Migration Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Migration
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 92 60 54
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.65% 8.01% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 9.30% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 41
10th Percentile £333 £405 £425
25th Percentile £385 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £517
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +11.22% +3.40%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £595
90th Percentile £774 £718 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -2.33% +4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £18.60 £77.63 -
25th Percentile £20.79 £77.81 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £81.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.98% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £85.31 -
90th Percentile - £85.88 -
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -28.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,147 645 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.94% 86.11% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 453 672
10th Percentile £313 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% +5.04%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £675
90th Percentile £725 £685 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 37 118
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.38 £27.00 £23.56
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +29.67%
75th Percentile £30.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £49.63 £67.50 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Migration job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Hampshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Hampshire

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Havant 0 16 £648 +29.60%
Portsmouth -6 11 £418 -35.77% 1
Basingstoke -19 8 £400 -33.33% 1
Southampton -1 7 £550 +54.49% 1
Farnborough -7 7 £600 +20.00% 1
Andover -8 6 £763 -
Tadley - 5 £766 -
Fleet - 4 £354 - 3
Fareham - 4 £375 - 2
Winchester - 3 £185 - 2
Gosport +3 2 - - 1
Eastleigh 0 2 £525 -
Aldershot - 2 - -
Lymington - 1 - -
Petersfield - 1 - -
Migration
South East

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (6.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.04%) AWS
2 11 (11.96%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) OCI
3 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.26%) GCP
5 3 (3.26%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.17%) Apple Pay
6 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.17%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.17%) Cohesity
6 2 (2.17%) GitHub
6 2 (2.17%) Google Pay
6 2 (2.17%) Kong
6 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.17%) SaaS
6 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) NAS
2 1 (1.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Tableau
2 3 (3.26%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (3.26%) GIS
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.17%) Metadata
3 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.09%) Big Data
4 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) HBase
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.09%) Gatling
3 1 (1.09%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Gradle
3 1 (1.09%) JMeter
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Poetry
3 1 (1.09%) Pylint
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
3 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Electronics
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Local Government
6 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Lead
2 11 (11.96%) Data Migration Lead
3 8 (8.70%) IT Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) Senior
5 5 (5.43%) Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (5.43%) IT Support
5 5 (5.43%) SAP Data Migration Lead
5 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Technical Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Consultant
6 4 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Migration Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.26%) Accountant
7 3 (3.26%) GIS Specialist
7 3 (3.26%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (3.26%) Service Transition Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.35%) Kafka
3 2 (2.17%) OAuth
3 2 (2.17%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.09%) Middleware
4 1 (1.09%) PySpark
4 1 (1.09%) pytest
4 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.09%) React
4 1 (1.09%) REST
4 1 (1.09%) Spring
4 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.26%) Replication
5 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.17%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (1.09%) Clustering
6 1 (1.09%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.09%) EMV
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.17%) Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.65%) Data Migration
2 18 (19.57%) Agile
2 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (19.57%) Workflow
2 18 (19.57%) Workflow Management
3 15 (16.30%) Validation
4 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (13.04%) CRM
6 10 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (10.87%) ERP
7 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.78%) Programme Management
8 8 (8.70%) Data Cleansing
9 7 (7.61%) Microservices
9 7 (7.61%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (7.61%) Waterfall
10 6 (6.52%) Data Transformation
10 6 (6.52%) Data Validation
10 6 (6.52%) High Availability
10 6 (6.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) SQL
2 6 (6.52%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.26%) Bicep
5 2 (2.17%) Java
5 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) OCP
3 8 (8.70%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.43%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.43%) PMP
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.26%) PgMP
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.17%) Degree
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.09%) CSPO
8 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) GDPR
2 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) COBIT
3 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) NCSC
4 2 (2.17%) PMO
5 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Grafana
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Istio
3 2 (2.17%) linkerd
3 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Oracle
2 14 (15.22%) SAP
3 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.61%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.35%) Google
6 3 (3.26%) ESRI
6 3 (3.26%) Samsung
6 3 (3.26%) VMware
7 2 (2.17%) HubSpot
7 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.17%) Veeam
7 2 (2.17%) Workday
8 1 (1.09%) Apple
8 1 (1.09%) Citrix
8 1 (1.09%) Dell
8 1 (1.09%) HP
8 1 (1.09%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.09%) Toshiba
8 1 (1.09%) Trend Micro