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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Migration 408 348 379
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.74% 8.81% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 10.16% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 236 269
10th Percentile £325 £343 £400
25th Percentile £447 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £644 £700
90th Percentile £720 £688 £738
England median daily rate £519 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -4.99% -0.73% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 6 7
10th Percentile £15.91 £25.25 £22.13
25th Percentile £20.79 £33.50 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +67.59% -19.40%
75th Percentile - £53.56 £55.99
90th Percentile £69.55 £68.13 £64.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% -67.15% +24.55%

All Process and 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 3,625 3,426 4,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 86.52% 86.76% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,318 2,116 3,037
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 154 247
10th Percentile £14.51 £18.56 £16.46
25th Percentile £16.95 £26.06 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £54.68 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.77% +4.15% +20.69%
75th Percentile £41.00 £70.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +6 225 £500 -10.71% 63
Berkshire +5 148 £525 -9.83% 30
Hampshire +19 111 £538 -6.11% 27
Buckinghamshire +5 52 £375 -25.00% 23
Surrey -9 34 £638 +22.89% 17
West Sussex -2 25 £600 +49.63% 9
Oxfordshire +5 24 £550 -6.38% 13
Kent -2 7 £500 -14.53% 9
East Sussex -6 5 £190 -66.96% 1
Middlesex - 3 £850 - 4
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 (2.45%) ArcGIS
2 8 (1.96%) Confluence
2 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.47%) GeoServer
3 6 (1.47%) Smallworld
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (7.11%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.70%) Maximo
4 5 (1.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.74%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.74%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.49%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.49%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (15.20%) Azure
2 31 (7.60%) AWS
3 26 (6.37%) OCI
4 19 (4.66%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.45%) GCP
7 10 (2.45%) SaaS
8 9 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.47%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.23%) IaaS
12 4 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (0.98%) GitHub
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (0.74%) Serverless
13 3 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) VPN
2 10 (2.45%) Firewall
3 9 (2.21%) DNS
4 6 (1.47%) WAN
5 5 (1.23%) LAN
5 5 (1.23%) Network Security
6 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.74%) Internet
7 3 (0.74%) SSL
7 3 (0.74%) VLAN
7 3 (0.74%) VSAN
8 2 (0.49%) BGP
8 2 (0.49%) Intranet
8 2 (0.49%) IPsec
8 2 (0.49%) IPv6
8 2 (0.49%) OSPF
8 2 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.49%) Wireless
9 1 (0.25%) TETRA
9 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.41%) GIS
2 13 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (1.96%) QGIS
6 7 (1.72%) Tableau
7 6 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.47%) Metadata
7 6 (1.47%) Power BI
7 6 (1.47%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.64%) JIRA
2 16 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.74%) GitLab
4 2 (0.49%) Git
4 2 (0.49%) JMeter
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) Gatling
5 1 (0.25%) Gradle
5 1 (0.25%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Poetry
5 1 (0.25%) Pylint
5 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.95%) Public Sector
3 59 (14.46%) Finance
4 31 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.66%) Manufacturing
5 19 (4.66%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.70%) Marketing
7 9 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.96%) Electronics
9 7 (1.72%) Local Government
9 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.47%) Legal
11 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.98%) Banking
12 4 (0.98%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.98%) Retail
13 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (12.75%) Consultant
2 50 (12.25%) Architect
3 45 (11.03%) Lead
4 33 (8.09%) Network Consultant
5 25 (6.13%) Senior
6 24 (5.88%) Analyst
7 23 (5.64%) Project Manager
7 23 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.39%) IT Engineer
9 21 (5.15%) Data Migration Lead
10 15 (3.68%) Migration Engineer
11 14 (3.43%) Administrator
12 13 (3.19%) Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.19%) Windows Engineer
13 12 (2.94%) Desktop Support
14 11 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.70%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 11 (2.70%) Technical Manager
15 9 (2.21%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.21%) .NET
2 9 (2.21%) React
3 8 (1.96%) Middleware
4 4 (0.98%) REST
4 4 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (0.98%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.74%) Visualforce
5 3 (0.74%) Web Services
5 3 (0.74%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (0.49%) BAPI
6 2 (0.49%) CSS
6 2 (0.49%) IDoc
6 2 (0.49%) JSON
6 2 (0.49%) Kafka
6 2 (0.49%) PySpark
6 2 (0.49%) RESTful
6 2 (0.49%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.25%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.29%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 11 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.21%) Life Science
6 9 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.47%) Replication
10 5 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.23%) PKI
10 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.13%) Windows
2 11 (2.70%) Linux
3 9 (2.21%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.92%) Data Migration
2 79 (19.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 66 (16.18%) Agile
3 66 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (15.20%) Workflow
5 60 (14.71%) Workflow Management
6 56 (13.73%) Roadmaps
7 49 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (10.54%) Collaborative Working
9 35 (8.58%) Data Modelling
9 35 (8.58%) ERP
10 34 (8.33%) Validation
11 32 (7.84%) DevOps
12 30 (7.35%) User Acceptance Testing
13 27 (6.62%) Data Cleansing
14 26 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (6.13%) ITIL
16 24 (5.88%) CI/CD
17 23 (5.64%) Change Management
17 23 (5.64%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.07%) SQL
2 33 (8.09%) Python
3 27 (6.62%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.19%) C#
5 12 (2.94%) Java
5 12 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.45%) Bash
7 7 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.74%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.74%) Bicep
8 3 (0.74%) VB
9 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.25%) ABAP
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Delphi
10 1 (0.25%) Jython
10 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 152 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 128 (31.37%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.33%) Degree
4 23 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.21%) OCP
6 9 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.47%) PMP
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) PgMP
13 2 (0.49%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.25%) CCNA
14 1 (0.25%) CCNP
14 1 (0.25%) ISEB
14 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.90%) GDPR
2 20 (4.90%) QA
3 12 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.94%) NIST
4 6 (1.47%) COBIT
4 6 (1.47%) NCSC
5 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.49%) GRC
6 2 (0.49%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.72%) Docker
5 5 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.23%) vSphere
6 2 (0.49%) NFS
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.41%) Ansible
2 18 (4.41%) Terraform
3 6 (1.47%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.98%) Argo
6 3 (0.74%) Grafana
7 2 (0.49%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (14.46%) Oracle
2 56 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 54 (13.24%) SAP
4 38 (9.31%) Cisco
5 34 (8.33%) Aruba
6 16 (3.92%) ESRI
7 14 (3.43%) VMware
8 13 (3.19%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.94%) IBM
10 11 (2.70%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.45%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.96%) Google
13 6 (1.47%) Intergraph
13 6 (1.47%) Remedy
14 5 (1.23%) Citrix
15 4 (0.98%) IFS
15 4 (0.98%) Informatica
15 4 (0.98%) Pure Storage
16 3 (0.74%) CloudEndure
16 3 (0.74%) Samsung