Migration Contracts in England

Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,240 2,588 3,791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.20% 6.95% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.10% 8.04% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 1,782 2,758
10th Percentile £365 £335 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £665
90th Percentile £763 £727 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 64 41
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £25.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.12 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% -33.67% +142.99%
75th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.75 - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +136.36%

All Process and 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 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in England.

Daily rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in England.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
London +1 1,191 £550 - 539
North of England +8 299 £500 - 153
South East +7 258 £500 - 136
North West +7 179 £525 +5.00% 87
Midlands +6 176 £510 -7.27% 113
South West +6 126 £500 +5.26% 105
West Midlands +14 125 £525 -6.67% 84
Yorkshire +8 111 £500 - 56
East of England +5 69 £550 +10.00% 42
East Midlands +1 46 £490 -10.91% 26
North East -2 15 £650 +30.00% 10
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 140 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.35%) Confluence
3 66 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.25%) Apache
5 26 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 24 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.98%) CMS
8 19 (0.85%) SAS
9 11 (0.49%) JBoss
10 10 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.36%) IIS
12 7 (0.31%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.27%) Drupal
13 6 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
14 5 (0.22%) CICS
14 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 57 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.49%) InfoPath
5 9 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.089%) 1Password
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.089%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.045%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (5.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
5 10 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 10 (0.45%) SAP PP
6 9 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.36%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.31%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.22%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 482 (21.52%) Azure
2 340 (15.18%) AWS
3 179 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 145 (6.47%) Power Platform
5 129 (5.76%) Entra ID
6 124 (5.54%) GCP
7 90 (4.02%) SaaS
8 78 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 55 (2.46%) IaaS
11 49 (2.19%) PowerApps
11 49 (2.19%) Serverless
12 47 (2.10%) PaaS
13 46 (2.05%) OneDrive
14 44 (1.96%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.74%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (1.52%) dbt
18 26 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.21%) Firewall
2 109 (4.87%) VPN
3 81 (3.62%) DNS
4 56 (2.50%) Network Security
5 43 (1.92%) BGP
6 42 (1.88%) WAN
7 38 (1.70%) OSPF
8 36 (1.61%) MPLS
9 26 (1.16%) DHCP
9 26 (1.16%) LAN
10 23 (1.03%) NGFW
11 19 (0.85%) SSL
12 18 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
12 18 (0.80%) VoIP
13 16 (0.71%) VLAN
14 14 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (0.63%) Multicast
14 14 (0.63%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.58%) Internet
15 13 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.92%) Data Lake
2 100 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (4.33%) Power BI
4 96 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 81 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
6 76 (3.39%) Oracle Database
7 69 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.65%) Tableau
9 31 (1.38%) Big Data
10 28 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 28 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.16%) Metadata
12 26 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
13 24 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.80%) Apache Iceberg
16 17 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 121 (5.40%) JIRA
2 65 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 58 (2.59%) GitLab
4 37 (1.65%) Git
5 30 (1.34%) Liquibase
6 28 (1.25%) Gradle
7 27 (1.21%) JUnit
7 27 (1.21%) Mockito
8 19 (0.85%) ScriptRunner
9 15 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
12 9 (0.40%) ERwin
13 8 (0.36%) Postman
14 7 (0.31%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.31%) Maven
14 7 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 689 (30.76%) Finance
2 634 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 260 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (8.04%) Banking
5 145 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 127 (5.67%) Front Office
7 74 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 73 (3.26%) Marketing
9 63 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 62 (2.77%) Legal
11 57 (2.54%) Retail
12 44 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
15 33 (1.47%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.38%) Local Government
16 31 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (1.21%) Law
19 24 (1.07%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 309 (13.79%) Architect
2 252 (11.25%) Analyst
3 224 (10.00%) Consultant
4 179 (7.99%) Lead
5 171 (7.63%) Project Manager
6 156 (6.96%) Senior
7 143 (6.38%) Developer
8 122 (5.45%) Business Analyst
9 99 (4.42%) Network Engineer
10 98 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 73 (3.26%) Migration Engineer
12 71 (3.17%) Data Analyst
13 54 (2.41%) Data Architect
14 52 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
15 50 (2.23%) Migration Manager
16 46 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 45 (2.01%) SAP Consultant
18 44 (1.96%) Software Engineer
19 40 (1.79%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.32%) Kafka
2 40 (1.79%) React
2 40 (1.79%) Spring Boot
3 38 (1.70%) .NET
4 32 (1.43%) Spring
5 31 (1.38%) REST
6 30 (1.34%) Swagger
7 29 (1.29%) OpenAPI
8 28 (1.25%) Middleware
8 28 (1.25%) Web Services
9 27 (1.21%) SOAP
10 26 (1.16%) PySpark
11 23 (1.03%) OAuth
12 21 (0.94%) SAML
13 20 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (0.89%) XML
14 19 (0.85%) Pandas
15 18 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (0.80%) gRPC
15 18 (0.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
2 119 (5.31%) Derivative
3 118 (5.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 118 (5.27%) Hedge funds
4 115 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 111 (4.96%) Fixed Income
6 108 (4.82%) Equities
7 61 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 52 (2.32%) Data Structures
9 48 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 38 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 37 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 34 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.47%) Life Science
14 31 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (1.29%) Mainframe
17 27 (1.21%) Security Posture
18 26 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
19 22 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 221 (9.87%) Windows
2 122 (5.45%) Linux
3 88 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.05%) Unix
5 36 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.27%) Android
10 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.27%) VMS
11 5 (0.22%) AIX
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.18%) CentOS
12 4 (0.18%) Solaris
12 4 (0.18%) zOS
13 2 (0.089%) HPUX
13 2 (0.089%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (29.20%) Data Migration
2 458 (20.45%) Agile
3 417 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 243 (10.85%) DevOps
6 232 (10.36%) Data Governance
7 206 (9.20%) Roadmaps
8 199 (8.88%) Project Management
9 186 (8.30%) Validation
10 172 (7.68%) ETL
11 171 (7.63%) Analytics
12 167 (7.46%) Data Management
13 153 (6.83%) Change Management
13 153 (6.83%) CI/CD
14 151 (6.74%) ERP
15 147 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
16 138 (6.16%) Data Modelling
17 127 (5.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 107 (4.78%) User Acceptance Testing
19 104 (4.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 397 (17.72%) SQL
2 213 (9.51%) Python
3 135 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 99 (4.42%) Java
5 68 (3.04%) PL/SQL
6 52 (2.32%) JavaScript
7 51 (2.28%) TypeScript
8 43 (1.92%) C#
9 38 (1.70%) Bash
10 23 (1.03%) Perl
11 22 (0.98%) Groovy
12 19 (0.85%) Bicep
13 18 (0.80%) R
14 17 (0.76%) C++
14 17 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.67%) VBA
16 10 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.45%) PHP
17 9 (0.40%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 321 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 279 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.80%) Degree
4 67 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 58 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.70%) CCNP
7 34 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 29 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.29%) PMP
11 24 (1.07%) CCNA
12 19 (0.85%) CISSP
13 18 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.80%) CCIE
13 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.54%) CISM
16 12 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.11%) QA
3 61 (2.72%) GDPR
4 27 (1.21%) MiFID
5 19 (0.85%) PMO
6 18 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 16 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.49%) NIST
9 10 (0.45%) SLA
10 9 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.36%) SEPA
12 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.18%) IFRS
14 4 (0.18%) NCSC
14 4 (0.18%) PMBOK
14 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.13%) EMIR
15 3 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 174 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.30%) Docker
3 67 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.63%) vSphere
7 13 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.40%) Firmware
9 5 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.089%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.089%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.045%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 132 (5.89%) Terraform
2 94 (4.20%) Kubernetes
3 82 (3.66%) Ansible
4 80 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (2.10%) SCCM
6 37 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.12%) Grafana
8 18 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.71%) Argo
9 16 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 12 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.45%) Kibana
11 10 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.45%) Puppet
11 10 (0.45%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.31%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.22%) CEMLI
13 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 411 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 226 (10.09%) SAP
3 219 (9.78%) Oracle
4 105 (4.69%) Cisco
5 90 (4.02%) VMware
6 83 (3.71%) Google
7 52 (2.32%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 47 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.52%) CheckPoint
11 33 (1.47%) Splunk
12 32 (1.43%) Atlassian
13 31 (1.38%) Workday
14 30 (1.34%) F5
15 29 (1.29%) SolarWinds
16 28 (1.25%) IBM
17 25 (1.12%) CyberArk
18 24 (1.07%) Infoblox
19 23 (1.03%) Databricks
19 23 (1.03%) Juniper