Migration Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Migration
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 157 91 81
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.74% 6.99% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 7.82% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 53 49
10th Percentile £400 £269 £240
25th Percentile £453 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% - -6.76%
75th Percentile £617 £604 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £639
England median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 12
10th Percentile £21.25 £21.64 -
25th Percentile £30.63 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £41.20
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -38.96% -41.14%
75th Percentile - £28.74 £80.00
90th Percentile £52.40 £57.05 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

All Process & 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 1,820 1,164 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.11% 89.40% 81.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 506 453
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £376 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £593 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 310 384
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.50 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £49.42 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.50% -37.13% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Migration job vacancy trend in the East of England

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Migration

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 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the East of England

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Migration

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 16 September 2026.

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 16 September 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
Hertfordshire +22 51 £525 +10.53% 43
Cambridgeshire +12 49 £566 +2.91% 30
Bedfordshire -2 21 £625 +25.00% 13
Suffolk +4 17 £450 - 7
Essex -16 16 £550 +22.22% 29
Norfolk -12 2 - - 13
East Anglia - 1 - - 2
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.18%) Confluence
1 5 (3.18%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.55%) OpenEdge
3 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.64%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (22.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 6 (3.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (3.18%) SAP Travel Management
5 4 (2.55%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (1.91%) SAP HCM
7 2 (1.27%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (1.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (1.27%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.64%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.64%) Primavera
8 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 14 (8.92%) AWS
3 12 (7.64%) SaaS
4 9 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.46%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.91%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.27%) IaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.27%) OCI
9 2 (1.27%) PaaS
9 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.37%) Firewall
2 6 (3.82%) Network Security
3 4 (2.55%) DHCP
3 4 (2.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.55%) Wireless
4 3 (1.91%) NGFW
4 3 (1.91%) RS-232
4 3 (1.91%) RS-485
4 3 (1.91%) VPN
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.64%) BGP
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.64%) LAN
6 1 (0.64%) OSPF
6 1 (0.64%) SSL
6 1 (0.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.46%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.18%) MaxDB
3 5 (3.18%) Power BI
3 5 (3.18%) SAP HANA
3 5 (3.18%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.27%) Metadata
6 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.27%) Power Query
6 2 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.64%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) JIRA
2 3 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.64%) Gerrit
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.64%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 35 (22.29%) Finance
2 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.92%) Manufacturing
4 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.46%) Law
5 7 (4.46%) Local Government
5 7 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Retail
8 4 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Dutch Language
9 3 (1.91%) Electronics
9 3 (1.91%) German Language
10 2 (1.27%) Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (21.02%) Analyst
2 22 (14.01%) Consultant
3 20 (12.74%) Logistics Analyst
4 17 (10.83%) Lead
4 17 (10.83%) SAP Analyst
4 17 (10.83%) SAP Logistics Analyst
5 15 (9.55%) Architect
6 13 (8.28%) Developer
7 11 (7.01%) Senior
8 10 (6.37%) Project Manager
8 10 (6.37%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (5.73%) Oracle Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.46%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Support Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Data Migration Analyst
12 6 (3.82%) Data Migration Lead
12 6 (3.82%) Migration Analyst
12 6 (3.82%) Payroll Consultant
13 5 (3.18%) SAP Basis Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) REST
2 5 (3.18%) Kafka
2 5 (3.18%) SAP Basis
2 5 (3.18%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (3.18%) SAPUI5
2 5 (3.18%) Terraform
3 4 (2.55%) SailPoint
4 3 (1.91%) JSON
4 3 (1.91%) LDAP
5 2 (1.27%) .NET
5 2 (1.27%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.27%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.27%) OAuth
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.27%) SAML
6 1 (0.64%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.64%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.64%) PyArrow
6 1 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.01%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.46%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.18%) CMDB
4 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.18%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.27%) BYOD
6 2 (1.27%) Life Science
6 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.83%) Windows
2 10 (6.37%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.91%) Linux
3 3 (1.91%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Rocky
4 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.64%) Unix
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.31%) Data Migration
2 34 (21.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 30 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (16.56%) Validation
5 23 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (14.01%) ERP
7 20 (12.74%) Logistics
8 18 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (10.83%) Analytics
9 17 (10.83%) Data Modelling
9 17 (10.83%) ETL
10 14 (8.92%) Agile
10 14 (8.92%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (8.28%) CRM
12 12 (7.64%) DevOps
12 12 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
13 11 (7.01%) Project Management
14 10 (6.37%) Decision-Making
14 10 (6.37%) Roadmaps
15 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.92%) SQL
2 16 (10.19%) Python
3 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.91%) C
4 3 (1.91%) C++
5 2 (1.27%) C#
5 2 (1.27%) Groovy
5 2 (1.27%) Java
5 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.27%) X++
6 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.64%) Bash
6 1 (0.64%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.01%) Degree
4 8 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.82%) CCNP
7 3 (1.91%) CCNA
7 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.91%) PMP
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ACCA
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) CCSP
9 1 (0.64%) CIMA
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (25.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) GDPR
3 8 (5.10%) QA
4 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.55%) PMO
6 3 (1.91%) NIST
6 3 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.64%) GLP
8 1 (0.64%) GMP
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.55%) Docker
4 3 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.91%) Firmware
5 2 (1.27%) vSphere
6 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.27%) Ansible
2 2 (1.27%) Grafana
2 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.64%) HAProxy
3 1 (0.64%) Istio
3 1 (0.64%) linkerd
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) Puppet
3 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (29.30%) SAP
2 28 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.10%) Oracle
4 10 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.46%) Cisco
5 7 (4.46%) IBM
6 6 (3.82%) Databricks
6 6 (3.82%) Remedy
6 6 (3.82%) VMware
7 5 (3.18%) Sybase
8 4 (2.55%) Civica
8 4 (2.55%) Orchard
9 3 (1.91%) BMC
9 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.27%) Aruba
10 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.27%) Forcepoint
10 2 (1.27%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.27%) NetApp