Migration Contracts in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 30 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 326 427 677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.90% 7.33% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 8.19% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 322 518
10th Percentile £313 £386 £273
25th Percentile £412 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £21.48 £24.00 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.88 £30.31 £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +37.14% +47.37%
75th Percentile £36.88 £64.69 £82.50
90th Percentile £55.25 £76.25 £85.50
England median hourly rate £43.12 £65.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -33.67% +150.00% +62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -2 157 £513 -2.38% 38
Berkshire -5 105 £550 +4.76% 20
West Sussex +6 50 £450 -6.25% 7
Hampshire -18 49 £500 -2.44% 12
Surrey +4 40 £513 +2.50% 17
Buckinghamshire +11 37 £450 -2.70% 14
Oxfordshire +2 16 £365 -33.64% 4
East Sussex -2 11 £450 -43.04% 3
Kent 0 7 £425 -20.93% 8
Home Counties +2 3 - -
Sussex - 2 £525 -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Middlesex +3 1 £425 -12.37%
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) FileNet
3 2 (0.61%) GemFire
3 2 (0.61%) Jadu
3 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.61%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (3.07%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.84%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.84%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.84%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (1.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.31%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.31%) iTrent
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (14.11%) Azure
2 32 (9.82%) AWS
3 19 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.45%) GitHub
7 8 (2.45%) SaaS
8 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.84%) IaaS
10 5 (1.53%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.53%) PaaS
11 4 (1.23%) iPaaS
11 4 (1.23%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.92%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.92%) dbt
12 3 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.92%) Serverless
12 3 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.59%) DMZ
2 27 (8.28%) Firewall
3 18 (5.52%) Network Security
4 17 (5.21%) DNS
5 14 (4.29%) VPN
6 12 (3.68%) DHCP
6 12 (3.68%) SAN
7 11 (3.37%) LAN
8 10 (3.07%) WAN
9 9 (2.76%) NAS
10 6 (1.84%) BGP
10 6 (1.84%) MPLS
11 5 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.53%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.23%) DSL
12 4 (1.23%) Ethernet
12 4 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (1.23%) OSPF
12 4 (1.23%) Unified Communications
12 4 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.28%) Oracle Database
3 22 (6.75%) Oracle Database 11g
4 14 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.68%) Power BI
6 9 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.84%) Big Data
7 6 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.53%) Tableau
9 4 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.23%) MS Access
9 4 (1.23%) MySQL
10 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.92%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.61%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.61%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.61%) Redis
11 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.76%) GitLab
2 8 (2.45%) JIRA
3 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.61%) kappa
4 2 (0.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Git
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (25.46%) Finance
2 73 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.43%) Banking
4 26 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.52%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.29%) Retail
8 11 (3.37%) Legal
9 8 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.53%) Billing
10 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Law
13 2 (0.61%) Automotive
13 2 (0.61%) German Language
14 1 (0.31%) Electronics
14 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (15.34%) Senior
2 46 (14.11%) Network Engineer
3 40 (12.27%) Developer
4 31 (9.51%) Project Manager
5 30 (9.20%) Analyst
6 27 (8.28%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (6.75%) Architect
8 21 (6.44%) Consultant
9 17 (5.21%) Lead
10 15 (4.60%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 13 (3.99%) Data Analyst
11 13 (3.99%) Migration Engineer
12 12 (3.68%) ABAP Developer
12 12 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.68%) Migration Specialist
12 12 (3.68%) SAP Developer
13 10 (3.07%) Migration Manager
13 10 (3.07%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.76%) Data Manager
14 9 (2.76%) Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.68%) Web Dynpro
2 9 (2.76%) .NET
3 8 (2.45%) JSON
4 5 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.53%) Web Services
5 3 (0.92%) REST
6 2 (0.61%) CSS
6 2 (0.61%) Flash
6 2 (0.61%) HTML
6 2 (0.61%) Kafka
6 2 (0.61%) LAMP
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
6 2 (0.61%) XML
7 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.31%) BAPI
7 1 (0.31%) Doctrine
7 1 (0.31%) LDAP
7 1 (0.31%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.31%) Symfony
7 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.67%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (3.07%) Replication
3 9 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.45%) Clustering
5 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.23%) e-Health
8 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.61%) CSOC
10 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.61%) IoT
10 2 (0.61%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.61%) PKI
10 2 (0.61%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.50%) Windows
2 23 (7.06%) Linux
3 16 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.68%) Unix
6 9 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.92%) Solaris
8 3 (0.92%) VMS
9 2 (0.61%) Android
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.61%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (34.36%) Data Migration
2 49 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (14.72%) Agile
4 34 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (9.51%) Project Management
6 29 (8.90%) DevOps
7 26 (7.98%) Project Delivery
8 25 (7.67%) B2B
9 22 (6.75%) ETL
10 21 (6.44%) ERP
11 20 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (5.83%) Software Engineering
13 18 (5.52%) Architectural Design
13 18 (5.52%) Clean Code
13 18 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (5.52%) Secure Coding
13 18 (5.52%) Software Testing
13 18 (5.52%) Unit Testing
14 17 (5.21%) Change Management
15 16 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (15.34%) SQL
2 20 (6.13%) PL/SQL
3 13 (3.99%) ABAP
3 13 (3.99%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.37%) Bash
5 10 (3.07%) Python
6 9 (2.76%) C#
7 8 (2.45%) Java
8 7 (2.15%) PHP
9 4 (1.23%) ActionScript
9 4 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.61%) Ruby
10 2 (0.61%) VBScript
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.51%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.44%) Degree
5 12 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.84%) PMP
7 5 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.23%) ACCA
8 4 (1.23%) CIMA
8 4 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.92%) CCNA
10 2 (0.61%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CEH
11 1 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.84%) PMO
2 6 (1.84%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) IFRS
4 4 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (9.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.99%) vSphere
4 10 (3.07%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.84%) XenApp
6 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.92%) Docker
7 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.61%) KVM
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.31%) HDFS
9 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (3.99%) Terraform
2 12 (3.68%) SCCM
3 10 (3.07%) Ansible
4 7 (2.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 5 (1.53%) Avamar
5 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.23%) vRealize
7 3 (0.92%) MOM
7 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.31%) Grafana
9 1 (0.31%) Graylog
9 1 (0.31%) Nagios
9 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (16.87%) Oracle
2 47 (14.42%) Microsoft
3 45 (13.80%) VMware
4 44 (13.50%) SAP
5 40 (12.27%) Cisco
6 28 (8.59%) CheckPoint
7 25 (7.67%) Arista
8 13 (3.99%) Adobe
8 13 (3.99%) SolarWinds
9 12 (3.68%) Citrix
9 12 (3.68%) Dell
9 12 (3.68%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.76%) F5
10 9 (2.76%) Informatica
11 8 (2.45%) IFS
11 8 (2.45%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.15%) Juniper
13 6 (1.84%) EMC
13 6 (1.84%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.84%) Salesforce