Migration Contracts in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 258 330 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.60% 5.94% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 7.01% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 238 320
10th Percentile £325 £313 £385
25th Percentile £400 £412 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £726
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile £41.15 £21.48 £24.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £23.88 £30.31
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -37.50% +37.14%
75th Percentile £80.00 £36.88 £64.69
90th Percentile £86.57 £55.25 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.12 £65.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -33.67% +142.99%

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 2,748 4,707 5,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.63% 84.80% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 2,740 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.48% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 432 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.20 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.72%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 +7 123 £500 -2.44% 63
Berkshire +6 88 £525 -4.55% 41
Hampshire +36 65 £600 +20.00% 32
Surrey +3 25 £400 -21.95% 10
Buckinghamshire +2 21 £400 -11.11% 11
Oxfordshire +4 16 £500 +36.99% 20
West Sussex -5 16 £468 +4.00% 4
Kent +12 10 £333 -21.76% 12
East Sussex -6 6 £638 +41.67% 2
Sussex +3 3 £600 +14.29% 3
Middlesex +10 2 £850 +100.00% 1
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.49%) Confluence
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.33%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.55%) CMS
5 3 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.78%) JBoss
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Documentum
7 1 (0.39%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (6.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (1.94%) Infor LN
4 3 (1.16%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.78%) Maximo
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.78%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.39%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 49 (18.99%) Azure
2 40 (15.50%) AWS
3 16 (6.20%) Entra ID
3 16 (6.20%) GCP
4 15 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (5.04%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.49%) SaaS
9 8 (3.10%) PaaS
9 8 (3.10%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.71%) IaaS
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
12 5 (1.94%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.16%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 3 (1.16%) Nutanix
14 3 (1.16%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.98%) Firewall
2 16 (6.20%) Network Security
3 15 (5.81%) VPN
4 9 (3.49%) WAN
5 7 (2.71%) LAN
6 6 (2.33%) MPLS
7 5 (1.94%) BGP
7 5 (1.94%) DNS
7 5 (1.94%) NGFW
7 5 (1.94%) OSPF
8 4 (1.55%) Internet
8 4 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.55%) VLAN
9 3 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.16%) Wireless
10 2 (0.78%) DHCP
10 2 (0.78%) Intranet
10 2 (0.78%) IP Telephony
10 2 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (5.43%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.88%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.88%) Metadata
5 8 (3.10%) Big Data
6 7 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.33%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (2.33%) Power BI
8 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.16%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.78%) NewSQL
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.43%) JIRA
2 12 (4.65%) GitLab
3 9 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.33%) GoogleTest
4 6 (2.33%) Robot Framework
5 5 (1.94%) ERwin
6 4 (1.55%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (1.16%) Git
7 3 (1.16%) Maven
7 3 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.78%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (0.78%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.78%) QARun
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.78%) WinRunner
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 98 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.89%) Finance
3 37 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.59%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.55%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Retail
11 3 (1.16%) Billing
12 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Electronics
13 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.39%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (14.34%) Architect
2 34 (13.18%) Consultant
3 27 (10.47%) Analyst
4 24 (9.30%) Project Manager
5 15 (5.81%) Developer
6 14 (5.43%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.26%) Business Analyst
8 10 (3.88%) Lead
8 10 (3.88%) Software Engineer
8 10 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.49%) Data Consultant
9 9 (3.49%) Senior
10 7 (2.71%) Data Architect
10 7 (2.71%) Migration Analyst
11 6 (2.33%) DBA
11 6 (2.33%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Implementation Consultant
11 6 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.94%) JSON
2 4 (1.55%) React
2 4 (1.55%) SAML
3 3 (1.16%) .NET
3 3 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.16%) REST
4 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.78%) HTML
4 2 (0.78%) Java EE
4 2 (0.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.78%) Next.js
4 2 (0.78%) OAuth
4 2 (0.78%) OpenID
4 2 (0.78%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.78%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.78%) Web Services
5 1 (0.39%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.59%) Data Centre
1 17 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.26%) Life Science
3 10 (3.88%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.33%) Replication
5 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.16%) FPGA
7 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.16%) Verilog
7 3 (1.16%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.24%) Windows
2 23 (8.91%) Linux
3 10 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.16%) VMS
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.27%) Data Migration
2 66 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (15.12%) Agile
4 34 (13.18%) Validation
5 29 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (10.85%) DevOps
7 25 (9.69%) Change Management
8 23 (8.91%) ERP
8 23 (8.91%) Project Management
9 22 (8.53%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (7.75%) ETL
11 18 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (6.59%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.59%) Data Security
13 16 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (6.20%) Data Management
14 15 (5.81%) Data Modelling
14 15 (5.81%) Roadmaps
15 14 (5.43%) Project Delivery
15 14 (5.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.54%) SQL
2 28 (10.85%) Python
3 13 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.26%) Java
4 11 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 10 (3.88%) Bash
6 9 (3.49%) C++
7 6 (2.33%) C#
7 6 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.16%) Bicep
8 3 (1.16%) Perl
9 2 (0.78%) Scala
9 2 (0.78%) VB
10 1 (0.39%) ABAP
10 1 (0.39%) Fortran
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
10 1 (0.39%) VBScript
10 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.53%) Degree
4 18 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.88%) CCNA
7 9 (3.49%) CCNP
8 8 (3.10%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.71%) PMP
10 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.78%) CCIE
11 2 (0.78%) CISM
11 2 (0.78%) CISSP
11 2 (0.78%) HP APS
11 2 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.10%) GDPR
1 8 (3.10%) HIPAA
2 7 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.71%) QA
3 4 (1.55%) PMBOK
4 3 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.10%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.55%) Firmware
6 3 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.78%) Docker
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) XenApp
8 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.71%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.94%) Ansible
4 4 (1.55%) Puppet
5 3 (1.16%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) SCCM
6 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) yum
Vendors
1 49 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.08%) SAP
3 25 (9.69%) Oracle
4 20 (7.75%) VMware
5 12 (4.65%) Cisco
5 12 (4.65%) Google
6 9 (3.49%) Intel
6 9 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.71%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.71%) Splunk
8 6 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.33%) Virgin Media
9 5 (1.94%) Citrix
9 5 (1.94%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.94%) HP
9 5 (1.94%) Infor
10 4 (1.55%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.55%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.55%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.16%) BMC