Migration Contracts in Reading

Migration
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 40 62 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 6.70% 5.20% 8.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 5.77% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 55 77
10th Percentile £305 £418 £452
25th Percentile £389 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £663 - £690
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Reading

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Reading

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (15.00%) Umbraco
2 4 (10.00%) CMS
3 2 (5.00%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.50%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
4 1 (2.50%) SAP GTS
4 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (10.00%) SaaS
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Network Security
1 2 (5.00%) NGFW
1 2 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.50%) HBase
4 1 (2.50%) HDInsight
4 1 (2.50%) Impala
4 1 (2.50%) Metadata
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Publishing
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) React Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Data Migration Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) CMS Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Cognos Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Content Editor
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Umbraco Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Web Content Editor
6 2 (5.00%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.00%) HTML
1 2 (5.00%) JSON
1 2 (5.00%) Next.js
1 2 (5.00%) SAML
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) OpenVMS
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Data Migration
2 9 (22.50%) DevOps
2 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
4 6 (15.00%) CRUD
4 6 (15.00%) Prototyping
4 6 (15.00%) Secure Coding
4 6 (15.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Agile
7 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.50%) Data Architecture
7 3 (7.50%) Data Science
7 3 (7.50%) Microservices
7 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) ABAP
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Fortran
4 1 (2.50%) Perl
4 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) CISM
3 2 (5.00%) CISSP
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) XenApp
3 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.50%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Virgin Media
3 4 (10.00%) Sitecore
4 3 (7.50%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) Cognos
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix
6 1 (2.50%) Cramer
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) Facebook
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Hyland
6 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.50%) OpenText
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) StreamSets