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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,036 4,421 6,827
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.07% 7.87% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 8.78% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 3,115 4,804
10th Percentile £334 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £631
90th Percentile £713 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 50 49
10th Percentile £16.20 £18.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.13 £35.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +151.92% +63.93%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £85.25 £67.95
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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -4.99%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 2,583 £525 -4.55% 725
London +1 1,391 £550 -6.58% 304
UK excluding London -4 1,233 £500 - 448
Work from Home -3 1,172 £525 -0.94% 411
South East -2 329 £500 -4.76% 88
North of England -5 315 £500 -4.76% 114
South West 0 170 £470 -14.55% 47
North West -5 170 £500 - 61
Midlands -7 170 £520 +4.00% 104
Yorkshire -2 129 £500 -8.68% 42
Scotland -3 129 £494 +0.66% 44
West Midlands -7 108 £520 +1.66% 74
East of England -13 105 £525 +15.07% 42
East Midlands +1 61 £500 +5.26% 30
Wales +12 24 £515 -12.12% 5
North East +14 18 £525 +23.53% 12
Northern Ireland -1 6 - - 10

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 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 102 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (1.98%) Confluence
4 31 (1.02%) CMS
5 21 (0.69%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
8 15 (0.49%) IIS
8 15 (0.49%) SAS
9 13 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
10 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
10 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.26%) JBoss
12 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
12 7 (0.23%) Drupal
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 53 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.13%) Trello
7 3 (0.099%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.066%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 116 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.46%) Elite 3E
7 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.40%) SAP MDG
8 10 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
8 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
8 10 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
10 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.23%) SAP PP
11 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 694 (22.86%) Azure
2 348 (11.46%) AWS
3 230 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 182 (5.99%) Power Platform
5 149 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
6 132 (4.35%) GCP
7 115 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 87 (2.87%) SaaS
10 64 (2.11%) PaaS
11 59 (1.94%) Serverless
12 56 (1.84%) IaaS
13 54 (1.78%) Amazon S3
14 52 (1.71%) GitHub
15 51 (1.68%) OCI
16 50 (1.65%) PowerApps
17 42 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
18 41 (1.35%) OneDrive
19 37 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
20 34 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.18%) Firewall
2 74 (2.44%) DNS
3 65 (2.14%) WAN
4 61 (2.01%) VPN
5 60 (1.98%) LAN
6 46 (1.52%) Network Security
7 42 (1.38%) SAN
8 41 (1.35%) DHCP
9 39 (1.28%) MPLS
10 30 (0.99%) Wireless
11 28 (0.92%) BGP
12 27 (0.89%) DMZ
12 27 (0.89%) IPsec
13 26 (0.86%) FTP
13 26 (0.86%) TCP/IP
14 24 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.56%) Internet
16 17 (0.56%) VoIP
17 16 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 141 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (4.22%) Power BI
4 88 (2.90%) Oracle Database
5 86 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 48 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.55%) Big Data
9 44 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 40 (1.32%) MySQL
12 36 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 34 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
14 32 (1.05%) Tableau
15 29 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
15 29 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.82%) Metadata
17 23 (0.76%) MongoDB
17 23 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
18 20 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (4.51%) JIRA
2 60 (1.98%) Git
3 47 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.82%) GitLab
6 22 (0.72%) Selenium
7 18 (0.59%) JUnit
7 18 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.43%) ERwin
10 11 (0.36%) LSMW
10 11 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.30%) JMeter
11 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.30%) Maven
12 8 (0.26%) Postman
12 8 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 683 (22.50%) Finance
2 682 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 314 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 230 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 221 (7.28%) Banking
6 86 (2.83%) Retail
7 75 (2.47%) Legal
8 69 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 63 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 61 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 46 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.42%) Marketing
14 37 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.09%) Local Government
16 31 (1.02%) Billing
17 30 (0.99%) Law
18 27 (0.89%) Back Office
19 25 (0.82%) Investment Banking
20 19 (0.63%) German Language
Job Titles
1 532 (17.52%) Architect
2 322 (10.61%) Analyst
3 304 (10.01%) Consultant
4 299 (9.85%) Project Manager
5 267 (8.79%) Developer
6 246 (8.10%) Senior
7 199 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
8 179 (5.90%) Lead
9 149 (4.91%) Business Analyst
10 120 (3.95%) Migration Engineer
11 113 (3.72%) Data Engineer
12 96 (3.16%) Network Engineer
13 90 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 87 (2.87%) Migration Manager
15 82 (2.70%) Data Analyst
16 80 (2.64%) Data Architect
17 66 (2.17%) Migration Project Manager
18 63 (2.08%) DBA
19 62 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
19 62 (2.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.00%) .NET
2 61 (2.01%) REST
2 61 (2.01%) Web Services
3 51 (1.68%) JSON
4 40 (1.32%) XML
5 39 (1.28%) LDAP
6 37 (1.22%) Spring
7 36 (1.19%) CSS
8 32 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
9 31 (1.02%) HTML
10 30 (0.99%) Kafka
10 30 (0.99%) Middleware
11 29 (0.96%) SOAP
12 28 (0.92%) SailPoint
12 28 (0.92%) WCF
13 26 (0.86%) React
14 23 (0.76%) SAML
14 23 (0.76%) Spring Boot
15 20 (0.66%) AngularJS
16 19 (0.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 210 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 125 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 88 (2.90%) Replication
4 77 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 54 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 52 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 36 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 31 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 28 (0.92%) NHS
13 27 (0.89%) Clustering
14 26 (0.86%) Taxonomies
15 24 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.69%) PKI
17 20 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 335 (11.03%) Windows
2 179 (5.90%) Linux
3 105 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 94 (3.10%) Unix
5 65 (2.14%) Windows 10
6 43 (1.42%) VMS
7 41 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 32 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 23 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.53%) Solaris
13 14 (0.46%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.23%) Android
17 7 (0.23%) CentOS
18 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 964 (31.75%) Data Migration
2 484 (15.94%) Agile
3 383 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
4 317 (10.44%) DevOps
5 262 (8.63%) Project Management
6 258 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (6.23%) CI/CD
8 185 (6.09%) Project Delivery
9 174 (5.73%) Data Modelling
10 168 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
10 168 (5.53%) ETL
11 166 (5.47%) Data Management
12 160 (5.27%) Analytics
13 154 (5.07%) Change Management
14 148 (4.87%) ERP
15 147 (4.84%) Computer Science
16 145 (4.78%) Roadmaps
17 132 (4.35%) Scrum
18 131 (4.31%) CRM
19 129 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 445 (14.66%) SQL
2 190 (6.26%) PowerShell
3 173 (5.70%) Python
4 138 (4.55%) Java
5 99 (3.26%) C#
6 80 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 32 (1.05%) Bash
8 32 (1.05%) PHP
9 29 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.82%) Perl
11 23 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 22 (0.72%) ABAP
13 16 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.46%) Go
15 11 (0.36%) Bicep
15 11 (0.36%) Scala
16 9 (0.30%) Groovy
17 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 376 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 268 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 246 (8.10%) Degree
4 85 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 61 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.86%) CCNP
11 25 (0.82%) PMP
12 21 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.56%) CCNA
15 16 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.46%) CISSP
17 12 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 11 (0.36%) SAP Certification
19 10 (0.33%) AWS Certification
19 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 124 (4.08%) QA
3 44 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.45%) GDPR
4 36 (1.19%) PMO
5 24 (0.79%) NIST
6 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.30%) SLA
8 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.26%) WCAG
9 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.16%) GRC
10 5 (0.16%) IFRS
11 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.099%) GxP
12 3 (0.099%) NCSC
13 2 (0.066%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 267 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 110 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (2.21%) Docker
4 49 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.05%) vSphere
6 27 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.66%) 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 (0.43%) 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 (0.066%) BitLocker
17 2 (0.066%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 125 (4.12%) Terraform
2 79 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.04%) Ansible
4 54 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.71%) SCCM
6 48 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (0.89%) Grafana
9 15 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.46%) Prometheus
11 13 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.43%) VxRail
12 12 (0.40%) Nagios
12 12 (0.40%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.33%) Puppet
15 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 545 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 304 (10.01%) SAP
3 269 (8.86%) Oracle
4 159 (5.24%) VMware
5 142 (4.68%) Cisco
6 70 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.21%) Google
8 59 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.88%) Dell
10 46 (1.52%) Databricks
11 42 (1.38%) Citrix
12 40 (1.32%) F5
13 39 (1.28%) CheckPoint
13 39 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 37 (1.22%) Micro Focus
15 35 (1.15%) Juniper
16 34 (1.12%) NetApp
17 31 (1.02%) Red Hat
18 30 (0.99%) Atlassian
19 28 (0.92%) Informatica