Migration Contracts in Scotland

Migration
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 35 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Migration 120 216 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.44% 7.57% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 8.17% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 166 157
10th Percentile £400 £367 £400
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £491 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +1.19% +13.05%
75th Percentile £660 £538 £568
90th Percentile £738 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £11.94 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.50 £14.11 £16.42
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -19.45% +40.66%
75th Percentile £17.50 - £29.75
90th Percentile £18.50 - £41.72
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 75 £475 -3.21% 14
Glasgow -20 26 £500 +8.11% 5
South Lanarkshire - 10 £750 -
Perthshire - 3 £525 -
West Lothian 0 1 - -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (10.00%) Confluence
2 7 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) CMS
4 2 (1.67%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.83%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.67%) AWS
2 14 (11.67%) Amazon S3
2 14 (11.67%) Azure
3 11 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (9.17%) AWS CodePipeline
3 11 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (9.17%) Serverless
4 10 (8.33%) SaaS
5 9 (7.50%) OCI
6 8 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
7 7 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 6 (5.00%) IaaS
8 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.17%) PaaS
10 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.83%) Firewall
3 6 (5.00%) VPN
4 5 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (4.17%) VSAN
5 4 (3.33%) HTTP
5 4 (3.33%) Internet
5 4 (3.33%) NetScaler
5 4 (3.33%) SSL
6 3 (2.50%) DNS
6 3 (2.50%) FabricPath
6 3 (2.50%) IPsec
6 3 (2.50%) LAN
6 3 (2.50%) NX-OS
6 3 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (2.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.83%) 5G
7 1 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.83%) VPLS
7 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) Oracle Database
2 13 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.17%) Metadata
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.33%) Informix
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.50%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.67%) GIS
8 2 (1.67%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Discoverer
8 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (19.17%) JIRA
2 10 (8.33%) Git
3 8 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.00%) GitLab
5 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.50%) Subversion
7 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.67%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.67%) ERwin
7 2 (1.67%) Selenium
7 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.67%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.83%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.83%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.83%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.67%) Finance
4 17 (14.17%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.67%) Back Office
7 8 (6.67%) Banking
7 8 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.17%) Billing
9 3 (2.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (13.33%) Architect
2 13 (10.83%) Developer
3 12 (10.00%) Analyst
3 12 (10.00%) Consultant
4 10 (8.33%) Senior
5 9 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) JIRA Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) DBA
7 7 (5.83%) Administrator
7 7 (5.83%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (5.83%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (5.00%) Applications Support
8 6 (5.00%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Coordinator
9 5 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.50%) REST
2 12 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 8 (6.67%) SOAP
4 6 (5.00%) Web Services
5 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.17%) PostGIS
6 4 (3.33%) JSON
6 4 (3.33%) JSP
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 4 (3.33%) Spring
6 4 (3.33%) Twisted
7 3 (2.50%) XML
8 2 (1.67%) .NET
8 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.83%) NETCONF
9 1 (0.83%) OpenJDK
9 1 (0.83%) React
9 1 (0.83%) XSD
9 1 (0.83%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.17%) Replication
4 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.67%) Tandem
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Linux
2 13 (10.83%) Unix
3 7 (5.83%) Windows
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) AIX
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.33%) Data Migration
2 32 (26.67%) Agile
3 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 18 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 18 (15.00%) Service Management
6 17 (14.17%) Analytics
6 17 (14.17%) Kanban
6 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.83%) DevOps
9 12 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 12 (10.00%) Scrum
10 11 (9.17%) Workflow
11 10 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
12 9 (7.50%) Data Transformation
12 9 (7.50%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (7.50%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.50%) Time Management
13 8 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.17%) Java
2 18 (15.00%) SQL
3 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.00%) Python
5 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.00%) Perl
7 6 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.17%) Bash
9 2 (1.67%) C#
9 2 (1.67%) C++
9 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.67%) VBA
9 2 (1.67%) VBScript
10 1 (0.83%) C
10 1 (0.83%) COBOL
10 1 (0.83%) Elixir
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) ISEB
5 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (4.17%) PMO
3 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.50%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.50%) VMware NSX
2 9 (7.50%) vSphere
3 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.33%) Docker
6 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (6.67%) Grafana
2 7 (5.83%) Terraform
3 6 (5.00%) Ansible
3 6 (5.00%) Data Guard
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (3.33%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.33%) VxRail
5 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.83%) Argo
7 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.83%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Kibana
7 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (23.33%) Oracle
2 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 18 (15.00%) VMware
4 12 (10.00%) Cisco
5 10 (8.33%) Dell
6 9 (7.50%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.17%) F5
8 4 (3.33%) Nintex
9 3 (2.50%) Commvault
9 3 (2.50%) Informatica
9 3 (2.50%) Okta
9 3 (2.50%) Pega
10 2 (1.67%) Databricks
10 2 (1.67%) IDERA
10 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.83%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.83%) Canon
11 1 (0.83%) Google
11 1 (0.83%) IBM
11 1 (0.83%) Nokia