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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 143 84 113
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.31% 7.22% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 8.17% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 81
10th Percentile £357 £319 £193
25th Percentile £459 £448 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £744 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 17
10th Percentile - £18.14 -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -68.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.88 £39.50 -
90th Percentile £57.15 £67.20 £83.20
England median hourly rate £36.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -37.13% -40.30%

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 1,782 1,028 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.64% 88.32% 84.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 507 634
10th Percentile £188 £209 £202
25th Percentile £380 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year - +17.30% -14.75%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £563
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 212 599
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.33 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.96 £32.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -19.83% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.46 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +16 49 £575 +15.00% 20
Cambridgeshire +10 28 £565 -6.46% 10
Bedfordshire -10 25 £550 -8.33% 8
Suffolk +8 18 £450 - 1
Essex -14 14 £535 +18.89% 4
Norfolk -13 7 - - 3
East Anglia - 2 - - 1
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 7 (4.90%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.80%) OpenEdge
3 3 (2.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.50%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 33 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (2.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (1.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.70%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.78%) Azure
2 19 (13.29%) SaaS
3 9 (6.29%) AWS
4 8 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.90%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.80%) IaaS
7 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.80%) PaaS
8 3 (2.10%) OCI
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.40%) Boomi
9 2 (1.40%) GCP
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) DHCP
2 3 (2.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) Network Security
2 3 (2.10%) Wireless
3 2 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) SAP HANA
2 7 (4.90%) Sybase ASE
3 6 (4.20%) MaxDB
4 5 (3.50%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.80%) Power BI
6 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.40%) Metadata
8 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Power Query
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Hudson
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
General
1 42 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.28%) Finance
3 21 (14.69%) Manufacturing
4 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (4.90%) Local Government
7 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Retail
8 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Aviation
9 3 (2.10%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Billing
10 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (18.88%) Analyst
2 20 (13.99%) Architect
3 18 (12.59%) Logistics Analyst
4 17 (11.89%) Consultant
5 15 (10.49%) Lead
5 15 (10.49%) SAP Analyst
5 15 (10.49%) SAP Logistics Analyst
6 12 (8.39%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.29%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Senior
9 7 (4.90%) Data Consultant
9 7 (4.90%) Data Migration Consultant
9 7 (4.90%) Migration Consultant
9 7 (4.90%) SAP Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) SAP Support
10 6 (4.20%) Data Migration Lead
10 6 (4.20%) SAP Basis Support
11 5 (3.50%) Salesforce Analyst
11 5 (3.50%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) REST
1 7 (4.90%) SAP Basis
2 6 (4.20%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (4.20%) SAPUI5
3 3 (2.10%) Kafka
3 3 (2.10%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.40%) .NET
4 2 (1.40%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.40%) JSON
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.70%) ADO
5 1 (0.70%) Flask
5 1 (0.70%) LDAP
5 1 (0.70%) Middleware
5 1 (0.70%) OAuth
5 1 (0.70%) OpenID
5 1 (0.70%) Pandas
5 1 (0.70%) SAML
5 1 (0.70%) SOAP
5 1 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.90%) CMDB
4 6 (4.20%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.40%) BYOD
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.40%) Life Science
8 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.40%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.70%) LIMS
9 1 (0.70%) NHS
9 1 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.59%) Windows
2 9 (6.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.50%) Linux
3 5 (3.50%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.16%) Data Migration
2 28 (19.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 28 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (18.88%) Validation
4 26 (18.18%) ERP
5 25 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.59%) Data Modelling
7 18 (12.59%) Logistics
8 17 (11.89%) Data Cleansing
8 17 (11.89%) Project Management
9 16 (11.19%) Agile
10 14 (9.79%) CRM
10 14 (9.79%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (9.09%) ETL
12 11 (7.69%) Analytics
12 11 (7.69%) Data Governance
12 11 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (6.29%) High Availability
13 9 (6.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.89%) SQL
2 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.29%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) VBA
4 2 (1.40%) C#
4 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.40%) X++
5 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.70%) Groovy
5 1 (0.70%) Java
5 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.50%) Degree
3 5 (3.50%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.50%) PMP
4 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.40%) CCNA
5 2 (1.40%) CCNP
5 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) CISSP
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.69%) GDPR
3 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.80%) PMO
4 4 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.10%) GMP
5 3 (2.10%) SLA
6 2 (1.40%) GLP
6 2 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (1.40%) QA
7 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.40%) vSphere
4 1 (0.70%) Docker
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Terraform
2 2 (1.40%) Ansible
2 2 (1.40%) Grafana
2 2 (1.40%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.70%) TeamSite
3 1 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (28.67%) SAP
2 32 (22.38%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.89%) Oracle
4 11 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.90%) Sybase
5 7 (4.90%) VMware
6 6 (4.20%) Remedy
7 5 (3.50%) Databricks
8 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.80%) Civica
8 4 (2.80%) Orchard
9 3 (2.10%) BMC
9 3 (2.10%) Cisco
9 3 (2.10%) IBM
9 3 (2.10%) IFS
10 2 (1.40%) Citrix
10 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.40%) Talend