Migration Contracts in Essex

Migration
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 11 17 2
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Migration 8 15 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 9.09% 6.67% 18.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 8.06% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 28
10th Percentile - £540 £232
25th Percentile £458 £550 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £524
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% +9.73% +16.44%
75th Percentile £473 £675 £547
90th Percentile - - £598
East of England median daily rate £588 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +11.90% +13.51% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £22.03 £35.20 -
25th Percentile £23.20 £54.25 £70.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £87.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year -71.09% +23.98% -9.24%
75th Percentile £32.33 £88.00 £70.26
90th Percentile £36.63 - -
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -68.56% +14.29% +460.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 186 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.45% 82.67% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 94 136
10th Percentile £187 £194 £218
25th Percentile £315 £300 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £476 £551 £555
90th Percentile £500 £600 £647
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 52 17
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.59 £23.29
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.93 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.25 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +28.57% +60.79%
75th Percentile £48.30 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £144.00 - £72.56
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Essex

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Essex

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Essex

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Essex

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Essex 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
Basildon +2 5 £465 -25.60% 2
Colchester +6 1 - - 4
Migration
East of England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP PP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSR 170
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) OSGi
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI