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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 133 70 98
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.34% 6.60% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 7.63% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 43 54
10th Percentile £325 £248 £306
25th Percentile £408 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £547 £650 £636
90th Percentile £606 £716 £675
England median daily rate £514 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.55% +2.33% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 15
10th Percentile - £19.11 -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -58.12% -31.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £80.00
90th Percentile - £44.00 £84.80
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.73% -43.13% -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 1,454 917 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.24% 86.43% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 452 819
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 151 481
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.30% +31.16% +43.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -2 42 £438 -27.08% 2
Hertfordshire -13 27 £500 - 13
Cambridgeshire +14 26 £550 +14.82% 8
Norfolk -16 16 £300 +7.14% 5
Essex - 11 £530 - 9
Suffolk +14 10 £350 -41.10% 2
East Anglia - 1 - - 4
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 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (3.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.75%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.75%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.75%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.04%) AWS
2 12 (9.02%) Azure
3 9 (6.77%) SaaS
4 8 (6.02%) PaaS
5 7 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.51%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.76%) dbt
7 5 (3.76%) Serverless
7 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.26%) GCP
9 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.50%) Slack
11 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) VPN
2 5 (3.76%) LAN
2 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.76%) WAN
2 5 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.26%) Firewall
4 2 (1.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.50%) Power BI
3 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.50%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.75%) EDMS
4 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) Hudson
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.75%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 54 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
3 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.28%) Manufacturing
5 12 (9.02%) Telecoms
6 11 (8.27%) Electronics
6 11 (8.27%) Marketing
7 10 (7.52%) Aviation
8 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Retail
13 1 (0.75%) Billing
13 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (24.06%) Architect
2 17 (12.78%) IT Engineer
3 16 (12.03%) Consultant
4 10 (7.52%) Windows Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) Developer
9 4 (3.01%) Lead
9 4 (3.01%) Senior
9 4 (3.01%) Snowflake Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) OpenID
1 7 (5.26%) SAML
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.50%) REST
2 2 (1.50%) SOAP
2 2 (1.50%) Web Services
2 2 (1.50%) XML
3 1 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.50%) CMDB
4 2 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.50%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.50%) Life Science
5 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
5 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.75%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.75%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.53%) Windows
2 16 (12.03%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.31%) Workflow
2 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.55%) Data Migration
4 23 (17.29%) Workflow Management
5 16 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (9.02%) Logistics
8 12 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (8.27%) DevOps
9 11 (8.27%) Digital Marketing
9 11 (8.27%) Programme Management
10 10 (7.52%) Analytics
10 10 (7.52%) ERP
10 10 (7.52%) Validation
10 10 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (6.77%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.02%) ETL
12 8 (6.02%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.02%) SQL
2 7 (5.26%) Python
3 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.50%) VBA
4 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.75%) Java
4 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) Degree
4 3 (2.26%) PMP
5 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.75%) PgMP
6 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) GMP
3 2 (1.50%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) GxP
3 2 (1.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) GLP
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) SCCM
2 4 (3.01%) Terraform
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
3 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.75%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) SAP
3 10 (7.52%) Oracle
4 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.76%) IBM
5 5 (3.76%) Meraki
6 4 (3.01%) Remedy
7 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.26%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.26%) VMware
8 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.50%) Google
8 2 (1.50%) IFS
8 2 (1.50%) Splunk
8 2 (1.50%) Talend
9 1 (0.75%) Cadence
9 1 (0.75%) Citrix
9 1 (0.75%) Infor