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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Migration 390 320 322
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.93% 9.26% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.60% 10.45% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 218 226
10th Percentile £350 £318 £388
25th Percentile £449 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £688
90th Percentile £723 £688 £738
England median daily rate £515 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.60% -0.91% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 6 6
10th Percentile £15.91 £25.25 £21.60
25th Percentile £19.79 £33.50 £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +20.67% +11.94%
75th Percentile - £75.31 £58.99
90th Percentile £65.00 £84.38 £64.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year +14.32% -64.94% -0.40%

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 3,678 3,062 4,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.22% 88.57% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,896 2,793
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 118 249
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.77 £16.90
25th Percentile £17.09 £25.99 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.94 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.66% -20.11% +28.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.92 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.91 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +7 229 £500 -9.09% 54
Berkshire +2 144 £531 -3.45% 29
Hampshire +4 95 £563 -1.32% 21
Buckinghamshire +13 62 £423 -21.03% 20
Surrey -16 31 £600 +23.08% 16
Oxfordshire +3 23 £600 -4.00% 5
West Sussex -4 23 £545 +29.03% 8
Kent -7 7 £500 -14.53% 4
East Sussex -4 5 £333 -33.50% 4
Middlesex - 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 (2.56%) ArcGIS
2 8 (2.05%) GeoServer
2 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.05%) Smallworld
3 5 (1.28%) Confluence
3 5 (1.28%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.77%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (8.97%) Oracle EBS
2 19 (4.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.05%) Maximo
4 5 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.77%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.77%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.51%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.51%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.51%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (14.10%) Azure
2 32 (8.21%) OCI
3 30 (7.69%) AWS
4 13 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.08%) OpenShift
6 8 (2.05%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.79%) GCP
8 6 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (1.03%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.03%) IaaS
10 4 (1.03%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) GitHub
11 3 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.31%) DNS
1 9 (2.31%) Firewall
2 8 (2.05%) VPN
3 7 (1.79%) WAN
4 6 (1.54%) LAN
5 5 (1.28%) Network Security
6 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.77%) SSL
7 3 (0.77%) VLAN
8 2 (0.51%) BGP
8 2 (0.51%) Internet
8 2 (0.51%) Intranet
8 2 (0.51%) IPsec
8 2 (0.51%) IPv6
8 2 (0.51%) MPLS
8 2 (0.51%) OSPF
8 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.51%) VSAN
8 2 (0.51%) Wireless
9 1 (0.26%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.87%) GIS
2 11 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
2 11 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (2.56%) Metadata
3 10 (2.56%) QGIS
4 9 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.28%) Tableau
8 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.03%) Power BI
9 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.10%) JIRA
2 10 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Git
4 2 (0.51%) JMeter
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Gatling
5 1 (0.26%) Gradle
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Poetry
5 1 (0.26%) Pylint
5 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.15%) Public Sector
3 51 (13.08%) Finance
4 25 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.10%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.82%) Marketing
7 8 (2.05%) Electronics
8 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.54%) Banking
9 6 (1.54%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.28%) Legal
10 5 (1.28%) Retail
11 3 (0.77%) Local Government
12 2 (0.51%) Advertising
12 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (14.36%) Architect
2 52 (13.33%) Consultant
3 49 (12.56%) Lead
4 33 (8.46%) Network Consultant
5 25 (6.41%) Project Manager
5 25 (6.41%) Senior
6 24 (6.15%) IT Engineer
7 21 (5.38%) Analyst
7 21 (5.38%) Data Migration Lead
8 18 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
9 15 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.59%) Administrator
11 13 (3.33%) Developer
12 12 (3.08%) Windows Engineer
13 11 (2.82%) Technical Manager
14 10 (2.56%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 10 (2.56%) Senior Manager
15 9 (2.31%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.31%) .NET
3 5 (1.28%) REST
3 5 (1.28%) Web Services
4 4 (1.03%) Middleware
4 4 (1.03%) PySpark
4 4 (1.03%) React
4 4 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.03%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.77%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.51%) BAPI
6 2 (0.51%) CSS
6 2 (0.51%) IDoc
6 2 (0.51%) JSON
6 2 (0.51%) Kafka
6 2 (0.51%) RESTful
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.21%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.36%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (1.54%) Replication
7 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.28%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.03%) Life Science
9 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) CMDB
10 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.51%) SCADA
11 2 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.64%) Windows
2 11 (2.82%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.56%) Linux
4 6 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.46%) Data Migration
2 74 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 63 (16.15%) Agile
4 60 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 56 (14.36%) Workflow
6 55 (14.10%) Workflow Management
7 50 (12.82%) Roadmaps
8 43 (11.03%) Collaborative Working
9 40 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (9.23%) Validation
11 33 (8.46%) ERP
11 33 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
12 31 (7.95%) Data Modelling
12 31 (7.95%) DevOps
13 28 (7.18%) Data Cleansing
14 23 (5.90%) Data Protection
14 23 (5.90%) ITIL
14 23 (5.90%) Project Delivery
15 22 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (5.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.92%) SQL
2 25 (6.41%) Python
3 16 (4.10%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.56%) Bash
5 7 (1.79%) Java
5 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.28%) C#
8 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) ABAP
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) Delphi
11 1 (0.26%) Jython
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.26%) PHP
11 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 145 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 122 (31.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.15%) Degree
4 20 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.31%) OCP
6 9 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.54%) PMP
9 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.77%) PgMP
11 2 (0.51%) ACCA
11 2 (0.51%) CIMA
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.13%) GDPR
3 19 (4.87%) QA
4 11 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.31%) NIST
6 6 (1.54%) COBIT
6 6 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.54%) NCSC
7 5 (1.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.51%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.79%) Docker
4 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.03%) vSphere
5 2 (0.51%) NFS
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (4.10%) Terraform
2 11 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.56%) Ansible
4 6 (1.54%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.03%) Argo
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 65 (16.67%) Oracle
2 50 (12.82%) SAP
3 46 (11.79%) Microsoft
4 38 (9.74%) Cisco
5 34 (8.72%) Aruba
6 16 (4.10%) ESRI
7 12 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.08%) VMware
8 9 (2.31%) IBM
8 9 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.05%) Intergraph
10 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.54%) Informatica
12 5 (1.28%) Citrix
12 5 (1.28%) Google
12 5 (1.28%) Remedy
13 4 (1.03%) BMC
13 4 (1.03%) CloudEndure
13 4 (1.03%) Pure Storage
14 3 (0.77%) Samsung