Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -28
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,021 3,494 5,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.94% 3.59% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.76% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 2,500 3,605
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,970 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.76% +15.81% +10.53%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Salary trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 2,545 £60,000 -7.69% 753
UK excluding London +41 2,017 £50,000 -17.76% 471
Work from Home 0 1,263 £57,500 -14.81% 411
London -16 817 £75,000 -3.23% 310
North of England +65 659 £52,500 -12.50% 114
South East +3 379 £51,500 -15.30% 103
North West +77 375 £50,000 -17.76% 63
Midlands +10 319 £50,000 -17.76% 110
Yorkshire +50 206 £57,500 -0.54% 41
Scotland +27 195 £50,000 -18.03% 43
South West -25 190 £55,000 -9.54% 47
West Midlands -15 170 £51,300 -15.76% 81
East of England +10 146 £47,500 -22.00% 44
East Midlands +43 144 £47,500 -21.88% 29
Wales +37 84 £51,997 -14.48% 5
North East +22 78 £50,000 - 11
Northern Ireland +50 44 £40,000 -11.11% 11
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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
1 196 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 162 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.52%) WebLogic
4 44 (1.46%) Confluence
5 41 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.83%) IIS
7 20 (0.66%) Apache
7 20 (0.66%) CMS
8 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 17 (0.56%) Drupal
9 17 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
10 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
11 12 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (0.30%) FileNet
13 9 (0.30%) nginx
13 9 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.26%) Captiva
15 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 111 (3.67%) MS Visio
2 94 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 86 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.53%) Trello
5 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.43%) Sketch
7 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.23%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.099%) FrameMaker
10 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 42 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
5 24 (0.79%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
10 10 (0.33%) SAP CX
11 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.20%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (40.95%) Azure
2 793 (26.25%) AWS
3 485 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (13.67%) Power Platform
5 262 (8.67%) GCP
6 221 (7.32%) SaaS
7 148 (4.90%) Entra ID
8 135 (4.47%) OneDrive
9 122 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
10 97 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 74 (2.45%) Dropbox
12 73 (2.42%) Amazon S3
13 71 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (2.35%) PaaS
14 69 (2.28%) Google Drive
14 69 (2.28%) Serverless
15 67 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 66 (2.18%) Power Automate
17 65 (2.15%) PowerApps
18 64 (2.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 211 (6.98%) Firewall
2 184 (6.09%) DNS
3 114 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 105 (3.48%) WAN
5 103 (3.41%) LAN
6 80 (2.65%) DHCP
6 80 (2.65%) VPN
7 74 (2.45%) SSL
8 65 (2.15%) SAN
9 56 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.82%) Wireless
11 54 (1.79%) BGP
12 47 (1.56%) Network Security
13 39 (1.29%) NAS
14 36 (1.19%) VLAN
15 35 (1.16%) Internet
15 35 (1.16%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.86%) Unified Communications
17 24 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
18 20 (0.66%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (11.39%) Power BI
2 303 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 231 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
4 193 (6.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 158 (5.23%) Oracle Database
6 122 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
7 110 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 92 (3.05%) Oracle Database 11g
9 86 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (2.78%) Data Lake
11 78 (2.58%) Geospatial Data
11 78 (2.58%) MySQL
12 69 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (2.22%) RDBMS
14 48 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 43 (1.42%) Data Mining
16 40 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 39 (1.29%) NoSQL
18 37 (1.22%) Big Data
19 35 (1.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 189 (6.26%) JIRA
2 107 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.12%) Git
4 55 (1.82%) GitLab
5 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 22 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 20 (0.66%) Subversion
8 17 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 14 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.43%) Postman
12 11 (0.36%) Selenium
12 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.33%) gulp
13 10 (0.33%) JMeter
13 10 (0.33%) Yeoman
14 9 (0.30%) JUnit
15 8 (0.26%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.26%) MSI
General
1 850 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 646 (21.38%) Finance
3 268 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 177 (5.86%) Law
6 171 (5.66%) Retail
7 160 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 143 (4.73%) Banking
9 136 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
10 102 (3.38%) Marketing
11 95 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 73 (2.42%) Legal
13 57 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.49%) Retail Banking
15 44 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 34 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.06%) Back Office
18 28 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 583 (19.30%) Senior
2 578 (19.13%) Architect
3 343 (11.35%) Developer
4 298 (9.86%) Analyst
5 286 (9.47%) Consultant
6 282 (9.33%) Lead
7 194 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
8 173 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
9 140 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 132 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 102 (3.38%) Business Analyst
11 102 (3.38%) Database Engineer
12 101 (3.34%) IT Engineer
13 100 (3.31%) Senior Database Engineer
14 98 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 94 (3.11%) Data Engineer
16 93 (3.08%) Database Developer
17 92 (3.05%) Administrator
18 91 (3.01%) PostgreSQL Developer
19 80 (2.65%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (3.38%) .NET
2 75 (2.48%) Spring Boot
3 74 (2.45%) HTML
4 60 (1.99%) REST
5 56 (1.85%) CSS
6 51 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 48 (1.59%) React
8 44 (1.46%) Spring
9 42 (1.39%) Kafka
10 41 (1.36%) Node.js
10 41 (1.36%) PySpark
11 36 (1.19%) XML
12 35 (1.16%) AngularJS
13 30 (0.99%) JSON
14 29 (0.96%) Web Services
15 27 (0.89%) SOAP
16 25 (0.83%) Middleware
17 19 (0.63%) LDAP
17 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.78%) Public Cloud
2 146 (4.83%) Data Centre
3 142 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 141 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 92 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (2.85%) PKI
9 84 (2.78%) Cloud Native
10 69 (2.28%) iPad
11 55 (1.82%) Data Structures
12 53 (1.75%) Onboarding
13 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 49 (1.62%) Product Ownership
15 47 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.16%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.16%) Reinsurance
17 32 (1.06%) Replication
18 31 (1.03%) IoT
19 26 (0.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 362 (11.98%) Windows
2 234 (7.75%) Linux
3 192 (6.36%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 31 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.99%) Android
7 30 (0.99%) Unix
8 28 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.79%) Windows 7
10 23 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 21 (0.70%) VMS
12 20 (0.66%) Windows 8
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.17%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.13%) AIX
17 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (26.32%) Data Migration
2 681 (22.54%) Agile
3 493 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
4 447 (14.80%) DevOps
5 386 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
6 381 (12.61%) Roadmaps
7 369 (12.21%) Project Management
8 342 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
9 288 (9.53%) ETL
10 258 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
11 251 (8.31%) ERP
12 231 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 214 (7.08%) Mentoring
14 195 (6.45%) Data Modelling
15 190 (6.29%) Analytics
16 181 (5.99%) CI/CD
17 173 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 172 (5.69%) TOGAF
19 170 (5.63%) ITIL
20 168 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 689 (22.81%) SQL
2 214 (7.08%) Python
3 183 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 160 (5.30%) Java
5 123 (4.07%) PL/SQL
6 110 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 86 (2.85%) C#
8 54 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 35 (1.16%) PHP
10 33 (1.09%) Bash
11 31 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 26 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 22 (0.73%) Groovy
13 22 (0.73%) Scala
14 17 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.46%) C++
15 14 (0.46%) Go
15 14 (0.46%) Perl
16 11 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 330 (10.92%) Degree
2 249 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 181 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 126 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 124 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 103 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (2.65%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 66 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.39%) CCNA
12 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.22%) CCNP
14 24 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (0.79%) DV Cleared
15 19 (0.63%) CISSP
15 19 (0.63%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.60%) PMP
17 14 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
18 12 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.44%) Data Quality
2 77 (2.55%) QA
3 57 (1.89%) GDPR
4 34 (1.13%) PMO
5 29 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.83%) SLA
7 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.43%) IFRS
9 11 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.30%) NIST
11 6 (0.20%) GAAP
12 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.13%) MiFID
13 3 (0.099%) GMP
13 3 (0.099%) GRC
13 3 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.066%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.066%) NCSC
System Software
1 294 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 145 (4.80%) Docker
3 111 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (0.33%) vSphere
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.099%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.099%) HDFS
11 3 (0.099%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.066%) Firmware
12 2 (0.066%) NFS
12 2 (0.066%) pfSense
12 2 (0.066%) Varnish
12 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 208 (6.89%) Terraform
2 138 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 130 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 102 (3.38%) Ansible
5 36 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 33 (1.09%) SCCM
7 27 (0.89%) Puppet
8 21 (0.70%) Grafana
9 17 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.30%) Graphite
12 9 (0.30%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.30%) Nagios
12 9 (0.30%) Packer
13 7 (0.23%) WSUS
14 6 (0.20%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 968 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 366 (12.12%) Oracle
3 259 (8.57%) Google
4 196 (6.49%) VMware
5 134 (4.44%) SAP
6 106 (3.51%) Cisco
7 73 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 69 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 67 (2.22%) Databricks
10 51 (1.69%) Sparx
11 47 (1.56%) Citrix
12 38 (1.26%) Veeam
13 37 (1.22%) IBM
14 36 (1.19%) Informatica
15 31 (1.03%) Apple
16 29 (0.96%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.93%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.89%) HP
19 25 (0.83%) CheckPoint
20 24 (0.79%) Dell