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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 23 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 131 70 108
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.68% 7.18% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 8.16% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 68
10th Percentile £383 £339 £80
25th Percentile £413 £485 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.82% +14.71%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £591
90th Percentile £650 £706 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -4.19% +1.42% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 13
10th Percentile £20.50 £17.84 -
25th Percentile £20.54 £17.91 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.01 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -77.49% +18.52%
75th Percentile £25.15 £18.12 -
90th Percentile - £18.18 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £46.23
% change year-on-year -17.13% -37.81% -26.03%

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 1,537 858 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.42% 88.00% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 466 794
10th Percentile £200 £250 £238
25th Percentile £356 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% -2.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 166 526
10th Percentile £14.18 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.54 £20.36 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.90 £54.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +41.66% +34.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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
Bedfordshire -2 39 £525 -12.50% 2
Hertfordshire -14 30 £523 -4.95% 17
Cambridgeshire +13 28 £595 +24.22% 9
Suffolk +8 13 £413 -7.04% 4
Norfolk -16 11 £425 +40.50% 6
Essex +3 8 £530 - 11
East Anglia - 2 - - 8
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 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.53%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.34%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (3.05%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.76%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.76%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.92%) SaaS
2 10 (7.63%) AWS
3 9 (6.87%) Azure
4 7 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.82%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.82%) PaaS
6 3 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.53%) dbt
7 2 (1.53%) GCP
7 2 (1.53%) IaaS
7 2 (1.53%) OCI
7 2 (1.53%) Serverless
7 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.76%) Boomi
8 1 (0.76%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) VPN
2 5 (3.82%) LAN
2 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.82%) WAN
2 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.29%) Firewall
4 2 (1.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (3.82%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.53%) Metadata
3 2 (1.53%) Power BI
3 2 (1.53%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.53%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (1.53%) Tableau
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) EDMS
4 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) MaxDB
4 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Git
2 1 (0.76%) GitLab
2 1 (0.76%) Hudson
2 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Finance
3 16 (12.21%) Manufacturing
3 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.16%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.40%) Electronics
5 11 (8.40%) Marketing
5 11 (8.40%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.58%) Aviation
8 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Billing
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (22.90%) Architect
2 19 (14.50%) Consultant
3 14 (10.69%) IT Engineer
3 14 (10.69%) Project Manager
4 7 (5.34%) Migration Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Data Consultant
5 6 (4.58%) Data Migration Consultant
5 6 (4.58%) Lead
5 6 (4.58%) Migration Consultant
5 6 (4.58%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (4.58%) Support Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) SAP Data Consultant
6 5 (3.82%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
6 5 (3.82%) SAP Migration Consultant
7 4 (3.05%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.05%) Designer
7 4 (3.05%) Developer
7 4 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) OpenID
1 3 (2.29%) REST
1 3 (2.29%) SAML
2 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.53%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.76%) JSON
3 1 (0.76%) Kafka
3 1 (0.76%) Middleware
3 1 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.76%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.76%) SOAP
3 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.29%) CMDB
3 3 (2.29%) Life Science
3 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.53%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) LIMS
5 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.76%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.45%) Windows
2 14 (10.69%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.29%) Linux
3 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.24%) Data Migration
2 26 (19.85%) Workflow
3 23 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 23 (17.56%) Validation
4 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (14.50%) Workflow Management
5 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (10.69%) Data Modelling
8 13 (9.92%) Agile
9 12 (9.16%) Analytics
9 12 (9.16%) ERP
9 12 (9.16%) Project Management
10 11 (8.40%) Data Cleansing
10 11 (8.40%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (8.40%) Programme Management
11 9 (6.87%) Incident Management
12 8 (6.11%) Data Governance
12 8 (6.11%) Logistics
12 8 (6.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.58%) SQL
2 5 (3.82%) Python
3 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.05%) VBA
4 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Degree
3 3 (2.29%) PMP
4 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PgMP
5 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) GMP
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) GLP
4 2 (1.53%) GxP
4 2 (1.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) SCCM
2 1 (0.76%) Grafana
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) TeamSite
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (21.37%) SAP
2 24 (18.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.63%) Oracle
4 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.82%) IBM
6 5 (3.82%) Meraki
6 5 (3.82%) VMware
7 4 (3.05%) Remedy
8 3 (2.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.29%) IFS
9 2 (1.53%) Ariba
9 2 (1.53%) Cisco
9 2 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.53%) Sybase
9 2 (1.53%) Talend
10 1 (0.76%) Cerner
10 1 (0.76%) Citrix
10 1 (0.76%) Informatica
10 1 (0.76%) NetApp