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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 488 339 345
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.37% 9.72% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 10.79% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 194 230
10th Percentile £356 £325 £331
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -3.15% -3.28%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 9
10th Percentile £16.33 £22.47 £21.90
25th Percentile £23.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +25.93%
75th Percentile £71.25 £43.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £85.33 £72.63 £53.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -1.46%

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 5,361 3,141 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.95% 90.08% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 1,957 2,488
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 287 327
10th Percentile £15.31 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £26.19 £15.13 £26.03
Median hourly rate £57.79 £21.58 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +167.83% -62.38% +14.70%
75th Percentile £80.09 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.25 £76.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -9 244 £550 +22.22% 65
Berkshire +4 176 £565 +11.77% 30
Hampshire -11 128 £550 +10.00% 28
Buckinghamshire -22 49 £543 +35.63% 18
West Sussex +1 43 £459 -8.20% 5
Surrey -14 41 £455 -16.26% 18
Oxfordshire -25 19 £500 +40.85% 18
Kent +8 17 £563 +32.35% 13
Middlesex -14 5 - - 1
East Sussex -1 2 £471 +185.45% 1
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 19 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.23%) CMS
4 5 (1.02%) ArcGIS
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Predix
Applications
1 18 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.20%) Houdini
5 1 (0.20%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 44 (9.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.23%) NEC Housing
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.82%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.82%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.82%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.82%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.82%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.61%) Primavera
6 3 (0.61%) Remedy AR System
6 3 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.61%) SAP R/3
6 3 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (19.67%) Azure
2 82 (16.80%) AWS
3 37 (7.58%) GCP
4 30 (6.15%) OCI
5 27 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 21 (4.30%) SaaS
7 20 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.43%) IaaS
11 6 (1.23%) GitHub
11 6 (1.23%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.23%) PaaS
11 6 (1.23%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.02%) Serverless
13 4 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.82%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.74%) Firewall
2 17 (3.48%) DNS
2 17 (3.48%) WAN
3 14 (2.87%) LAN
3 14 (2.87%) VPN
4 12 (2.46%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.25%) DHCP
6 10 (2.05%) Network Security
6 10 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.84%) BGP
8 8 (1.64%) OSPF
9 7 (1.43%) VLAN
10 6 (1.23%) IPsec
10 6 (1.23%) VSAN
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.02%) MPLS
11 5 (1.02%) SAN
11 5 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.53%) Power BI
2 14 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.87%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.46%) GIS
4 12 (2.46%) Metadata
4 12 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.43%) Big Data
8 5 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.02%) Siebel EIM
8 5 (1.02%) Spatial Data
9 4 (0.82%) QGIS
9 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (3.89%) JIRA
2 8 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.43%) GitLab
4 6 (1.23%) Postman
5 5 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.82%) Maven
6 4 (0.82%) Subversion
7 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Introscope
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Git
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) MSI
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 118 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 103 (21.11%) Finance
3 58 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.12%) Retail
7 24 (4.92%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.89%) Legal
9 18 (3.69%) Automotive
10 16 (3.28%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.46%) Marketing
11 12 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.43%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.23%) Banking
16 5 (1.02%) Local Government
17 3 (0.61%) Advertising
18 2 (0.41%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 96 (19.67%) Lead
2 60 (12.30%) Architect
3 47 (9.63%) Analyst
4 41 (8.40%) Project Manager
5 37 (7.58%) Consultant
6 34 (6.97%) Senior
7 33 (6.76%) Data Migration Lead
8 25 (5.12%) Migration Engineer
9 24 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 22 (4.51%) Developer
11 18 (3.69%) Business Analyst
11 18 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.48%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.28%) Accountant
14 15 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.07%) Data Migration Engineer
15 14 (2.87%) Migration Manager
16 12 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (2.46%) Migration Project Manager
16 12 (2.46%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.07%) Kafka
2 14 (2.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (2.87%) REST
3 10 (2.05%) Middleware
3 10 (2.05%) SOAP
3 10 (2.05%) XML
4 8 (1.64%) LDAP
5 5 (1.02%) RESTful
6 4 (0.82%) EDI
6 4 (0.82%) JSON
6 4 (0.82%) PySpark
6 4 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.61%) Spring
7 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.41%) CSS
8 2 (0.41%) HTML
8 2 (0.41%) JDBC
8 2 (0.41%) JMS
8 2 (0.41%) OAuth
8 2 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.04%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.28%) CMDB
6 16 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.46%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.84%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.23%) PKI
12 6 (1.23%) Replication
13 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.38%) Linux
2 35 (7.17%) Windows
3 12 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.43%) Unix
5 7 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.02%) VMS
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (41.60%) Data Migration
2 112 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (17.62%) Agile
4 74 (15.16%) Validation
5 65 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
7 49 (10.04%) ERP
8 41 (8.40%) Data Modelling
9 40 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (7.99%) Data Cleansing
10 39 (7.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (7.79%) Analytics
12 37 (7.58%) DevOps
13 36 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (7.17%) Change Management
14 35 (7.17%) Data Protection
15 34 (6.97%) CI/CD
15 34 (6.97%) Project Delivery
16 33 (6.76%) ETL
17 32 (6.56%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (11.68%) SQL
2 37 (7.58%) Python
3 28 (5.74%) Bash
4 26 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.66%) PL/SQL
6 12 (2.46%) Java
7 7 (1.43%) Bicep
8 5 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.82%) Perl
10 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.41%) Jython
10 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 132 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 99 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.48%) Degree
5 12 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.43%) PMP
7 6 (1.23%) ACCA
7 6 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.23%) CIMA
8 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.61%) VCAP
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.38%) GDPR
3 27 (5.53%) QA
4 9 (1.84%) NIST
5 8 (1.64%) NCSC
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.02%) PMO
8 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.82%) BS7666
8 4 (0.82%) IFRS
9 2 (0.41%) COBIT
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) DICOM
10 1 (0.20%) GAAP
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.64%) Docker
3 8 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.64%) vSphere
4 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.20%) Postfix
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (4.51%) Terraform
2 16 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.46%) Ansible
4 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.23%) SCCM
6 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.61%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) CA Wily
7 2 (0.41%) Nessus
7 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (15.78%) Oracle
2 73 (14.96%) Microsoft
3 71 (14.55%) SAP
4 27 (5.53%) VMware
5 25 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.10%) Cisco
7 17 (3.48%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.28%) Google
9 15 (3.07%) IFS
10 11 (2.25%) Databricks
10 11 (2.25%) IBM
11 10 (2.05%) BMC
11 10 (2.05%) Siebel
12 9 (1.84%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.64%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.64%) Workday
14 7 (1.43%) Adobe
14 7 (1.43%) ESRI
14 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.43%) SolarWinds