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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 128 65 84
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.50% 5.94% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 6.93% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 35 46
10th Percentile £325 £240 £319
25th Percentile £409 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £613
90th Percentile £585 £700 £675
England median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 8
10th Percentile - - £25.00
25th Percentile £20.50 - £39.16
Median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £51.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -61.26% -26.25%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.33 £63.67
90th Percentile - £65.66 £88.00
England median hourly rate £24.00 £20.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.79% -49.06% -38.46%

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 1,404 938 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 82.30% 85.66% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 417 804
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £707
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 165 425
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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
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 30 January 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 +3 41 £438 -27.08% 4
Cambridgeshire +17 27 £550 +6.80% 6
Hertfordshire -12 25 £475 -7.32% 20
Norfolk -17 15 £300 +7.14% 5
Suffolk +13 10 £350 -20.00% 2
Essex - 10 £525 - 9
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 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.91%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.78%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.84%) AWS
2 11 (8.59%) Azure
3 8 (6.25%) PaaS
4 7 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.47%) SaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (4.69%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.91%) dbt
6 5 (3.91%) Serverless
6 5 (3.91%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.34%) GCP
9 2 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.56%) Slack
10 1 (0.78%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) VPN
2 5 (3.91%) LAN
2 5 (3.91%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.91%) WAN
2 5 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.34%) Firewall
4 2 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.34%) Power BI
4 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.56%) Tableau
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.78%) EDMS
5 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.78%) Metadata
5 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) GitLab
2 3 (2.34%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.78%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) Hudson
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 52 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.19%) Finance
3 17 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.72%) Manufacturing
5 12 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 11 (8.59%) Electronics
6 11 (8.59%) Marketing
7 10 (7.81%) Aviation
8 8 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (23.44%) Architect
2 17 (13.28%) IT Engineer
3 16 (12.50%) Consultant
4 10 (7.81%) Windows Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Developer
9 4 (3.13%) Lead
9 4 (3.13%) Senior
9 4 (3.13%) Snowflake Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) OpenID
1 7 (5.47%) SAML
2 4 (3.13%) XML
3 3 (2.34%) EDI
3 3 (2.34%) JSON
3 3 (2.34%) REST
3 3 (2.34%) SOAP
3 3 (2.34%) XSLT
4 1 (0.78%) Middleware
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.56%) Life Science
4 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.78%) NHS
4 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.78%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.28%) Windows
2 14 (10.94%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.00%) Workflow
2 27 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.75%) Workflow Management
4 23 (17.97%) Data Migration
5 16 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (11.72%) Logistics
7 14 (10.94%) DevOps
8 12 (9.38%) Data Modelling
8 12 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (8.59%) Digital Marketing
9 11 (8.59%) Programme Management
9 11 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (7.81%) Analytics
10 10 (7.81%) ERP
10 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (7.81%) Observability
10 10 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (7.03%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.25%) CRM
12 8 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.03%) SQL
2 7 (5.47%) Python
3 3 (2.34%) Java
3 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.91%) Degree
4 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.56%) PMP
4 2 (1.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) GMP
2 2 (1.56%) GxP
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 5 (3.91%) Grafana
2 5 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
2 5 (3.91%) SCCM
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.63%) SAP
3 9 (7.03%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.91%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.91%) IBM
5 5 (3.91%) Meraki
6 4 (3.13%) Remedy
7 3 (2.34%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.34%) VMware
8 2 (1.56%) Google
8 2 (1.56%) IFS
8 2 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.56%) Splunk
9 1 (0.78%) Ariba
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix
9 1 (0.78%) Infor
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase
9 1 (0.78%) Talend