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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 508 257 330
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.84% 8.58% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.84% 9.37% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 171 241
10th Percentile £355 £313 £313
25th Percentile £437 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £634 £588
90th Percentile £738 £694 £688
England median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 7 8
10th Percentile £15.70 £41.15 £21.48
25th Percentile £19.34 £58.75 £23.88
Median hourly rate £23.58 £67.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.07% +125.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £41.83 £80.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £86.57 £55.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £46.23
% change year-on-year -5.27% -45.60% -30.74%

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 4,686 2,742 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.58% 91.49% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 1,743 2,778
10th Percentile £285 £256 £229
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £713 £675 £699
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 171 431
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.34 £18.26
Median hourly rate £49.00 £28.00 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -40.26% -6.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +8 271 £525 +5.00% 28
Berkshire +9 186 £551 +1.15% 20
Hampshire +1 118 £600 - 19
Buckinghamshire +1 69 £522 +30.50% 6
Surrey +7 52 £525 +31.25% 5
West Sussex +7 39 £475 +1.50% 5
Kent +1 17 £488 +46.62% 4
Oxfordshire -19 16 £375 -25.00% 2
East Sussex 0 3 £475 -25.49% 1
Middlesex -4 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 11 (2.17%) ArcGIS
2 9 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) CMS
3 8 (1.57%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.79%) Confluence
4 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.39%) Drupal
6 2 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.39%) JBoss
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.39%) Smallworld
6 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (8.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (8.07%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.38%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.98%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.79%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.59%) Maximo
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.59%) Primavera
7 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.39%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.39%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.39%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 85 (16.73%) Azure
2 55 (10.83%) AWS
3 46 (9.06%) OCI
4 27 (5.31%) Entra ID
5 25 (4.92%) GCP
6 21 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.97%) SaaS
9 9 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.57%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.18%) AWS KMS
11 6 (1.18%) PaaS
11 6 (1.18%) Serverless
11 6 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.98%) IaaS
13 4 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.12%) Firewall
2 23 (4.53%) DNS
3 18 (3.54%) WAN
4 16 (3.15%) DHCP
5 14 (2.76%) SD-WAN
6 12 (2.36%) Kerberos
6 12 (2.36%) LAN
7 11 (2.17%) MPLS
7 11 (2.17%) Network Security
8 10 (1.97%) BGP
9 9 (1.77%) OSPF
9 9 (1.77%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.77%) VPN
10 7 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (1.38%) SAN
11 6 (1.18%) NAS
12 5 (0.98%) VLAN
13 4 (0.79%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.79%) IPsec
13 4 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.13%) Power BI
2 18 (3.54%) GIS
3 14 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.56%) Metadata
5 12 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.38%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.18%) Big Data
8 6 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (1.18%) QGIS
9 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.59%) OLAP
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.36%) JIRA
2 8 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.79%) GitLab
3 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.79%) Maven
3 4 (0.79%) Subversion
4 2 (0.39%) Introscope
4 2 (0.39%) JMeter
4 2 (0.39%) JUnit
4 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.20%) Gatling
5 1 (0.20%) Gradle
5 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.20%) Mockito
5 1 (0.20%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) TestRail
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 126 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 107 (21.06%) Finance
3 54 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 20 (3.94%) Legal
8 16 (3.15%) Retail
9 14 (2.76%) Marketing
9 14 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.17%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.17%) Banking
11 8 (1.57%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.38%) Automotive
13 6 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.98%) Electronics
15 4 (0.79%) Local Government
16 3 (0.59%) Advertising
16 3 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 111 (21.85%) Lead
2 62 (12.20%) Architect
3 43 (8.46%) Consultant
4 39 (7.68%) Data Migration Lead
5 35 (6.89%) Project Manager
6 32 (6.30%) Migration Engineer
7 31 (6.10%) Analyst
8 22 (4.33%) Senior
9 20 (3.94%) Developer
10 16 (3.15%) Accountant
10 16 (3.15%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.15%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.15%) Network Consultant
10 16 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.95%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.17%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (1.97%) Data Migration Engineer
14 10 (1.97%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (2.76%) Kafka
3 12 (2.36%) LDAP
4 9 (1.77%) .NET
4 9 (1.77%) REST
5 6 (1.18%) Middleware
5 6 (1.18%) SOAP
5 6 (1.18%) XML
6 5 (0.98%) Spring
6 5 (0.98%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.79%) EDI
7 4 (0.79%) PySpark
7 4 (0.79%) React
8 3 (0.59%) CSS
8 3 (0.59%) CSS3
8 3 (0.59%) HTML
8 3 (0.59%) HTML5
8 3 (0.59%) OAuth
8 3 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.83%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.94%) Replication
5 18 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.77%) CMDB
7 9 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.79%) Clustering
11 4 (0.79%) LLPG
11 4 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.31%) Windows
2 23 (4.53%) Linux
3 12 (2.36%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.65%) Data Migration
2 96 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (14.96%) Validation
4 75 (14.76%) Agile
5 68 (13.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 59 (11.61%) ERP
7 57 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (9.65%) Data Cleansing
9 42 (8.27%) Data Protection
10 40 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (7.48%) Roadmaps
12 34 (6.69%) Change Management
12 34 (6.69%) DevOps
12 34 (6.69%) Workflow
13 33 (6.50%) Data Modelling
14 32 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (6.30%) Project Delivery
15 30 (5.91%) Analytics
15 30 (5.91%) Data Mapping
15 30 (5.91%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.09%) SQL
2 28 (5.51%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.13%) Python
4 13 (2.56%) Java
5 12 (2.36%) Bash
6 7 (1.38%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.38%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.18%) Bicep
8 4 (0.79%) Perl
9 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.39%) Jython
11 1 (0.20%) C#
11 1 (0.20%) Delphi
11 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 170 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 138 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.66%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.13%) Degree
5 11 (2.17%) PMP
6 8 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.18%) ACCA
7 6 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.18%) CIMA
7 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CCIE
11 2 (0.39%) CCNP
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) OCP
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.69%) Data Quality
1 34 (6.69%) GDPR
2 24 (4.72%) QA
3 16 (3.15%) NIST
4 14 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.56%) NCSC
6 11 (2.17%) COBIT
7 9 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.38%) PMO
9 4 (0.79%) BS7666
9 4 (0.79%) GRC
9 4 (0.79%) SLA
10 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.20%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.20%) SEPA
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.98%) vSphere
5 4 (0.79%) Docker
5 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (3.54%) Terraform
2 13 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (1.77%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.38%) Ansible
6 4 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.79%) Grafana
6 4 (0.79%) SCCM
7 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.39%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.39%) Istio
8 2 (0.39%) linkerd
8 2 (0.39%) Nessus
8 2 (0.39%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) Avamar
9 1 (0.20%) CASB
9 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (16.14%) Oracle
2 71 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.98%) SAP
3 29 (5.71%) Cisco
4 22 (4.33%) VMware
5 20 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.35%) Aruba
6 17 (3.35%) Google
7 14 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.56%) ESRI
8 13 (2.56%) IBM
9 12 (2.36%) IFS
10 8 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.38%) Citrix
11 7 (1.38%) F5
12 6 (1.18%) Adobe
12 6 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.18%) Sage
13 5 (0.98%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.98%) Siebel