Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,047 4,596 7,072
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 7.68% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 8.55% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 3,265 4,946
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 47 60
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.63 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.75 £19.45
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +136.36% +71.88%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £59.06
90th Percentile - £76.90 £70.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +209.52% +32.41%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England +1 2,571 £525 -4.11% 640
London +3 1,370 £550 -4.35% 275
UK excluding London -1 1,236 £500 - 377
Work from Home -3 1,225 £525 - 301
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
Scotland -8 120 £488 -0.66% 25
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
Wales +18 34 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +25 17 £500 - 15
Northern Ireland +2 7 £500 +25.00% 13

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
1 181 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 107 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (1.81%) Confluence
4 31 (1.02%) CMS
5 21 (0.69%) IIS
6 18 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
8 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 12 (0.39%) Apache
9 12 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 12 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2003
9 12 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
9 12 (0.39%) Skype for Business
10 11 (0.36%) SAS
11 8 (0.26%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.26%) JBoss
12 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 27 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.13%) Trello
7 3 (0.098%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.066%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Weka
Business Applications
1 107 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.21%) Loan IQ
4 27 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.66%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.62%) SAP MDG
7 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.39%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
12 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.26%) SAP Retail
13 8 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
13 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 710 (23.30%) Azure
2 337 (11.06%) AWS
3 230 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 183 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 143 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 122 (4.00%) GCP
7 121 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (3.31%) Entra ID
9 94 (3.09%) SaaS
10 55 (1.81%) IaaS
10 55 (1.81%) PaaS
11 52 (1.71%) OCI
12 50 (1.64%) Serverless
13 48 (1.58%) GitHub
14 47 (1.54%) PowerApps
15 45 (1.48%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.21%) OneDrive
18 35 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
19 32 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 150 (4.92%) Firewall
2 103 (3.38%) DNS
3 76 (2.49%) WAN
4 73 (2.40%) LAN
5 70 (2.30%) VPN
6 59 (1.94%) Network Security
7 58 (1.90%) DHCP
8 45 (1.48%) SAN
9 36 (1.18%) MPLS
10 31 (1.02%) Wireless
11 30 (0.98%) TCP/IP
12 29 (0.95%) BGP
12 29 (0.95%) DMZ
13 28 (0.92%) IPsec
14 26 (0.85%) FTP
14 26 (0.85%) SSL
14 26 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.62%) OSPF
16 18 (0.59%) Internet
16 18 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (6.66%) SQL Server
2 142 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (4.30%) Power BI
4 88 (2.89%) Oracle Database
5 85 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 49 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 46 (1.51%) MySQL
9 45 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (1.48%) Big Data
10 39 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 35 (1.15%) Tableau
12 32 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 26 (0.85%) NoSQL
13 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database 11g
13 26 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
14 25 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (0.82%) Metadata
15 23 (0.75%) RDBMS
16 22 (0.72%) DB2
Development Applications
1 135 (4.43%) JIRA
2 55 (1.81%) Git
3 49 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.08%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.82%) GitLab
6 21 (0.69%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.66%) Selenium
8 15 (0.49%) ERwin
9 14 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 13 (0.43%) JUnit
11 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.30%) LSMW
12 9 (0.30%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.26%) JMeter
13 8 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 712 (23.37%) Finance
2 709 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 322 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 230 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 224 (7.35%) Banking
6 87 (2.86%) Retail
7 70 (2.30%) Legal
7 70 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 63 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 57 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (1.58%) Marketing
11 48 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.05%) Law
14 31 (1.02%) Local Government
15 30 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 27 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 27 (0.89%) German Language
17 26 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 516 (16.93%) Architect
2 315 (10.34%) Consultant
3 312 (10.24%) Project Manager
4 304 (9.98%) Analyst
5 254 (8.34%) Developer
6 242 (7.94%) Senior
7 188 (6.17%) Lead
8 186 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (4.59%) Business Analyst
10 125 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
11 119 (3.91%) Data Engineer
12 100 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 94 (3.09%) Migration Manager
13 94 (3.09%) Network Engineer
14 87 (2.86%) Data Analyst
15 78 (2.56%) Data Architect
16 75 (2.46%) Migration Project Manager
17 66 (2.17%) Technical Architect
18 64 (2.10%) DBA
19 58 (1.90%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.02%) .NET
2 57 (1.87%) JSON
3 50 (1.64%) REST
4 46 (1.51%) Web Services
5 39 (1.28%) LDAP
5 39 (1.28%) XML
6 30 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 30 (0.98%) SailPoint
7 28 (0.92%) Middleware
8 26 (0.85%) Spring
8 26 (0.85%) WCF
9 24 (0.79%) Kafka
10 22 (0.72%) CSS
11 21 (0.69%) SAML
11 21 (0.69%) SOAP
12 20 (0.66%) Spring Boot
13 19 (0.62%) WinForms
14 18 (0.59%) ARM Templates
14 18 (0.59%) React
15 17 (0.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.99%) Data Centre
2 124 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 88 (2.89%) Replication
4 76 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 61 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 51 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 40 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 38 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.02%) Product Ownership
12 29 (0.95%) Clustering
12 29 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 28 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (0.85%) NHS
14 26 (0.85%) Taxonomies
15 25 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
16 22 (0.72%) PKI
17 17 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 362 (11.88%) Windows
2 199 (6.53%) Linux
3 117 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 96 (3.15%) Unix
5 63 (2.07%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 45 (1.48%) VMS
8 39 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 34 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 23 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.49%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.49%) Solaris
13 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
14 11 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.36%) Windows 7
15 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.30%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) AIX
17 6 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,026 (33.67%) Data Migration
2 474 (15.56%) Agile
3 429 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (10.70%) DevOps
5 281 (9.22%) Project Management
6 266 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (6.20%) Data Modelling
8 187 (6.14%) Business Intelligence
9 185 (6.07%) CI/CD
10 183 (6.01%) Project Delivery
11 179 (5.87%) ETL
12 177 (5.81%) Analytics
13 165 (5.42%) Data Management
14 161 (5.28%) Change Management
15 148 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 147 (4.82%) User Acceptance Testing
17 146 (4.79%) ERP
18 143 (4.69%) Computer Science
19 140 (4.59%) Roadmaps
20 136 (4.46%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 452 (14.83%) SQL
2 187 (6.14%) PowerShell
3 160 (5.25%) Python
4 129 (4.23%) Java
5 100 (3.28%) C#
6 76 (2.49%) JavaScript
7 41 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 36 (1.18%) PHP
9 29 (0.95%) Bash
10 28 (0.92%) ABAP
11 27 (0.89%) Perl
12 25 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 16 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.46%) Go
15 12 (0.39%) COBOL
15 12 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.26%) Scala
16 8 (0.26%) Swift
17 7 (0.23%) C++
17 7 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 379 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 289 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 248 (8.14%) Degree
4 87 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (0.82%) PMP
11 23 (0.75%) CCNP
12 20 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.59%) CCNA
13 18 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 12 (0.39%) SAP Certification
16 11 (0.36%) CISSP
17 9 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 143 (4.69%) QA
3 43 (1.41%) GDPR
4 40 (1.31%) PMO
5 37 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.79%) NIST
7 12 (0.39%) SLA
8 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) GRC
11 5 (0.16%) IFRS
11 5 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.13%) WCAG
13 3 (0.098%) GxP
13 3 (0.098%) NCSC
14 2 (0.066%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 281 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 114 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (1.74%) Docker
4 52 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.05%) vSphere
6 30 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 24 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.59%) KVM
8 18 (0.59%) NFS
9 17 (0.56%) HDFS
10 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
12 14 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.36%) XenApp
14 9 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.098%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.098%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 121 (3.97%) Terraform
2 78 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 66 (2.17%) Ansible
4 55 (1.81%) SCCM
5 49 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (0.85%) Grafana
9 19 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 17 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.46%) Argo
11 14 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 14 (0.46%) Prometheus
12 13 (0.43%) Nagios
12 13 (0.43%) VxRail
13 12 (0.39%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
14 11 (0.36%) Puppet
15 10 (0.33%) Data Guard
16 9 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 552 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.91%) SAP
3 290 (9.52%) Oracle
4 163 (5.35%) VMware
5 135 (4.43%) Cisco
6 83 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 68 (2.23%) Google
8 61 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.87%) Dell
10 46 (1.51%) Databricks
11 42 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.31%) Citrix
13 39 (1.28%) IBM
14 38 (1.25%) Atlassian
15 37 (1.21%) Micro Focus
16 33 (1.08%) CheckPoint
17 31 (1.02%) NetApp
17 31 (1.02%) Red Hat
18 29 (0.95%) F5
19 28 (0.92%) Adobe