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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 404 280 336
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.56% 8.89% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 9.87% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 182 251
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +6.83% +2.50%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £655
90th Percentile £720 £688 £706
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 8
10th Percentile £15.85 £33.60 £22.66
25th Percentile £19.38 £56.25 £24.81
Median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -28.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £86.25 £53.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £86.73 £63.64
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.30% -45.00% -38.46%

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 3,951 2,837 4,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.73% 90.09% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 1,739 2,914
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% +1.80%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £692
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 103 354
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.09 £75.40 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +7 228 £513 -6.82% 56
Berkshire +5 156 £539 -1.64% 32
Hampshire -2 90 £600 +4.35% 23
Buckinghamshire +10 55 £448 -21.15% 18
Surrey -4 44 £525 +16.67% 20
West Sussex +4 31 £500 +18.26% 7
Oxfordshire -5 17 £500 -4.76% 7
Kent -10 8 £500 -13.42% 11
East Sussex -4 6 £475 -24.00% 2
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 9 (2.23%) ArcGIS
2 8 (1.98%) GeoServer
2 8 (1.98%) Smallworld
3 7 (1.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 7 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.49%) Confluence
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.99%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 41 (10.15%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.49%) Maximo
3 6 (1.49%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.74%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.50%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.50%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (18.32%) Azure
2 39 (9.65%) AWS
2 39 (9.65%) OCI
3 22 (5.45%) Entra ID
4 16 (3.96%) GCP
5 12 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.97%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (1.49%) AWS KMS
6 6 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.49%) IaaS
6 6 (1.49%) SaaS
6 6 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (0.99%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.45%) DNS
2 15 (3.71%) Firewall
3 14 (3.47%) DHCP
4 13 (3.22%) WAN
5 12 (2.97%) Kerberos
6 8 (1.98%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.73%) LAN
7 7 (1.73%) MPLS
7 7 (1.73%) VPN
8 5 (1.24%) Network Security
9 3 (0.74%) IPv6
9 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.50%) BGP
10 2 (0.50%) Internet
10 2 (0.50%) Intranet
10 2 (0.50%) OSPF
10 2 (0.50%) SAN
10 2 (0.50%) SNMP
10 2 (0.50%) VoIP
10 2 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.70%) GIS
2 12 (2.97%) Metadata
3 11 (2.72%) Geospatial Data
4 10 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.48%) QGIS
5 9 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.24%) Power BI
9 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.74%) Tableau
11 2 (0.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (2.97%) JIRA
2 7 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.50%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) GitLab
3 2 (0.50%) JMeter
3 2 (0.50%) Maven
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.50%) Subversion
4 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.25%) Gatling
4 1 (0.25%) Gradle
4 1 (0.25%) JUnit
4 1 (0.25%) Poetry
4 1 (0.25%) Pylint
4 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.10%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.11%) Finance
4 24 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.22%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.98%) Banking
7 8 (1.98%) Marketing
8 6 (1.49%) Electronics
8 6 (1.49%) General Ledger
8 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.24%) Legal
9 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.99%) Local Government
11 3 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Publishing
13 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (15.59%) Architect
2 58 (14.36%) Lead
3 52 (12.87%) Consultant
4 33 (8.17%) Network Consultant
5 27 (6.68%) Project Manager
6 26 (6.44%) Data Migration Lead
7 24 (5.94%) Senior
8 21 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.95%) Analyst
9 20 (4.95%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.96%) Developer
10 16 (3.96%) Migration Engineer
11 13 (3.22%) Administrator
11 13 (3.22%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.97%) Technical Manager
13 11 (2.72%) Migration Manager
14 10 (2.48%) SAP Data Migration Lead
15 9 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 8 (1.98%) GIS Architect
16 8 (1.98%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.22%) LDAP
3 9 (2.23%) .NET
3 9 (2.23%) REST
4 5 (1.24%) Kafka
4 5 (1.24%) PySpark
5 4 (0.99%) SOAP
5 4 (0.99%) Web Services
6 3 (0.74%) OAuth
6 3 (0.74%) React
7 2 (0.50%) CSS3
7 2 (0.50%) IDoc
7 2 (0.50%) JSON
7 2 (0.50%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.50%) RESTful
7 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.50%) Spring
7 2 (0.50%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.17%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (4.70%) Replication
3 18 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.71%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.49%) CMDB
8 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.24%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.20%) Windows
2 12 (2.97%) Linux
2 12 (2.97%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.50%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (28.96%) Data Migration
2 70 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 70 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (14.36%) Agile
4 53 (13.12%) Roadmaps
5 46 (11.39%) Workflow
6 44 (10.89%) Workflow Management
7 41 (10.15%) Collaborative Working
8 40 (9.90%) Validation
9 37 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (8.66%) User Acceptance Testing
11 34 (8.42%) Data Cleansing
11 34 (8.42%) DevOps
12 32 (7.92%) ERP
13 31 (7.67%) Data Modelling
14 27 (6.68%) Project Management
15 26 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (6.44%) Data Protection
16 25 (6.19%) ITIL
17 24 (5.94%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.43%) SQL
2 24 (5.94%) Python
3 22 (5.45%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.72%) Bash
5 9 (2.23%) Java
6 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.24%) Bicep
8 4 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.74%) C#
9 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Delphi
10 1 (0.25%) Jython
10 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 146 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 124 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.94%) Degree
4 19 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.48%) OCP
6 10 (2.48%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.23%) PMP
8 8 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.74%) PgMP
12 2 (0.50%) ACCA
12 2 (0.50%) CCNA
12 2 (0.50%) CCNP
12 2 (0.50%) CIMA
12 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.94%) Data Quality
1 24 (5.94%) GDPR
2 23 (5.69%) QA
3 14 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.72%) NIST
5 10 (2.48%) COBIT
6 7 (1.73%) NCSC
7 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.24%) PMO
8 4 (0.99%) GRC
9 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.74%) SLA
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.49%) Docker
4 5 (1.24%) vSphere
5 4 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.50%) NFS
6 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (4.21%) Terraform
2 13 (3.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (2.97%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.98%) Ansible
5 6 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.99%) Argo
6 4 (0.99%) Grafana
6 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) linkerd
8 2 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) CASB
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 72 (17.82%) Oracle
2 57 (14.11%) Microsoft
3 48 (11.88%) SAP
4 37 (9.16%) Cisco
5 35 (8.66%) Aruba
6 16 (3.96%) ESRI
7 15 (3.71%) VMware
8 14 (3.47%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.98%) Google
9 8 (1.98%) Intergraph
10 7 (1.73%) Citrix
11 6 (1.49%) IBM
11 6 (1.49%) Informatica
11 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.49%) Sage
11 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.99%) BMC
12 4 (0.99%) CloudEndure
12 4 (0.99%) Remedy
12 4 (0.99%) Splunk