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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 140 91 99
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.43% 7.21% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 8.17% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 70
10th Percentile £356 £276 £80
25th Percentile £425 £434 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +6.67% -9.86%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £673 £744 £646
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 12
10th Percentile - £18.83 £25.00
25th Percentile - - £30.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -68.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £43.44 - -
90th Percentile £56.33 £55.10 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -1.46%

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 1,716 1,114 1,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.86% 88.27% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 520 523
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £383 £371 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £679 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 265 500
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.40 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +20 50 £538 +0.94% 12
Cambridgeshire +12 33 £538 +7.50% 13
Bedfordshire -7 19 £625 +8.70% 7
Suffolk +5 18 £450 +20.00% 3
Essex -21 14 £563 +25.00% 12
Norfolk -5 4 - - 5
East Anglia - 2 - - 3
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 (5.00%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.86%) OpenEdge
3 3 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 35 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.86%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (1.43%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (1.43%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.71%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.29%) Azure
2 15 (10.71%) SaaS
3 11 (7.86%) AWS
4 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.14%) IaaS
6 3 (2.14%) OCI
6 3 (2.14%) PaaS
6 3 (2.14%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) DHCP
2 3 (2.14%) DNS
2 3 (2.14%) Network Security
2 3 (2.14%) RS-232
2 3 (2.14%) RS-485
2 3 (2.14%) Wireless
3 2 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 7 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
3 6 (4.29%) MaxDB
4 5 (3.57%) Power BI
4 5 (3.57%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.43%) Metadata
7 2 (1.43%) Power Query
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Hudson
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.71%) ScriptRunner
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 26 (18.57%) Manufacturing
4 19 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.00%) Local Government
7 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Retail
8 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.86%) Law
8 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.14%) Dutch Language
9 3 (2.14%) Electronics
9 3 (2.14%) German Language
10 2 (1.43%) Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Billing
10 2 (1.43%) Legal
10 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Analyst
2 20 (14.29%) Logistics Analyst
3 17 (12.14%) Consultant
3 17 (12.14%) SAP Analyst
3 17 (12.14%) SAP Logistics Analyst
4 15 (10.71%) Lead
5 12 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.14%) Developer
6 10 (7.14%) Senior
7 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Data Consultant
8 7 (5.00%) Data Migration Consultant
8 7 (5.00%) Migration Consultant
8 7 (5.00%) SAP Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) SAP Support
9 6 (4.29%) Data Migration Lead
9 6 (4.29%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (4.29%) SAP Basis Support
10 5 (3.57%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.00%) REST
1 7 (5.00%) SAP Basis
2 6 (4.29%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (4.29%) SAPUI5
3 5 (3.57%) Kafka
4 3 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.14%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.43%) .NET
5 2 (1.43%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.43%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.43%) JSON
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.71%) Flask
6 1 (0.71%) gRPC
6 1 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.71%) OpenID
6 1 (0.71%) Pandas
6 1 (0.71%) PyArrow
6 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.29%) CMDB
4 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.43%) BYOD
7 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.43%) Life Science
7 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.14%) Windows
2 9 (6.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.86%) Linux
3 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.29%) Data Migration
2 33 (23.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 32 (22.86%) Validation
4 27 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (18.57%) ERP
6 22 (15.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (14.29%) Logistics
7 20 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.57%) Data Modelling
9 17 (12.14%) Data Cleansing
10 15 (10.71%) ETL
10 15 (10.71%) Project Management
11 14 (10.00%) Agile
12 13 (9.29%) Analytics
12 13 (9.29%) CRM
12 13 (9.29%) Knowledge Transfer
13 12 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (7.86%) Data Governance
14 11 (7.86%) Data Validation
14 11 (7.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.00%) SQL
2 13 (9.29%) Python
3 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.86%) VBA
5 3 (2.14%) C
5 3 (2.14%) C++
6 2 (1.43%) C#
6 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.43%) X++
7 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.71%) Groovy
7 1 (0.71%) Java
7 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Degree
4 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.14%) PMP
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.43%) CCNA
5 2 (1.43%) CCNP
6 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.71%) ACCA
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) CCSP
6 1 (0.71%) CIMA
6 1 (0.71%) CISSP
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (30.71%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.14%) GDPR
3 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.57%) PMO
4 4 (2.86%) QA
5 3 (2.14%) GMP
5 3 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.43%) GLP
6 2 (1.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 10 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.14%) Docker
3 3 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.14%) Firmware
4 2 (1.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Ansible
2 2 (1.43%) Grafana
2 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.43%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.71%) Istio
3 1 (0.71%) linkerd
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (30.71%) SAP
2 31 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.57%) Oracle
4 10 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.00%) Sybase
6 6 (4.29%) Remedy
6 6 (4.29%) VMware
7 5 (3.57%) Databricks
8 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.86%) Civica
8 4 (2.86%) IBM
8 4 (2.86%) Orchard
9 3 (2.14%) BMC
9 3 (2.14%) Cisco
9 3 (2.14%) IFS
10 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.43%) Informatica
10 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.43%) Talend