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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 111 60 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.79% 7.83% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.78% 9.19% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 42 40
10th Percentile £313 £425 £356
25th Percentile £425 £447 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £622
90th Percentile £675 £1,300 £645
England median daily rate £525 £516 £532
% change year-on-year +1.69% -2.87% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £21.03 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £34.27 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.46% -4.29%

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 942 653 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.58% 85.25% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 454 408
10th Percentile £243 £227 £268
25th Percentile £400 £333 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +17.80% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £626
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 57 34
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.51% -33.36%
75th Percentile £26.90 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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
Derbyshire +13 31 £550 -7.95% 9
Leicestershire +7 23 £450 -18.18% 14
Northamptonshire +9 20 £450 - 8
Nottinghamshire -13 17 £613 -52.88% 11
Lincolnshire -14 12 £550 +179.19%
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 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (9.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.50%) Teamcenter
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.70%) iTrent
4 3 (2.70%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.80%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.80%) Lorenzo
5 2 (1.80%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.90%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.90%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.23%) Azure
2 12 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.91%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.91%) SaaS
4 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.41%) IaaS
5 6 (5.41%) PaaS
6 5 (4.50%) Azure AKS
6 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.50%) OCI
6 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.50%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.60%) AWS
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.70%) Intacct
8 3 (2.70%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) VPN
2 5 (4.50%) Firewall
3 4 (3.60%) DHCP
3 4 (3.60%) DNS
4 2 (1.80%) VSAN
5 1 (0.90%) Network Security
5 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
1 5 (4.50%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) Oracle ODI
2 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.80%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.90%) Aerospike
4 1 (0.90%) Big Data
4 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.90%) Metadata
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.90%) Redis
4 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Hudson
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) JUnit
General
1 47 (42.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.42%) Finance
3 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.51%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Local Government
6 4 (3.60%) Retail
7 3 (2.70%) Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 2 (1.80%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 16 (14.41%) Architect
1 16 (14.41%) Consultant
2 12 (10.81%) Analyst
3 10 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.21%) Accountant
4 8 (7.21%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.21%) Developer
4 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Systems Accountant
6 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Senior
7 5 (4.50%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (4.50%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Lead
7 5 (4.50%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.50%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.70%) YAML
4 2 (1.80%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) Middleware
4 2 (1.80%) XML
5 1 (0.90%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.90%) Jest
5 1 (0.90%) Kafka
5 1 (0.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.90%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.90%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.31%) CMDB
3 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.80%) NHS
5 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) FMCG
6 1 (0.90%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.90%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.22%) Windows
2 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
2 7 (6.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.60%) Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) Data Migration
2 39 (35.14%) Validation
3 26 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (21.62%) ERP
5 22 (19.82%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.51%) Process Improvement
8 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.71%) Agile
10 12 (10.81%) Data Governance
11 11 (9.91%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.01%) Analytics
12 10 (9.01%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.01%) DevOps
12 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (8.11%) Acceptance Criteria
13 9 (8.11%) ETL
13 9 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
13 9 (8.11%) User Stories
14 8 (7.21%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.82%) SQL
2 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.80%) ABAP
5 1 (0.90%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) C#
5 1 (0.90%) Java
5 1 (0.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) ACCA
3 8 (7.21%) CIMA
4 4 (3.60%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PMP
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.90%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.01%) GDPR
3 4 (3.60%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) PSD2
5 2 (1.80%) IFRS
5 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (11.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.60%) Docker
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.72%) Oracle
3 20 (18.02%) SAP
4 10 (9.01%) Databricks
5 7 (6.31%) VMware
6 5 (4.50%) Workday
7 4 (3.60%) Concur
7 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.70%) Aruba
8 3 (2.70%) JD Edwards
8 3 (2.70%) Sage
9 2 (1.80%) MEDITECH
10 1 (0.90%) Ariba
10 1 (0.90%) Cerner
10 1 (0.90%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.90%) Teradata