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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 438 270 346
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.89% 8.62% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.66% 9.46% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 175 258
10th Percentile £350 £319 £321
25th Percentile £447 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 5 10
10th Percentile £15.81 £33.60 £23.72
25th Percentile £19.36 £56.25 £25.63
Median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £86.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £86.73 £62.54
England median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% -42.50% -36.76%

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 4,108 2,853 4,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.41% 91.12% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,703 1,768 2,924
10th Percentile £260 £250 £213
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £694 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 121 361
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.02 £23.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%
75th Percentile £66.88 £62.50 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.03 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +9 252 £500 -9.09% 43
Berkshire 0 171 £525 -4.55% 26
Hampshire +1 101 £588 -2.08% 26
Buckinghamshire +11 62 £445 -22.61% 10
Surrey +4 44 £525 +31.25% 13
West Sussex +1 31 £500 +18.26% 4
Oxfordshire -6 19 £500 - 10
Kent -10 8 £500 -12.28% 13
East Sussex +1 4 £475 -24.00% 1
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.05%) ArcGIS
3 8 (1.83%) CMS
3 8 (1.83%) GeoServer
3 8 (1.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 8 (1.83%) Smallworld
4 5 (1.14%) Confluence
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (10.05%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.60%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.37%) Maximo
6 5 (1.14%) SAP R/3
7 4 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.68%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.46%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.46%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.46%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle BRM
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 80 (18.26%) Azure
2 43 (9.82%) OCI
3 41 (9.36%) AWS
4 25 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.20%) GCP
5 14 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.74%) OpenShift
7 10 (2.28%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.83%) SaaS
9 6 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.37%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.37%) IaaS
9 6 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.14%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.91%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (0.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.57%) DNS
2 14 (3.20%) DHCP
3 12 (2.74%) Kerberos
4 11 (2.51%) Firewall
5 10 (2.28%) WAN
6 8 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.60%) MPLS
7 7 (1.60%) Network Security
8 5 (1.14%) VPN
9 4 (0.91%) LAN
10 3 (0.68%) SAN
10 3 (0.68%) VSAN
11 2 (0.46%) BGP
11 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.46%) NAS
11 2 (0.46%) OSPF
11 2 (0.46%) SNMP
11 2 (0.46%) VoIP
12 1 (0.23%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.34%) GIS
2 15 (3.42%) Metadata
3 14 (3.20%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.51%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (2.28%) Power BI
6 10 (2.28%) QGIS
7 7 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.91%) MySQL
10 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.68%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (2.05%) JIRA
2 7 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.68%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.68%) Maven
4 3 (0.68%) Subversion
5 2 (0.46%) GitLab
5 2 (0.46%) JMeter
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.23%) Gatling
6 1 (0.23%) Git
6 1 (0.23%) Gradle
6 1 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 120 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.98%) Finance
3 62 (14.16%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.74%) Marketing
5 12 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.28%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.83%) Banking
8 6 (1.37%) Legal
8 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.14%) Electronics
9 5 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.14%) Retail
10 4 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 4 (0.91%) Local Government
10 4 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.68%) Publishing
12 2 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (15.98%) Architect
2 58 (13.24%) Lead
3 57 (13.01%) Consultant
4 33 (7.53%) Network Consultant
5 29 (6.62%) Analyst
6 25 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 23 (5.25%) Senior
8 22 (5.02%) Data Migration Lead
8 22 (5.02%) Migration Engineer
8 22 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.11%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.65%) Data Analyst
10 16 (3.65%) Developer
11 13 (2.97%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.74%) Technical Manager
13 11 (2.51%) Administrator
13 11 (2.51%) Migration Manager
14 10 (2.28%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 10 (2.28%) Senior Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (2.97%) LDAP
3 10 (2.28%) REST
4 8 (1.83%) .NET
5 5 (1.14%) SOAP
6 4 (0.91%) Kafka
6 4 (0.91%) PySpark
6 4 (0.91%) React
6 4 (0.91%) Web Services
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) CSS3
7 3 (0.68%) HTML
7 3 (0.68%) HTML5
7 3 (0.68%) OAuth
7 3 (0.68%) Vue
7 3 (0.68%) XML
8 2 (0.46%) BAPI
8 2 (0.46%) Middleware
8 2 (0.46%) RESTful
8 2 (0.46%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.13%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.02%) Replication
4 14 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.60%) CMDB
8 6 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Clustering
10 4 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.25%) Windows
2 17 (3.88%) Linux
3 13 (2.97%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.46%) VMS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (29.91%) Data Migration
2 77 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (15.07%) Agile
3 66 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 58 (13.24%) Roadmaps
5 49 (11.19%) Validation
6 44 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (9.59%) Workflow
8 41 (9.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 39 (8.90%) Collaborative Working
9 39 (8.90%) Workflow Management
10 37 (8.45%) Data Modelling
11 35 (7.99%) Data Cleansing
11 35 (7.99%) ERP
12 34 (7.76%) DevOps
13 33 (7.53%) Analytics
14 28 (6.39%) Data Validation
14 28 (6.39%) Project Management
15 25 (5.71%) Data Protection
16 24 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.76%) SQL
2 27 (6.16%) PowerShell
3 23 (5.25%) Python
4 12 (2.74%) Bash
5 11 (2.51%) Java
6 5 (1.14%) Bicep
6 5 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.14%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.14%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.46%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) Delphi
9 1 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.23%) Jython
9 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) PHP
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
9 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 163 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 135 (30.82%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.94%) Degree
4 22 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.05%) OCP
6 9 (2.05%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (2.05%) PMP
7 8 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.68%) PgMP
12 2 (0.46%) ACCA
12 2 (0.46%) CCNA
12 2 (0.46%) CCNP
12 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.02%) GDPR
2 22 (5.02%) QA
3 15 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.97%) NIST
5 11 (2.51%) COBIT
6 8 (1.83%) NCSC
7 7 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.14%) PMO
9 4 (0.91%) GRC
10 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.68%) SLA
11 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.37%) Docker
3 6 (1.37%) vSphere
4 5 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (4.11%) Terraform
2 13 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (2.74%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.83%) Ansible
5 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.37%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 4 (0.91%) Grafana
8 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.68%) SCCM
9 2 (0.46%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.46%) Istio
9 2 (0.46%) linkerd
9 2 (0.46%) Nessus
10 1 (0.23%) CASB
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (17.81%) Oracle
2 64 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 51 (11.64%) SAP
4 38 (8.68%) Cisco
5 35 (7.99%) Aruba
6 17 (3.88%) VMware
7 16 (3.65%) ESRI
8 15 (3.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.28%) IBM
10 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.83%) Citrix
11 8 (1.83%) Google
11 8 (1.83%) Intergraph
12 6 (1.37%) Adobe
12 6 (1.37%) Informatica
12 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.37%) Sage
13 4 (0.91%) BMC
13 4 (0.91%) Remedy
13 4 (0.91%) Splunk