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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 147 45 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 13.21% 7.76% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.94% 8.88% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 35 37
10th Percentile £223 £365 £356
25th Percentile £394 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +11.58%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £622
90th Percentile £619 £588 £662
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £25.65 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 868 507 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.99% 87.41% 78.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 343 417
10th Percentile £200 £214 £200
25th Percentile £388 £325 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £411
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +3.41% -13.47%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £550
90th Percentile £629 £588 £622
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 37 56
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +12.22% -26.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.25 £37.80 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the East Midlands

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 May 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 +9 55 £536 +17.16% 9
Nottinghamshire 0 29 £275 -50.00% 7
Lincolnshire +3 25 £550 +7.32% 3
Leicestershire +10 24 £450 -30.82% 3
Derbyshire -8 6 £465 +55.00% 6
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 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.08%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.40%) Teamcenter
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.36%) Maximo
4 2 (1.36%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.68%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.61%) Google Workspace
2 19 (12.93%) Azure
2 19 (12.93%) Google Sheets
3 18 (12.24%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (6.80%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.44%) AWS
6 8 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.08%) GitHub
8 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.40%) SaaS
9 2 (1.36%) Azure Batch
9 2 (1.36%) IaaS
9 2 (1.36%) OCI
9 2 (1.36%) PaaS
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) DNS
2 2 (1.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) Aerospike
1 7 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 7 (4.76%) Redis
2 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.40%) Power BI
4 4 (2.72%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) JIRA
2 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.40%) GitLab
3 5 (3.40%) JUnit
4 3 (2.04%) Hudson
5 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 52 (35.37%) Finance
1 52 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.80%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.08%) Banking
5 6 (4.08%) Law
6 4 (2.72%) General Ledger
6 4 (2.72%) Local Government
6 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Retail
7 3 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.04%) Electronics
7 3 (2.04%) Marketing
7 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.36%) Billing
8 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (12.93%) Architect
2 18 (12.24%) Consultant
3 16 (10.88%) Programme Manager
3 16 (10.88%) Support Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 12 (8.16%) Desktop Support
6 10 (6.80%) Analyst
6 10 (6.80%) Developer
6 10 (6.80%) Support Technician
7 9 (6.12%) IT Support
7 9 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Lead
8 8 (5.44%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Desktop Support Technician
9 7 (4.76%) Desktop Technician
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Consultant
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.76%) Kafka
2 7 (4.76%) Node.js
3 5 (3.40%) Jest
3 5 (3.40%) pytest
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.68%) OAuth
4 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.68%) OpenID
4 1 (0.68%) SAML
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) XML
4 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.84%) Smartphone
2 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.61%) Windows
2 12 (8.16%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.68%) Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.21%) Data Migration
1 40 (27.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (21.77%) Validation
3 27 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (17.69%) Change Management
5 24 (16.33%) ERP
6 23 (15.65%) Data Transformation
7 22 (14.97%) Programme Management
8 20 (13.61%) Regulatory Compliance
8 20 (13.61%) Risk Management
8 20 (13.61%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (12.93%) Dashboard Development
9 19 (12.93%) Data Analysis
9 19 (12.93%) Quantitative Analysis
9 19 (12.93%) User Experience
10 18 (12.24%) Technology Transformation
11 16 (10.88%) Agile
11 16 (10.88%) Workflow
12 15 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.16%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.13%) SQL
2 7 (4.76%) Java
3 5 (3.40%) PL/SQL
3 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.68%) Bicep
4 1 (0.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) Degree
2 22 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.40%) ACCA
4 5 (3.40%) CIMA
5 2 (1.36%) PMP
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.80%) GDPR
2 7 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.40%) QA
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.04%) PSD2
4 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.36%) GRC
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS
5 2 (1.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.20%) SCCM
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.72%) Terraform
4 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (13.61%) Google
1 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.93%) Oracle
3 14 (9.52%) SAP
4 9 (6.12%) Databricks
5 3 (2.04%) IFS
5 3 (2.04%) JD Edwards
5 3 (2.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.36%) Ariba
6 2 (1.36%) Concur
6 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.36%) Sophos
7 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.68%) OpenText
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Workday