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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 117 76 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.48% 9.08% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.39% 10.48% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 50 32
10th Percentile £343 £400 £197
25th Percentile £440 £447 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% +12.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £520
90th Percentile £675 £1,300 £588
England median daily rate £538 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +3.37% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 0
10th Percentile £20.79 £23.80 -
25th Percentile £25.69 - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £26.70 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £34.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -27.10% -44.80%

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 1,027 725 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.47% 86.62% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 499 397
10th Percentile £230 £222 £263
25th Percentile £394 £350 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -6.74% -9.18%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £613
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 68 27
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £14.86
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -16.13% -10.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £33.75 - £52.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 54 £550 +10.00% 12
Northamptonshire +10 18 £469 +4.17% 7
Leicestershire -5 16 £550 -12.00% 9
Lincolnshire -11 14 £550 -12.00% 4
Nottinghamshire -14 11 £613 -52.88% 16
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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.13%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.56%) iTrent
3 3 (2.56%) Maximo
3 3 (2.56%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (1.71%) Lorenzo
4 2 (1.71%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.85%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.85%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.77%) Azure
2 23 (19.66%) Entra ID
3 19 (16.24%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.68%) SaaS
5 12 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.26%) IaaS
5 12 (10.26%) PaaS
6 9 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (5.13%) AWS
8 5 (4.27%) OCI
8 5 (4.27%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.56%) Intacct
10 3 (2.56%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) VPN
2 12 (10.26%) Firewall
3 3 (2.56%) DHCP
3 3 (2.56%) DNS
4 2 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.85%) VSAN
5 1 (0.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) Data Lake
2 9 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.56%) Db2
3 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.56%) Power BI
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.71%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.71%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.71%) QlikView
5 1 (0.85%) Big Data
5 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) GitLab
2 2 (1.71%) Hudson
3 1 (0.85%) Git
General
1 53 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Finance
3 23 (19.66%) Manufacturing
4 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Banking
5 5 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Local Government
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Automotive
8 2 (1.71%) Billing
8 2 (1.71%) Legal
8 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (17.95%) Architect
2 14 (11.97%) Consultant
3 13 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.40%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Analyst
6 8 (6.84%) Senior
7 7 (5.98%) Accountant
7 7 (5.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Systems Accountant
7 7 (5.98%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.27%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.98%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.42%) YAML
4 3 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.56%) Middleware
5 2 (1.71%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) .NET
6 1 (0.85%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) CMDB
2 7 (5.98%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.56%) FMCG
4 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.71%) NHS
5 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.71%) Replication
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.51%) Windows
2 14 (11.97%) Windows 10
3 6 (5.13%) Linux
3 6 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.90%) Data Migration
2 34 (29.06%) Validation
3 28 (23.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (17.09%) ERP
5 19 (16.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 15 (12.82%) Analytics
7 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (11.97%) Process Improvement
7 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (11.11%) Data Governance
9 12 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (10.26%) DevOps
9 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.40%) Architecture Governance
10 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.55%) Cloud Security
11 10 (8.55%) Data Modelling
11 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
11 10 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (8.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.51%) SQL
2 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.71%) ABAP
3 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.85%) Bicep
4 1 (0.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) ACCA
3 7 (5.98%) CIMA
4 5 (4.27%) Degree
5 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.56%) PMP
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CISM
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 3 (2.56%) PSD2
4 2 (1.71%) IFRS
4 2 (1.71%) QA
4 2 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.85%) GxP
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (18.80%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.84%) Docker
3 4 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (35.04%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.95%) Oracle
3 19 (16.24%) SAP
4 14 (11.97%) Databricks
5 6 (5.13%) VMware
6 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.27%) Workday
7 4 (3.42%) Concur
8 3 (2.56%) Aruba
8 3 (2.56%) JD Edwards
8 3 (2.56%) Sage
8 3 (2.56%) Teradata
9 2 (1.71%) MEDITECH
10 1 (0.85%) Cerner
10 1 (0.85%) IBM
10 1 (0.85%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.85%) Siemens