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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 437 319 364
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 6.63% 9.28% 8.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 10.44% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 186 239
10th Percentile £356 £319 £355
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £687
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 43 7
10th Percentile £15.26 £16.69 £21.05
25th Percentile £15.50 - £26.38
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +25.93%
75th Percentile £41.83 - £45.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £69.75 £53.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 5,302 3,057 3,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.38% 88.97% 82.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,164 1,903 2,235
10th Percentile £280 £220 £255
25th Percentile £425 £378 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 303 235
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.30 £16.10
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.53 £30.83
Median hourly rate £50.49 £20.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +143.30% -63.82% +7.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £70.43
90th Percentile £87.83 £69.65 £78.05
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -8 208 £560 +24.44% 154
Berkshire +1 151 £588 +6.82% 87
Hampshire -15 111 £550 +10.00% 46
Surrey -6 48 £460 -19.54% 26
Buckinghamshire -30 37 £560 +60.00% 40
West Sussex -11 35 £459 -18.40% 23
Oxfordshire -27 20 £450 - 27
Kent +8 16 £563 +17.19% 14
Middlesex -14 7 - - 2
East Sussex -4 2 £471 +147.89% 2
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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 20 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.06%) Confluence
3 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.46%) Drupal
6 2 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Predix
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.23%) Houdini
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 42 (9.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.60%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.14%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.92%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.92%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.92%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.92%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.92%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.92%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.69%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.69%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.23%) Maximo
8 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 102 (23.34%) Azure
2 76 (17.39%) AWS
3 36 (8.24%) GCP
4 27 (6.18%) SaaS
5 25 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (5.03%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.12%) OCI
8 9 (2.06%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.83%) iPaaS
9 8 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.60%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.37%) IaaS
11 6 (1.37%) Serverless
12 5 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.14%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.92%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.26%) Firewall
2 19 (4.35%) DNS
3 13 (2.97%) VPN
4 11 (2.52%) DHCP
5 10 (2.29%) WAN
6 8 (1.83%) LAN
6 8 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.37%) VLAN
8 5 (1.14%) SSL
8 5 (1.14%) VSAN
9 4 (0.92%) Network Security
9 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.92%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.92%) VoIP
9 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.69%) BGP
10 3 (0.69%) Broadband
10 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.46%) Internet
11 2 (0.46%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.81%) Power BI
2 18 (4.12%) Oracle Database
3 14 (3.20%) Metadata
4 12 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.60%) GIS
6 6 (1.37%) Big Data
6 6 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.14%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (1.14%) Spatial Data
8 4 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.69%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.46%) QGIS
10 2 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (4.35%) JIRA
2 7 (1.60%) GitLab
3 6 (1.37%) Postman
4 4 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Git
7 1 (0.23%) Hudson
7 1 (0.23%) Introscope
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) RStudio
7 1 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 115 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.76%) Finance
3 43 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.18%) Retail
5 24 (5.49%) Manufacturing
5 24 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.66%) Automotive
7 16 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.20%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.75%) Legal
10 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.60%) Banking
11 7 (1.60%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.37%) Marketing
13 5 (1.14%) Local Government
13 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 76 (17.39%) Architect
2 70 (16.02%) Lead
3 42 (9.61%) Consultant
4 39 (8.92%) Analyst
5 34 (7.78%) Project Manager
5 34 (7.78%) Senior
6 28 (6.41%) Data Migration Lead
6 28 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (4.58%) Migration Engineer
10 18 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
11 17 (3.89%) Data Migration Engineer
12 16 (3.66%) Accountant
13 14 (3.20%) Administrator
13 14 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.20%) Developer
14 13 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.75%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.72%) Terraform
2 21 (4.81%) REST
3 15 (3.43%) SOAP
4 13 (2.97%) LDAP
4 13 (2.97%) Middleware
5 12 (2.75%) Kafka
6 6 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.14%) PySpark
8 4 (0.92%) EDI
8 4 (0.92%) JSON
8 4 (0.92%) RESTful
8 4 (0.92%) Web Services
8 4 (0.92%) XML
9 3 (0.69%) Spring
9 3 (0.69%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.46%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.46%) JMS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.23%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.01%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.35%) CMDB
3 19 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.29%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.69%) SCADA
12 3 (0.69%) Social Media
12 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.24%) Windows
2 28 (6.41%) Linux
3 16 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.37%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) VMS
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (37.53%) Data Migration
2 109 (24.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 63 (14.42%) Agile
3 63 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (12.36%) Validation
5 45 (10.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 40 (9.15%) ERP
6 40 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (8.92%) Analytics
8 34 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (7.78%) DevOps
8 34 (7.78%) Roadmaps
9 33 (7.55%) CI/CD
10 32 (7.32%) Data Modelling
10 32 (7.32%) Project Delivery
11 30 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (6.41%) ETL
13 26 (5.95%) AI
13 26 (5.95%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 45 (10.30%) SQL
2 39 (8.92%) Python
3 26 (5.95%) Bash
4 21 (4.81%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.75%) PL/SQL
6 9 (2.06%) Bicep
7 6 (1.37%) Java
8 3 (0.69%) Perl
9 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) Jython
10 1 (0.23%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 115 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 88 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.43%) Degree
5 11 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.83%) PMP
8 7 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.37%) ACCA
9 6 (1.37%) CIMA
10 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.69%) CCIE
12 3 (0.69%) CISSP
12 3 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.49%) GDPR
2 24 (5.49%) QA
3 5 (1.14%) IFRS
3 5 (1.14%) NCSC
4 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.92%) NIST
4 4 (0.92%) PMO
5 2 (0.46%) BS7666
5 2 (0.46%) GRC
5 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) COSHH
6 1 (0.23%) DICOM
6 1 (0.23%) GAAP
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.23%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.83%) Docker
3 8 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.83%) vSphere
4 7 (1.60%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) IAG
8 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.23%) Postfix
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.75%) Ansible
3 8 (1.83%) SCCM
4 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.37%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (1.14%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.23%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.23%) Argo
9 1 (0.23%) Avamar
9 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.23%) Packer
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 83 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 67 (15.33%) SAP
3 63 (14.42%) Oracle
4 21 (4.81%) VMware
5 20 (4.58%) Cisco
6 18 (4.12%) Databricks
7 16 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.20%) BMC
9 13 (2.97%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.75%) ServiceNow
11 10 (2.29%) Google
12 9 (2.06%) IFS
13 8 (1.83%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.83%) Remedy
13 8 (1.83%) Siebel
14 7 (1.60%) Workday
15 5 (1.14%) IBM
15 5 (1.14%) SolarWinds
16 4 (0.92%) Fortinet
16 4 (0.92%) Teradata