Migration Contract Job Trends in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 489 331 343
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.39% 9.63% 6.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 10.67% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 194 231
10th Percentile £357 £325 £337
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.02% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 9
10th Percentile £16.33 - £21.90
25th Percentile £21.75 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +25.93%
75th Percentile £41.83 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £85.33 £75.63 £53.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £65.25
% change year-on-year +59.05% -61.46% -4.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,359 3,102 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.96% 90.28% 82.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,943 2,569
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £673 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 276 361
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £27.38 £15.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £57.79 £21.67 £55.08
Median % change year-on-year +166.72% -60.66% +10.15%
75th Percentile £82.25 £51.10 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.99
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the South East

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Thames Valley -10 238 £560 +24.44% 43
Berkshire +3 175 £565 +10.57% 20
Hampshire -10 127 £553 +10.50% 19
Buckinghamshire -26 48 £560 +40.00% 11
West Sussex -3 46 £467 -6.60% 2
Surrey -10 44 £475 -12.58% 12
Kent +12 20 £500 +32.01% 8
Oxfordshire -34 15 £520 +44.44% 12
Middlesex -12 5 - - 3
East Sussex -2 2 £471 +185.45%
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) CMS
4 5 (1.02%) ArcGIS
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.41%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.20%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.20%) Predix
Applications
1 19 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.20%) Houdini
5 1 (0.20%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 44 (9.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.07%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.23%) NEC Housing
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.82%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.82%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.82%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.82%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.82%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.82%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.61%) Primavera
6 3 (0.61%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (19.84%) Azure
2 84 (17.18%) AWS
3 39 (7.98%) GCP
4 31 (6.34%) OCI
5 27 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.89%) SaaS
7 17 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.64%) IaaS
10 7 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.23%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.23%) GitHub
11 6 (1.23%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.23%) PaaS
11 6 (1.23%) Serverless
11 6 (1.23%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.34%) Firewall
2 19 (3.89%) DNS
3 18 (3.68%) WAN
4 14 (2.86%) LAN
5 13 (2.66%) SD-WAN
5 13 (2.66%) VPN
6 11 (2.25%) DHCP
6 11 (2.25%) Network Security
7 9 (1.84%) BGP
7 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.64%) OSPF
9 7 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (1.43%) VLAN
10 6 (1.23%) IPsec
10 6 (1.23%) NAS
10 6 (1.23%) SAN
10 6 (1.23%) VSAN
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.02%) MPLS
11 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.52%) Power BI
2 14 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.45%) GIS
4 12 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.25%) Metadata
6 9 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.64%) Big Data
8 5 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.02%) Siebel EIM
8 5 (1.02%) Spatial Data
8 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.82%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.82%) QGIS
10 3 (0.61%) MySQL
10 3 (0.61%) OLAP
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (3.89%) JIRA
2 8 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.43%) GitLab
4 6 (1.23%) Postman
5 5 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.82%) Maven
6 4 (0.82%) Subversion
7 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Introscope
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Git
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) MSI
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 115 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.47%) Finance
3 56 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.75%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.91%) Retail
7 22 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 21 (4.29%) Legal
9 18 (3.68%) Automotive
10 14 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.45%) Marketing
11 12 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.43%) Banking
13 7 (1.43%) General Ledger
13 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.02%) Local Government
16 3 (0.61%) Advertising
17 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (20.04%) Lead
2 60 (12.27%) Architect
3 48 (9.82%) Analyst
4 43 (8.79%) Project Manager
5 33 (6.75%) Data Migration Lead
5 33 (6.75%) Senior
6 32 (6.54%) Consultant
7 26 (5.32%) Migration Engineer
8 22 (4.50%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.50%) Developer
9 18 (3.68%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.48%) Data Analyst
10 17 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.07%) Data Migration Engineer
11 15 (3.07%) Migration Manager
12 14 (2.86%) Accountant
13 13 (2.66%) Migration Project Manager
14 11 (2.25%) Data Architect
14 11 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.68%) Kafka
2 16 (3.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (2.66%) REST
4 10 (2.04%) XML
5 9 (1.84%) Middleware
5 9 (1.84%) SOAP
6 6 (1.23%) LDAP
7 5 (1.02%) RESTful
8 4 (0.82%) EDI
8 4 (0.82%) JSON
8 4 (0.82%) OAuth
8 4 (0.82%) PySpark
8 4 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.82%) Spring
8 4 (0.82%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.61%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.61%) React
10 2 (0.41%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.41%) CSS3
10 2 (0.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.82%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (6.13%) Data Centre
2 30 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.07%) CMDB
4 15 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.64%) Replication
10 6 (1.23%) PKI
11 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.82%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.36%) Windows
2 35 (7.16%) Linux
3 11 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.43%) Unix
5 7 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.02%) VMS
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (40.70%) Data Migration
2 110 (22.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (18.20%) Agile
4 76 (15.54%) Validation
5 65 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (13.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 50 (10.22%) ERP
7 40 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (7.98%) Data Cleansing
9 38 (7.77%) Data Modelling
9 38 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (7.57%) Change Management
10 37 (7.57%) CI/CD
10 37 (7.57%) Data Protection
11 36 (7.36%) DevOps
12 35 (7.16%) Analytics
12 35 (7.16%) Project Delivery
13 34 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (6.75%) ETL
14 33 (6.75%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.45%) SQL
2 33 (6.75%) Python
3 25 (5.11%) Bash
3 25 (5.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (2.66%) Java
4 13 (2.66%) PL/SQL
5 8 (1.64%) Bicep
6 5 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.82%) Perl
8 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.41%) Jython
8 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 133 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 99 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.82%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.27%) Degree
5 12 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.64%) PMP
7 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.02%) ACCA
9 5 (1.02%) CIMA
9 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.61%) VCAP
11 3 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.41%) CCIE
12 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 38 (7.77%) GDPR
3 28 (5.73%) QA
4 10 (2.04%) NIST
5 8 (1.64%) NCSC
6 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.02%) PMO
8 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.82%) BS7666
8 4 (0.82%) IFRS
9 3 (0.61%) COBIT
9 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.20%) DICOM
11 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 24 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (1.84%) vSphere
4 8 (1.64%) Docker
4 8 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.20%) Postfix
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (4.70%) Terraform
2 18 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.25%) Ansible
4 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.43%) SCCM
6 5 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.41%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.41%) Grafana
8 2 (0.41%) Istio
8 2 (0.41%) linkerd
8 2 (0.41%) Nessus
8 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (15.95%) Oracle
2 73 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 73 (14.93%) SAP
3 27 (5.52%) VMware
4 25 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 20 (4.09%) Cisco
5 20 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.27%) Google
7 15 (3.07%) IFS
8 11 (2.25%) IBM
9 10 (2.04%) Siebel
10 9 (1.84%) Databricks
10 9 (1.84%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.64%) BMC
11 8 (1.64%) F5
12 7 (1.43%) Adobe
12 7 (1.43%) ESRI
12 7 (1.43%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.43%) Workday
13 6 (1.23%) NEC