Migration Contracts in England

Migration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,571 3,792 5,623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.96% 7.50% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 8.31% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 2,757 4,014
10th Percentile £334 £335 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £727 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 41 43
10th Percentile £16.40 £18.50 £13.77
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.12 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.67% +150.00% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £54.88
90th Percentile - £85.00 £75.81
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% +136.36% +71.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +3 1,370 £550 -4.35% 275
South East +2 326 £500 -4.76% 93
North of England -1 316 £500 -4.76% 104
South West +4 175 £475 -7.32% 45
North West -2 170 £500 - 47
Midlands -6 167 £556 +11.25% 71
Yorkshire -1 131 £500 -9.09% 43
East of England -13 106 £500 +17.65% 28
West Midlands -11 105 £563 +12.50% 39
East Midlands +6 61 £550 +15.79% 31
North East +25 17 £500 - 15
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 152 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 99 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (1.44%) Confluence
4 28 (1.09%) CMS
5 17 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (0.54%) IIS
8 12 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 12 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
9 11 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2003
9 11 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.39%) SAS
11 9 (0.35%) Apache
12 8 (0.31%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.27%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.27%) JBoss
13 7 (0.27%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.23%) Drupal
14 6 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.16%) Trello
7 3 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.078%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.078%) Maya
9 1 (0.039%) Weka
Business Applications
1 77 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.44%) Loan IQ
4 24 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.58%) SAP MDG
6 14 (0.54%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.35%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
9 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.27%) SAP Retail
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.23%) SAP PM
12 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 574 (22.33%) Azure
2 260 (10.11%) AWS
3 204 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
4 151 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 121 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
6 102 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.77%) GCP
8 90 (3.50%) Entra ID
9 81 (3.15%) SaaS
10 42 (1.63%) IaaS
11 40 (1.56%) PaaS
12 35 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 34 (1.32%) Serverless
14 33 (1.28%) OCI
15 31 (1.21%) Snowflake
16 30 (1.17%) GitHub
16 30 (1.17%) OneDrive
17 26 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 25 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
19 24 (0.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 131 (5.10%) Firewall
2 93 (3.62%) DNS
3 75 (2.92%) WAN
4 70 (2.72%) LAN
5 57 (2.22%) VPN
6 55 (2.14%) DHCP
7 53 (2.06%) Network Security
8 41 (1.59%) SAN
9 33 (1.28%) MPLS
10 31 (1.21%) Wireless
11 29 (1.13%) DMZ
12 26 (1.01%) BGP
12 26 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.97%) IPsec
14 23 (0.89%) FTP
15 19 (0.74%) SSL
16 18 (0.70%) OSPF
16 18 (0.70%) TCP/IP
16 18 (0.70%) WLAN
17 17 (0.66%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 129 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (4.24%) Power BI
4 70 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (2.61%) Oracle Database
6 51 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 43 (1.67%) Big Data
8 39 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (1.17%) MySQL
11 29 (1.13%) Tableau
12 28 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 26 (1.01%) NoSQL
14 23 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
14 23 (0.89%) RDBMS
15 19 (0.74%) Metadata
16 18 (0.70%) DB2
16 18 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 98 (3.81%) JIRA
2 42 (1.63%) Git
3 35 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.17%) TeamCity
5 20 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.74%) GitLab
7 16 (0.62%) Selenium
8 13 (0.51%) ERwin
8 13 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 12 (0.47%) JUnit
10 9 (0.35%) LSMW
10 9 (0.35%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (0.23%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.23%) TestRail
13 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 642 (24.97%) Finance
2 592 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 244 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 199 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (7.51%) Banking
6 82 (3.19%) Retail
7 61 (2.37%) Legal
8 58 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 48 (1.87%) Marketing
11 42 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.24%) Law
14 31 (1.21%) Local Government
15 30 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 27 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 20 (0.78%) German Language
17 20 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 413 (16.06%) Architect
2 279 (10.85%) Project Manager
3 265 (10.31%) Analyst
4 251 (9.76%) Consultant
5 207 (8.05%) Developer
6 198 (7.70%) Senior
7 168 (6.53%) Lead
8 141 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 130 (5.06%) Business Analyst
10 120 (4.67%) Migration Engineer
11 105 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 90 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 88 (3.42%) Network Engineer
14 76 (2.96%) Migration Manager
15 75 (2.92%) Data Architect
16 72 (2.80%) Data Analyst
17 59 (2.29%) Migration Project Manager
17 59 (2.29%) Technical Architect
18 54 (2.10%) Data Migration Lead
19 53 (2.06%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.99%) .NET
2 52 (2.02%) JSON
3 36 (1.40%) XML
4 35 (1.36%) Web Services
5 34 (1.32%) LDAP
6 24 (0.93%) REST
7 23 (0.89%) WCF
8 22 (0.86%) CSS
8 22 (0.86%) Kafka
8 22 (0.86%) Middleware
8 22 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (0.86%) Spring
9 19 (0.74%) SAML
10 18 (0.70%) SailPoint
10 18 (0.70%) Spring Boot
10 18 (0.70%) WinForms
11 17 (0.66%) HTML
11 17 (0.66%) React
12 15 (0.58%) ARM Templates
13 13 (0.51%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 110 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
3 61 (2.37%) Replication
4 58 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 47 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 43 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 34 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 30 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.09%) Clustering
11 25 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (0.93%) NHS
13 22 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (0.86%) PKI
13 22 (0.86%) Taxonomies
14 21 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.54%) FMCG
15 14 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 311 (12.10%) Windows
2 154 (5.99%) Linux
3 108 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 75 (2.92%) Unix
5 58 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 39 (1.52%) VMS
8 37 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.58%) Solaris
13 14 (0.54%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.39%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.23%) Android
16 6 (0.23%) CentOS
17 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (34.19%) Data Migration
2 394 (15.32%) Agile
3 367 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
4 262 (10.19%) Project Management
5 258 (10.04%) DevOps
6 232 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 168 (6.53%) Project Delivery
8 164 (6.38%) Data Modelling
9 160 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
10 146 (5.68%) Data Management
11 140 (5.45%) ETL
12 139 (5.41%) Analytics
12 139 (5.41%) CI/CD
13 136 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 134 (5.21%) Change Management
14 134 (5.21%) User Acceptance Testing
15 126 (4.90%) Computer Science
15 126 (4.90%) ERP
16 110 (4.28%) Roadmaps
17 109 (4.24%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 381 (14.82%) SQL
2 160 (6.22%) PowerShell
3 138 (5.37%) Python
4 94 (3.66%) Java
5 84 (3.27%) C#
6 50 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 39 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 24 (0.93%) Bash
9 23 (0.89%) ABAP
10 22 (0.86%) PHP
10 22 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.78%) Perl
12 13 (0.51%) Go
13 8 (0.31%) Swift
14 7 (0.27%) COBOL
14 7 (0.27%) Scala
14 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.23%) Bicep
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 5 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 320 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 243 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 201 (7.82%) Degree
4 76 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 55 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.78%) CCNP
11 19 (0.74%) PMP
12 17 (0.66%) CCNA
13 14 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.51%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.39%) SAP Certification
16 9 (0.35%) CISSP
16 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.40%) QA
3 41 (1.59%) GDPR
4 33 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.28%) PMO
5 23 (0.89%) NIST
6 11 (0.43%) SLA
7 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.19%) GRC
9 5 (0.19%) IFRS
9 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.16%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.16%) WCAG
11 2 (0.078%) GxP
11 2 (0.078%) HL7
11 2 (0.078%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.078%) NCSC
11 2 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 257 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 94 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 43 (1.67%) Docker
5 22 (0.86%) vSphere
6 21 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.70%) KVM
9 15 (0.58%) NFS
9 15 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
10 14 (0.54%) HDFS
10 14 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.39%) XenApp
13 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.078%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.078%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 96 (3.73%) Terraform
2 63 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 53 (2.06%) Ansible
4 47 (1.83%) SCCM
5 45 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.58%) Grafana
10 13 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (0.43%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.39%) Nagios
13 10 (0.39%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.35%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.35%) VxRail
15 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.27%) Puppet
17 6 (0.23%) Avamar
Vendors
1 469 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 237 (9.22%) SAP
3 228 (8.87%) Oracle
4 135 (5.25%) VMware
5 117 (4.55%) Cisco
6 54 (2.10%) Google
7 52 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 47 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.59%) Dell
10 40 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 38 (1.48%) Databricks
12 37 (1.44%) Citrix
12 37 (1.44%) Micro Focus
13 34 (1.32%) IBM
14 33 (1.28%) CheckPoint
15 28 (1.09%) Adobe
15 28 (1.09%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.05%) Arista
17 26 (1.01%) NetApp
18 24 (0.93%) Fortinet