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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 493 312 352
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.74% 9.49% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 10.48% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 190 247
10th Percentile £356 £325 £333
25th Percentile £437 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £593
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 8
10th Percentile £13.99 - £21.48
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £26.31
Median hourly rate £39.13 £37.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +24.27% +3.45%
75th Percentile £41.83 £67.50 £36.88
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £50.90
England median hourly rate £36.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -37.13% -40.30%

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 5,176 2,978 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.28% 90.57% 82.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,252 1,854 2,737
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £672 £700
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.84% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 246 445
10th Percentile £15.34 £13.38 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.12 £18.32
Median hourly rate £54.00 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -52.00% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £67.81
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -3.62%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -7 235 £560 +22.74% 45
Berkshire +5 172 £565 +11.77% 19
Hampshire -5 128 £555 +6.73% 27
Surrey 0 53 £525 - 17
Buckinghamshire -17 49 £560 +60.00% 23
West Sussex +3 47 £467 -6.60% 3
Kent +7 17 £475 +42.86% 3
Oxfordshire -33 14 £520 +46.48% 3
East Sussex -1 4 £471 -24.64% 2
Middlesex -11 1 - - 4
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 17 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.62%) Confluence
3 7 (1.42%) CMS
4 5 (1.01%) ArcGIS
4 5 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.41%) Drupal
7 2 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.41%) JBoss
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (8.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (3.65%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.22%) NEC Housing
3 6 (1.22%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.01%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.01%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.81%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.81%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.81%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.81%) SAP VC
6 3 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.61%) Primavera
6 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.61%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.41%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.88%) Azure
2 73 (14.81%) AWS
3 34 (6.90%) OCI
4 30 (6.09%) GCP
5 26 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.07%) Entra ID
7 19 (3.85%) SaaS
8 15 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.42%) IaaS
10 7 (1.42%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.22%) GitHub
11 6 (1.22%) PaaS
11 6 (1.22%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.01%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.01%) Serverless
13 4 (0.81%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.29%) Firewall
2 29 (5.88%) DNS
3 21 (4.26%) DHCP
3 21 (4.26%) WAN
4 17 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 14 (2.84%) LAN
6 12 (2.43%) Kerberos
6 12 (2.43%) VPN
7 11 (2.23%) Network Security
8 10 (2.03%) BGP
8 10 (2.03%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.83%) MPLS
9 9 (1.83%) OSPF
10 7 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (1.42%) VLAN
11 6 (1.22%) NAS
11 6 (1.22%) SAN
11 6 (1.22%) VSAN
12 5 (1.01%) IPsec
12 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.27%) Power BI
2 13 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (2.43%) GIS
3 12 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.43%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.23%) Metadata
5 9 (1.83%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.01%) Big Data
6 5 (1.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (1.01%) Siebel EIM
6 5 (1.01%) Spatial Data
6 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.81%) QGIS
7 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (3.65%) JIRA
2 8 (1.62%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.42%) GitLab
4 6 (1.22%) Postman
5 5 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.81%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.81%) Maven
6 4 (0.81%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 106 (21.50%) Finance
1 106 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 52 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (6.69%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.87%) Retail
6 22 (4.46%) Legal
7 21 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.06%) Automotive
9 14 (2.84%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.64%) Marketing
10 13 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.62%) Banking
11 8 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.22%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.01%) Local Government
15 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.61%) Advertising
17 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (20.08%) Lead
2 59 (11.97%) Architect
3 46 (9.33%) Analyst
4 44 (8.92%) Project Manager
5 35 (7.10%) Data Migration Lead
6 31 (6.29%) Senior
7 29 (5.88%) Consultant
8 27 (5.48%) Migration Engineer
9 24 (4.87%) Data Engineer
10 22 (4.46%) Developer
11 16 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.25%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.04%) Data Migration Engineer
12 15 (3.04%) Migration Manager
13 14 (2.84%) Accountant
14 13 (2.64%) Migration Project Manager
15 12 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
16 11 (2.23%) Data Architect
16 11 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (3.65%) Kafka
3 13 (2.64%) REST
4 12 (2.43%) LDAP
5 11 (2.23%) SOAP
6 10 (2.03%) XML
7 7 (1.42%) Middleware
8 5 (1.01%) RESTful
9 4 (0.81%) EDI
9 4 (0.81%) JSON
9 4 (0.81%) OAuth
9 4 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.81%) Spring
9 4 (0.81%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.61%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.61%) React
11 2 (0.41%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.41%) CSS3
11 2 (0.41%) HTML5
11 2 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.55%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (6.29%) Data Centre
3 30 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.85%) Replication
5 16 (3.25%) CMDB
6 15 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.64%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.23%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.01%) PKI
14 4 (0.81%) LLPG
14 4 (0.81%) NLPG
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.49%) Windows
2 28 (5.68%) Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.42%) Unix
5 6 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.01%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (39.35%) Data Migration
2 105 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (17.24%) Agile
4 75 (15.21%) Validation
5 64 (12.98%) User Acceptance Testing
6 59 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (10.34%) ERP
8 42 (8.52%) Data Cleansing
8 42 (8.52%) Data Protection
9 40 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 39 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (7.71%) Change Management
12 37 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (6.90%) Scenario Testing
14 33 (6.69%) CI/CD
14 33 (6.69%) DevOps
15 32 (6.49%) Analytics
15 32 (6.49%) ETL
15 32 (6.49%) Project Delivery
15 32 (6.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (10.55%) SQL
2 34 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 33 (6.69%) Python
4 24 (4.87%) Bash
5 13 (2.64%) PL/SQL
6 12 (2.43%) Java
7 8 (1.62%) Bicep
8 5 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.81%) Perl
10 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.41%) Jython
10 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 108 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.52%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.45%) Degree
5 10 (2.03%) PMP
6 9 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.81%) ACCA
9 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.81%) CIMA
9 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.61%) VCAP
10 3 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.41%) CCIE
11 2 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.11%) Data Quality
1 40 (8.11%) GDPR
2 25 (5.07%) QA
3 11 (2.23%) NIST
4 9 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.62%) NCSC
6 5 (1.01%) COBIT
6 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.01%) PMO
7 4 (0.81%) BS7666
7 4 (0.81%) GRC
7 4 (0.81%) SLA
8 3 (0.61%) IFRS
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) DICOM
10 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (1.83%) vSphere
4 7 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.22%) Docker
5 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.20%) Postfix
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (4.26%) Terraform
2 14 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (2.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.83%) Ansible
4 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.22%) SCCM
6 5 (1.01%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.61%) Grafana
7 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.41%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.41%) Istio
8 2 (0.41%) linkerd
8 2 (0.41%) Nessus
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (15.01%) Microsoft
1 74 (15.01%) Oracle
2 69 (14.00%) SAP
3 29 (5.88%) VMware
4 26 (5.27%) Salesforce
5 20 (4.06%) Cisco
5 20 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.65%) Google
7 15 (3.04%) IFS
8 10 (2.03%) IBM
8 10 (2.03%) Siebel
9 9 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.62%) BMC
10 8 (1.62%) F5
11 7 (1.42%) Adobe
11 7 (1.42%) Databricks
11 7 (1.42%) ESRI
11 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.22%) NEC
12 6 (1.22%) SolarWinds