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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 26 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Migration 114 69 111
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.27% 5.64% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 6.81% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 72
10th Percentile £251 £239 £328
25th Percentile £402 £363 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £614 £657 £675
England median daily rate £515 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% -1.59% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 5
10th Percentile £20.45 - £44.83
25th Percentile £20.51 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -63.96% -14.62%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.33 £55.56
90th Percentile - £65.66 £75.89
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% -67.15% +24.55%

All Process and 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 1,335 1,013 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.14% 82.83% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 418 841
10th Percentile £185 £243 £237
25th Percentile £363 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 215 375
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +18 40 £500 +19.05% 11
Bedfordshire +3 27 £425 -22.73% 6
Essex +10 15 £302 -58.41% 4
Hertfordshire -30 15 £488 -7.14% 14
Norfolk -17 9 £300 +7.14% 1
Suffolk +12 7 £378 -24.50% 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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.51%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.88%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.88%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.88%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.81%) AWS
2 16 (14.04%) Azure
3 9 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (7.02%) PaaS
4 8 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.14%) dbt
5 7 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.14%) Serverless
6 6 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (4.39%) GCP
7 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.39%) Slack
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) LAN
3 2 (1.75%) SAN
3 2 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.75%) WAN
3 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.51%) Power BI
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) EDMS
6 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) GitLab
2 3 (2.63%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.88%) AdminStudio
3 1 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) Hudson
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 48 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Manufacturing
3 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.77%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.89%) Electronics
6 9 (7.89%) Marketing
7 6 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Aviation
9 4 (3.51%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (14.04%) IT Engineer
2 15 (13.16%) Consultant
3 12 (10.53%) Architect
4 11 (9.65%) Windows Engineer
5 9 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 8 (7.02%) Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) IFS Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) OpenID
1 7 (6.14%) SAML
2 4 (3.51%) XML
3 3 (2.63%) EDI
3 3 (2.63%) JSON
3 3 (2.63%) REST
3 3 (2.63%) SOAP
3 3 (2.63%) XSLT
4 1 (0.88%) Middleware
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.88%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.39%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.88%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.30%) Windows
2 15 (13.16%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.19%) Workflow
2 25 (21.93%) Workflow Management
3 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 17 (14.91%) DevOps
5 17 (14.91%) Logistics
6 15 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (13.16%) ERP
7 13 (11.40%) Observability
8 12 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.65%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (8.77%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (8.77%) ETL
10 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (8.77%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (7.89%) Digital Marketing
11 9 (7.89%) Programme Management
12 8 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.16%) SQL
2 12 (10.53%) Python
3 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.63%) Java
5 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) CBAP
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Terraform
2 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.02%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.14%) SCCM
4 6 (5.26%) Grafana
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.04%) SAP
3 8 (7.02%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.14%) IFS
4 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.26%) Oracle
6 4 (3.51%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.51%) Remedy
6 4 (3.51%) Splunk
6 4 (3.51%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.63%) Aruba
8 2 (1.75%) Meraki
8 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 2 (1.75%) Workday
9 1 (0.88%) Avature
9 1 (0.88%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.88%) Databricks
9 1 (0.88%) Sage