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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 478 261 341
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.07% 8.80% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 9.58% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 173 248
10th Percentile £350 £340 £321
25th Percentile £447 £422 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +6.34% -0.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £688 £691
England median daily rate £520 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 6 9
10th Percentile £15.81 £37.38 £23.19
25th Percentile £19.36 £57.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £71.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.91% +137.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £85.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £86.65 £53.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.13% -39.47% -26.36%

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 4,362 2,725 4,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.77% 91.84% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 1,733 2,919
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £406 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £612
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 146 386
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.41 £20.89 £18.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.62% +0.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 £62.35
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +10 280 £506 -7.95% 43
Berkshire +9 196 £525 -4.55% 23
Hampshire +1 112 £600 +2.13% 20
Buckinghamshire +4 64 £445 -17.21% 14
Surrey +5 45 £525 +31.25% 18
West Sussex -4 29 £500 +11.98% 1
Oxfordshire -5 20 £500 - 7
Kent -12 10 £500 +50.38% 11
East Sussex +1 4 £475 -24.00% 2
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
Home Counties - 1 £700 -
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 10 (2.09%) ArcGIS
2 9 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.67%) CMS
3 8 (1.67%) GeoServer
3 8 (1.67%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 8 (1.67%) Smallworld
4 4 (0.84%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (10.04%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.46%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.26%) Maximo
6 5 (1.05%) SAP R/3
7 4 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.63%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.63%) Primavera
8 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.63%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.42%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.42%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 87 (18.20%) Azure
2 51 (10.67%) OCI
3 45 (9.41%) AWS
4 27 (5.65%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.35%) GCP
6 15 (3.14%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.51%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.67%) SaaS
10 6 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.26%) AWS KMS
10 6 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.26%) IaaS
10 6 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (0.84%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (0.84%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.60%) DNS
2 18 (3.77%) Firewall
3 16 (3.35%) WAN
4 15 (3.14%) DHCP
5 12 (2.51%) Kerberos
6 11 (2.30%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.09%) LAN
7 10 (2.09%) Network Security
8 9 (1.88%) MPLS
9 7 (1.46%) BGP
9 7 (1.46%) OSPF
9 7 (1.46%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.26%) SAN
10 6 (1.26%) VPN
11 5 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.05%) NAS
12 4 (0.84%) IPsec
12 4 (0.84%) Wireless
13 3 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.63%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.18%) GIS
2 15 (3.14%) Metadata
2 15 (3.14%) Power BI
3 14 (2.93%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.51%) Geospatial Data
5 11 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.88%) QGIS
7 8 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.84%) MySQL
10 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.63%) OLAP
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (2.30%) JIRA
2 8 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.84%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.84%) Maven
3 4 (0.84%) Subversion
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) JMeter
4 2 (0.42%) JUnit
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.21%) Gatling
5 1 (0.21%) Git
5 1 (0.21%) Gradle
5 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.21%) Mockito
General
1 139 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 80 (16.74%) Finance
3 63 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.72%) Legal
6 13 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.51%) Marketing
7 12 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.88%) Banking
8 9 (1.88%) Retail
9 8 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.05%) Electronics
10 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.84%) Local Government
12 3 (0.63%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.63%) Publishing
13 2 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 70 (14.64%) Architect
1 70 (14.64%) Lead
2 59 (12.34%) Consultant
3 33 (6.90%) Network Consultant
4 31 (6.49%) Analyst
4 31 (6.49%) Project Manager
5 24 (5.02%) Migration Engineer
6 22 (4.60%) Data Migration Lead
7 21 (4.39%) Senior
7 21 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (3.97%) Developer
8 19 (3.97%) IT Engineer
9 17 (3.56%) Data Analyst
10 13 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
10 13 (2.72%) Support Engineer
11 12 (2.51%) Technical Manager
12 11 (2.30%) Accountant
12 11 (2.30%) Migration Manager
13 10 (2.09%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.09%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (2.72%) LDAP
3 10 (2.09%) REST
4 9 (1.88%) .NET
5 6 (1.26%) XML
6 5 (1.05%) Kafka
6 5 (1.05%) React
6 5 (1.05%) SOAP
7 4 (0.84%) PySpark
7 4 (0.84%) Web Services
8 3 (0.63%) CSS
8 3 (0.63%) CSS3
8 3 (0.63%) HTML
8 3 (0.63%) HTML5
8 3 (0.63%) Middleware
8 3 (0.63%) OAuth
8 3 (0.63%) Vue
9 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.42%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (5.02%) Replication
3 23 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.46%) CMDB
9 7 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.05%) Clustering
10 5 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.65%) Windows
2 21 (4.39%) Linux
3 14 (2.93%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (30.54%) Data Migration
2 88 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (15.27%) Agile
4 67 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 60 (12.55%) Validation
6 58 (12.13%) Roadmaps
7 51 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (10.04%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (9.41%) ERP
10 43 (9.00%) Workflow
11 42 (8.79%) Data Cleansing
11 42 (8.79%) Data Modelling
12 39 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
12 39 (8.16%) Workflow Management
13 37 (7.74%) DevOps
14 35 (7.32%) Analytics
15 33 (6.90%) Data Protection
15 33 (6.90%) Data Validation
16 31 (6.49%) ITIL
17 29 (6.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.95%) SQL
2 31 (6.49%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.23%) Python
4 13 (2.72%) Bash
4 13 (2.72%) Java
5 7 (1.46%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.26%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.84%) Bicep
8 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.42%) C#
9 2 (0.42%) Jython
10 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.21%) Delphi
10 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.21%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) VBA
10 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 172 (35.98%) Security Cleared
2 141 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.49%) Degree
4 24 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.72%) PMP
7 11 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.67%) OCP
9 8 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.63%) PgMP
15 2 (0.42%) ACCA
15 2 (0.42%) CIMA
16 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.37%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.07%) GDPR
3 18 (3.77%) QA
4 15 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.72%) NIST
6 11 (2.30%) COBIT
7 8 (1.67%) NCSC
8 7 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.84%) GRC
9 4 (0.84%) SLA
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.21%) BS7666
11 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.46%) vSphere
5 6 (1.26%) Docker
6 5 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.42%) NFS
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.77%) Terraform
2 13 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.67%) Ansible
5 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.26%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.84%) Argo
7 4 (0.84%) Grafana
7 4 (0.84%) SCCM
8 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.42%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.42%) Istio
9 2 (0.42%) linkerd
9 2 (0.42%) Nessus
10 1 (0.21%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (17.57%) Oracle
2 64 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 53 (11.09%) SAP
4 41 (8.58%) Cisco
5 35 (7.32%) Aruba
6 22 (4.60%) VMware
7 17 (3.56%) ESRI
8 15 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.72%) Google
9 13 (2.72%) IBM
10 10 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.67%) Citrix
11 8 (1.67%) Intergraph
12 7 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.26%) Adobe
13 6 (1.26%) Informatica
13 6 (1.26%) Sage
14 5 (1.05%) F5
14 5 (1.05%) IFS