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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 500 342 343
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.47% 9.76% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 10.85% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 198 233
10th Percentile £355 £311 £363
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +1.42%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £675 £687
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 9
10th Percentile £15.26 £17.85 £21.90
25th Percentile £21.17 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +25.93%
75th Percentile £71.00 £34.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £85.29 £71.38 £53.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -2.53%

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 5,408 3,153 4,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.78% 89.96% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 1,970 2,480
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £415 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.22%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £666 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 294 323
10th Percentile £14.73 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.00 £21.32 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +167.35% -62.82% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £49.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.43 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -9 252 £551 +22.50% 60
Berkshire +2 181 £570 +11.55% 29
Hampshire -11 132 £550 +10.00% 25
Buckinghamshire -21 50 £525 +50.00% 16
Surrey -11 42 £455 -16.26% 15
West Sussex -6 41 £459 -8.20% 4
Oxfordshire -28 21 £500 +42.86% 17
Kent +8 17 £563 +32.35% 11
Middlesex -15 5 - - 2
East Sussex 0 2 £471 +185.45% 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 20 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.40%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.20%) CMS
4 5 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.80%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.40%) Drupal
6 2 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.40%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) 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 19 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.20%) Houdini
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 47 (9.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (1.00%) NEC Housing
4 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.00%) Remedy AR System
4 5 (1.00%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.80%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.80%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.80%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.80%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.80%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.60%) Primavera
6 3 (0.60%) SAP R/3
6 3 (0.60%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 99 (19.80%) Azure
2 81 (16.20%) AWS
3 36 (7.20%) GCP
4 30 (6.00%) OCI
5 28 (5.60%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.20%) SaaS
8 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.40%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.20%) GitHub
11 6 (1.20%) IaaS
11 6 (1.20%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.20%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.00%) PaaS
12 5 (1.00%) Serverless
13 4 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.40%) Firewall
2 17 (3.40%) DNS
3 16 (3.20%) WAN
4 14 (2.80%) LAN
5 13 (2.60%) VPN
6 11 (2.20%) DHCP
6 11 (2.20%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.00%) Network Security
7 10 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.80%) BGP
9 7 (1.40%) OSPF
9 7 (1.40%) VLAN
10 6 (1.20%) VSAN
11 5 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.00%) IPsec
11 5 (1.00%) MPLS
11 5 (1.00%) NAS
11 5 (1.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.60%) Power BI
2 16 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.00%) Metadata
3 15 (3.00%) Oracle Database
4 13 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.20%) GIS
6 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.40%) Big Data
9 5 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.00%) Siebel EIM
9 5 (1.00%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.80%) QGIS
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (3.80%) JIRA
2 8 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (1.40%) GitLab
4 6 (1.20%) Postman
5 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.80%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) Subversion
7 3 (0.60%) 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%) TestRail
General
1 124 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 101 (20.20%) Finance
3 60 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
5 30 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.00%) Retail
7 20 (4.00%) Legal
8 18 (3.60%) Automotive
9 17 (3.40%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.40%) Marketing
12 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.60%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Banking
15 5 (1.00%) Local Government
16 3 (0.60%) Advertising
17 2 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 96 (19.20%) Lead
2 64 (12.80%) Architect
3 49 (9.80%) Analyst
4 40 (8.00%) Consultant
5 39 (7.80%) Project Manager
6 36 (7.20%) Senior
7 33 (6.60%) Data Migration Lead
8 25 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 25 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
9 22 (4.40%) Developer
10 19 (3.80%) Data Analyst
10 19 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (3.20%) Accountant
14 15 (3.00%) Data Migration Engineer
15 12 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.40%) Migration Manager
15 12 (2.40%) Systems Accountant
16 11 (2.20%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.20%) REST
2 15 (3.00%) Kafka
3 13 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (2.40%) SOAP
5 10 (2.00%) Middleware
5 10 (2.00%) XML
6 8 (1.60%) LDAP
7 5 (1.00%) RESTful
7 5 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.80%) EDI
8 4 (0.80%) JSON
8 4 (0.80%) PySpark
9 3 (0.60%) Spring
9 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.40%) JDBC
10 2 (0.40%) JMS
10 2 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.40%) React
10 2 (0.40%) Web Services
10 2 (0.40%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (5.80%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.60%) CMDB
6 16 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.40%) Product Ownership
10 11 (2.20%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.20%) PKI
13 6 (1.20%) Replication
14 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.00%) Linux
2 34 (6.80%) Windows
3 12 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.60%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.40%) Unix
7 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.80%) VMS
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.60%) Data Migration
2 115 (23.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (17.20%) Agile
4 72 (14.40%) Validation
5 66 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (11.80%) User Acceptance Testing
7 49 (9.80%) ERP
8 47 (9.40%) Data Modelling
9 43 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (8.20%) Analytics
10 41 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (7.60%) Data Protection
12 37 (7.40%) Data Cleansing
12 37 (7.40%) ETL
13 36 (7.20%) DevOps
14 35 (7.00%) Change Management
14 35 (7.00%) Project Delivery
15 32 (6.40%) CI/CD
15 32 (6.40%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.60%) SQL
2 39 (7.80%) Python
3 29 (5.80%) Bash
4 27 (5.40%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.20%) Java
7 7 (1.40%) Bicep
8 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.80%) Perl
10 2 (0.40%) Jython
10 2 (0.40%) 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 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 103 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.80%) Degree
5 11 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.80%) PMP
7 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.20%) ACCA
9 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.20%) CIMA
10 5 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.60%) VCAP
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.60%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.40%) GDPR
3 24 (4.80%) QA
4 9 (1.80%) NIST
5 7 (1.40%) NCSC
6 5 (1.00%) IFRS
6 5 (1.00%) PMO
7 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.80%) BS7666
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) DICOM
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.60%) Docker
3 8 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.60%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.60%) vSphere
4 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.20%) Postfix
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (4.40%) Terraform
2 18 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.40%) Ansible
4 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.20%) SCCM
6 4 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.60%) Puppet
7 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.40%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) Avamar
9 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) Nessus
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (15.60%) Oracle
2 77 (15.40%) Microsoft
3 72 (14.40%) SAP
4 28 (5.60%) VMware
5 25 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.40%) Cisco
7 17 (3.40%) Google
8 16 (3.20%) ServiceNow
9 15 (3.00%) IFS
10 14 (2.80%) Databricks
11 12 (2.40%) BMC
12 11 (2.20%) IBM
13 10 (2.00%) Siebel
14 8 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 8 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.60%) Workday
15 7 (1.40%) Adobe
15 7 (1.40%) Red Hat
16 6 (1.20%) ESRI
16 6 (1.20%) Remedy