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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,249 2,592 3,653
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.28% 7.05% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 8.22% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 1,812 2,638
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £632 £666
90th Percentile £763 £714 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 63 43
10th Percentile £25.04 £16.10 £20.00
25th Percentile - £25.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -41.61% +163.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.75 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.93% +151.92%

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 22,122 31,544 42,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.81% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,378 20,598 30,002
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 2,306 1,516
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.04 £16.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 1,138 £550 +1.85% 748
North of England +7 321 £497 -0.60% 195
South East +13 274 £495 -1.00% 165
North West +6 186 £477 -4.70% 110
Midlands +4 170 £500 -4.76% 165
South West +11 144 £500 +5.26% 122
Yorkshire +9 128 £500 - 74
West Midlands +8 121 £500 -4.76% 123
East of England +6 78 £588 +11.90% 64
East Midlands -5 43 £500 -2.91% 37
North East -4 13 £575 +9.52% 11
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
1 123 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 85 (3.78%) Confluence
3 52 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.98%) CMS
6 19 (0.84%) SAS
7 15 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.58%) Apache
9 12 (0.53%) JBoss
10 9 (0.40%) IIS
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
12 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.22%) CICS
13 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.18%) Drupal
14 4 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.18%) Smallworld
Applications
1 51 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.40%) InfoPath
7 8 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 2 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.089%) Notepad++
9 2 (0.089%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.044%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 118 (5.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
4 12 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.53%) SAP PP
5 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.31%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 485 (21.57%) Azure
2 322 (14.32%) AWS
3 150 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 147 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 118 (5.25%) Entra ID
6 116 (5.16%) GCP
7 82 (3.65%) SaaS
8 76 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
9 62 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (2.18%) Serverless
11 48 (2.13%) IaaS
12 45 (2.00%) Snowflake
13 44 (1.96%) PaaS
14 43 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.78%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.69%) Power Automate
17 37 (1.65%) OneDrive
18 36 (1.60%) GitHub
19 33 (1.47%) OCI
20 30 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 144 (6.40%) Firewall
2 106 (4.71%) VPN
3 74 (3.29%) DNS
4 55 (2.45%) Network Security
5 43 (1.91%) WAN
6 41 (1.82%) BGP
7 39 (1.73%) MPLS
8 37 (1.65%) OSPF
9 31 (1.38%) LAN
10 22 (0.98%) DHCP
11 21 (0.93%) VoIP
12 20 (0.89%) NGFW
13 19 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.71%) TCP/IP
15 16 (0.71%) VLAN
16 13 (0.58%) Internet
16 13 (0.58%) Multicast
17 12 (0.53%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.29%) Data Lake
2 103 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (4.45%) Power BI
3 100 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 73 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 61 (2.71%) Oracle Database
7 37 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 35 (1.56%) Big Data
9 32 (1.42%) Tableau
10 31 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
11 30 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 28 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (1.24%) Metadata
14 24 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
16 17 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 144 (6.40%) JIRA
2 84 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.53%) GitLab
4 46 (2.05%) Git
5 32 (1.42%) Liquibase
6 29 (1.29%) Gradle
6 29 (1.29%) JUnit
6 29 (1.29%) Mockito
7 19 (0.84%) ScriptRunner
8 15 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (0.44%) CA Release Automation
11 10 (0.44%) ERwin
12 8 (0.36%) Postman
12 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.31%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.31%) LSMW
General
1 698 (31.04%) Finance
2 659 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 257 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (7.51%) Banking
5 147 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.05%) Front Office
7 77 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 75 (3.33%) Marketing
9 61 (2.71%) Telecoms
10 59 (2.62%) Legal
10 59 (2.62%) Retail
11 52 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 42 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 41 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.33%) Law
17 29 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 29 (1.29%) Local Government
18 25 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 318 (14.14%) Architect
2 252 (11.20%) Analyst
3 201 (8.94%) Consultant
4 179 (7.96%) Project Manager
5 168 (7.47%) Lead
6 161 (7.16%) Senior
7 146 (6.49%) Developer
8 120 (5.34%) Business Analyst
9 102 (4.54%) Network Engineer
10 93 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
11 77 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 74 (3.29%) Migration Engineer
13 67 (2.98%) Data Engineer
14 62 (2.76%) Data Architect
15 60 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
16 53 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (2.31%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (2.00%) Cloud Architect
18 45 (2.00%) Migration Manager
19 41 (1.82%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.93%) Kafka
2 48 (2.13%) React
3 45 (2.00%) Spring Boot
4 39 (1.73%) Spring
5 38 (1.69%) .NET
6 33 (1.47%) Middleware
7 32 (1.42%) Web Services
8 31 (1.38%) Swagger
9 30 (1.33%) OpenAPI
10 28 (1.24%) REST
11 26 (1.16%) OAuth
12 24 (1.07%) HTML
12 24 (1.07%) SOAP
13 22 (0.98%) ARM Templates
14 21 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
15 19 (0.84%) XML
16 18 (0.80%) ADO
16 18 (0.80%) JSON
16 18 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
16 18 (0.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
2 124 (5.51%) Data Centre
3 82 (3.65%) Hedge funds
4 80 (3.56%) Derivative
4 80 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 75 (3.33%) Fixed Income
6 74 (3.29%) Equities
7 61 (2.71%) Data Structures
8 53 (2.36%) Cloud Native
9 44 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 40 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 33 (1.47%) Life Science
12 33 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 26 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
16 24 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 22 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 237 (10.54%) Windows
2 138 (6.14%) Linux
3 79 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 36 (1.60%) Unix
7 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.22%) AIX
10 5 (0.22%) Android
10 5 (0.22%) Solaris
10 5 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 4 (0.18%) CentOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.089%) HPUX
13 2 (0.089%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (28.72%) Data Migration
2 455 (20.23%) Agile
3 410 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 258 (11.47%) DevOps
6 201 (8.94%) Data Governance
7 200 (8.89%) Validation
8 196 (8.71%) Project Management
9 188 (8.36%) CI/CD
10 181 (8.05%) Analytics
11 179 (7.96%) ETL
11 179 (7.96%) Roadmaps
12 164 (7.29%) Change Management
13 162 (7.20%) Data Management
14 155 (6.89%) Data Modelling
15 154 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
16 141 (6.27%) ERP
16 141 (6.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 121 (5.38%) User Acceptance Testing
18 115 (5.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 379 (16.85%) SQL
2 218 (9.69%) Python
3 140 (6.22%) PowerShell
4 99 (4.40%) Java
5 55 (2.45%) PL/SQL
6 51 (2.27%) C#
6 51 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 43 (1.91%) Bash
8 40 (1.78%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.07%) Groovy
9 24 (1.07%) Perl
10 22 (0.98%) C++
11 21 (0.93%) Bicep
12 18 (0.80%) R
13 17 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.49%) COBOL
16 11 (0.49%) VBA
17 9 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 347 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 303 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.42%) Degree
4 61 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.42%) CCNP
9 31 (1.38%) PMP
10 30 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.84%) CCNA
14 15 (0.67%) CCIE
14 15 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.62%) CISSP
16 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 77 (3.42%) QA
3 63 (2.80%) GDPR
4 25 (1.11%) MiFID
5 18 (0.80%) SLA
6 17 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 17 (0.76%) NIST
6 17 (0.76%) PMO
7 16 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.31%) SEPA
11 6 (0.27%) NCSC
12 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.18%) GRC
13 4 (0.18%) PMBOK
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 165 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 82 (3.65%) Docker
3 69 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.76%) vSphere
7 14 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.49%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.44%) Firmware
11 7 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.27%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) PowerHA
14 2 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.089%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
14 2 (0.089%) XenApp
14 2 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 136 (6.05%) Terraform
2 115 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 94 (4.18%) Ansible
4 77 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.96%) SCCM
6 35 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.16%) Grafana
8 18 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.71%) Argo
9 16 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 15 (0.67%) Puppet
11 12 (0.53%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.49%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.44%) Kibana
13 10 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.22%) CEMLI
15 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 398 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 248 (11.03%) SAP
3 217 (9.65%) Oracle
4 114 (5.07%) Cisco
5 94 (4.18%) VMware
6 74 (3.29%) Google
7 55 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 52 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 37 (1.65%) IBM
10 37 (1.65%) Splunk
11 36 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 35 (1.56%) CheckPoint
13 33 (1.47%) Atlassian
13 33 (1.47%) F5
14 30 (1.33%) SolarWinds
14 30 (1.33%) Workday
15 27 (1.20%) Databricks
16 23 (1.02%) Nokia
17 22 (0.98%) Infoblox