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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 377 315 328
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.60% 9.56% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 10.71% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 217 234
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £453 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £648 £650 £672
90th Percentile £731 £688 £725
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 6 8
10th Percentile £15.91 £25.25 £22.66
25th Percentile £19.54 £33.50 £24.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +50.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile - £75.31 £53.00
90th Percentile £41.09 £84.38 £63.64
England median hourly rate £25.08 £22.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year +13.98% -60.40% -11.81%

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 3,683 2,942 4,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.05% 89.29% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,423 1,819 2,841
10th Percentile £238 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% +0.49%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £614
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 110 282
10th Percentile £14.50 £19.90 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.81 £24.57
Median hourly rate £23.58 £46.12 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.89% -12.98% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.64 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.88 £76.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +4 222 £500 -9.09% 71
Berkshire 0 143 £525 -4.55% 38
Hampshire +3 93 £588 +2.62% 24
Buckinghamshire +8 60 £400 -23.08% 24
Surrey -14 30 £600 +29.73% 18
West Sussex -4 22 £514 +21.80% 16
Oxfordshire 0 19 £500 -14.89% 10
Kent -6 6 £500 -14.53% 11
East Sussex -5 5 £333 -33.50% 8
Middlesex - 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 (2.39%) ArcGIS
2 8 (2.12%) GeoServer
2 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.12%) Smallworld
3 6 (1.59%) Confluence
4 5 (1.33%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.80%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (9.28%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.86%) Maximo
4 6 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.80%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.80%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.80%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.53%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.53%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.53%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.53%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle BRM
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.79%) Azure
2 33 (8.75%) OCI
3 28 (7.43%) AWS
4 11 (2.92%) OpenShift
5 9 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.86%) GCP
7 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.06%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.06%) IaaS
8 4 (1.06%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.80%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.65%) DNS
2 7 (1.86%) Firewall
2 7 (1.86%) WAN
3 6 (1.59%) LAN
4 4 (1.06%) VPN
5 3 (0.80%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) DHCP
6 2 (0.53%) Internet
6 2 (0.53%) Intranet
6 2 (0.53%) IPv6
6 2 (0.53%) MPLS
6 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.53%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.27%) SAN
7 1 (0.27%) SSL
7 1 (0.27%) TETRA
7 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.77%) GIS
2 11 (2.92%) Geospatial Data
2 11 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (2.65%) Metadata
3 10 (2.65%) QGIS
4 8 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.33%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.33%) Tableau
6 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.06%) Power BI
7 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (4.51%) JIRA
2 8 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.53%) Git
3 2 (0.53%) GitLab
3 2 (0.53%) JMeter
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.27%) Gatling
4 1 (0.27%) Gradle
4 1 (0.27%) JUnit
4 1 (0.27%) Poetry
4 1 (0.27%) Pylint
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (28.12%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 47 (12.47%) Finance
4 25 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.71%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.65%) Marketing
8 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Banking
9 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Electronics
9 6 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.06%) Retail
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (14.32%) Architect
2 53 (14.06%) Lead
3 51 (13.53%) Consultant
4 33 (8.75%) Network Consultant
5 24 (6.37%) Data Migration Lead
5 24 (6.37%) IT Engineer
5 24 (6.37%) Project Manager
6 23 (6.10%) Senior
7 21 (5.57%) Analyst
8 18 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.24%) Migration Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) Support Engineer
11 14 (3.71%) Administrator
12 13 (3.45%) Developer
13 12 (3.18%) Windows Engineer
14 11 (2.92%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.65%) SAP Data Migration Lead
16 9 (2.39%) Data Analyst
16 9 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 9 (2.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.39%) .NET
3 6 (1.59%) REST
4 5 (1.33%) PySpark
4 5 (1.33%) Web Services
5 4 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (1.06%) SAP PI
6 3 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.80%) Middleware
6 3 (0.80%) React
6 3 (0.80%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.53%) BAPI
7 2 (0.53%) CSS
7 2 (0.53%) IDoc
7 2 (0.53%) JSON
7 2 (0.53%) Kafka
7 2 (0.53%) LDAP
7 2 (0.53%) RESTful
7 2 (0.53%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.86%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.86%) Replication
7 6 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.33%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.06%) CMDB
9 4 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.53%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.57%) Windows
2 12 (3.18%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.39%) Linux
4 6 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (29.71%) Data Migration
2 71 (18.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 62 (16.45%) Agile
4 58 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (14.06%) Workflow
6 52 (13.79%) Workflow Management
7 51 (13.53%) Roadmaps
8 43 (11.41%) Collaborative Working
9 36 (9.55%) Validation
10 33 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 32 (8.49%) Data Cleansing
12 31 (8.22%) Data Modelling
12 31 (8.22%) ERP
13 28 (7.43%) DevOps
14 23 (6.10%) ITIL
14 23 (6.10%) Project Delivery
15 22 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (5.84%) Project Management
16 21 (5.57%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.90%) SQL
2 25 (6.63%) Python
3 13 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.65%) Bash
5 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
6 6 (1.59%) Java
7 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.06%) C#
8 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.53%) Bicep
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) Delphi
11 1 (0.27%) Jython
11 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.27%) PHP
11 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 135 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (30.24%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.10%) Degree
4 17 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.39%) OCP
6 9 (2.39%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.86%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.86%) PMP
8 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.80%) PgMP
11 2 (0.53%) ACCA
11 2 (0.53%) CIMA
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.31%) GDPR
3 19 (5.04%) QA
4 9 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.12%) NIST
6 6 (1.59%) COBIT
6 6 (1.59%) NCSC
7 5 (1.33%) PMO
8 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.53%) GRC
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.59%) Docker
4 4 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.06%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) NFS
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (3.45%) Terraform
2 9 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.12%) Ansible
4 6 (1.59%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.06%) Argo
6 2 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 65 (17.24%) Oracle
2 44 (11.67%) SAP
3 40 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 36 (9.55%) Cisco
5 34 (9.02%) Aruba
6 16 (4.24%) ESRI
7 14 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.92%) VMware
9 9 (2.39%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.12%) Intergraph
11 7 (1.86%) IBM
12 6 (1.59%) Google
12 6 (1.59%) Informatica
12 6 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.33%) Citrix
14 4 (1.06%) BMC
14 4 (1.06%) CloudEndure
14 4 (1.06%) Pure Storage
14 4 (1.06%) Remedy
15 3 (0.80%) Workday