Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,238 1,773 2,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.03% 7.54% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 8.42% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,333 1,734
10th Percentile £313 £300 £278
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £580
90th Percentile £700 £698 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 34 32
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.57 £12.62
25th Percentile £24.63 £21.56 £14.92
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +213.95% +35.56%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £43.14
90th Percentile - £82.33 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -38.93% +129.82% +78.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +2 332 £500 -4.76% 96
North of England -2 318 £500 -4.76% 99
Midlands -6 172 £550 +10.00% 78
South West +3 169 £465 -11.43% 48
North West -1 168 £500 - 54
Yorkshire 0 134 £500 -9.09% 36
Scotland -2 123 £488 -0.31% 25
West Midlands -5 109 £556 +11.25% 47
East of England -12 102 £500 +17.65% 36
East Midlands +9 62 £550 +17.65% 31
Wales +17 31 £515 -12.12% 5
North East +21 18 £525 +5.00% 10
Northern Ireland 0 6 - - 14
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 56 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (2.26%) Confluence
4 8 (0.65%) Apache
4 8 (0.65%) CMS
4 8 (0.65%) IIS
5 7 (0.57%) ColdFusion
5 7 (0.57%) JBoss
5 7 (0.57%) SAS
6 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.32%) nginx
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.24%) Drupal
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.16%) FileNet
8 2 (0.16%) GemFire
8 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.16%) Jadu
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Maya
7 1 (0.081%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.73%) SAP CO
4 9 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 9 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP MDM
8 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 241 (19.47%) Azure
2 130 (10.50%) AWS
3 79 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 72 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
5 48 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (3.47%) SaaS
7 35 (2.83%) GCP
8 29 (2.34%) Amazon S3
9 27 (2.18%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.02%) GitHub
11 22 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (1.62%) IaaS
13 18 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.45%) Serverless
14 17 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.37%) PaaS
15 15 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (1.21%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.41%) Firewall
2 46 (3.72%) DNS
3 37 (2.99%) LAN
3 37 (2.99%) WAN
4 34 (2.75%) DHCP
5 32 (2.58%) SAN
6 31 (2.50%) VPN
7 26 (2.10%) DMZ
7 26 (2.10%) Network Security
8 20 (1.62%) MPLS
9 19 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.05%) NAS
11 12 (0.97%) Internet
12 10 (0.81%) BGP
12 10 (0.81%) IPsec
12 10 (0.81%) VLAN
12 10 (0.81%) Wireless
13 9 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (0.73%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.33%) Power BI
2 60 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 54 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (3.47%) Oracle Database
6 25 (2.02%) Oracle Database 11g
7 23 (1.86%) MySQL
8 21 (1.70%) Big Data
9 19 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.37%) Metadata
11 15 (1.21%) Data Mining
12 14 (1.13%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.89%) Tableau
15 10 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.81%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (5.09%) JIRA
2 24 (1.94%) Git
3 21 (1.70%) GitLab
4 15 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.32%) LSMW
9 4 (0.32%) Selenium
10 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.24%) ERwin
10 3 (0.24%) Subversion
10 3 (0.24%) Toad
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 320 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 264 (21.32%) Finance
3 133 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.82%) Banking
6 48 (3.88%) Retail
7 43 (3.47%) Legal
8 34 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.02%) Marketing
13 21 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.53%) Local Government
15 18 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.37%) Law
17 16 (1.29%) Billing
18 12 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (0.81%) German Language
20 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 172 (13.89%) Architect
2 121 (9.77%) Project Manager
3 115 (9.29%) Analyst
4 102 (8.24%) Consultant
5 93 (7.51%) Developer
6 90 (7.27%) Senior
7 78 (6.30%) Lead
8 70 (5.65%) Network Engineer
8 70 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
9 69 (5.57%) Data Engineer
10 62 (5.01%) Migration Engineer
11 57 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (3.63%) Data Migration Engineer
13 37 (2.99%) Migration Manager
14 36 (2.91%) Data Architect
15 32 (2.58%) Data Analyst
16 29 (2.34%) Data Manager
17 28 (2.26%) Migration Project Manager
18 27 (2.18%) Migration Consultant
19 26 (2.10%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.94%) REST
2 20 (1.62%) JSON
3 19 (1.53%) .NET
4 15 (1.21%) Web Services
5 12 (0.97%) AWS CDK
5 12 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (0.81%) LDAP
6 10 (0.81%) SAML
6 10 (0.81%) SOAP
7 9 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.65%) XML
9 7 (0.57%) HTML
9 7 (0.57%) OAuth
9 7 (0.57%) OpenID
9 7 (0.57%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.48%) CSS
10 6 (0.48%) Kafka
10 6 (0.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 6 (0.48%) Spring
10 6 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.03%) Data Centre
2 79 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 23 (1.86%) Cloud Native
4 23 (1.86%) Replication
5 22 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.70%) Clustering
6 21 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 19 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 12 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 11 (0.89%) FMCG
10 11 (0.89%) NHS
11 9 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.73%) Operational Technology
12 8 (0.65%) CMDB
12 8 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 166 (13.41%) Windows
2 91 (7.35%) Linux
3 48 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 47 (3.80%) Unix
5 42 (3.39%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.94%) VMS
7 18 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.81%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.48%) Solaris
12 5 (0.40%) AIX
13 4 (0.32%) Android
13 4 (0.32%) CentOS
13 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
14 3 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (35.54%) Data Migration
2 196 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (14.78%) Agile
4 120 (9.69%) DevOps
5 116 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (8.64%) Project Management
7 87 (7.03%) Project Delivery
8 86 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
9 84 (6.79%) ERP
10 75 (6.06%) Analytics
11 74 (5.98%) Data Management
11 74 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (4.93%) Data Modelling
12 61 (4.93%) ETL
13 60 (4.85%) Computer Science
14 55 (4.44%) CI/CD
14 55 (4.44%) User Acceptance Testing
15 53 (4.28%) CRM
15 53 (4.28%) Roadmaps
16 52 (4.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 179 (14.46%) SQL
2 61 (4.93%) PowerShell
3 57 (4.60%) Python
4 48 (3.88%) Java
5 26 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.86%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.70%) PHP
8 19 (1.53%) Bash
8 19 (1.53%) C#
9 12 (0.97%) ABAP
10 11 (0.89%) Perl
11 9 (0.73%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.65%) Swift
13 7 (0.57%) Go
13 7 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.40%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.32%) Ruby
15 4 (0.32%) VBScript
16 3 (0.24%) C++
16 3 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 120 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.61%) Degree
4 47 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 40 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.97%) PMP
10 11 (0.89%) CCNA
11 10 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.48%) CCNP
13 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.40%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.32%) CIMA
15 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 37 (2.99%) QA
3 18 (1.45%) PMO
4 17 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.37%) GDPR
5 8 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.57%) NIST
7 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.40%) IFRS
7 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.40%) SLA
8 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.081%) GxP
10 1 (0.081%) HL7
10 1 (0.081%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (10.02%) Active Directory
2 85 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 24 (1.94%) vSphere
6 19 (1.53%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.45%) Docker
8 15 (1.21%) VMware Workstation
9 14 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.73%) KVM
11 9 (0.73%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.16%) HDFS
15 2 (0.16%) NFS
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (4.60%) Terraform
2 42 (3.39%) Ansible
3 37 (2.99%) SCCM
4 30 (2.42%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.29%) Grafana
7 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.13%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.97%) Nagios
9 12 (0.97%) NetBackup
10 10 (0.81%) Argo
11 9 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.65%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.65%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.57%) VxRail
14 6 (0.48%) Istio
14 6 (0.48%) Kibana
14 6 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 229 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 113 (9.13%) Oracle
2 113 (9.13%) VMware
3 107 (8.64%) SAP
4 76 (6.14%) Cisco
5 37 (2.99%) Micro Focus
6 35 (2.83%) CheckPoint
7 29 (2.34%) Dell
8 28 (2.26%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.02%) Arista
9 25 (2.02%) Atlassian
9 25 (2.02%) Google
10 23 (1.86%) F5
11 21 (1.70%) Citrix
12 20 (1.62%) Juniper
13 17 (1.37%) ServiceNow
14 16 (1.29%) Informatica
14 16 (1.29%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.21%) IBM
16 13 (1.05%) CA