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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 26 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +14
Contract jobs citing Migration 91 81 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.04% 5.33% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 6.51% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 49 114
10th Percentile £269 £280 £310
25th Percentile £438 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £600
90th Percentile £735 £639 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -4.52% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 7
10th Percentile £21.64 £20.00 £54.25
25th Percentile - £20.14 £63.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £63.70 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.52% -9.00% -0.23%
75th Percentile £28.74 £80.00 £70.13
90th Percentile £57.05 - £77.93
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -52.55% -24.29% +40.00%

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 1,156 1,244 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 81.79% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 452 899
10th Percentile £200 £213 £230
25th Percentile £379 £309 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £625
90th Percentile £682 £638 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 395 358
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%

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
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +16 29 £550 +30.95% 16
Bedfordshire +5 29 £500 -9.09% 7
Essex +11 20 £450 -18.18% 14
Hertfordshire -26 9 £475 +5.56% 21
Norfolk -12 2 £550 +30.49% 5
Suffolk +4 1 - - 2
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 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.20%) Mule
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (16.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.30%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.10%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.10%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
3 9 (9.89%) Snowflake
4 8 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (8.79%) dbt
4 8 (8.79%) Serverless
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.49%) GCP
5 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.49%) Slack
6 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) IaaS
7 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.49%) Power BI
5 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.30%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (3.30%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.20%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) GitLab
2 3 (3.30%) AdminStudio
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.20%) Hudson
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 39 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.49%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (15.38%) Consultant
2 13 (14.29%) Architect
3 8 (8.79%) Snowflake Architect
4 7 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Analyst
5 5 (5.49%) Developer
5 5 (5.49%) IFS Developer
5 5 (5.49%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (5.49%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Lead
6 4 (4.40%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.30%) Data Consultant
7 3 (3.30%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (3.30%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.30%) SSIS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) REST
1 5 (5.49%) SOAP
1 5 (5.49%) XML
2 4 (4.40%) Web Services
3 3 (3.30%) EDI
3 3 (3.30%) JSON
3 3 (3.30%) XSLT
4 2 (2.20%) JWT
4 2 (2.20%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) MUnit
4 2 (2.20%) OAuth
4 2 (2.20%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.10%) JSR 170
5 1 (1.10%) Next.js
5 1 (1.10%) OSGi
5 1 (1.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.40%) Life Science
4 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) EPoS
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.20%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) FreeBSD
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Data Migration
2 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (18.68%) ERP
4 14 (15.38%) DevOps
5 13 (14.29%) Analytics
5 13 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 13 (14.29%) ETL
6 10 (10.99%) Roadmaps
7 9 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.79%) Dashboard Development
8 8 (8.79%) Data Integration
8 8 (8.79%) Observability
8 8 (8.79%) RBAC
8 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (8.79%) Workflow
8 8 (8.79%) Workflow Management
9 7 (7.69%) Data Design
9 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.68%) SQL
2 14 (15.38%) Python
3 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.49%) Java
4 5 (5.49%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.20%) DataWeave
6 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.30%) CBAP
7 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.10%) CCSP
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.10%) CISSP
8 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Terraform
2 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.59%) Grafana
5 5 (5.49%) SCCM
6 2 (2.20%) CloudHub
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) SAP
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.79%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.79%) Oracle
4 7 (7.69%) IFS
5 6 (6.59%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.30%) Aruba
6 3 (3.30%) Google
6 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.30%) Splunk
7 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.20%) Sybase
8 1 (1.10%) Adobe
8 1 (1.10%) Apple
8 1 (1.10%) Ariba
8 1 (1.10%) IBM
8 1 (1.10%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.10%) Sage