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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 458 318 358
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 6.94% 9.17% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 10.29% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 181 241
10th Percentile £358 £313 £363
25th Percentile £425 £375 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +1.89%
75th Percentile £648 £619 £615
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 40 7
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.40 £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% +47.83%
75th Percentile £55.29 £32.43 £45.50
90th Percentile £71.30 £71.28 £53.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £56.20
% change year-on-year +59.05% -55.25% -19.71%

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 5,318 3,091 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.55% 89.13% 82.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 1,931 2,301
10th Percentile £280 £223 £258
25th Percentile £420 £387 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -0.85%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £634
90th Percentile £713 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 299 271
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.78 £15.50 £35.29
Median hourly rate £52.46 £22.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +133.17% -60.77% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £87.16 £69.65 £78.75
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -9 228 £560 +23.08% 108
Berkshire +3 161 £575 +4.55% 70
Hampshire -19 110 £550 +10.00% 29
Buckinghamshire -24 47 £560 +60.00% 22
Surrey -7 44 £460 -19.54% 32
West Sussex -2 40 £488 -22.77% 13
Oxfordshire -23 20 £450 +12.50% 16
Kent +9 15 £563 +17.19% 15
Middlesex -19 6 - - 4
East Sussex -4 2 £471 +147.89% 5
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 18 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.97%) Confluence
3 6 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.87%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.44%) Drupal
5 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.44%) JBoss
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.44%) SAS
5 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Predix
Applications
1 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.22%) Houdini
5 1 (0.22%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 41 (8.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.31%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.09%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.87%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.87%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.87%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.87%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.87%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.87%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.66%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.44%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 107 (23.36%) Azure
2 87 (19.00%) AWS
3 38 (8.30%) GCP
4 26 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (5.02%) SaaS
6 19 (4.15%) OCI
7 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.53%) iPaaS
8 7 (1.53%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.31%) IaaS
9 6 (1.31%) Serverless
10 5 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.09%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.87%) Boomi
11 4 (0.87%) GitHub
11 4 (0.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.90%) Firewall
2 19 (4.15%) DNS
3 16 (3.49%) WAN
4 14 (3.06%) LAN
5 13 (2.84%) VPN
6 12 (2.62%) DHCP
7 11 (2.40%) SD-WAN
8 10 (2.18%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.75%) BGP
10 7 (1.53%) Network Security
10 7 (1.53%) VLAN
10 7 (1.53%) VSAN
11 6 (1.31%) OSPF
12 5 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (1.09%) IPsec
12 5 (1.09%) NGFW
12 5 (1.09%) SSL
13 4 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.68%) Power BI
2 19 (4.15%) Oracle Database
3 14 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.06%) Metadata
4 9 (1.97%) GIS
4 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.53%) Big Data
5 7 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.09%) Siebel EIM
6 5 (1.09%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.87%) QGIS
7 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.66%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.02%) JIRA
2 7 (1.53%) GitLab
3 6 (1.31%) Postman
4 5 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.66%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.44%) Introscope
6 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) Git
7 1 (0.22%) Hudson
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.22%) Mockito
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) RStudio
7 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 118 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.43%) Finance
3 48 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.11%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.11%) Retail
5 27 (5.90%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.93%) Automotive
7 18 (3.93%) Legal
8 15 (3.28%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.06%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.75%) Banking
11 8 (1.75%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.53%) Marketing
12 7 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Local Government
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 84 (18.34%) Lead
2 72 (15.72%) Architect
3 41 (8.95%) Project Manager
3 41 (8.95%) Senior
4 39 (8.52%) Analyst
4 39 (8.52%) Consultant
5 30 (6.55%) Data Migration Lead
6 26 (5.68%) Data Engineer
7 24 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (4.15%) Migration Engineer
10 18 (3.93%) Developer
11 16 (3.49%) Data Migration Engineer
12 14 (3.06%) Accountant
12 14 (3.06%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.84%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (2.62%) Administrator
14 12 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.40%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.02%) Terraform
2 19 (4.15%) REST
3 15 (3.28%) Kafka
4 14 (3.06%) SOAP
5 13 (2.84%) Middleware
6 12 (2.62%) LDAP
7 6 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.31%) XML
8 5 (1.09%) PySpark
8 5 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.87%) EDI
9 4 (0.87%) JSON
9 4 (0.87%) RESTful
9 4 (0.87%) Web Services
10 3 (0.66%) Spring
10 3 (0.66%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.44%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.44%) JMS
11 2 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.44%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.95%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (4.80%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.93%) CMDB
4 18 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.18%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
11 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.87%) LLPG
12 4 (0.87%) NLPG
12 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.21%) Windows
2 31 (6.77%) Linux
3 14 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.97%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.53%) Unix
7 4 (0.87%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.44%) 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
1 173 (37.77%) Data Migration
2 117 (25.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (15.94%) Agile
4 66 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (13.10%) Validation
6 53 (11.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 43 (9.39%) ERP
7 43 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 39 (8.52%) Analytics
9 37 (8.08%) DevOps
10 36 (7.86%) Project Delivery
11 35 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (7.64%) CI/CD
11 35 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (7.64%) Roadmaps
12 33 (7.21%) Data Modelling
13 32 (6.99%) Data Protection
14 29 (6.33%) ETL
14 29 (6.33%) ITIL
14 29 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.26%) SQL
2 38 (8.30%) Python
3 26 (5.68%) Bash
4 20 (4.37%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.62%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.97%) Bicep
7 6 (1.31%) Java
8 4 (0.87%) Perl
9 2 (0.44%) Jython
9 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 91 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.83%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.15%) Degree
5 11 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.40%) PMP
6 10 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.31%) ACCA
8 6 (1.31%) CIMA
9 5 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.66%) CCIE
11 3 (0.66%) CISSP
11 3 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.77%) GDPR
3 24 (5.24%) QA
4 7 (1.53%) NCSC
4 7 (1.53%) NIST
5 5 (1.09%) IFRS
6 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.87%) BS7666
7 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.66%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
8 2 (0.44%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) DICOM
9 1 (0.22%) GAAP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.22%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (1.97%) VMware NSX
3 9 (1.97%) vSphere
4 8 (1.75%) Docker
5 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.44%) IAG
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.84%) Ansible
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.31%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (1.31%) SCCM
5 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.66%) Puppet
8 2 (0.44%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.44%) Istio
8 2 (0.44%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.22%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.22%) Avamar
9 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 68 (14.85%) SAP
3 67 (14.63%) Oracle
4 28 (6.11%) VMware
5 25 (5.46%) Cisco
6 20 (4.37%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.93%) Databricks
8 15 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.84%) BMC
9 13 (2.84%) Google
10 12 (2.62%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.62%) IFS
11 10 (2.18%) Siebel
12 8 (1.75%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.75%) Workday
13 7 (1.53%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.53%) Remedy
14 6 (1.31%) F5
14 6 (1.31%) IBM
15 5 (1.09%) NetApp