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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Migration 380 343 400
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.63% 8.37% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.99% 9.85% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 231 286
10th Percentile £325 £356 £400
25th Percentile £443 £444 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £688
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 6 8
10th Percentile £15.91 £31.00 £18.82
25th Percentile £22.30 £33.50 £22.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +74.04% -33.76%
75th Percentile - £53.56 £53.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £68.13 £63.64
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -64.62% +25.73%

All Process and 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 3,457 3,484 4,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.59% 85.00% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,185 2,131 3,168
10th Percentile £219 £261 £217
25th Percentile £394 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £619
90th Percentile £664 £688 £695
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 163 252
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.71 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.17 £28.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.54 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.01% +9.60% +20.03%
75th Percentile £34.83 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +9 215 £500 -9.09% 80
Berkshire +3 138 £511 -11.13% 49
Hampshire +17 102 £530 -7.83% 30
Buckinghamshire +8 50 £350 -30.00% 18
Surrey -10 30 £600 +15.66% 15
Oxfordshire +6 26 £550 - 18
West Sussex -4 21 £679 +69.26% 14
East Sussex -6 5 £190 -55.29% 4
Kent 0 4 £556 -4.91% 9
Middlesex - 3 £850 - 4
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 (2.63%) ArcGIS
2 9 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.11%) Confluence
4 7 (1.84%) Smallworld
5 6 (1.58%) GeoServer
5 6 (1.58%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.79%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.89%) Maximo
4 5 (1.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.79%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.53%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.53%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.53%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.32%) Azure
2 26 (6.84%) AWS
3 21 (5.53%) OpenShift
4 20 (5.26%) OCI
5 18 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.63%) SaaS
9 9 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.11%) GCP
11 7 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.32%) IaaS
13 4 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.05%) GitHub
13 4 (1.05%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.79%) Serverless
14 3 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.68%) Firewall
2 10 (2.63%) VPN
3 9 (2.37%) DNS
4 6 (1.58%) WAN
5 5 (1.32%) LAN
6 4 (1.05%) Network Security
6 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.05%) VLAN
7 3 (0.79%) Internet
7 3 (0.79%) SSL
7 3 (0.79%) VSAN
8 2 (0.53%) BGP
8 2 (0.53%) Intranet
8 2 (0.53%) IPsec
8 2 (0.53%) IPv6
8 2 (0.53%) OSPF
8 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.53%) Wireless
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.21%) GIS
2 13 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.11%) QGIS
6 7 (1.84%) Power BI
6 7 (1.84%) Tableau
7 6 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (1.58%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.32%) Metadata
9 4 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.79%) Big Data
10 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.32%) JIRA
2 19 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.53%) Git
3 2 (0.53%) GitLab
3 2 (0.53%) JMeter
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.26%) Gatling
4 1 (0.26%) Gradle
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) Poetry
4 1 (0.26%) Pylint
4 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 53 (13.95%) Finance
4 29 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.37%) Marketing
7 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.11%) Retail
9 7 (1.84%) Electronics
10 6 (1.58%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.58%) Legal
11 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.05%) Banking
12 4 (1.05%) Local Government
13 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.53%) Advertising
14 2 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (13.95%) Architect
2 50 (13.16%) Consultant
3 33 (8.68%) Network Consultant
4 31 (8.16%) Lead
5 26 (6.84%) Senior
5 26 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 22 (5.79%) Analyst
8 18 (4.74%) IT Engineer
9 14 (3.68%) Data Migration Lead
9 14 (3.68%) Developer
10 13 (3.42%) Administrator
10 13 (3.42%) Migration Engineer
10 13 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.16%) Desktop Support
11 12 (3.16%) Windows Engineer
12 11 (2.89%) Technical Manager
13 10 (2.63%) Support Engineer
14 9 (2.37%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.37%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.89%) Middleware
2 10 (2.63%) React
3 7 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.05%) SAP PI
4 4 (1.05%) WebdriverIO
5 3 (0.79%) .NET
5 3 (0.79%) Kafka
5 3 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.79%) Visualforce
5 3 (0.79%) Web Services
6 2 (0.53%) BAPI
6 2 (0.53%) EDI
6 2 (0.53%) IDoc
6 2 (0.53%) JSON
6 2 (0.53%) REST
6 2 (0.53%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.53%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.26%) PySpark
7 1 (0.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.68%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.37%) Life Science
7 8 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.58%) Replication
10 5 (1.32%) PKI
10 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.84%) Windows
2 10 (2.63%) Linux
3 8 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.16%) Data Migration
2 78 (20.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 63 (16.58%) Agile
4 57 (15.00%) Workflow
5 56 (14.74%) Roadmaps
5 56 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (14.47%) Workflow Management
7 49 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (11.84%) Collaborative Working
9 37 (9.74%) Data Modelling
10 34 (8.95%) ERP
11 31 (8.16%) DevOps
12 27 (7.11%) Validation
13 26 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
14 25 (6.58%) CI/CD
14 25 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (5.79%) Data Cleansing
15 22 (5.79%) Data Protection
16 21 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (5.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (10.00%) SQL
2 34 (8.95%) Python
3 31 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.95%) C#
5 13 (3.42%) Java
5 13 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.63%) Bash
7 7 (1.84%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.05%) VB
9 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.79%) Bicep
10 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) ABAP
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) Jython
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.26%) Magik
11 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 141 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 120 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.95%) Degree
4 20 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.37%) OCP
6 9 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.58%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.58%) PMP
9 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.79%) PgMP
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.53%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) CSPO
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.26%) GDPR
3 15 (3.95%) QA
4 8 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.11%) NIST
5 3 (0.79%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) COBIT
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.58%) Docker
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.32%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) NFS
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.26%) Ansible
3 14 (3.68%) Terraform
4 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.05%) Argo
7 3 (0.79%) Grafana
7 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.53%) SCCM
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 59 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.63%) Oracle
2 48 (12.63%) SAP
3 43 (11.32%) Cisco
4 35 (9.21%) Aruba
5 15 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.68%) ESRI
7 13 (3.42%) VMware
8 12 (3.16%) IBM
9 11 (2.89%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.84%) Google
12 6 (1.58%) Intergraph
12 6 (1.58%) Remedy
13 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.05%) IFS
13 4 (1.05%) Informatica
13 4 (1.05%) Pure Storage
14 3 (0.79%) Samsung
14 3 (0.79%) Workday