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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Migration 394 349 397
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.64% 8.40% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 9.87% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 233 285
10th Percentile £325 £356 £400
25th Percentile £445 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £720 £684 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 6 8
10th Percentile £15.91 £31.00 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £33.50 £22.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +74.04% -22.39%
75th Percentile - £53.56 £53.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £68.13 £63.64
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -65.67% +21.82%

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 3,577 3,536 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.50% 85.10% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,259 2,171 3,124
10th Percentile £222 £260 £217
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £690
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 162 249
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.03 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £21.41 £57.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.76% +7.48% +20.25%
75th Percentile £46.78 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +6 221 £500 -9.09% 90
Berkshire 0 143 £515 -10.82% 52
Hampshire +18 107 £530 -7.83% 29
Buckinghamshire +9 53 £350 -30.00% 25
Surrey -8 34 £630 +24.44% 16
Oxfordshire +9 24 £550 - 17
West Sussex -4 21 £679 +69.26% 13
Kent +1 5 £556 -4.91% 9
East Sussex -3 5 £190 -55.29% 3
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 11 (2.79%) ArcGIS
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.03%) Confluence
4 7 (1.78%) Smallworld
5 6 (1.52%) GeoServer
5 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.02%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 3 (0.76%) CMS
8 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.60%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.79%) Maximo
4 5 (1.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.76%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.76%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.51%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.51%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.25%) BPCS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.25%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 64 (16.24%) Azure
2 28 (7.11%) AWS
3 23 (5.84%) OCI
4 21 (5.33%) OpenShift
5 17 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.54%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.54%) SaaS
8 9 (2.28%) GCP
8 9 (2.28%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.27%) IaaS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.02%) GitHub
11 4 (1.02%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.76%) Serverless
12 3 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.30%) Firewall
2 11 (2.79%) VPN
3 9 (2.28%) DNS
4 6 (1.52%) WAN
5 5 (1.27%) LAN
5 5 (1.27%) Network Security
6 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.76%) Internet
7 3 (0.76%) SSL
7 3 (0.76%) VLAN
7 3 (0.76%) VSAN
8 2 (0.51%) BGP
8 2 (0.51%) Intranet
8 2 (0.51%) IPsec
8 2 (0.51%) IPv6
8 2 (0.51%) OSPF
8 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.51%) Wireless
9 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.57%) GIS
2 13 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
2 13 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (2.03%) QGIS
5 7 (1.78%) Power BI
5 7 (1.78%) Tableau
6 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.27%) Metadata
7 5 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.76%) Big Data
9 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.09%) JIRA
2 19 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.51%) Git
4 2 (0.51%) JMeter
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
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
1 137 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.72%) Finance
2 58 (14.72%) Public Sector
3 31 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.82%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.06%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.79%) Marketing
7 9 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.03%) Electronics
8 8 (2.03%) Retail
9 7 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.52%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.52%) Legal
10 6 (1.52%) Local Government
11 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Banking
13 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (13.20%) Architect
2 51 (12.94%) Consultant
3 35 (8.88%) Lead
4 33 (8.38%) Network Consultant
5 26 (6.60%) Senior
6 25 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.84%) Project Manager
8 22 (5.58%) Analyst
9 20 (5.08%) IT Engineer
10 15 (3.81%) Data Migration Lead
11 14 (3.55%) Administrator
11 14 (3.55%) Developer
12 13 (3.30%) Migration Engineer
12 13 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.30%) Windows Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) Desktop Support
14 11 (2.79%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.54%) Support Engineer
16 9 (2.28%) Data Analyst
16 9 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.79%) Middleware
1 11 (2.79%) React
2 10 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.03%) .NET
4 4 (1.02%) REST
4 4 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.02%) SAP PI
4 4 (1.02%) WebdriverIO
5 3 (0.76%) Kafka
5 3 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.76%) Visualforce
5 3 (0.76%) Web Services
6 2 (0.51%) BAPI
6 2 (0.51%) CSS
6 2 (0.51%) EDI
6 2 (0.51%) IDoc
6 2 (0.51%) JSON
6 2 (0.51%) RESTful
6 2 (0.51%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.41%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.31%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.55%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.28%) Life Science
7 8 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.52%) Replication
10 5 (1.27%) PKI
10 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.02%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.11%) Windows
2 11 (2.79%) Linux
3 9 (2.28%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.17%) Data Migration
2 78 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 65 (16.50%) Agile
4 60 (15.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (14.72%) Workflow
6 56 (14.21%) Workflow Management
7 55 (13.96%) Roadmaps
8 50 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (11.68%) Collaborative Working
10 37 (9.39%) Data Modelling
11 35 (8.88%) ERP
12 33 (8.38%) DevOps
13 31 (7.87%) Validation
14 26 (6.60%) CI/CD
14 26 (6.60%) User Acceptance Testing
15 25 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (6.35%) Data Cleansing
16 22 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (5.58%) Change Management
16 22 (5.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.90%) SQL
2 36 (9.14%) Python
3 31 (7.87%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.06%) C#
5 14 (3.55%) Java
5 14 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.54%) Bash
7 7 (1.78%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.02%) VB
9 3 (0.76%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.76%) Bicep
10 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Delphi
11 1 (0.25%) Jython
11 1 (0.25%) Magik
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 143 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 121 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.88%) Degree
4 21 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.28%) OCP
6 9 (2.28%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.52%) PMP
9 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) PgMP
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.25%) CCNA
13 1 (0.25%) CCNP
13 1 (0.25%) ISEB
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.08%) GDPR
3 17 (4.31%) QA
4 10 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.54%) NIST
5 4 (1.02%) COBIT
6 3 (0.76%) NCSC
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.51%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.51%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.78%) Docker
4 5 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.27%) vSphere
5 2 (0.51%) NFS
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.33%) Ansible
3 15 (3.81%) Terraform
4 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.02%) Argo
7 3 (0.76%) Grafana
7 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 58 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.21%) Oracle
3 50 (12.69%) SAP
4 41 (10.41%) Cisco
5 34 (8.63%) Aruba
6 16 (4.06%) ESRI
7 15 (3.81%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.55%) VMware
9 12 (3.05%) IBM
10 11 (2.79%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.03%) Google
11 8 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.52%) Intergraph
12 6 (1.52%) Remedy
13 4 (1.02%) IFS
13 4 (1.02%) Informatica
13 4 (1.02%) Pure Storage
14 3 (0.76%) Samsung
14 3 (0.76%) Splunk
14 3 (0.76%) Workday