Migration Contracts in the East of England

Migration
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing Migration 82 112 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.34% 5.83% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 6.91% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 126
10th Percentile £341 £182 £305
25th Percentile £452 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £584
90th Percentile £746 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
10th Percentile £18.14 - £55.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.56% +14.29% +55.90%
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile £67.20 £83.20 £74.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.46% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 990 1,621 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.63% 84.38% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 649 1,015
10th Percentile £213 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 606 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.21 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.81 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Bedfordshire +16 36 £600 +9.09% 11
Cambridgeshire +17 18 £605 +43.93% 13
Essex +11 15 £450 -25.62% 10
Hertfordshire -10 8 £500 +11.11% 22
Suffolk -9 3 £450 -16.28% 6
Norfolk -7 1 £550 +79.45% 3
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.44%) Mule
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Drupal
3 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (28.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.66%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.22%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.10%) GCP
5 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.10%) Serverless
5 5 (6.10%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.88%) dbt
7 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub
7 2 (2.44%) IaaS
7 2 (2.44%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) Network Security
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 1 (1.22%) BGP
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.22%) LAN
3 1 (1.22%) OSPF
3 1 (1.22%) SAN
3 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (8.54%) Power BI
2 5 (6.10%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.88%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.44%) Metadata
4 2 (2.44%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.22%) Power Query
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) AdminStudio
1 3 (3.66%) GitLab
1 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) Hudson
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) MSI
2 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.10%) Banking
6 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Lead
2 13 (15.85%) Architect
3 8 (9.76%) Consultant
4 6 (7.32%) Analyst
5 5 (6.10%) Migration Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) Data Consultant
6 4 (4.88%) Developer
6 4 (4.88%) IFS Developer
6 4 (4.88%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (4.88%) Snowflake Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Senior
8 2 (2.44%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Migration Consultant
8 2 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) Web Services
2 2 (2.44%) JWT
2 2 (2.44%) Kafka
2 2 (2.44%) MUnit
2 2 (2.44%) OAuth
2 2 (2.44%) REST
2 2 (2.44%) SOAP
2 2 (2.44%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.22%) JSR 170
3 1 (1.22%) Next.js
3 1 (1.22%) OSGi
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) RESTful
3 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Life Science
2 6 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.10%) EPoS
4 4 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.22%) NHS
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Windows
2 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.66%) Linux
4 1 (1.22%) FreeBSD
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.49%) Analytics
1 25 (30.49%) Data Migration
2 18 (21.95%) Data Design
3 17 (20.73%) Data Governance
4 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.41%) Record to Report
6 10 (12.20%) ERP
7 9 (10.98%) Data Modelling
8 8 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (9.76%) Cloud Security
8 8 (9.76%) ETL
8 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (8.54%) Data Management
9 7 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (7.32%) Agile
10 6 (7.32%) DevOps
10 6 (7.32%) Incident Response
10 6 (7.32%) SIEM
10 6 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (7.32%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.29%) SQL
2 11 (13.41%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.44%) DataWeave
5 2 (2.44%) Java
5 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.22%) Bicep
6 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) CBAP
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.22%) CCSP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) GRC
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) SCCM
1 4 (4.88%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (34.15%) SAP
2 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.32%) IFS
4 5 (6.10%) Ariba
4 5 (6.10%) Oracle
5 4 (4.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.88%) Splunk
5 4 (4.88%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.66%) Google
7 2 (2.44%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.44%) VMware
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe
8 1 (1.22%) Apple
8 1 (1.22%) Aruba
8 1 (1.22%) Cisco
8 1 (1.22%) F5
8 1 (1.22%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.22%) Sage