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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Migration 26 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.75% 2.70% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 3.02% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £439 £448 £413
25th Percentile £491 £458 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £479 £430
Median % change year-on-year +14.82% +11.53% +32.15%
75th Percentile £588 £503 £460
90th Percentile £608 £515 £469
East of England median daily rate £475 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.05 - £25.00
75th Percentile £24.98 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
East of England median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +18.75% -57.89% -32.14%

All Process & 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 313 265 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.30% 89.53% 84.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 131 155
10th Percentile £211 £313 £235
25th Percentile £335 £413 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £566
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -4.95% +0.45% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 182
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.68 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.75 £33.05 £36.56
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.43% +31.26% +35.44%

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 12 February 2026.

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 12 February 2026. 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 +4 15 £550 - 6
Huntingdon - 7 - -
Peterborough +2 1 - - 1
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 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Slack
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Hudson
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Manufacturing
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Electronics
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Marketing
2 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) IT Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Migration Technician
4 3 (11.54%) Support Technician
5 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Data Visualisation Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.85%) IFS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
1 1 (3.85%) Web Services
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Workflow
2 11 (42.31%) Workflow Management
3 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (26.92%) Programme Management
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (19.23%) Observability
6 5 (19.23%) RBAC
7 4 (15.38%) Logistics
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
9 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
9 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
9 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
9 2 (7.69%) SOAR
9 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) SAP
2 5 (19.23%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) IFS
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) CloudEndure
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Infor
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Sybase