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

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Migration 143 105 72
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.93% 8.06% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 8.95% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 43
10th Percentile £371 £251 £240
25th Percentile £431 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -8.88%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £605
90th Percentile £646 £730 £644
England median daily rate £532 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 10
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.96 -
25th Percentile £30.63 £21.14 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% +15.97% -61.64%
75th Percentile - - £67.03
90th Percentile £52.40 £41.45 £80.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £45.25
% change year-on-year +59.05% -44.42% -35.36%

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 1,890 1,173 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.39% 90.02% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 512 439
10th Percentile £190 £200 £204
25th Percentile £364 £382 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £442
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +14.25% -11.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £551
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 315 336
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.16 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.63 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +109.90% -45.14% +106.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +15 51 £499 +4.95% 33
Cambridgeshire +11 49 £566 +2.82% 21
Bedfordshire -10 19 £625 +28.21% 7
Essex -18 16 £550 +22.22% 13
Suffolk -13 8 £475 - 6
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 (3.50%) Confluence
1 5 (3.50%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.10%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.70%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (23.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.90%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 6 (4.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (3.50%) SAP Travel Management
5 4 (2.80%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (2.10%) SAP HCM
7 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (1.40%) Infor M3
7 2 (1.40%) SAP ERP
7 2 (1.40%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.70%) Primavera
8 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.18%) Azure
2 15 (10.49%) AWS
3 11 (7.69%) SaaS
4 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.10%) IaaS
8 3 (2.10%) PaaS
8 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.10%) Serverless
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.40%) CloudFront
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) Firewall
2 6 (4.20%) Network Security
3 4 (2.80%) DHCP
3 4 (2.80%) DNS
3 4 (2.80%) VPN
4 3 (2.10%) NGFW
4 3 (2.10%) RS-232
4 3 (2.10%) RS-485
4 3 (2.10%) Wireless
5 2 (1.40%) BGP
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.70%) LAN
6 1 (0.70%) OSPF
6 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.50%) MaxDB
3 5 (3.50%) Power BI
3 5 (3.50%) SAP HANA
3 5 (3.50%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Power Query
6 1 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.70%) GIS
6 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) JIRA
2 3 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.70%) Gerrit
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.70%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 33 (23.08%) Finance
2 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.78%) Manufacturing
4 20 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.90%) Law
5 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Local Government
8 3 (2.10%) Dutch Language
8 3 (2.10%) Electronics
8 3 (2.10%) German Language
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Billing
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.68%) Analyst
2 21 (14.69%) Consultant
3 20 (13.99%) Logistics Analyst
4 17 (11.89%) Architect
4 17 (11.89%) SAP Analyst
4 17 (11.89%) SAP Logistics Analyst
5 13 (9.09%) Lead
6 12 (8.39%) Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Senior
8 8 (5.59%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (5.59%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.20%) Payroll Consultant
10 6 (4.20%) Project Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Data Migration Analyst
11 5 (3.50%) SAP Basis Support
11 5 (3.50%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) Terraform
2 5 (3.50%) REST
2 5 (3.50%) SAP Basis
2 5 (3.50%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (3.50%) SAPUI5
3 4 (2.80%) Kafka
3 4 (2.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.80%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.10%) LDAP
5 2 (1.40%) .NET
5 2 (1.40%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.40%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.40%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.40%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.40%) gRPC
5 2 (1.40%) OAuth
5 2 (1.40%) RESTful
5 2 (1.40%) SAML
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.80%) CMDB
4 4 (2.80%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.40%) BYOD
6 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.09%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.10%) Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Rocky
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.70%) Unix
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) Data Migration
2 33 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (14.69%) Validation
6 20 (13.99%) Logistics
7 18 (12.59%) ERP
8 14 (9.79%) Analytics
9 13 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
10 12 (8.39%) DevOps
10 12 (8.39%) Roadmaps
10 12 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.69%) ETL
12 10 (6.99%) Agile
13 9 (6.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (6.29%) Translating Business Requirements
14 8 (5.59%) ITIL
14 8 (5.59%) Mentoring
14 8 (5.59%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.38%) SQL
2 18 (12.59%) Python
3 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.10%) C
4 3 (2.10%) C++
5 2 (1.40%) C#
5 2 (1.40%) Groovy
5 2 (1.40%) Java
5 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.40%) X++
6 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.70%) Bash
6 1 (0.70%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.70%) Bicep
6 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.20%) CCNP
7 4 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.80%) PMP
8 3 (2.10%) CCNA
8 3 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) ACCA
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.70%) CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) CIMA
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.68%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.59%) GDPR
2 8 (5.59%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.80%) PMO
5 3 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (1.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
3 3 (2.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.10%) Firmware
3 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.10%) Ansible
2 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.40%) Grafana
3 2 (1.40%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.70%) Istio
4 1 (0.70%) linkerd
4 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.70%) Puppet
4 1 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (29.37%) SAP
2 23 (16.08%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.69%) Oracle
4 9 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco
5 7 (4.90%) IBM
6 6 (4.20%) Remedy
7 5 (3.50%) Sybase
8 3 (2.10%) BMC
8 3 (2.10%) Civica
8 3 (2.10%) Databricks
8 3 (2.10%) Google
8 3 (2.10%) Orchard
8 3 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.10%) VMware
9 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.40%) Forcepoint
9 2 (1.40%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.40%) Infor
91 Migration jobs in the East of England