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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 23 26
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 420 271 340
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.74% 8.54% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 9.41% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 176 252
10th Percentile £350 £344 £314
25th Percentile £449 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £653
90th Percentile £721 £688 £706
England median daily rate £515 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.36% +1.85% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 5 10
10th Percentile £15.83 £33.60 £23.72
25th Percentile £19.37 £56.25 £25.63
Median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £86.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £86.73 £62.54
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.73% -43.13% -38.46%

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 4,020 2,879 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.66% 90.76% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 1,777 2,935
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £610 £613
90th Percentile £694 £670 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 110 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.28 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%
75th Percentile £59.00 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £83.45 £75.05 £76.92
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +4 238 £500 -9.09% 67
Berkshire +3 162 £525 -4.11% 42
Hampshire +2 95 £588 +2.17% 24
Buckinghamshire +10 58 £448 -23.83% 19
Surrey +1 45 £525 +23.53% 15
West Sussex +3 31 £500 +18.26% 8
Oxfordshire -5 18 £475 -5.00% 8
Kent -11 8 £500 -12.28% 14
East Sussex +1 5 £563 -10.00% 2
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
Home Counties - 1 £700 -
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 9 (2.14%) ArcGIS
1 9 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.90%) GeoServer
2 8 (1.90%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 8 (1.90%) Smallworld
3 7 (1.67%) CMS
4 6 (1.43%) Confluence
5 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (9.29%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.67%) SAP ERP
4 6 (1.43%) Maximo
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (1.19%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.71%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.48%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.48%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.48%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle BRM
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.81%) Azure
2 41 (9.76%) AWS
3 37 (8.81%) OCI
4 24 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.33%) GCP
7 12 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 8 (1.90%) SaaS
9 7 (1.67%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.43%) AWS KMS
10 6 (1.43%) IaaS
10 6 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (0.95%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (0.71%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.24%) DNS
2 14 (3.33%) DHCP
3 13 (3.10%) Firewall
4 12 (2.86%) Kerberos
4 12 (2.86%) WAN
5 8 (1.90%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.67%) MPLS
6 7 (1.67%) VPN
7 6 (1.43%) LAN
7 6 (1.43%) Network Security
8 3 (0.71%) IPv6
8 3 (0.71%) SAN
8 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.71%) VSAN
9 2 (0.48%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.48%) Internet
9 2 (0.48%) Intranet
9 2 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.52%) GIS
2 13 (3.10%) Metadata
3 11 (2.62%) Geospatial Data
4 10 (2.38%) QGIS
5 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.67%) Power BI
7 7 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.43%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (0.71%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.71%) MySQL
11 3 (0.71%) OLAP
11 3 (0.71%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.62%) JIRA
2 7 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.48%) GitLab
3 2 (0.48%) JMeter
3 2 (0.48%) Maven
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.48%) Subversion
4 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.24%) Gatling
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Gradle
4 1 (0.24%) JUnit
General
1 116 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.48%) Finance
3 64 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.10%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.86%) Marketing
7 10 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.90%) Banking
9 7 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.43%) Electronics
10 6 (1.43%) Legal
10 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.19%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Local Government
12 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Retail
13 3 (0.71%) Publishing
14 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 67 (15.95%) Architect
2 58 (13.81%) Lead
3 53 (12.62%) Consultant
4 33 (7.86%) Network Consultant
5 27 (6.43%) Analyst
6 25 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.71%) Data Migration Lead
7 24 (5.71%) Senior
8 22 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.76%) IT Engineer
10 17 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
11 15 (3.57%) Developer
12 13 (3.10%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.86%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.62%) Administrator
14 11 (2.62%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.62%) Migration Manager
15 10 (2.38%) SAP Data Migration Lead
15 10 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.10%) LDAP
3 9 (2.14%) REST
4 8 (1.90%) .NET
5 4 (0.95%) Kafka
5 4 (0.95%) PySpark
5 4 (0.95%) SOAP
5 4 (0.95%) Web Services
6 3 (0.71%) OAuth
6 3 (0.71%) React
7 2 (0.48%) BAPI
7 2 (0.48%) CSS
7 2 (0.48%) CSS3
7 2 (0.48%) HTML
7 2 (0.48%) HTML5
7 2 (0.48%) Middleware
7 2 (0.48%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.48%) Spring
7 2 (0.48%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.81%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.00%) Replication
3 13 (3.10%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.67%) CMDB
7 6 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.19%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.48%) Windows
2 14 (3.33%) Linux
3 13 (3.10%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (29.29%) Data Migration
2 77 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (16.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 62 (14.76%) Agile
5 58 (13.81%) Roadmaps
6 45 (10.71%) Workflow
7 44 (10.48%) Validation
8 42 (10.00%) Workflow Management
9 41 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
10 40 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (8.81%) User Acceptance Testing
12 35 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 34 (8.10%) Data Cleansing
13 34 (8.10%) DevOps
14 33 (7.86%) ERP
15 28 (6.67%) Project Management
16 26 (6.19%) Analytics
16 26 (6.19%) Data Protection
16 26 (6.19%) Data Validation
17 25 (5.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.14%) SQL
2 26 (6.19%) PowerShell
3 22 (5.24%) Python
4 11 (2.62%) Bash
5 9 (2.14%) Java
6 5 (1.19%) Bicep
6 5 (1.19%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.24%) Delphi
9 1 (0.24%) Jython
9 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.24%) PHP
9 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 129 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.95%) Degree
4 21 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.14%) OCP
6 9 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (2.14%) PMP
7 8 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.71%) PgMP
12 2 (0.48%) ACCA
12 2 (0.48%) CCNA
12 2 (0.48%) CCNP
12 2 (0.48%) CIMA
12 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.48%) GDPR
3 22 (5.24%) QA
4 15 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.10%) NIST
6 11 (2.62%) COBIT
7 8 (1.90%) NCSC
8 7 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.19%) PMO
10 4 (0.95%) GRC
11 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.71%) SLA
12 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.43%) Docker
3 6 (1.43%) vSphere
4 5 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.48%) NFS
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (4.29%) Terraform
2 13 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.90%) Ansible
5 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.95%) Grafana
8 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.71%) SCCM
9 2 (0.48%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.48%) linkerd
9 2 (0.48%) Nessus
10 1 (0.24%) CASB
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (16.90%) Oracle
2 62 (14.76%) Microsoft
3 52 (12.38%) SAP
4 38 (9.05%) Cisco
5 35 (8.33%) Aruba
6 17 (4.05%) VMware
7 16 (3.81%) ESRI
8 15 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.14%) IBM
9 9 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.90%) Citrix
10 8 (1.90%) Intergraph
11 7 (1.67%) Google
12 6 (1.43%) Informatica
12 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.43%) Sage
13 5 (1.19%) Adobe
14 4 (0.95%) BMC
14 4 (0.95%) Remedy
14 4 (0.95%) Splunk