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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 458 274 331
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.66% 9.33% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 10.21% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 172 234
10th Percentile £356 £329 £313
25th Percentile £428 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.23% -3.57%
75th Percentile £643 £600 £588
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 7
10th Percentile £14.62 - £21.05
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £25.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +91.67% -35.83%
75th Percentile £41.83 £72.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £83.95 £86.25 £39.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 4,833 2,683 4,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.81% 91.32% 82.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,083 1,720 2,690
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -1.96% +0.74%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £657 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 181 450
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.59 £15.00 £18.23
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.87
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -4 229 £525 +10.24% 46
Berkshire +4 155 £525 +5.00% 26
Hampshire -4 106 £550 -8.33% 25
Buckinghamshire -13 58 £522 +30.50% 16
Surrey +6 52 £525 +31.25% 13
West Sussex +4 39 £455 -6.29% 6
Kent +3 16 £475 +11.76% 7
Oxfordshire -24 16 £500 +16.28% 4
East Sussex -3 4 £471 -9.20% 1
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 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.53%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.53%) CMS
3 6 (1.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.44%) Drupal
7 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.44%) JBoss
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (9.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (5.02%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.31%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.09%) NEC Housing
4 5 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.87%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.87%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.87%) SAP R/3
5 4 (0.87%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.87%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.87%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.66%) Primavera
6 3 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.44%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.44%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 88 (19.21%) Azure
2 58 (12.66%) AWS
3 38 (8.30%) OCI
4 27 (5.90%) GCP
5 24 (5.24%) Entra ID
6 22 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.49%) SaaS
8 14 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.75%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.53%) IaaS
12 6 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.31%) PaaS
13 5 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.09%) Serverless
14 4 (0.87%) Boomi
14 4 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.87%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.55%) Firewall
2 27 (5.90%) DNS
3 20 (4.37%) WAN
4 19 (4.15%) DHCP
5 16 (3.49%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.84%) LAN
7 12 (2.62%) Kerberos
8 11 (2.40%) Network Security
8 11 (2.40%) VPN
9 10 (2.18%) BGP
10 9 (1.97%) MPLS
10 9 (1.97%) OSPF
10 9 (1.97%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (1.53%) VLAN
12 6 (1.31%) NAS
12 6 (1.31%) SAN
13 5 (1.09%) IPsec
13 5 (1.09%) VSAN
14 4 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.80%) Power BI
2 14 (3.06%) GIS
2 14 (3.06%) Metadata
2 14 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.84%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.75%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.53%) Spatial Data
9 6 (1.31%) QGIS
10 5 (1.09%) Big Data
10 5 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (3.49%) JIRA
2 8 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.31%) GitLab
4 5 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.87%) Maven
5 4 (0.87%) Postman
5 4 (0.87%) Subversion
6 3 (0.66%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.44%) Introscope
8 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.22%) Git
8 1 (0.22%) Hudson
8 1 (0.22%) JUnit
8 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.22%) Mockito
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 103 (22.49%) Finance
2 100 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 50 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.21%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.59%) Legal
7 20 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.93%) Retail
9 16 (3.49%) Automotive
10 12 (2.62%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.18%) Marketing
12 9 (1.97%) Banking
13 8 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.53%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.66%) Advertising
16 3 (0.66%) Local Government
17 2 (0.44%) Back Office
17 2 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (21.18%) Lead
2 59 (12.88%) Architect
3 38 (8.30%) Analyst
4 37 (8.08%) Project Manager
5 36 (7.86%) Data Migration Lead
6 30 (6.55%) Consultant
7 26 (5.68%) Migration Engineer
8 25 (5.46%) Senior
9 21 (4.59%) Developer
10 19 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 17 (3.71%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.28%) Accountant
13 13 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.62%) Data Migration Engineer
14 12 (2.62%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.40%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (2.18%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (3.28%) Kafka
3 12 (2.62%) LDAP
3 12 (2.62%) REST
4 10 (2.18%) SOAP
5 9 (1.97%) XML
6 6 (1.31%) Middleware
7 4 (0.87%) EDI
7 4 (0.87%) RESTful
7 4 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.87%) Spring
7 4 (0.87%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.66%) JSON
8 3 (0.66%) OAuth
8 3 (0.66%) PySpark
8 3 (0.66%) React
9 2 (0.44%) CSS
9 2 (0.44%) HTML5
9 2 (0.44%) JMS
9 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.70%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.46%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.15%) Replication
5 15 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.18%) CMDB
7 10 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.97%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
12 4 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.87%) LLPG
12 4 (0.87%) NLPG
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.33%) Windows
2 23 (5.02%) Linux
3 7 (1.53%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.09%) Unix
4 5 (1.09%) VMS
5 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (39.96%) Data Migration
2 86 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 78 (17.03%) Agile
4 68 (14.85%) Validation
5 66 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 55 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (11.14%) ERP
8 42 (9.17%) Data Cleansing
9 39 (8.52%) Data Protection
10 35 (7.64%) Data Modelling
11 34 (7.42%) Change Management
12 33 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (7.21%) Scenario Testing
13 32 (6.99%) DevOps
13 32 (6.99%) ETL
14 31 (6.77%) Analytics
15 30 (6.55%) Project Delivery
16 28 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 27 (5.90%) CI/CD
17 27 (5.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.92%) SQL
2 29 (6.33%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.46%) Python
4 16 (3.49%) Bash
5 14 (3.06%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.40%) Java
7 7 (1.53%) Bicep
7 7 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.87%) Perl
9 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.44%) Jython
9 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 106 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.30%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.28%) Degree
5 10 (2.18%) PMP
6 7 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.09%) ACCA
8 5 (1.09%) CIMA
9 4 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CCIE
11 2 (0.44%) CCNP
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.30%) Data Quality
1 38 (8.30%) GDPR
2 21 (4.59%) QA
3 11 (2.40%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.75%) NCSC
6 6 (1.31%) PMO
7 5 (1.09%) COBIT
7 5 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.09%) SLA
8 4 (0.87%) BS7666
8 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 3 (0.66%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.22%) DICOM
11 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.22%) HL7
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.97%) vSphere
4 8 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.66%) Docker
7 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (3.28%) Terraform
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.53%) Ansible
6 6 (1.31%) SCCM
7 4 (0.87%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.66%) Grafana
8 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.44%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.44%) Istio
9 2 (0.44%) linkerd
9 2 (0.44%) Nessus
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.44%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (15.28%) Microsoft
1 70 (15.28%) Oracle
2 65 (14.19%) SAP
3 27 (5.90%) VMware
4 22 (4.80%) Salesforce
5 20 (4.37%) Cisco
6 16 (3.49%) Google
7 15 (3.28%) IFS
8 13 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.18%) IBM
10 9 (1.97%) ESRI
10 9 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.97%) Siebel
11 8 (1.75%) F5
12 7 (1.53%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.31%) Databricks
13 6 (1.31%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.09%) Adobe
14 5 (1.09%) NetApp
14 5 (1.09%) Sage