Migration Contracts in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 337 424 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.10% 7.34% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 8.20% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 316 511
10th Percentile £313 £383 £250
25th Percentile £412 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £21.48 £22.90 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.88 £29.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +78.57% +79.49%
75th Percentile £36.88 £65.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £55.25 £78.50 £85.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -41.61% +156.07% +67.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,677 5,168 6,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.68% 89.46% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 3,591 4,723
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £62.92
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley +4 166 £513 -2.38% 55
Berkshire -4 114 £550 +4.76% 29
West Sussex +8 51 £450 -5.26% 4
Hampshire -16 51 £529 +5.75% 16
Surrey +6 40 £513 +2.50% 18
Buckinghamshire +17 37 £450 -2.70% 21
Oxfordshire +4 16 £365 -33.64% 5
East Sussex -2 10 £450 -43.04% 4
Kent +4 7 £425 -14.14% 9
Home Counties +2 3 - -
Sussex - 2 £525 -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Middlesex +3 1 £425 -12.37%
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.89%) CMS
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) Confluence
3 2 (0.59%) FileNet
3 2 (0.59%) GemFire
3 2 (0.59%) Jadu
3 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.59%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.26%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.78%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.78%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (1.19%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.30%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.30%) iTrent
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.24%) Azure
2 33 (9.79%) AWS
3 16 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.97%) SaaS
7 9 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.67%) GitHub
8 8 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.37%) IaaS
9 7 (2.08%) PaaS
10 6 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.19%) Azure API Management
12 4 (1.19%) iPaaS
12 4 (1.19%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.89%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.89%) dbt
13 3 (0.89%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.72%) DMZ
1 26 (7.72%) Firewall
2 16 (4.75%) Network Security
3 14 (4.15%) DNS
4 13 (3.86%) SAN
5 12 (3.56%) DHCP
5 12 (3.56%) VPN
6 9 (2.67%) NAS
6 9 (2.67%) WAN
7 8 (2.37%) BGP
7 8 (2.37%) LAN
7 8 (2.37%) MPLS
8 5 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (1.48%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.19%) DSL
9 4 (1.19%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (1.19%) OSPF
9 4 (1.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.01%) Oracle Database
3 22 (6.53%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.56%) Power BI
6 9 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.78%) Big Data
7 6 (1.78%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.48%) Tableau
9 4 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.19%) MS Access
9 4 (1.19%) MySQL
10 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.89%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.59%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.59%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.59%) Redis
11 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.67%) GitLab
2 8 (2.37%) JIRA
3 5 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.59%) kappa
4 2 (0.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Git
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (24.63%) Finance
2 74 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.09%) Banking
4 27 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.64%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.15%) Retail
8 11 (3.26%) Legal
9 8 (2.37%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.48%) Billing
10 5 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.19%) Law
11 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Automotive
12 2 (0.59%) German Language
13 1 (0.30%) Electronics
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (15.43%) Senior
2 51 (15.13%) Network Engineer
3 40 (11.87%) Developer
4 32 (9.50%) Project Manager
5 30 (8.90%) Analyst
6 27 (8.01%) Senior Network Engineer
7 25 (7.42%) Architect
8 20 (5.93%) Consultant
9 18 (5.34%) Lead
10 15 (4.45%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 13 (3.86%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.56%) Migration Engineer
12 12 (3.56%) Migration Specialist
13 11 (3.26%) ABAP Developer
13 11 (3.26%) SAP Developer
14 10 (2.97%) Migration Manager
15 9 (2.67%) Data Manager
15 9 (2.67%) Data Migration Specialist
15 9 (2.67%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.26%) Web Dynpro
2 10 (2.97%) .NET
3 8 (2.37%) JSON
4 6 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.78%) Web Services
5 3 (0.89%) REST
6 2 (0.59%) CSS
6 2 (0.59%) Flash
6 2 (0.59%) HTML
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) LAMP
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.30%) BAPI
7 1 (0.30%) Doctrine
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.30%) Symfony
7 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.01%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.26%) Replication
3 10 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.37%) Clustering
6 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.19%) e-Health
8 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.59%) IoT
9 2 (0.59%) NHS
9 2 (0.59%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.59%) PKI
9 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.76%) Windows
2 22 (6.53%) Linux
3 16 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.45%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.56%) Unix
6 10 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.89%) Android
8 3 (0.89%) Solaris
8 3 (0.89%) VMS
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.59%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.23%) Data Migration
2 49 (14.54%) Agile
3 48 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (10.09%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (9.50%) DevOps
5 32 (9.50%) Project Management
6 31 (9.20%) Project Delivery
7 25 (7.42%) B2B
8 22 (6.53%) ETL
9 21 (6.23%) ERP
10 20 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (5.64%) Software Engineering
12 18 (5.34%) Architectural Design
12 18 (5.34%) Clean Code
12 18 (5.34%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (5.34%) Secure Coding
12 18 (5.34%) Software Testing
12 18 (5.34%) Unit Testing
13 17 (5.04%) Change Management
14 16 (4.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (14.54%) SQL
2 19 (5.64%) PL/SQL
3 14 (4.15%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.56%) ABAP
5 11 (3.26%) Bash
5 11 (3.26%) Python
6 10 (2.97%) C#
7 9 (2.67%) Java
8 8 (2.37%) PHP
9 4 (1.19%) ActionScript
9 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.59%) VBScript
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.50%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.23%) Degree
5 14 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.78%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.78%) PMP
7 4 (1.19%) ACCA
7 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.19%) CCNA
7 4 (1.19%) CIMA
7 4 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.59%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.59%) CCNP
8 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.78%) PMO
2 6 (1.78%) QA
3 5 (1.48%) IFRS
4 4 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (9.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.86%) vSphere
4 10 (2.97%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.08%) XenApp
6 6 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.19%) Docker
8 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.59%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.59%) KVM
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.59%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.30%) HDFS
10 1 (0.30%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (3.86%) Terraform
2 12 (3.56%) SCCM
3 10 (2.97%) Ansible
4 7 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 6 (1.78%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.48%) Avamar
6 5 (1.48%) Endace
6 5 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.19%) vRealize
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.89%) MOM
9 2 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.59%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.59%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.30%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Graylog
10 1 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.30%) SafeCom
10 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (16.32%) Oracle
2 46 (13.65%) Cisco
2 46 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.65%) VMware
3 43 (12.76%) SAP
4 27 (8.01%) CheckPoint
5 25 (7.42%) Arista
6 15 (4.45%) Juniper
7 14 (4.15%) F5
8 13 (3.86%) Citrix
8 13 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 13 (3.86%) SolarWinds
9 12 (3.56%) Adobe
9 12 (3.56%) Dell
10 9 (2.67%) Informatica
11 8 (2.37%) IFS
11 8 (2.37%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.08%) Ivanti
13 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.78%) Salesforce