Migration Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Migration
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 36 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.28% 2.57% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 3.01% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 7
10th Percentile £315 - £363
25th Percentile £438 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £430
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.21% +22.71%
75th Percentile £588 £430 £514
90th Percentile £668 - £562
East of England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.17 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +18.75% -63.96% -14.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 337 299 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.86% 85.43% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 113 137
10th Percentile £275 £288 £216
25th Percentile £364 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £454 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -5.42% +1.05%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £570
90th Percentile £675 £635 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 186
10th Percentile £13.75 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £19.78
90th Percentile £43.75 £32.89 £31.85
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +28.15% -1.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Migration job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Cambridgeshire

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Cambridge +6 22 £550 +30.95% 7
Huntingdon - 8 - - 1
Wisbech - 1 £155 -
Peterborough - 1 - - 6
Migration
East of England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Slack
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Hudson
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 4 (11.11%) Electronics
4 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Consultant
3 5 (13.89%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Migration Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) IFS Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
1 1 (2.78%) Web Services
1 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.89%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) DevOps
1 12 (33.33%) Workflow
1 12 (33.33%) Workflow Management
2 8 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
2 8 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (22.22%) Observability
2 8 (22.22%) RBAC
3 7 (19.44%) Logistics
4 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Case Management
5 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security
5 5 (13.89%) Cyber Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.89%) Security Operations
5 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) SOAR
5 5 (13.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 5 (13.89%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 6 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) IFS
3 5 (13.89%) SAP
4 4 (11.11%) Google
4 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 4 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) CloudEndure
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) Sybase