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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Migration 63 60 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.03% 7.65% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 9.26% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 59
10th Percentile £425 £350 £213
25th Percentile £447 £431 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £598 £622 £619
90th Percentile £1,300 £645 £650
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £74.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £92.50
90th Percentile - - £93.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -52.10% -25.00% +40.00%

All Process and 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 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Migration 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
Northamptonshire -19 22 £450 -10.00% 21
Nottinghamshire +7 15 £1,300 +136.36% 10
Lincolnshire +6 10 £197 -68.48% 10
Derbyshire +2 7 £575 +15.00% 7
Leicestershire -1 7 £588 +23.68% 9
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (1.59%) Alfresco
1 1 (1.59%) CMS
1 1 (1.59%) Documentum
1 1 (1.59%) JBoss
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.59%) SAS
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) FrameMaker
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.17%) PRMS
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 8 (12.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (6.35%) Azure
4 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.17%) ChatGPT
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) AtomSphere
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.59%) Boomi
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.59%) NAS
2 1 (1.59%) SAN
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
2 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) Metadata
2 2 (3.17%) MySQL
2 2 (3.17%) Power BI
3 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.76%) JMeter
1 3 (4.76%) Postman
1 3 (4.76%) Selenium
2 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
2 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.59%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) JUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Mockito
3 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (25.40%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Marketing
4 6 (9.52%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Games
8 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Architect
2 7 (11.11%) Administrator
2 7 (11.11%) Developer
2 7 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 5 (7.94%) Lead
4 4 (6.35%) Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Consultant
4 4 (6.35%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.76%) Data Consultant
5 3 (4.76%) Senior
5 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
6 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (3.17%) Payments Architect
6 2 (3.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.17%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) Middleware
2 8 (12.70%) REST
2 8 (12.70%) SOAP
3 7 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (11.11%) Visualforce
4 5 (7.94%) .NET
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.17%) Keycloak
6 2 (3.17%) XML
7 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.59%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.59%) JMS
7 1 (1.59%) JSON
7 1 (1.59%) Spring
7 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) AS400
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) Data Migration
2 14 (22.22%) Agile
3 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 11 (17.46%) Data Modelling
5 11 (17.46%) Integration Patterns
6 10 (15.87%) Data Governance
6 10 (15.87%) Data Management
7 8 (12.70%) Architecture Roadmap
7 8 (12.70%) Data Flow Diagram
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
7 8 (12.70%) Workflow
7 8 (12.70%) Workflow Management
7 8 (12.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (11.11%) Data Entry
8 7 (11.11%) Data Security
8 7 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 7 (11.11%) ERP
9 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 5 (7.94%) C#
3 5 (7.94%) PHP
3 5 (7.94%) Python
4 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.17%) Bash
5 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) Perl
6 1 (1.59%) R
6 1 (1.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Degree
4 6 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.17%) PMP
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 8 (12.70%) GDPR
3 6 (9.52%) QA
4 2 (3.17%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.59%) Basel III
5 1 (1.59%) IFRS
5 1 (1.59%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) Argo
3 2 (3.17%) Istio
3 2 (3.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.59%) Kibana
4 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.87%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.35%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco
5 2 (3.17%) Databricks
5 2 (3.17%) Nintex
5 2 (3.17%) Rockwell
5 2 (3.17%) Workday
6 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) Dell
6 1 (1.59%) Marketo
6 1 (1.59%) Meraki
6 1 (1.59%) OpenText
6 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.59%) Remedy
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk