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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 478 336 353
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.16% 9.52% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.90% 10.65% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 194 242
10th Percentile £358 £313 £364
25th Percentile £425 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £610
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.93% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 38 7
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.62 £21.05
25th Percentile £17.67 - £26.38
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +78.95%
75th Percentile £56.17 £32.66 £45.50
90th Percentile £85.29 £71.33 £53.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 5,369 3,156 3,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.37% 89.46% 82.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,286 1,965 2,366
10th Percentile £280 £243 £260
25th Percentile £419 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 311 309
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £53.20 £24.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +121.67% -58.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £73.25 £53.75 £70.18
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.16 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -7 241 £560 +24.44% 63
Berkshire +3 174 £575 +11.65% 33
Hampshire -13 122 £553 +10.50% 22
Buckinghamshire -28 45 £560 +49.33% 19
Surrey -10 42 £455 -16.26% 10
West Sussex -6 40 £488 -2.50% 6
Oxfordshire -26 22 £500 +25.00% 12
Kent +5 17 £563 +24.31% 8
Middlesex -15 5 - - 2
East Sussex -3 2 £471 +147.89% 3
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 19 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.88%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.42%) JBoss
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Predix
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.21%) Houdini
5 1 (0.21%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 41 (8.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.05%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.05%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.84%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.84%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.84%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.84%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.84%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.63%) Primavera
6 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 101 (21.13%) Azure
2 83 (17.36%) AWS
3 38 (7.95%) GCP
4 30 (6.28%) OCI
5 29 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.39%) SaaS
8 9 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.46%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.26%) GitHub
10 6 (1.26%) IaaS
10 6 (1.26%) iPaaS
10 6 (1.26%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.26%) Serverless
11 5 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.86%) Firewall
2 18 (3.77%) DNS
3 16 (3.35%) WAN
4 14 (2.93%) LAN
5 13 (2.72%) VPN
6 11 (2.30%) DHCP
6 11 (2.30%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.09%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.88%) BGP
9 7 (1.46%) OSPF
9 7 (1.46%) VLAN
10 6 (1.26%) Network Security
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.05%) IPsec
11 5 (1.05%) MPLS
11 5 (1.05%) NGFW
11 5 (1.05%) SSL
11 5 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.07%) Power BI
2 17 (3.56%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.14%) Metadata
5 13 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (2.30%) GIS
7 10 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.46%) Big Data
9 5 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.05%) Siebel EIM
9 5 (1.05%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.84%) QGIS
10 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.63%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.63%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.60%) JIRA
2 7 (1.46%) GitLab
3 6 (1.26%) Postman
3 6 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.63%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.42%) Introscope
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.21%) Git
7 1 (0.21%) Hudson
7 1 (0.21%) JUnit
7 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.21%) Maven
7 1 (0.21%) Mockito
7 1 (0.21%) MSI
7 1 (0.21%) RStudio
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
7 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 125 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.04%) Finance
3 59 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.65%) Retail
7 26 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.18%) Legal
9 18 (3.77%) Automotive
10 16 (3.35%) Aerospace
11 15 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.67%) Banking
14 8 (1.67%) General Ledger
14 8 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.46%) Marketing
16 4 (0.84%) Local Government
16 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 91 (19.04%) Lead
2 68 (14.23%) Architect
3 42 (8.79%) Analyst
3 42 (8.79%) Consultant
4 41 (8.58%) Project Manager
5 33 (6.90%) Senior
6 30 (6.28%) Data Migration Lead
7 23 (4.81%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (4.39%) Migration Engineer
10 19 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (3.97%) Developer
11 15 (3.14%) Data Migration Engineer
12 14 (2.93%) Accountant
12 14 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.72%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.51%) Administrator
14 12 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.51%) SAP Consultant
15 11 (2.30%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.60%) Terraform
2 18 (3.77%) REST
3 15 (3.14%) Kafka
4 13 (2.72%) SOAP
5 12 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (2.30%) Middleware
7 10 (2.09%) LDAP
8 7 (1.46%) XML
9 5 (1.05%) PySpark
9 5 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.84%) EDI
10 4 (0.84%) JSON
10 4 (0.84%) RESTful
11 3 (0.63%) Spring
11 3 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.63%) Web Services
12 2 (0.42%) JDBC
12 2 (0.42%) JMS
12 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.42%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.41%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (5.23%) Data Centre
3 22 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.56%) CMDB
4 17 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.05%) PKI
9 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.84%) LLPG
10 4 (0.84%) NLPG
10 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.69%) Linux
1 32 (6.69%) Windows
2 12 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (2.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.46%) Unix
5 4 (0.84%) VMS
6 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (39.75%) Data Migration
2 115 (24.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (16.11%) Agile
4 69 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (13.60%) Validation
6 57 (11.92%) User Acceptance Testing
7 50 (10.46%) ERP
8 45 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 41 (8.58%) Analytics
9 41 (8.58%) Data Modelling
10 39 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
11 37 (7.74%) Data Protection
12 36 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.32%) DevOps
13 35 (7.32%) ETL
13 35 (7.32%) Project Delivery
14 31 (6.49%) Change Management
14 31 (6.49%) CI/CD
15 30 (6.28%) Data Cleansing
16 29 (6.07%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.09%) SQL
2 39 (8.16%) Python
3 27 (5.65%) Bash
4 23 (4.81%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.93%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.46%) Java
7 6 (1.26%) Bicep
8 4 (0.84%) Perl
9 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.42%) Jython
10 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 91 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 18 (3.77%) Degree
5 12 (2.51%) PMP
6 11 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.26%) ACCA
9 6 (1.26%) CIMA
9 6 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.63%) VCAP
13 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.25%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.90%) GDPR
3 24 (5.02%) QA
4 7 (1.46%) NIST
5 6 (1.26%) NCSC
6 5 (1.05%) IFRS
6 5 (1.05%) PMO
7 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.84%) BS7666
8 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.63%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) DICOM
10 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.21%) GAAP
10 1 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.21%) OpenSCAP
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.67%) Docker
4 7 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.46%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.46%) vSphere
5 6 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.21%) IAG
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.51%) Ansible
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
5 5 (1.05%) SCCM
6 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.42%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.42%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.21%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.21%) Avamar
9 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.21%) Istio
9 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.21%) Packer
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 78 (16.32%) Microsoft
1 78 (16.32%) Oracle
2 67 (14.02%) SAP
3 25 (5.23%) VMware
4 24 (5.02%) Cisco
5 22 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.77%) Databricks
7 17 (3.56%) Google
8 15 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.93%) IFS
10 12 (2.51%) BMC
11 10 (2.09%) CyberArk
11 10 (2.09%) Siebel
12 8 (1.67%) IBM
12 8 (1.67%) Workday
13 7 (1.46%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.26%) ESRI
14 6 (1.26%) F5
14 6 (1.26%) Remedy