Migration Contracts in Berkshire

Migration
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 90 111 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.67% 5.59% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 6.29% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 89 115
10th Percentile £350 £386 £443
25th Percentile £416 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £625
90th Percentile £663 £691 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £26.05 £19.08 £21.35
25th Percentile £37.38 £19.94 £25.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £21.75 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +164.37% -35.07% -39.64%
75th Percentile £72.90 £23.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £81.39 £24.23 £76.85
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year +125.00% -37.50% +37.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Berkshire

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Berkshire

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Berkshire

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Berkshire

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Berkshire

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +9 40 £550 -8.33% 34
Windsor - 14 £575 - 1
Bracknell +4 12 £480 -6.34% 4
Wokingham -3 12 £413 -43.59% 5
Slough -6 7 £500 -9.91% 21
Thatcham - 1 £600 -
Migration
South East

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (6.67%) Umbraco
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.44%) CMS
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.22%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.22%) Confluence
5 2 (2.22%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
5 1 (1.11%) SAP GTS
5 1 (1.11%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 8 (8.89%) GCP
4 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.67%) IaaS
5 6 (6.67%) PaaS
5 6 (6.67%) SaaS
6 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 3 (3.33%) GitHub
8 3 (3.33%) OCI
8 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.22%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Network Security
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 3 (3.33%) NGFW
4 2 (2.22%) LAN
4 2 (2.22%) SSL
4 2 (2.22%) VPN
5 1 (1.11%) ADSL
5 1 (1.11%) BGP
5 1 (1.11%) DNS
5 1 (1.11%) DSL
5 1 (1.11%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.11%) IPsec
5 1 (1.11%) PPP
5 1 (1.11%) RIP
5 1 (1.11%) SNMP
5 1 (1.11%) TACACS
5 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.11%) VoIP
5 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (5.56%) Big Data
5 5 (5.56%) Metadata
6 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.11%) HBase
9 1 (1.11%) HDInsight
9 1 (1.11%) Impala
9 1 (1.11%) MySQL
9 1 (1.11%) Power BI
9 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) ERwin
1 4 (4.44%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.22%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Finance
4 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Agriculture
5 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.22%) Publishing
7 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) Architect
2 11 (12.22%) Project Manager
3 10 (11.11%) Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Developer
4 7 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Consultant
6 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.56%) Data Migration Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Migration Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Senior
7 4 (4.44%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Modeller
7 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Migration Consultant
7 4 (4.44%) Payroll Manager
7 4 (4.44%) React Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) SAML
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.22%) HTML
2 2 (2.22%) JSON
2 2 (2.22%) Next.js
2 2 (2.22%) OAuth
2 2 (2.22%) OpenID
3 1 (1.11%) Kafka
3 1 (1.11%) LDAP
3 1 (1.11%) PySpark
3 1 (1.11%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.11%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.33%) Life Science
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Replication
5 2 (2.22%) CMDB
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.22%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
1 10 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Unix
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.11%) VMS
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.44%) Data Migration
2 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (16.67%) DevOps
5 14 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (12.22%) Agile
6 11 (12.22%) Change Management
7 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.00%) Data Architecture
9 8 (8.89%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.89%) Project Management
10 7 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.78%) Data Governance
10 7 (7.78%) Data Science
10 7 (7.78%) Data Security
11 6 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (6.67%) CRUD
11 6 (6.67%) Project Delivery
11 6 (6.67%) Prototyping
11 6 (6.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.89%) SQL
2 11 (12.22%) Python
3 9 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.44%) Bash
6 3 (3.33%) Bicep
6 3 (3.33%) C#
6 3 (3.33%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) ABAP
8 1 (1.11%) Fortran
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.44%) PMP
6 2 (2.22%) CISM
6 2 (2.22%) CISSP
6 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ACCA
7 1 (1.11%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) CCAB
7 1 (1.11%) CCDP
7 1 (1.11%) CCIP
7 1 (1.11%) CCNA
7 1 (1.11%) CCNP
7 1 (1.11%) CIMA
7 1 (1.11%) CIPFA
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
3 1 (1.11%) XenApp
3 1 (1.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) Puppet
3 3 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.22%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (2.22%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.11%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.78%) Oracle
3 11 (12.22%) SAP
4 8 (8.89%) VMware
5 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.67%) Virgin Media
6 4 (4.44%) Google
6 4 (4.44%) Sitecore
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco
7 3 (3.33%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.22%) BMC
8 2 (2.22%) Cognos
8 2 (2.22%) Cramer
8 2 (2.22%) HP
8 2 (2.22%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.22%) Remedy
9 1 (1.11%) Hyland
9 1 (1.11%) NetApp
9 1 (1.11%) OpenText
9 1 (1.11%) Splunk