Migration Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Migration
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 139 46 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 13.05% 8.83% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.14% 10.27% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 32 41
10th Percentile £213 £360 £356
25th Percentile £393 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -10.91% +20.88%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £645
90th Percentile - £626 £750
England median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 0
10th Percentile £18.61 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.66 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £43.12
% change year-on-year -5.27% -41.67% -35.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 861 448 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.85% 85.99% 78.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 290 407
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £380 £321 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £418
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +6.94% -7.11%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £589 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 27 59
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.58
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% +11.00% -8.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.91 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.93 £32.56 £44.14
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the East Midlands

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Northamptonshire +4 57 £525 +16.67% 11
Lincolnshire +1 28 £550 +7.32% 2
Nottinghamshire -9 26 £225 -60.00% 6
Leicestershire +4 12 £450 -30.82% 1
Derbyshire -3 9 £465 +55.00% 2
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.16%) Confluence
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.44%) Maximo
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.44%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.72%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.39%) Google Workspace
2 19 (13.67%) Azure
2 19 (13.67%) Google Sheets
3 18 (12.95%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.19%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.47%) AWS
7 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.04%) GitHub
9 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.16%) SaaS
12 2 (1.44%) Azure Batch
12 2 (1.44%) IaaS
12 2 (1.44%) PaaS
12 2 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 1 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) DNS
1 3 (2.16%) VPN
2 2 (1.44%) DHCP
2 2 (1.44%) Firewall
2 2 (1.44%) Wireless
3 1 (0.72%) NAS
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.72%) SAN
3 1 (0.72%) VLAN
3 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.76%) Aerospike
1 8 (5.76%) DynamoDB
1 8 (5.76%) Redis
2 7 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.60%) Power BI
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.32%) GitLab
2 6 (4.32%) JIRA
2 6 (4.32%) JUnit
3 1 (0.72%) Git
3 1 (0.72%) Hudson
General
1 49 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (33.81%) Finance
3 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.76%) Marketing
7 6 (4.32%) Electronics
7 6 (4.32%) Law
7 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.60%) Banking
9 4 (2.88%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.88%) Local Government
9 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.88%) Retail
10 2 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (13.67%) Support Engineer
2 16 (11.51%) Architect
2 16 (11.51%) Programme Manager
3 15 (10.79%) Consultant
3 15 (10.79%) IT Engineer
4 12 (8.63%) Desktop Support
5 10 (7.19%) Support Technician
6 9 (6.47%) Developer
6 9 (6.47%) IT Support
6 9 (6.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Analyst
8 7 (5.04%) Desktop Support Technician
8 7 (5.04%) Desktop Technician
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Cloud Consultant
9 6 (4.32%) Cloud Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.60%) Senior
10 5 (3.60%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.76%) Kafka
1 8 (5.76%) Node.js
2 6 (4.32%) Jest
2 6 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.32%) pytest
3 2 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.44%) Middleware
3 2 (1.44%) REST
3 2 (1.44%) SOAP
3 2 (1.44%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.72%) .NET
4 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.72%) OpenID
4 1 (0.72%) SAML
4 1 (0.72%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.72%) Web Services
4 1 (0.72%) XML
4 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Smartphone
2 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.39%) Windows
2 12 (8.63%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.04%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (25.18%) Data Migration
3 26 (18.71%) Change Management
4 25 (17.99%) Programme Management
5 23 (16.55%) Data Transformation
5 23 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (15.83%) Workflow
7 21 (15.11%) Validation
8 20 (14.39%) Regulatory Compliance
8 20 (14.39%) Risk Management
9 19 (13.67%) Dashboard Development
9 19 (13.67%) Data Analysis
9 19 (13.67%) Quantitative Analysis
9 19 (13.67%) User Experience
10 18 (12.95%) Agile
10 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (12.95%) Technology Transformation
11 16 (11.51%) Workflow Management
12 13 (9.35%) CI/CD
12 13 (9.35%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.58%) SQL
2 8 (5.76%) Java
3 6 (4.32%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.72%) Bicep
6 1 (0.72%) C#
6 1 (0.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.83%) Degree
4 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.44%) PMP
6 1 (0.72%) ACCA
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CIMA
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.72%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) GDPR
2 9 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.60%) QA
4 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.16%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.44%) GRC
5 2 (1.44%) PSD2
5 2 (1.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.72%) Docker
4 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) SCCM
2 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.72%) Ansible
5 1 (0.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.39%) Google
3 13 (9.35%) SAP
4 10 (7.19%) Databricks
5 9 (6.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.88%) VMware
7 3 (2.16%) IFS
7 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.44%) Ariba
8 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.44%) Sophos
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco
9 1 (0.72%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.72%) OpenText
9 1 (0.72%) Splunk
9 1 (0.72%) Sybase
9 1 (0.72%) Workday