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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 103 59 61
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.48% 7.67% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.37% 8.95% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 42
10th Percentile £313 £405 £356
25th Percentile £425 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £618
90th Percentile £675 £697 £644
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.08% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £20.74 - -
25th Percentile £23.54 - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% - -
75th Percentile £26.33 - -
90th Percentile £41.64 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 906 659 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.57% 85.70% 80.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 450 407
10th Percentile £234 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £333 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £404 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -10.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 59 38
10th Percentile £13.14 £15.11 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.92 £18.87 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +3.91% -42.82%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £36.99 £25.42 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +12 24 £550 -7.95% 11
Leicestershire +11 24 £450 -14.29% 11
Northamptonshire +11 19 £481 +6.94% 10
Nottinghamshire -9 18 £561 -0.31% 11
Lincolnshire -15 11 £550 +179.19% 3
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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (10.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.85%) Teamcenter
3 4 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.91%) iTrent
4 3 (2.91%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.94%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.94%) Lorenzo
5 2 (1.94%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.97%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.97%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.27%) Azure
2 10 (9.71%) SaaS
3 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.83%) IaaS
5 6 (5.83%) PaaS
6 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
6 5 (4.85%) OCI
6 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.85%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.91%) AWS
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Batch
9 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.94%) Intacct
9 2 (1.94%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) DNS
1 4 (3.88%) Firewall
1 4 (3.88%) VPN
2 3 (2.91%) DHCP
3 1 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.97%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) Power BI
2 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle ODI
2 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.94%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.97%) Aerospike
4 1 (0.97%) Big Data
4 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.97%) Redis
4 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Hudson
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) JUnit
General
1 44 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.27%) Finance
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.59%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.91%) Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Local Government
8 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.94%) Billing
10 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 15 (14.56%) Consultant
2 14 (13.59%) Architect
3 11 (10.68%) Analyst
4 10 (9.71%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Accountant
5 7 (6.80%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.80%) Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (5.83%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.83%) Systems Accountant
7 5 (4.85%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (4.85%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Lead
7 5 (4.85%) Senior
8 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.94%) Middleware
3 2 (1.94%) XML
3 2 (1.94%) YAML
4 1 (0.97%) .NET
4 1 (0.97%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.97%) Jest
4 1 (0.97%) Kafka
4 1 (0.97%) Node.js
4 1 (0.97%) pytest
4 1 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.85%) CMDB
3 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.94%) NHS
4 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.97%) FMCG
5 1 (0.97%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.97%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Windows
2 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.85%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.88%) Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.66%) Data Migration
2 39 (37.86%) Validation
3 24 (23.30%) ERP
3 24 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (21.36%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (13.59%) Process Improvement
6 14 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (12.62%) Agile
8 11 (10.68%) Data Governance
8 11 (10.68%) DevOps
9 10 (9.71%) Analytics
9 10 (9.71%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.74%) Acceptance Criteria
10 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (8.74%) User Stories
10 9 (8.74%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (7.77%) Data Mapping
11 8 (7.77%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.42%) SQL
2 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.94%) ABAP
5 1 (0.97%) C#
5 1 (0.97%) Java
5 1 (0.97%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) ACCA
3 7 (6.80%) CIMA
4 4 (3.88%) Degree
5 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.94%) PMP
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.97%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.71%) GDPR
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) PSD2
4 3 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.94%) IFRS
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
6 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.91%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.85%) Terraform
3 4 (3.88%) SCCM
4 1 (0.97%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.33%) Oracle
3 20 (19.42%) SAP
4 7 (6.80%) Databricks
5 5 (4.85%) VMware
5 5 (4.85%) Workday
6 4 (3.88%) Concur
6 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.91%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.94%) Ariba
8 2 (1.94%) Aruba
8 2 (1.94%) MEDITECH
8 2 (1.94%) Sage
8 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) Cerner
9 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.97%) OpenText
9 1 (0.97%) Red Hat