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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,055 4,562 7,032
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 7.72% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 8.60% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 3,234 4,923
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £725 £738 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 48 57
10th Percentile £16.10 £17.72 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.63 £25.94 £17.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +129.82% +78.13%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - £85.75 £72.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.74% +213.95% +35.56%

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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
England +1 2,592 £525 -4.55% 680
London +2 1,387 £550 -6.38% 288
UK excluding London -2 1,242 £500 - 407
Work from Home -2 1,205 £525 - 305
South East +4 339 £500 -4.76% 96
North of England -3 316 £500 -4.76% 108
North West -3 169 £500 - 57
South West +2 168 £465 -11.43% 45
Midlands -4 168 £556 +11.25% 78
Yorkshire -1 132 £500 -9.09% 39
Scotland -8 122 £488 -0.66% 31
West Midlands -10 108 £563 +12.50% 47
East of England -13 104 £500 +17.65% 35
East Midlands +5 59 £550 +17.65% 31
Wales +16 34 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +21 17 £500 - 13
Northern Ireland 0 6 - - 14

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
1 180 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 103 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (1.67%) Confluence
4 31 (1.01%) CMS
5 21 (0.69%) IIS
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2007
8 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.43%) SAS
8 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
9 12 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 12 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2003
9 12 (0.39%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.33%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.26%) JBoss
12 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.20%) FileNet
Applications
1 61 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.098%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.065%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.065%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) Weka
Business Applications
1 105 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.21%) Loan IQ
4 29 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.62%) SAP MDG
6 18 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.43%) Elite 3E
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
9 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.29%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.29%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.26%) SAP Retail
11 8 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 707 (23.14%) Azure
2 339 (11.10%) AWS
3 229 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 144 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
6 122 (3.99%) GCP
7 119 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (3.18%) Entra ID
9 92 (3.01%) SaaS
10 59 (1.93%) PaaS
11 58 (1.90%) IaaS
12 51 (1.67%) Serverless
13 49 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 49 (1.60%) OCI
14 48 (1.57%) GitHub
15 46 (1.51%) PowerApps
16 40 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.21%) OneDrive
18 36 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.84%) Firewall
2 99 (3.24%) DNS
3 73 (2.39%) WAN
4 68 (2.23%) LAN
5 67 (2.19%) VPN
6 57 (1.87%) Network Security
7 56 (1.83%) DHCP
8 45 (1.47%) SAN
9 39 (1.28%) MPLS
10 32 (1.05%) BGP
10 32 (1.05%) Wireless
11 30 (0.98%) TCP/IP
12 28 (0.92%) IPsec
13 27 (0.88%) DMZ
13 27 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (0.85%) FTP
15 25 (0.82%) SSL
16 19 (0.62%) Internet
16 19 (0.62%) NAS
16 19 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 144 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (4.35%) Power BI
4 86 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 86 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 53 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 48 (1.57%) MySQL
8 46 (1.51%) Big Data
9 44 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.21%) Tableau
12 35 (1.15%) NoSQL
13 32 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database 11g
15 24 (0.79%) Metadata
15 24 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
16 22 (0.72%) RDBMS
17 21 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (4.26%) JIRA
2 60 (1.96%) Git
3 49 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.08%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.82%) GitLab
6 23 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.69%) Selenium
8 14 (0.46%) ERwin
8 14 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 12 (0.39%) JUnit
10 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.33%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.29%) JMeter
11 9 (0.29%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.29%) LSMW
12 7 (0.23%) Maven
12 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
13 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 713 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 707 (23.14%) Finance
3 321 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 233 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 222 (7.27%) Banking
6 86 (2.82%) Retail
7 71 (2.32%) Legal
8 67 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 63 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 63 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 47 (1.54%) Marketing
13 38 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.05%) Local Government
15 31 (1.01%) Law
16 30 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 28 (0.92%) Billing
17 28 (0.92%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 516 (16.89%) Architect
2 311 (10.18%) Consultant
3 307 (10.05%) Analyst
3 307 (10.05%) Project Manager
4 254 (8.31%) Developer
5 244 (7.99%) Senior
6 193 (6.32%) Lead
7 188 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 148 (4.84%) Business Analyst
9 125 (4.09%) Migration Engineer
10 124 (4.06%) Data Engineer
11 102 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 99 (3.24%) Network Engineer
13 89 (2.91%) Migration Manager
14 83 (2.72%) Data Analyst
15 80 (2.62%) Data Architect
16 72 (2.36%) Migration Project Manager
17 63 (2.06%) DBA
17 63 (2.06%) Technical Architect
18 61 (2.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.04%) .NET
2 59 (1.93%) JSON
3 52 (1.70%) REST
4 48 (1.57%) Web Services
5 39 (1.28%) LDAP
5 39 (1.28%) XML
6 31 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 30 (0.98%) Middleware
8 28 (0.92%) SailPoint
8 28 (0.92%) Spring
9 26 (0.85%) WCF
10 23 (0.75%) Kafka
11 22 (0.72%) CSS
12 21 (0.69%) SAML
12 21 (0.69%) SOAP
12 21 (0.69%) Spring Boot
13 19 (0.62%) ARM Templates
13 19 (0.62%) WinForms
14 18 (0.59%) HTML
14 18 (0.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 216 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 131 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 87 (2.85%) Replication
4 73 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 56 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 52 (1.70%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 33 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 30 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 28 (0.92%) Clustering
13 28 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (0.85%) Taxonomies
15 25 (0.82%) NHS
16 23 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (0.75%) PKI
17 22 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
18 16 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 355 (11.62%) Windows
2 198 (6.48%) Linux
3 114 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 95 (3.11%) Unix
5 64 (2.09%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.51%) VMS
7 44 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 35 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 23 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 14 (0.46%) 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 (0.29%) CentOS
17 7 (0.23%) Android
18 6 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,020 (33.39%) Data Migration
2 483 (15.81%) Agile
3 427 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (10.67%) DevOps
5 280 (9.17%) Project Management
6 262 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 190 (6.22%) Project Delivery
8 188 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
9 187 (6.12%) Data Modelling
10 184 (6.02%) CI/CD
11 180 (5.89%) ETL
12 175 (5.73%) Analytics
13 170 (5.56%) Data Management
14 164 (5.37%) Change Management
15 150 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 149 (4.88%) ERP
17 148 (4.84%) Computer Science
17 148 (4.84%) User Acceptance Testing
18 141 (4.62%) Roadmaps
19 139 (4.55%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 455 (14.89%) SQL
2 187 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 171 (5.60%) Python
4 134 (4.39%) Java
5 101 (3.31%) C#
6 76 (2.49%) JavaScript
7 37 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 36 (1.18%) PHP
9 34 (1.11%) Bash
10 27 (0.88%) Perl
10 27 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 26 (0.85%) ABAP
12 15 (0.49%) Go
13 14 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.39%) Scala
14 12 (0.39%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.29%) COBOL
16 8 (0.26%) Bicep
16 8 (0.26%) Groovy
16 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 376 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 281 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 253 (8.28%) Degree
4 88 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (0.82%) PMP
11 22 (0.72%) CCNP
12 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.59%) CCNA
14 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 12 (0.39%) CISSP
16 11 (0.36%) SAP Certification
17 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
18 9 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (4.71%) QA
2 143 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.41%) GDPR
4 39 (1.28%) PMO
5 37 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 25 (0.82%) NIST
7 11 (0.36%) SLA
8 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) GRC
11 5 (0.16%) IFRS
11 5 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.13%) WCAG
13 3 (0.098%) GxP
13 3 (0.098%) NCSC
14 2 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 115 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (1.90%) Docker
4 53 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.05%) vSphere
6 30 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.59%) KVM
8 18 (0.59%) NFS
9 17 (0.56%) HDFS
10 16 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
12 14 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 13 (0.43%) XenApp
14 9 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.098%) BitLocker
18 2 (0.065%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 125 (4.09%) Terraform
2 81 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 67 (2.19%) Ansible
4 55 (1.80%) SCCM
5 51 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 44 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (1.21%) 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 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 550 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 300 (9.82%) SAP
3 280 (9.17%) Oracle
4 162 (5.30%) VMware
5 141 (4.62%) Cisco
6 78 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.26%) Google
8 61 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.87%) Dell
10 51 (1.67%) Databricks
11 42 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.34%) Citrix
13 37 (1.21%) IBM
13 37 (1.21%) Micro Focus
14 36 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 36 (1.18%) F5
15 35 (1.15%) CheckPoint
16 32 (1.05%) Juniper
16 32 (1.05%) NetApp
16 32 (1.05%) Red Hat