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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 505 315 345
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.78% 9.30% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 10.32% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 189 240
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £437 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 7
10th Percentile £13.99 - £21.05
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £25.13
Median hourly rate £39.13 £37.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +24.27% +3.45%
75th Percentile £41.83 £71.25 £41.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.00 £51.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.12
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.67% -36.36%

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 5,281 3,053 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.41% 90.14% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 1,904 2,705
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £672 £700
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 259 433
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.45 £13.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.13 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -8 246 £560 +21.08% 48
Berkshire +5 181 £565 +13.00% 28
Hampshire -7 126 £555 +7.77% 22
Surrey -1 53 £525 -3.38% 16
Buckinghamshire -14 51 £560 +60.00% 15
West Sussex +4 48 £459 -8.20% 7
Kent +7 18 £475 +42.86% 4
Oxfordshire -38 14 £520 +20.93% 6
East Sussex -2 4 £471 -24.64% 1
Middlesex -12 2 - - 4
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 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.58%) Confluence
3 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.99%) ArcGIS
4 5 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.40%) Drupal
7 2 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.40%) JBoss
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.20%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.20%) Predix
Applications
1 18 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (8.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (3.56%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.19%) NEC Housing
3 6 (1.19%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.99%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.79%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.79%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.79%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.79%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.79%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.59%) Primavera
6 3 (0.59%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.40%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.20%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 103 (20.40%) Azure
2 79 (15.64%) AWS
3 35 (6.93%) GCP
3 35 (6.93%) OCI
4 26 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 24 (4.75%) Entra ID
6 19 (3.76%) SaaS
7 17 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.39%) IaaS
9 7 (1.39%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.19%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.19%) GitHub
10 6 (1.19%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.19%) PaaS
10 6 (1.19%) Serverless
10 6 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.34%) Firewall
2 28 (5.54%) DNS
3 21 (4.16%) WAN
4 20 (3.96%) DHCP
5 17 (3.37%) SD-WAN
6 14 (2.77%) LAN
7 13 (2.57%) VPN
8 11 (2.18%) Kerberos
8 11 (2.18%) Network Security
9 10 (1.98%) BGP
9 10 (1.98%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.78%) MPLS
10 9 (1.78%) OSPF
11 7 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (1.39%) VLAN
12 6 (1.19%) NAS
12 6 (1.19%) SAN
12 6 (1.19%) VSAN
13 5 (0.99%) IPsec
13 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.15%) Power BI
2 14 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.57%) Metadata
3 13 (2.57%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.38%) GIS
4 12 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 12 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.58%) Big Data
7 5 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (0.99%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (0.99%) Spatial Data
7 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.79%) QGIS
8 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.59%) OLAP
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (3.56%) JIRA
2 8 (1.58%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.39%) GitLab
4 6 (1.19%) Postman
5 5 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.79%) Maven
6 4 (0.79%) Subversion
7 3 (0.59%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.40%) Introscope
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Git
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) JUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) MSI
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 113 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.79%) Finance
3 55 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.75%) Retail
7 22 (4.36%) Legal
7 22 (4.36%) Manufacturing
8 20 (3.96%) Automotive
9 14 (2.77%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.57%) Marketing
10 13 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Banking
13 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.19%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.99%) Local Government
16 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.59%) Advertising
18 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (19.60%) Lead
2 61 (12.08%) Architect
3 48 (9.50%) Analyst
4 45 (8.91%) Project Manager
5 33 (6.53%) Data Migration Lead
6 32 (6.34%) Senior
7 29 (5.74%) Consultant
8 26 (5.15%) Migration Engineer
9 24 (4.75%) Data Engineer
10 23 (4.55%) Developer
11 18 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.17%) Data Analyst
14 15 (2.97%) Data Migration Engineer
14 15 (2.97%) Migration Manager
15 14 (2.77%) Accountant
16 13 (2.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (2.57%) Migration Project Manager
17 11 (2.18%) Data Architect
17 11 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (3.56%) Kafka
3 14 (2.77%) REST
4 12 (2.38%) LDAP
5 11 (2.18%) SOAP
6 10 (1.98%) XML
7 7 (1.39%) Middleware
8 5 (0.99%) PySpark
8 5 (0.99%) RESTful
9 4 (0.79%) EDI
9 4 (0.79%) JSON
9 4 (0.79%) OAuth
9 4 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.79%) Spring
9 4 (0.79%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.59%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.59%) React
11 2 (0.40%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.10%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (6.14%) Data Centre
3 30 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.56%) Replication
5 17 (3.37%) CMDB
6 15 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.77%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.77%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.57%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.57%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.53%) Windows
2 30 (5.94%) Linux
3 9 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.39%) Unix
5 7 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.99%) VMS
7 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (38.81%) Data Migration
2 110 (21.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (17.82%) Agile
4 79 (15.64%) Validation
5 65 (12.87%) User Acceptance Testing
6 62 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (10.10%) ERP
8 41 (8.12%) Data Cleansing
8 41 (8.12%) Data Modelling
8 41 (8.12%) Data Protection
9 39 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (7.72%) Change Management
10 37 (7.33%) CI/CD
10 37 (7.33%) DevOps
10 37 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (6.93%) ETL
11 35 (6.93%) Scenario Testing
12 34 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (6.73%) Project Delivery
13 33 (6.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (10.89%) SQL
2 34 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 33 (6.53%) Python
4 24 (4.75%) Bash
5 13 (2.57%) Java
5 13 (2.57%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.78%) Bicep
7 5 (0.99%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.79%) Perl
9 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.40%) Jython
9 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 141 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.11%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.37%) Degree
5 11 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.98%) PMP
7 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.79%) ACCA
9 4 (0.79%) CIMA
9 4 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.59%) VCAP
10 3 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.40%) CCIE
11 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.92%) GDPR
3 28 (5.54%) QA
4 11 (2.18%) NIST
5 9 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.58%) NCSC
7 5 (0.99%) COBIT
7 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.99%) PMO
8 4 (0.79%) BS7666
8 4 (0.79%) GRC
8 4 (0.79%) SLA
9 3 (0.59%) IFRS
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.20%) OpenSCAP
11 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (1.78%) vSphere
4 8 (1.58%) Docker
5 7 (1.39%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.20%) Postfix
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (4.36%) Terraform
2 17 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.78%) Ansible
6 7 (1.39%) SCCM
7 5 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.59%) Grafana
8 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.40%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) linkerd
9 2 (0.40%) Nessus
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 79 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 78 (15.45%) Oracle
3 72 (14.26%) SAP
4 28 (5.54%) VMware
5 24 (4.75%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.96%) Cisco
8 18 (3.56%) Google
9 15 (2.97%) IFS
10 11 (2.18%) IBM
11 10 (1.98%) Databricks
11 10 (1.98%) Siebel
12 9 (1.78%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.58%) BMC
13 8 (1.58%) F5
14 7 (1.39%) Adobe
14 7 (1.39%) ESRI
14 7 (1.39%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.19%) NEC
15 6 (1.19%) Workday