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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 147 76 104
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.60% 7.95% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 8.80% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 53 70
10th Percentile £357 £415 £80
25th Percentile £425 £475 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £735 £679
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 17
10th Percentile £22.10 £17.97 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £18.22 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -71.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £25.15 -
90th Percentile £54.25 £33.76 £83.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 1,752 864 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.67% 90.38% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 462 667
10th Percentile £200 £226 £200
25th Percentile £375 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 170 617
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.10 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £24.55 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -0.85% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £84.10 £75.10
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +5 41 £520 +4.00% 13
Cambridgeshire +22 32 £538 -6.85% 5
Bedfordshire -4 31 £550 -15.38% 7
Suffolk +8 19 £450 +1.41% 4
Essex -10 12 £535 +15.05% 3
Norfolk -12 10 - - 3
East Anglia - 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 (3.40%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.72%) OpenEdge
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (13.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (3.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (1.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.68%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.24%) Azure
2 17 (11.56%) SaaS
3 9 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (4.08%) AWS
5 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.72%) PaaS
7 3 (2.04%) IaaS
7 3 (2.04%) OCI
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.36%) Boomi
8 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.36%) GCP
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.36%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.36%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.72%) WAN
2 3 (2.04%) DHCP
2 3 (2.04%) DNS
2 3 (2.04%) LAN
2 3 (2.04%) VPN
2 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.40%) SAP Data Services
3 5 (3.40%) SAP HANA
3 5 (3.40%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (2.72%) MaxDB
5 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.04%) Metadata
6 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.36%) Power BI
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.36%) Tableau
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.72%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Hudson
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
General
1 44 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.09%) Finance
3 17 (11.56%) Manufacturing
4 12 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.44%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.76%) Local Government
8 5 (3.40%) Aviation
8 5 (3.40%) Electronics
8 5 (3.40%) Marketing
8 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
10 2 (1.36%) Billing
10 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.68%) German Language
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (19.73%) Architect
2 17 (11.56%) Consultant
3 16 (10.88%) Analyst
4 12 (8.16%) Lead
4 12 (8.16%) Project Manager
5 9 (6.12%) Senior
6 7 (4.76%) Data Consultant
6 7 (4.76%) Data Migration Consultant
6 7 (4.76%) Logistics Analyst
6 7 (4.76%) Migration Consultant
6 7 (4.76%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.08%) Data Migration Lead
8 5 (3.40%) Designer
8 5 (3.40%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) Salesforce Analyst
8 5 (3.40%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
8 5 (3.40%) SAP Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) SAP Logistics Analyst
8 5 (3.40%) SAP Migration Consultant
8 5 (3.40%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.76%) REST
2 5 (3.40%) SAP Basis
3 4 (2.72%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.72%) SAPUI5
4 2 (1.36%) .NET
4 2 (1.36%) JSON
4 2 (1.36%) Kafka
4 2 (1.36%) OpenID
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.36%) SAML
5 1 (0.68%) ADO
5 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.68%) Flask
5 1 (0.68%) LDAP
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.68%) Pandas
5 1 (0.68%) PyArrow
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
5 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.08%) CMDB
3 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.04%) Life Science
5 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.36%) BYOD
6 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.36%) NHS
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) LIMS
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Windows
2 9 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.40%) Linux
3 5 (3.40%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.04%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.78%) Data Migration
2 27 (18.37%) Validation
3 25 (17.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (15.65%) ERP
4 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (14.97%) Data Modelling
5 22 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (10.88%) Agile
6 16 (10.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 16 (10.88%) Project Management
7 15 (10.20%) Data Cleansing
8 14 (9.52%) CRM
9 13 (8.84%) Analytics
10 12 (8.16%) ETL
11 11 (7.48%) Data Governance
11 11 (7.48%) Mentoring
12 10 (6.80%) Knowledge Transfer
12 10 (6.80%) Workflow
13 9 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (6.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.84%) SQL
2 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.44%) Python
4 4 (2.72%) VBA
5 2 (1.36%) C#
5 2 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.36%) X++
6 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) Groovy
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) Degree
3 4 (2.72%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.72%) PMP
4 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.68%) CCSP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.68%) CISSP
5 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.68%) PgMP
5 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.76%) GDPR
3 5 (3.40%) GMP
4 3 (2.04%) PMO
4 3 (2.04%) SLA
5 2 (1.36%) GLP
5 2 (1.36%) GxP
5 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Ansible
2 2 (1.36%) Grafana
2 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) TeamSite
3 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (22.45%) SAP
2 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.88%) Oracle
4 9 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.08%) VMware
7 5 (3.40%) Databricks
7 5 (3.40%) IBM
7 5 (3.40%) Sybase
8 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.72%) Civica
8 4 (2.72%) Orchard
9 3 (2.04%) IFS
9 3 (2.04%) Meraki
9 3 (2.04%) Remedy
10 2 (1.36%) Ariba
10 2 (1.36%) BMC
10 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.36%) Talend