Migration Contracts in Scotland

Migration
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 124 221 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.90% 8.26% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 8.95% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 162 152
10th Percentile £389 £356 £406
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £489 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +0.82% +8.99%
75th Percentile £602 £538 £573
90th Percentile £741 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £11.22 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.50 £12.31 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.00 £14.36 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -17.94% +24.73%
75th Percentile £17.50 £16.17 £23.00
90th Percentile £18.50 £17.10 £28.40
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -39.39% +153.85% +63.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,849 2,470 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.96% 92.37% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,741 2,261
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +2 80 £475 -2.86% 23
Glasgow -19 24 £500 +2.99% 6
South Lanarkshire - 8 £750 - 1
Aberdeen +4 4 £550 -12.00% 1
Perthshire +11 3 £525 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (11.29%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.81%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.55%) AWS
2 15 (12.10%) Azure
3 14 (11.29%) Amazon S3
4 11 (8.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (8.87%) AWS CodePipeline
4 11 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (8.87%) Serverless
5 10 (8.06%) SaaS
6 8 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
6 8 (6.45%) OCI
7 7 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.65%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.84%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.84%) IaaS
8 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.03%) PaaS
10 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) VPN
2 4 (3.23%) Firewall
2 4 (3.23%) Internet
2 4 (3.23%) VSAN
3 3 (2.42%) FabricPath
3 3 (2.42%) IPsec
3 3 (2.42%) LAN
3 3 (2.42%) NX-OS
3 3 (2.42%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) DNS
4 1 (0.81%) NAS
4 1 (0.81%) VLAN
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.68%) Oracle Database
3 9 (7.26%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.26%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.03%) Metadata
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.23%) Informix
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 3 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.42%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.61%) GIS
8 2 (1.61%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.81%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (17.74%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) Git
3 4 (3.23%) GitLab
3 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) Subversion
4 3 (2.42%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.61%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.61%) ERwin
5 2 (1.61%) Selenium
5 2 (1.61%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.81%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.84%) Public Sector
3 23 (18.55%) Finance
4 17 (13.71%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Banking
5 9 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.45%) Back Office
7 6 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Billing
9 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (12.90%) Architect
2 13 (10.48%) Analyst
3 11 (8.87%) Consultant
3 11 (8.87%) Project Manager
4 10 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (8.06%) JIRA Engineer
5 9 (7.26%) Lead
6 8 (6.45%) Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Applications Support
7 7 (5.65%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Senior
7 7 (5.65%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (4.84%) Administrator
8 6 (4.84%) DBA
8 6 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) REST
2 12 (9.68%) AWS CDK
3 8 (6.45%) SOAP
4 7 (5.65%) Web Services
5 5 (4.03%) PostGIS
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 4 (3.23%) Spring
7 2 (1.61%) .NET
7 2 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.61%) XML
8 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.81%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.81%) JSP
8 1 (0.81%) OpenJDK
8 1 (0.81%) React
8 1 (0.81%) Servlets
8 1 (0.81%) STL
8 1 (0.81%) XSD
8 1 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.03%) Replication
5 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.61%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.61%) Tandem
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.52%) Linux
2 9 (7.26%) Unix
3 5 (4.03%) Windows
4 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) AIX
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.55%) Data Migration
2 33 (26.61%) Agile
3 20 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.32%) Service Management
5 18 (14.52%) Kanban
6 17 (13.71%) Roadmaps
7 16 (12.90%) Analytics
7 16 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 13 (10.48%) Data Transformation
8 13 (10.48%) DevOps
8 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.48%) Scrum
9 12 (9.68%) Data Protection
9 12 (9.68%) Workflow
10 11 (8.87%) Performance Metrics
11 10 (8.06%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (7.26%) CRM
12 9 (7.26%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.94%) SQL
2 16 (12.90%) Java
3 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.65%) Python
6 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.61%) C#
9 2 (1.61%) C++
9 2 (1.61%) Perl
9 2 (1.61%) VBA
9 2 (1.61%) VBScript
10 1 (0.81%) C
10 1 (0.81%) COBOL
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (14.52%) Degree
2 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.61%) ISEB
5 2 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (4.03%) PMO
3 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.42%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.26%) vSphere
3 8 (6.45%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.03%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.42%) Docker
6 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Grafana
2 7 (5.65%) Terraform
3 6 (4.84%) Ansible
4 4 (3.23%) Data Guard
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (3.23%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.23%) VxRail
5 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.81%) Argo
5 1 (0.81%) Istio
5 1 (0.81%) Kibana
5 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 28 (22.58%) Oracle
2 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.10%) VMware
4 11 (8.87%) Cisco
5 10 (8.06%) Atlassian
5 10 (8.06%) Dell
6 5 (4.03%) SAP
7 4 (3.23%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.23%) Nintex
8 3 (2.42%) Cognizant
8 3 (2.42%) Commvault
8 3 (2.42%) Informatica
8 3 (2.42%) Okta
9 2 (1.61%) Databricks
9 2 (1.61%) IBM
9 2 (1.61%) IDERA
9 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.81%) Canon
10 1 (0.81%) IFS