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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 20 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 392 285 332
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.60% 8.96% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.30% 10.02% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 193 244
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £463 £423 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £660
90th Percentile £721 £688 £705
England median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 3 8
10th Percentile £15.91 £30.30 £22.66
25th Percentile £19.54 £48.00 £24.81
Median hourly rate £24.33 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.59% +166.67% -28.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £84.38 £53.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.50 £63.64
England median hourly rate £23.91 £20.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.36% -49.06% -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 3,805 2,843 4,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.52% 89.35% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,511 1,738 2,982
10th Percentile £250 £250 £213
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 105 355
10th Percentile £13.73 £18.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56.88 £62.50 £63.29
90th Percentile £75.25 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +8 223 £513 -6.82% 57
Berkshire 0 148 £539 -2.09% 22
Hampshire +2 91 £600 +4.35% 19
Buckinghamshire +13 58 £413 -26.34% 28
Surrey -2 44 £525 +16.67% 17
West Sussex -3 23 £500 +18.26% 8
Oxfordshire -1 17 £500 -9.09% 7
Kent -9 7 £500 -13.42% 4
East Sussex -5 6 £475 -20.83% 1
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 8 (2.04%) ArcGIS
1 8 (2.04%) GeoServer
1 8 (2.04%) Smallworld
2 7 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
3 6 (1.53%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 38 (9.69%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.53%) Maximo
3 6 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.28%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.77%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.51%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.51%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.26%) iTrent
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 67 (17.09%) Azure
2 36 (9.18%) OCI
3 32 (8.16%) AWS
4 21 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.06%) OpenShift
6 11 (2.81%) GCP
7 10 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.53%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.28%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.28%) IaaS
9 5 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.02%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (1.02%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.61%) DNS
2 14 (3.57%) DHCP
3 12 (3.06%) Firewall
3 12 (3.06%) Kerberos
3 12 (3.06%) WAN
4 7 (1.79%) LAN
4 7 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.53%) MPLS
5 6 (1.53%) VPN
6 5 (1.28%) Network Security
7 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.51%) Internet
8 2 (0.51%) Intranet
8 2 (0.51%) IPv6
8 2 (0.51%) SAN
8 2 (0.51%) VSAN
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.26%) NAS
9 1 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.59%) GIS
2 12 (3.06%) Metadata
3 11 (2.81%) Geospatial Data
3 11 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.55%) QGIS
5 9 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.79%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.53%) Power BI
8 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.28%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.28%) Tableau
9 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (3.57%) JIRA
2 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) JMeter
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.26%) Gatling
4 1 (0.26%) Gradle
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) Poetry
4 1 (0.26%) Pylint
4 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.31%) Public Sector
3 54 (13.78%) Finance
4 24 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.32%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.30%) Marketing
8 7 (1.79%) Banking
9 6 (1.53%) Electronics
9 6 (1.53%) General Ledger
9 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.28%) Legal
10 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.02%) Retail
12 3 (0.77%) Local Government
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Publishing
14 1 (0.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (15.31%) Architect
2 57 (14.54%) Lead
3 52 (13.27%) Consultant
4 33 (8.42%) Network Consultant
5 24 (6.12%) Data Migration Lead
5 24 (6.12%) Project Manager
6 23 (5.87%) Senior
7 21 (5.36%) Analyst
8 19 (4.85%) IT Engineer
8 19 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
10 14 (3.57%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) Developer
12 12 (3.06%) Administrator
12 12 (3.06%) Technical Manager
13 10 (2.55%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 9 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
14 9 (2.30%) Migration Manager
14 9 (2.30%) Senior Manager
14 9 (2.30%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.32%) LDAP
3 9 (2.30%) .NET
4 8 (2.04%) REST
5 5 (1.28%) PySpark
6 4 (1.02%) Kafka
6 4 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.02%) SOAP
6 4 (1.02%) Web Services
7 3 (0.77%) React
8 2 (0.51%) BAPI
8 2 (0.51%) IDoc
8 2 (0.51%) JSON
8 2 (0.51%) Middleware
8 2 (0.51%) RESTful
8 2 (0.51%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.51%) SAP PI
8 2 (0.51%) Spring
8 2 (0.51%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.67%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (4.85%) Replication
3 16 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.30%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.53%) CMDB
7 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.28%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.51%) Clustering
11 2 (0.51%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.85%) Windows
2 12 (3.06%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.04%) Linux
4 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (29.34%) Data Migration
2 71 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 64 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 60 (15.31%) Agile
5 52 (13.27%) Roadmaps
6 46 (11.73%) Workflow
7 45 (11.48%) Workflow Management
8 42 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
9 41 (10.46%) Validation
10 36 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
11 35 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (8.42%) ERP
13 32 (8.16%) Data Cleansing
13 32 (8.16%) Data Modelling
14 30 (7.65%) DevOps
15 25 (6.38%) ITIL
16 24 (6.12%) Data Protection
16 24 (6.12%) Project Management
17 21 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
17 21 (5.36%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.89%) SQL
2 24 (6.12%) Python
3 22 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.55%) Bash
5 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 6 (1.53%) Java
7 4 (1.02%) Bicep
7 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.77%) C#
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.26%) Delphi
9 1 (0.26%) Jython
9 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.26%) PHP
9 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 138 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 117 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.61%) Degree
4 16 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.55%) OCP
6 10 (2.55%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (2.04%) PMP
8 7 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.77%) PgMP
13 2 (0.51%) ACCA
13 2 (0.51%) CIMA
14 1 (0.26%) APMP
14 1 (0.26%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.87%) GDPR
3 20 (5.10%) QA
4 11 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.30%) NIST
6 8 (2.04%) COBIT
7 6 (1.53%) NCSC
8 5 (1.28%) PMO
9 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.02%) GRC
10 3 (0.77%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.53%) Docker
5 5 (1.28%) vSphere
6 4 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.51%) NFS
7 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (3.83%) Terraform
2 12 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (2.81%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.53%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.02%) Argo
7 3 (0.77%) Grafana
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
9 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 69 (17.60%) Oracle
2 50 (12.76%) Microsoft
3 43 (10.97%) SAP
4 36 (9.18%) Cisco
5 34 (8.67%) Aruba
6 15 (3.83%) ESRI
7 14 (3.57%) VMware
8 11 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.04%) Google
9 8 (2.04%) Intergraph
10 7 (1.79%) Citrix
11 6 (1.53%) IBM
11 6 (1.53%) Informatica
11 6 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.28%) Sage
13 4 (1.02%) BMC
13 4 (1.02%) CloudEndure
13 4 (1.02%) Databricks
13 4 (1.02%) Remedy