Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 95 97
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -25
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,018 3,718 5,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 3.59% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.75% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 2,628 3,622
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £37,525
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,970 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +17.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,685 £60,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.64% +15.81% +10.53%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Salary trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +6 2,553 £60,000 -11.11% 659
UK excluding London +36 1,999 £50,685 -16.64% 404
Work from Home 0 1,290 £57,500 -14.81% 296
London -12 826 £75,000 -3.23% 272
North of England +64 644 £52,500 -12.50% 106
South East +8 375 £50,500 -17.08% 97
North West +78 359 £50,000 -16.67% 55
Midlands +17 318 £50,000 -17.76% 76
South West -10 210 £55,000 -9.54% 47
Yorkshire +48 203 £57,500 -4.17% 39
Scotland -4 189 £50,000 -23.08% 30
West Midlands -6 178 £51,300 -14.50% 42
East of England +20 143 £47,500 -22.00% 35
East Midlands +49 135 £47,500 -21.88% 34
North East +33 82 £50,000 - 13
Wales +41 81 £51,997 -14.48% 6
Northern Ireland +49 38 £54,408 +14.54% 13
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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
1 207 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 178 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.52%) WebLogic
4 40 (1.33%) Confluence
5 32 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 30 (0.99%) Captiva
6 30 (0.99%) FileNet
6 30 (0.99%) IIS
7 20 (0.66%) Apache
8 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (0.63%) CMS
8 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 17 (0.56%) Drupal
10 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
11 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
13 10 (0.33%) nginx
13 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 109 (3.61%) MS Visio
2 91 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.53%) Trello
5 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.43%) InfoPath
7 12 (0.40%) Sketch
7 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.099%) FrameMaker
10 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 42 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
5 28 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 17 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.36%) SAP CX
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
12 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 7 (0.23%) SAP ERP
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
15 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
16 5 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (39.96%) Azure
2 744 (24.65%) AWS
3 504 (16.70%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (13.68%) Power Platform
5 279 (9.24%) GCP
6 231 (7.65%) SaaS
7 156 (5.17%) Entra ID
8 139 (4.61%) OneDrive
9 130 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
10 104 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (2.62%) PaaS
12 78 (2.58%) Amazon S3
13 75 (2.49%) Dropbox
13 75 (2.49%) Power Automate
14 74 (2.45%) Serverless
15 73 (2.42%) IaaS
16 72 (2.39%) GitHub
17 71 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
17 71 (2.35%) PowerApps
18 70 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 214 (7.09%) Firewall
2 199 (6.59%) DNS
3 114 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 103 (3.41%) LAN
5 102 (3.38%) WAN
6 90 (2.98%) DHCP
7 85 (2.82%) VPN
8 74 (2.45%) SSL
9 69 (2.29%) SAN
10 55 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.82%) Wireless
11 54 (1.79%) BGP
12 47 (1.56%) Network Security
13 41 (1.36%) NAS
14 39 (1.29%) Internet
14 39 (1.29%) VLAN
15 32 (1.06%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.86%) Unified Communications
17 22 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
18 21 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (11.30%) Power BI
2 313 (10.37%) SQL Server
3 232 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 195 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 171 (5.67%) Oracle Database
6 136 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
7 110 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 106 (3.51%) Oracle Database 11g
9 88 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 88 (2.92%) Data Lake
10 75 (2.49%) MySQL
11 66 (2.19%) RDBMS
12 65 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 49 (1.62%) Data Mining
14 46 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 41 (1.36%) MongoDB
16 38 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 36 (1.19%) Big Data
18 35 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
18 35 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 204 (6.76%) JIRA
2 113 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 60 (1.99%) Git
4 50 (1.66%) GitLab
5 34 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 24 (0.80%) Subversion
7 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 18 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 18 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.43%) Postman
11 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.33%) gulp
12 10 (0.33%) JMeter
12 10 (0.33%) Yeoman
13 9 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) Selenium
13 9 (0.30%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.27%) Eclipse
General
1 782 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 675 (22.37%) Finance
3 263 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 176 (5.83%) Law
6 172 (5.70%) Retail
7 168 (5.57%) Banking
8 148 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 133 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
10 101 (3.35%) Marketing
11 96 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 78 (2.58%) Legal
13 49 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.23%) Retail Banking
16 34 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 33 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 27 (0.89%) Back Office
18 27 (0.89%) Games
19 26 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 598 (19.81%) Senior
2 528 (17.50%) Architect
3 368 (12.19%) Developer
4 293 (9.71%) Analyst
5 286 (9.48%) Consultant
6 267 (8.85%) Lead
7 197 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
8 176 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
9 146 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 143 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 107 (3.55%) Database Developer
12 105 (3.48%) IT Engineer
12 105 (3.48%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 104 (3.45%) Business Analyst
14 100 (3.31%) Database Engineer
14 100 (3.31%) Project Manager
15 98 (3.25%) Senior Database Engineer
16 97 (3.21%) Administrator
17 94 (3.11%) Senior Database Developer
18 91 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.64%) .NET
2 74 (2.45%) Spring Boot
3 70 (2.32%) HTML
4 63 (2.09%) REST
5 51 (1.69%) CSS
6 50 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
7 48 (1.59%) Kafka
8 47 (1.56%) React
9 42 (1.39%) XML
10 41 (1.36%) Spring
11 40 (1.33%) PySpark
12 38 (1.26%) Node.js
13 34 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.09%) Web Services
15 32 (1.06%) JSON
16 27 (0.89%) SOAP
17 25 (0.83%) Middleware
18 22 (0.73%) ASP.NET
19 20 (0.66%) .NET Framework
20 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.62%) Public Cloud
2 147 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 143 (4.74%) Data Centre
4 94 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 88 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 86 (2.85%) PKI
8 85 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
9 83 (2.75%) Cloud Native
10 69 (2.29%) iPad
11 63 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 59 (1.95%) Private Cloud
13 55 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
15 43 (1.42%) Product Ownership
16 42 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (1.16%) Reinsurance
17 35 (1.16%) Replication
18 30 (0.99%) DataPower
18 30 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 381 (12.62%) Windows
2 256 (8.48%) Linux
3 209 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (1.66%) Unix
6 45 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 33 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.96%) Android
8 29 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 24 (0.80%) Windows 7
11 23 (0.76%) Windows 8
12 22 (0.73%) VMS
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.30%) CentOS
16 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.13%) AIX
18 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (26.77%) Data Migration
2 628 (20.81%) Agile
3 491 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
4 403 (13.35%) DevOps
5 386 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
6 378 (12.52%) Roadmaps
7 375 (12.43%) Actionable Insight
8 365 (12.09%) Project Management
9 292 (9.68%) ETL
10 275 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 255 (8.45%) ERP
12 235 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 207 (6.86%) Mentoring
14 204 (6.76%) Data Modelling
15 194 (6.43%) Analytics
16 177 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 176 (5.83%) CI/CD
18 174 (5.77%) ITIL
18 174 (5.77%) TOGAF
19 169 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 715 (23.69%) SQL
2 206 (6.83%) Python
3 179 (5.93%) PowerShell
4 178 (5.90%) Java
5 138 (4.57%) PL/SQL
6 112 (3.71%) JavaScript
7 94 (3.11%) C#
8 55 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 37 (1.23%) PHP
10 33 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.03%) Bash
12 25 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 22 (0.73%) Groovy
14 20 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.56%) Perl
15 17 (0.56%) Scala
16 14 (0.46%) C++
17 11 (0.36%) Bicep
18 10 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 325 (10.77%) Degree
2 260 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 178 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 111 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 103 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 77 (2.55%) DBS Check
8 72 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 60 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.26%) CCNA
13 31 (1.03%) CCNP
14 27 (0.89%) DV Cleared
15 24 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
17 19 (0.63%) PMP
18 18 (0.60%) CISSP
19 17 (0.56%) PMI Certification
20 14 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 77 (2.55%) QA
3 71 (2.35%) GDPR
4 34 (1.13%) PMO
5 32 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.86%) SLA
7 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) IFRS
9 11 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.23%) NIST
12 6 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.099%) GMP
13 3 (0.099%) GRC
13 3 (0.099%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.099%) MiFID
13 3 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.066%) NCSC
System Software
1 307 (10.17%) Active Directory
2 140 (4.64%) Docker
3 120 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 90 (2.98%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.36%) vSphere
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.17%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.099%) HDFS
14 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.066%) iptables
14 2 (0.066%) pfSense
14 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.066%) Varnish
14 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 195 (6.46%) Terraform
2 139 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 138 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 102 (3.38%) Ansible
5 36 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 35 (1.16%) SCCM
7 32 (1.06%) Puppet
8 22 (0.73%) Grafana
9 18 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.36%) Nagios
12 11 (0.36%) Packer
13 10 (0.33%) Graphite
13 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.23%) AirWatch
14 7 (0.23%) Salt
14 7 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 977 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 400 (13.25%) Oracle
3 258 (8.55%) Google
4 205 (6.79%) VMware
5 162 (5.37%) SAP
6 106 (3.51%) Cisco
7 96 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 69 (2.29%) Databricks
10 59 (1.95%) IBM
11 51 (1.69%) Sparx
12 50 (1.66%) Citrix
13 38 (1.26%) Veeam
14 37 (1.23%) Informatica
15 32 (1.06%) Apple
16 30 (0.99%) Pega
17 28 (0.93%) Kofax
17 28 (0.93%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.86%) Dell
18 26 (0.86%) HP