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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 491 345 352
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.29% 9.73% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 10.83% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 201 247
10th Percentile £355 £313 £370
25th Percentile £425 £375 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £643 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £519 £534
% change year-on-year +1.25% -2.90% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 8
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.85 £21.48
25th Percentile £21.17 - £26.31
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -21.41% +18.52%
75th Percentile £71.00 £34.18 £41.75
90th Percentile £85.29 £71.38 £53.23
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 5,431 3,187 3,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.65% 89.90% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 1,983 2,442
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £419 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 301 315
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.90 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +151.14% -61.81% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £51.00 £70.09
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% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -8 250 £540 +20.00% 51
Berkshire +4 179 £564 +8.41% 29
Hampshire -11 127 £550 +10.00% 22
Buckinghamshire -26 49 £525 +50.00% 12
Surrey -11 41 £455 -16.26% 10
West Sussex -7 40 £467 -6.60% 4
Oxfordshire -27 22 £500 +42.86% 11
Kent +8 17 £563 +24.31% 10
Middlesex -17 5 - - 2
East Sussex -4 2 £471 +165.35% 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 21 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.83%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.81%) CMS
5 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.41%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Predix
Applications
1 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.20%) Houdini
5 1 (0.20%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 42 (8.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.02%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.81%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.81%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.81%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.81%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.81%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.81%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.61%) Primavera
6 3 (0.61%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.41%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 102 (20.77%) Azure
2 83 (16.90%) AWS
3 37 (7.54%) GCP
4 30 (6.11%) OCI
5 29 (5.91%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (4.07%) SaaS
8 9 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.43%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.22%) GitHub
11 6 (1.22%) IaaS
11 6 (1.22%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.22%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.02%) Serverless
13 4 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.50%) Firewall
2 17 (3.46%) DNS
3 16 (3.26%) WAN
4 14 (2.85%) LAN
5 13 (2.65%) VPN
6 11 (2.24%) DHCP
6 11 (2.24%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.04%) Network Security
7 10 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.83%) BGP
9 7 (1.43%) OSPF
9 7 (1.43%) VLAN
10 6 (1.22%) VSAN
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.02%) IPsec
11 5 (1.02%) MPLS
11 5 (1.02%) NAS
11 5 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.91%) Power BI
2 16 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.26%) Oracle Database
3 14 (2.85%) Metadata
4 13 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.24%) GIS
6 11 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.43%) Big Data
8 5 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.02%) Siebel EIM
8 5 (1.02%) Spatial Data
9 4 (0.81%) QGIS
9 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.48%) JIRA
2 8 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.43%) GitLab
4 6 (1.22%) Postman
5 5 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.41%) Introscope
7 2 (0.41%) Maven
7 2 (0.41%) Subversion
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Git
8 1 (0.20%) Hudson
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.20%) Mockito
8 1 (0.20%) MSI
8 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 125 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.96%) Finance
3 61 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.92%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.30%) Manufacturing
7 25 (5.09%) Retail
8 20 (4.07%) Legal
9 18 (3.67%) Aerospace
9 18 (3.67%) Automotive
10 15 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.83%) Marketing
13 8 (1.63%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.43%) Banking
15 4 (0.81%) Local Government
16 3 (0.61%) Advertising
16 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (18.74%) Lead
2 64 (13.03%) Architect
3 44 (8.96%) Analyst
4 42 (8.55%) Consultant
4 42 (8.55%) Project Manager
5 34 (6.92%) Senior
6 30 (6.11%) Data Migration Lead
7 25 (5.09%) Migration Engineer
8 24 (4.89%) Data Engineer
9 20 (4.07%) Developer
9 20 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 15 (3.05%) Data Migration Engineer
12 14 (2.85%) Accountant
12 14 (2.85%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.44%) Migration Manager
13 12 (2.44%) SAP Consultant
14 11 (2.24%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.46%) REST
2 15 (3.05%) Kafka
3 13 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (2.65%) SOAP
4 11 (2.24%) Middleware
5 9 (1.83%) LDAP
6 8 (1.63%) XML
7 5 (1.02%) RESTful
7 5 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.81%) EDI
8 4 (0.81%) JSON
8 4 (0.81%) PySpark
9 3 (0.61%) Spring
9 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.61%) Web Services
10 2 (0.41%) JDBC
10 2 (0.41%) JMS
10 2 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.41%) React
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.57%) Legacy Systems
2 27 (5.50%) Data Centre
3 24 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.67%) CMDB
5 17 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.46%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.85%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.22%) PKI
10 6 (1.22%) Replication
11 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.81%) Clustering
12 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.92%) Windows
2 33 (6.72%) Linux
3 12 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.43%) Unix
7 4 (0.81%) VMS
8 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (38.49%) Data Migration
2 115 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 83 (16.90%) Agile
4 71 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (14.05%) Validation
6 58 (11.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 50 (10.18%) ERP
8 43 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (8.55%) Data Modelling
10 40 (8.15%) Analytics
11 38 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (7.54%) Data Protection
12 37 (7.54%) ETL
13 36 (7.33%) DevOps
14 35 (7.13%) Change Management
14 35 (7.13%) Project Delivery
15 32 (6.52%) CI/CD
15 32 (6.52%) Data Cleansing
16 30 (6.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.20%) SQL
2 39 (7.94%) Python
3 28 (5.70%) Bash
4 26 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.85%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.83%) Java
7 6 (1.22%) Bicep
8 5 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.81%) Perl
10 2 (0.41%) Jython
10 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.20%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 100 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.87%) Degree
5 12 (2.44%) PMP
6 11 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.22%) ACCA
10 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.22%) CIMA
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.61%) VCAP
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.98%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.13%) GDPR
3 25 (5.09%) QA
4 9 (1.83%) NIST
5 7 (1.43%) NCSC
6 5 (1.02%) IFRS
6 5 (1.02%) PMO
7 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.81%) BS7666
7 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) DICOM
10 1 (0.20%) GAAP
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.63%) Docker
3 8 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.63%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.63%) vSphere
4 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.20%) IAG
6 1 (0.20%) Postfix
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (4.68%) Terraform
2 19 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.44%) Ansible
4 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.22%) SCCM
6 5 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.41%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) Avamar
9 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 77 (15.68%) Oracle
3 68 (13.85%) SAP
4 27 (5.50%) VMware
5 24 (4.89%) Cisco
6 23 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.46%) Google
8 15 (3.05%) Databricks
8 15 (3.05%) IFS
8 15 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.44%) BMC
10 10 (2.04%) IBM
10 10 (2.04%) Siebel
11 9 (1.83%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.63%) Workday
13 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.22%) ESRI
14 6 (1.22%) Remedy
14 6 (1.22%) SolarWinds