Migration Contracts in Cardiff

Migration
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 7 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 23 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.38% 9.43% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.75% 12.42% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 19
10th Percentile £400 £413 £444
25th Percentile £413 £507 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £586
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -10.84% +21.77%
75th Percentile £538 £627 £613
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
South Wales median daily rate £448 £523 £586
% change year-on-year -14.26% -10.84% +26.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Firepower
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (17.39%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) BGP
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) IPv4
3 2 (8.70%) OSPF
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) Wireless
General
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Digital Health
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
1 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Data Centre Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Migration Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Migration Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Migration Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) TOGAF
2 4 (17.39%) Agile
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.04%) Data Privacy
3 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
3 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.70%) CRM
4 2 (8.70%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) Open Source
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) C
1 1 (4.35%) C#
1 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Azure Certification
2 6 (26.09%) CCNP
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (26.09%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (21.74%) CCIE
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Degree
6 2 (8.70%) CITP
6 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.35%) CSSLP
7 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Argo
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Nagios
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Ekahau
3 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) BMC
4 1 (4.35%) Freshdesk
4 1 (4.35%) HubSpot