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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 461 281 350
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.99% 8.96% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.82% 9.79% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 185 260
10th Percentile £350 £354 £313
25th Percentile £447 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £683 £700
England median daily rate £518 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.91% +3.77% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 5 10
10th Percentile £15.83 £33.60 £23.72
25th Percentile £19.37 £56.25 £25.63
Median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £86.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £86.73 £62.54
England median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% -42.50% -37.98%

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 4,262 2,870 4,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 91.52% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 1,789 2,946
10th Percentile £270 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £610
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 133 380
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.05 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.51 £21.43 £18.34
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72.67 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +10 269 £513 -6.39% 56
Berkshire +4 188 £525 -4.11% 36
Hampshire +1 109 £600 - 27
Buckinghamshire +2 61 £429 -14.25% 11
Surrey +4 44 £525 +31.25% 18
West Sussex +1 29 £500 +17.95% 3
Oxfordshire -4 20 £500 - 11
Kent -10 10 £500 -10.71% 18
East Sussex 0 4 £475 -24.00% 3
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.95%) ArcGIS
3 8 (1.74%) CMS
3 8 (1.74%) GeoServer
3 8 (1.74%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 8 (1.74%) Smallworld
4 4 (0.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (10.20%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (4.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.52%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.30%) Maximo
6 5 (1.08%) SAP R/3
7 4 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.65%) Primavera
8 3 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.65%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.43%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.43%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle BRM
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 83 (18.00%) Azure
2 49 (10.63%) OCI
3 44 (9.54%) AWS
4 26 (5.64%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.69%) GCP
6 12 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.74%) SaaS
9 6 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.30%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.30%) IaaS
9 6 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.08%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (0.87%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.34%) DNS
2 14 (3.04%) DHCP
2 14 (3.04%) Firewall
3 12 (2.60%) Kerberos
4 11 (2.39%) WAN
5 9 (1.95%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.74%) MPLS
7 7 (1.52%) Network Security
8 6 (1.30%) VPN
9 5 (1.08%) LAN
10 3 (0.65%) BGP
10 3 (0.65%) OSPF
10 3 (0.65%) SAN
10 3 (0.65%) VSAN
11 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.43%) NAS
11 2 (0.43%) SNMP
11 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.56%) GIS
2 15 (3.25%) Metadata
3 14 (3.04%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
4 12 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.39%) Power BI
6 10 (2.17%) QGIS
7 7 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.87%) MySQL
10 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.65%) OLAP
11 3 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (1.74%) JIRA
2 7 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.87%) Maven
4 4 (0.87%) Subversion
5 2 (0.43%) GitLab
5 2 (0.43%) JMeter
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.22%) Gatling
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) Gradle
6 1 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 131 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.05%) Finance
3 62 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (2.60%) Marketing
5 12 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.39%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.74%) Banking
7 8 (1.74%) Legal
8 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.30%) Retail
9 5 (1.08%) Electronics
9 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.87%) Local Government
11 3 (0.65%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.65%) Publishing
12 2 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (15.18%) Architect
2 62 (13.45%) Lead
3 60 (13.02%) Consultant
4 33 (7.16%) Network Consultant
5 28 (6.07%) Analyst
6 27 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.21%) Migration Engineer
8 22 (4.77%) Data Migration Lead
8 22 (4.77%) Senior
8 22 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (3.90%) IT Engineer
10 17 (3.69%) Developer
11 16 (3.47%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.82%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.60%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.39%) Administrator
14 11 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.17%) Migration Manager
15 10 (2.17%) SAP Data Migration Lead
15 10 (2.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (2.82%) LDAP
3 10 (2.17%) REST
4 8 (1.74%) .NET
5 5 (1.08%) SOAP
6 4 (0.87%) Kafka
6 4 (0.87%) PySpark
6 4 (0.87%) React
6 4 (0.87%) Web Services
6 4 (0.87%) XML
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) CSS3
7 3 (0.65%) HTML
7 3 (0.65%) HTML5
7 3 (0.65%) OAuth
7 3 (0.65%) Vue
8 2 (0.43%) BAPI
8 2 (0.43%) Middleware
8 2 (0.43%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.33%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.77%) Replication
4 17 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.74%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.52%) CMDB
10 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.87%) Clustering
12 4 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.42%) Windows
2 19 (4.12%) Linux
3 14 (3.04%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (30.15%) Data Migration
2 85 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (15.62%) Agile
4 66 (14.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 58 (12.58%) Roadmaps
6 53 (11.50%) Validation
7 46 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (9.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 43 (9.33%) Workflow
10 41 (8.89%) Data Modelling
11 40 (8.68%) ERP
11 40 (8.68%) Workflow Management
12 39 (8.46%) Collaborative Working
13 38 (8.24%) Data Cleansing
14 37 (8.03%) DevOps
15 33 (7.16%) Analytics
16 31 (6.72%) Data Validation
17 29 (6.29%) Data Protection
17 29 (6.29%) Project Management
18 27 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.03%) SQL
2 31 (6.72%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.42%) Python
4 14 (3.04%) Bash
5 12 (2.60%) Java
6 6 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.87%) Bicep
9 2 (0.43%) C#
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Delphi
10 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.22%) Jython
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 168 (36.44%) Security Cleared
2 139 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.07%) Degree
4 21 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.17%) PMP
7 9 (1.95%) OCP
7 9 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PgMP
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) CCNP
12 2 (0.43%) CIMA
12 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.21%) GDPR
3 23 (4.99%) QA
4 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.82%) NIST
6 11 (2.39%) COBIT
7 8 (1.74%) NCSC
8 7 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.52%) PMO
9 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.87%) SLA
10 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (4.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.30%) Docker
3 6 (1.30%) vSphere
4 5 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.43%) NFS
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.12%) Terraform
2 13 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.74%) Ansible
5 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.87%) Argo
7 4 (0.87%) Grafana
7 4 (0.87%) SCCM
8 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.43%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.43%) Istio
9 2 (0.43%) linkerd
9 2 (0.43%) Nessus
10 1 (0.22%) CASB
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 83 (18.00%) Oracle
2 65 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 53 (11.50%) SAP
4 38 (8.24%) Cisco
5 35 (7.59%) Aruba
6 18 (3.90%) ESRI
7 17 (3.69%) VMware
8 15 (3.25%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.39%) Google
9 11 (2.39%) IBM
10 9 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.74%) Citrix
11 8 (1.74%) Intergraph
12 6 (1.30%) Adobe
12 6 (1.30%) Informatica
12 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.30%) Sage
13 4 (0.87%) BMC
13 4 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.87%) Remedy