.85%) CCNP
11 24 (0.78%) PMP
12 21 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.59%) CCNA
15 17 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.49%) CISSP
17 12 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 11 (0.36%) AWS Certification
18 11 (0.36%) SAP Certification
19 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.51%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.02%) QA
3 44 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.41%) GDPR
5 32 (1.05%) PMO
6 24 (0.78%) NIST
7 12 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.29%) SLA
9 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.26%) WCAG
10 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) GRC
11 5 (0.16%) IFRS
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.13%) NCSC
13 3 (0.098%) GxP
14 2 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 270 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 111 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.16%) Docker
4 50 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.05%) vSphere
6 27 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.59%) NFS
9 17 (0.56%) HDFS
9 17 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.49%) XenApp
11 13 (0.42%) KVM
12 11 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
15 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.065%) BitLocker
17 2 (0.065%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 125 (4.08%) Terraform
2 81 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.03%) Ansible
4 54 (1.76%) SCCM
4 54 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 48 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 28 (0.92%) Grafana
8 15 (0.49%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.42%) VxRail
11 12 (0.39%) Nagios
11 12 (0.39%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
13 10 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.33%) Puppet
14 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 9 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 549 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 305 (9.97%) SAP
3 267 (8.73%) Oracle
4 161 (5.26%) VMware
5 144 (4.71%) Cisco
6 69 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 68 (2.22%) Google
8 63 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.86%) Dell
10 48 (1.57%) Databricks
11 43 (1.41%) Citrix
12 41 (1.34%) F5
13 40 (1.31%) CheckPoint
13 40 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 37 (1.21%) Micro Focus
15 35 (1.14%) Juniper
16 33 (1.08%) NetApp
16 33 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 30 (0.98%) Atlassian
18 28 (0.92%) Informatica