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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 32 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Migration 111 62 116
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.36% 4.84% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 6.00% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 80
10th Percentile £251 £235 £325
25th Percentile £406 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.88% +21.94%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £616
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 7
10th Percentile £20.30 - £45.30
25th Percentile £20.54 £20.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.19 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -63.63% -17.78%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.65 £57.16
90th Percentile - £65.27 £71.03
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -64.62% +25.73%

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 1,316 1,033 1,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 87.27% 80.70% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 415 888
10th Percentile £193 £231 £225
25th Percentile £367 £318 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £561 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 220 370
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.05 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% +31.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £64.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £70.00 £73.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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 15 November 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
Cambridgeshire +14 34 £550 +30.95% 15
Bedfordshire +3 32 £450 -18.18% 3
Essex +12 17 £302 -58.41% 9
Hertfordshire -28 13 £513 -2.33% 19
Norfolk -15 9 £300 +14.29%
Suffolk +12 5 £475 -5.00% 3
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 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.80%) Mule
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.80%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.90%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.90%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.90%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.42%) AWS
2 17 (15.32%) Azure
3 9 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (7.21%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.31%) dbt
5 7 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.31%) PaaS
5 7 (6.31%) Serverless
6 6 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (4.50%) GCP
7 5 (4.50%) Slack
8 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.80%) SAN
2 2 (1.80%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.70%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.80%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.90%) EDMS
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) GitLab
2 3 (2.70%) AdminStudio
2 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
2 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) Hudson
3 1 (0.90%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 46 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Finance
3 11 (9.91%) Manufacturing
4 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.50%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.50%) Aviation
6 5 (4.50%) Electronics
6 5 (4.50%) Marketing
7 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (14.41%) Consultant
2 13 (11.71%) IT Engineer
3 11 (9.91%) Architect
4 9 (8.11%) Windows Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Deployment Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Migration Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Developer
8 5 (4.50%) IFS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) OpenID
1 6 (5.41%) SAML
2 5 (4.50%) REST
2 5 (4.50%) SOAP
3 4 (3.60%) XML
4 3 (2.70%) EDI
4 3 (2.70%) JSON
4 3 (2.70%) Web Services
4 3 (2.70%) XSLT
5 2 (1.80%) JWT
5 2 (1.80%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) MUnit
5 2 (1.80%) OAuth
5 2 (1.80%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.90%) Middleware
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.90%) NHS
5 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.90%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.90%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.62%) Windows
2 15 (13.51%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.52%) Workflow
2 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (18.92%) Workflow Management
4 20 (18.02%) Data Migration
5 17 (15.32%) DevOps
6 15 (13.51%) Logistics
7 14 (12.61%) ERP
8 13 (11.71%) Observability
9 12 (10.81%) Roadmaps
10 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.91%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (9.01%) ETL
11 10 (9.01%) ITIL
11 10 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (8.11%) Data Modelling
12 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.21%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) SQL
2 13 (11.71%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.50%) Java
5 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.80%) DataWeave
7 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) CBAP
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.90%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.80%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (9.01%) Terraform
2 9 (8.11%) SCCM
3 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (1.80%) CloudHub
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) SAP
3 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (7.21%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.41%) IFS
5 6 (5.41%) Oracle
6 4 (3.60%) Google
6 4 (3.60%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.60%) Remedy
6 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.60%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.70%) Aruba
8 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.80%) VMware
8 2 (1.80%) Workday
9 1 (0.90%) Avature
9 1 (0.90%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.90%) Sage
9 1 (0.90%) Zscaler