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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 445 336 366
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 6.78% 9.60% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.42% 10.77% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 195 235
10th Percentile £355 £313 £352
25th Percentile £425 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £600
90th Percentile £700 £691 £687
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 6
10th Percentile £15.29 £18.24 £24.25
25th Percentile £15.50 - £30.50
Median hourly rate £39.10 £25.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.45% -30.14% -6.49%
75th Percentile £42.22 - £49.25
90th Percentile £70.20 £66.75 £53.38
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 5,287 3,120 3,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.55% 89.17% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,126 1,946 2,189
10th Percentile £275 £216 £255
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.39%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £625
90th Percentile £704 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 640 315 210
10th Percentile £13.44 £13.35 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.91 £30.41
Median hourly rate £48.81 £22.19 £58.43
Median % change year-on-year +119.96% -62.02% +8.34%
75th Percentile £69.77 £49.38 £71.74
90th Percentile £87.84 £69.29 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -12 214 £560 +23.08% 142
Berkshire 0 152 £588 +6.82% 78
Hampshire -14 111 £543 +6.52% 41
Surrey -5 50 £460 -19.54% 41
Buckinghamshire -26 43 £558 +62.77% 42
West Sussex -7 37 £459 -18.40% 19
Oxfordshire -30 19 £450 - 22
Kent +7 15 £625 +30.21% 10
Middlesex -16 7 - - 2
East Sussex -4 2 £471 +147.89% 5
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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 22 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.02%) Confluence
3 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Drupal
6 2 (0.45%) JBoss
6 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Predix
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.22%) Houdini
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 41 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.57%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.12%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.90%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.90%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.90%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.90%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.90%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.90%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.90%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.67%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.22%) Maximo
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (23.37%) Azure
2 73 (16.40%) AWS
3 35 (7.87%) GCP
4 30 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (6.07%) SaaS
6 22 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.04%) OCI
8 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.02%) OpenShift
9 9 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (1.80%) iPaaS
11 7 (1.57%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.35%) IaaS
12 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.35%) Serverless
13 5 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.90%) Boomi
14 4 (0.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.72%) Firewall
2 19 (4.27%) DNS
3 13 (2.92%) VPN
4 11 (2.47%) DHCP
5 10 (2.25%) WAN
6 8 (1.80%) LAN
6 8 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.35%) VSAN
8 5 (1.12%) VLAN
9 4 (0.90%) Network Security
9 4 (0.90%) SSL
9 4 (0.90%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.90%) VoIP
9 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.67%) BGP
10 3 (0.67%) Broadband
10 3 (0.67%) Internet
10 3 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.72%) Power BI
2 19 (4.27%) Oracle Database
3 14 (3.15%) Metadata
4 13 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.35%) Big Data
5 6 (1.35%) GIS
6 5 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.12%) Siebel EIM
6 5 (1.12%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.90%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.45%) MySQL
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.27%) JIRA
2 6 (1.35%) GitLab
2 6 (1.35%) Postman
3 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.67%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) Hudson
5 1 (0.22%) MSI
5 1 (0.22%) RStudio
5 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 120 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.33%) Finance
3 42 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.29%) Retail
5 23 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.15%) Automotive
9 14 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.47%) General Ledger
12 10 (2.25%) Legal
13 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.57%) Banking
15 6 (1.35%) Marketing
15 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.12%) Local Government
17 4 (0.90%) Billing
Job Titles
1 75 (16.85%) Architect
2 67 (15.06%) Lead
3 43 (9.66%) Consultant
4 40 (8.99%) Analyst
5 37 (8.31%) Senior
6 34 (7.64%) Project Manager
7 27 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.84%) Data Migration Lead
9 22 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
11 19 (4.27%) SAP Consultant
12 17 (3.82%) Accountant
13 16 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
14 15 (3.37%) Administrator
14 15 (3.37%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (2.70%) Developer
17 11 (2.47%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.62%) Terraform
2 21 (4.72%) REST
3 15 (3.37%) SOAP
4 14 (3.15%) Middleware
5 13 (2.92%) LDAP
6 9 (2.02%) Kafka
7 8 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (1.12%) PySpark
10 4 (0.90%) EDI
10 4 (0.90%) JSON
10 4 (0.90%) RESTful
10 4 (0.90%) Web Services
10 4 (0.90%) XML
11 3 (0.67%) Spring
11 3 (0.67%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.45%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.22%) 802.1X
13 1 (0.22%) AWS CDK
13 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.04%) CMDB
6 17 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.25%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.90%) PKI
12 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.09%) Windows
2 27 (6.07%) Linux
3 19 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.12%) Unix
7 4 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (36.85%) Data Migration
2 113 (25.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (13.71%) Agile
5 58 (13.03%) Validation
6 50 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 42 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (9.21%) Analytics
9 39 (8.76%) ERP
10 36 (8.09%) Project Delivery
11 35 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (7.87%) DevOps
12 34 (7.64%) Roadmaps
13 33 (7.42%) Data Modelling
14 32 (7.19%) CI/CD
15 30 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (6.07%) ETL
17 26 (5.84%) AI
18 25 (5.62%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.56%) SQL
2 38 (8.54%) Python
3 25 (5.62%) Bash
4 20 (4.49%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.92%) PL/SQL
6 9 (2.02%) Bicep
7 6 (1.35%) Java
8 2 (0.45%) Perl
8 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 88 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.60%) Degree
5 11 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.80%) PMP
8 7 (1.57%) ACCA
8 7 (1.57%) CIMA
8 7 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.90%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.90%) VCAP
12 3 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.84%) QA
3 23 (5.17%) GDPR
4 5 (1.12%) IFRS
4 5 (1.12%) NCSC
5 4 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.90%) NIST
5 4 (0.90%) PMO
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) BS7666
7 1 (0.22%) COSHH
7 1 (0.22%) DICOM
7 1 (0.22%) GAAP
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.22%) OpenSCAP
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.80%) Docker
3 8 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.80%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.57%) vSphere
5 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) IAG
7 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.47%) Ansible
3 7 (1.57%) SCCM
3 7 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.35%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.45%) Istio
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.22%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) Avamar
7 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.22%) Packer
7 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 93 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 67 (15.06%) SAP
3 63 (14.16%) Oracle
4 22 (4.94%) VMware
5 20 (4.49%) Cisco
6 19 (4.27%) Databricks
7 14 (3.15%) BMC
8 13 (2.92%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.92%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.02%) Google
11 8 (1.80%) IFS
11 8 (1.80%) Remedy
12 7 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.57%) Workday
13 6 (1.35%) Siebel
14 5 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.90%) Adobe
15 4 (0.90%) Fortinet
15 4 (0.90%) IBM