Migration Contract Job Trends in England

Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 4,237 2,572 2,478
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.17% 9.15% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 10.07% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 1,635 1,600
10th Percentile £367 £350 £362
25th Percentile £431 £420 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £733 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +4.78% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 198 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.82 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £20.14
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -27.10% -49.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 - £64.58
90th Percentile £74.50 £59.30 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -16.17% -50.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Migration job vacancy trend in England

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
London +5 2,177 £550 +1.85% 1,612
North of England -2 626 £525 +7.69% 359
Midlands +3 518 £500 -2.91% 254
South East -12 414 £525 +5.00% 345
West Midlands +3 394 £500 -3.57% 183
North West +9 372 £525 +10.53% 184
South West -14 213 £525 +10.53% 136
Yorkshire -10 209 £514 +2.80% 119
East of England -7 142 £550 +10.00% 109
East Midlands +4 118 £537 +5.29% 70
North East -21 50 £480 -9.86% 57
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 227 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.89%) Confluence
3 91 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 68 (1.60%) SAS
5 59 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (1.06%) Apache
7 43 (1.01%) Apache Spark
8 31 (0.73%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
10 11 (0.26%) CICS
11 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.21%) JBoss
12 9 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.14%) IIS
15 6 (0.14%) Tuxedo
15 6 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 131 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.047%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.024%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.024%) Houdini
9 1 (0.024%) NUKE
9 1 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 256 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
4 36 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
5 33 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
6 30 (0.71%) NetSuite
7 27 (0.64%) SAP FI
8 26 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
9 25 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
9 25 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
10 24 (0.57%) SAP HCM
11 23 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
11 23 (0.54%) Teamcenter
12 21 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
12 21 (0.50%) SAP CO
13 20 (0.47%) SAP ERP
14 19 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
15 17 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
15 17 (0.40%) Maximo
16 16 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (24.90%) Azure
2 707 (16.69%) AWS
3 317 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 288 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 233 (5.50%) Entra ID
6 230 (5.43%) GCP
7 214 (5.05%) SaaS
8 210 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (2.81%) OCI
11 118 (2.78%) Serverless
12 112 (2.64%) GitHub
13 101 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 98 (2.31%) Snowflake
15 88 (2.08%) Amazon S3
16 87 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 77 (1.82%) dbt
18 66 (1.56%) PaaS
19 64 (1.51%) IaaS
20 63 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 183 (4.32%) Firewall
2 139 (3.28%) DNS
3 111 (2.62%) Network Security
4 103 (2.43%) VPN
5 76 (1.79%) WAN
6 70 (1.65%) BGP
7 63 (1.49%) DHCP
8 54 (1.27%) VLAN
9 48 (1.13%) TCP/IP
10 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 30 (0.71%) SAN
12 28 (0.66%) LAN
13 27 (0.64%) OSPF
14 25 (0.59%) MPLS
14 25 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.59%) Wireless
15 23 (0.54%) SSL
16 22 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
17 21 (0.50%) VXLAN
18 19 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (5.88%) Power BI
2 241 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 180 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 150 (3.54%) Metadata
5 131 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 110 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 87 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 79 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 48 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
10 47 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 46 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.06%) NoSQL
13 44 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
13 44 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 39 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 36 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 30 (0.71%) Db2
18 25 (0.59%) MySQL
19 24 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 309 (7.29%) JIRA
2 173 (4.08%) Git
3 98 (2.31%) GitLab
4 64 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.90%) Zephyr
6 34 (0.80%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 14 (0.33%) JUnit
8 14 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.26%) Mockito
10 11 (0.26%) RStudio
11 10 (0.24%) Selenium
12 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.19%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.19%) Gatling
13 8 (0.19%) Liquibase
13 8 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,168 (27.57%) Finance
2 1,158 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 442 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 366 (8.64%) Banking
6 179 (4.22%) Retail
7 161 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 137 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 109 (2.57%) Legal
10 88 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 70 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 61 (1.44%) General Ledger
13 61 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 58 (1.37%) Local Government
15 54 (1.27%) Billing
16 52 (1.23%) Marketing
17 51 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 44 (1.04%) Law
19 43 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 749 (17.68%) Architect
2 479 (11.31%) Lead
3 427 (10.08%) Senior
4 411 (9.70%) Analyst
5 360 (8.50%) Consultant
6 280 (6.61%) Project Manager
7 270 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 229 (5.40%) Developer
9 221 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
10 190 (4.48%) Business Analyst
11 172 (4.06%) Data Architect
12 114 (2.69%) Administrator
13 108 (2.55%) Network Engineer
14 106 (2.50%) Data Analyst
15 101 (2.38%) Migration Engineer
16 96 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 92 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
18 87 (2.05%) Cloud Engineer
18 87 (2.05%) Data Migration Lead
19 78 (1.84%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (7.98%) Terraform
2 171 (4.04%) REST
3 120 (2.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 117 (2.76%) .NET
5 87 (2.05%) Middleware
6 82 (1.94%) PySpark
7 80 (1.89%) Kafka
8 62 (1.46%) SOAP
9 56 (1.32%) Spring Boot
10 55 (1.30%) Spring
11 51 (1.20%) JSON
12 44 (1.04%) .NET Framework
13 43 (1.01%) OAuth
14 42 (0.99%) XML
15 39 (0.92%) React
16 33 (0.78%) Web Services
17 32 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
18 31 (0.73%) YAML
19 30 (0.71%) LDAP
19 30 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 322 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
2 268 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 230 (5.43%) Data Centre
4 176 (4.15%) Onboarding
5 175 (4.13%) Data Structures
6 134 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 133 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 115 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 100 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 91 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
11 82 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
13 58 (1.37%) Replication
14 55 (1.30%) CMDB
15 46 (1.09%) Clustering
16 43 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
17 42 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
18 41 (0.97%) Mainframe
19 40 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
20 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 352 (8.31%) Windows
2 194 (4.58%) Linux
3 118 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 90 (2.12%) Unix
5 62 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 54 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (0.80%) Solaris
8 29 (0.68%) AIX
9 24 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.50%) VMS
11 16 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.28%) zOS
14 8 (0.19%) SUSE
15 6 (0.14%) Android
15 6 (0.14%) CentOS
15 6 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 5 (0.12%) HPUX
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,391 (32.83%) Data Migration
2 1,079 (25.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 735 (17.35%) Validation
4 692 (16.33%) Agile
5 583 (13.76%) DevOps
6 544 (12.84%) CI/CD
7 520 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
8 457 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 450 (10.62%) Analytics
9 450 (10.62%) Data Modelling
10 442 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 392 (9.25%) Roadmaps
12 388 (9.16%) ERP
13 384 (9.06%) ETL
14 373 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 339 (8.00%) AI
16 314 (7.41%) Data Governance
17 310 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
18 304 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 294 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 648 (15.29%) SQL
2 441 (10.41%) Python
3 195 (4.60%) PowerShell
4 165 (3.89%) Java
5 96 (2.27%) Bash
5 96 (2.27%) C#
6 73 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 58 (1.37%) Bicep
8 50 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 46 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 33 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 26 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 19 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (0.38%) JCL
13 16 (0.38%) Perl
14 14 (0.33%) Korn
15 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.28%) ABAP
17 11 (0.26%) C
17 11 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 834 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 704 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 168 (3.97%) Degree
4 89 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 82 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (1.91%) PMP
7 80 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 72 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 59 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (0.99%) ACCA
13 41 (0.97%) CIMA
14 39 (0.92%) CCNP
15 38 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (0.80%) CISSP
17 33 (0.78%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 17 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
20 16 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 214 (5.05%) QA
3 114 (2.69%) GDPR
4 62 (1.46%) PMO
5 48 (1.13%) NIST
6 45 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.85%) GRC
8 35 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 31 (0.73%) SLA
10 24 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.42%) IFRS
12 18 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.40%) NCSC
14 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.31%) SEPA
15 13 (0.31%) WCAG
16 8 (0.19%) GMP
16 8 (0.19%) GxP
17 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 276 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 151 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (2.81%) Docker
4 57 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.25%) vSphere
6 37 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 35 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 33 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
10 24 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.33%) Firmware
12 10 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.17%) Ceph
14 6 (0.14%) KVM
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.14%) NFS
15 4 (0.094%) PowerHA
16 3 (0.071%) Postfix
16 3 (0.071%) SRDF
16 3 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 226 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 136 (3.21%) Ansible
3 108 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 49 (1.16%) SCCM
4 49 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 41 (0.97%) Grafana
6 29 (0.68%) Data Guard
7 28 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 27 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
9 24 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.35%) Control-M
12 13 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
13 12 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
14 10 (0.24%) Argo
14 10 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.21%) Karpenter
15 9 (0.21%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.21%) Puppet
16 8 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 872 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 543 (12.82%) Oracle
3 449 (10.60%) SAP
4 256 (6.04%) Databricks
5 199 (4.70%) VMware
6 165 (3.89%) Cisco
7 154 (3.63%) Google
8 133 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 111 (2.62%) Salesforce
10 77 (1.82%) IBM
11 55 (1.30%) Informatica
12 54 (1.27%) Red Hat
13 51 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 51 (1.20%) Zscaler
14 49 (1.16%) Fortinet
15 48 (1.13%) CyberArk
16 41 (0.97%) Workday
17 36 (0.85%) Remedy
18 35 (0.83%) Atlassian
19 32 (0.76%) BMC