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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 458 330 354
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 6.94% 9.36% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 10.49% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 190 240
10th Percentile £356 £312 £374
25th Percentile £425 £375 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +1.89%
75th Percentile £649 £616 £615
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £519 £533
% change year-on-year +1.25% -2.72% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 7
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.40 £21.05
25th Percentile £18.51 - £26.38
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -26.03% +47.83%
75th Percentile £68.94 £32.43 £45.50
90th Percentile £80.95 £71.28 £53.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.46% -4.29%

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 5,312 3,147 3,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.52% 89.30% 82.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 1,956 2,343
10th Percentile £280 £233 £260
25th Percentile £420 £392 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 306 294
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.50 £27.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +9.66%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.06 £70.39
90th Percentile £87.83 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -8 229 £560 +24.44% 113
Berkshire +3 162 £575 +4.55% 70
Hampshire -16 109 £550 +10.00% 29
Buckinghamshire -24 46 £560 +49.33% 24
Surrey -9 43 £458 -19.97% 29
West Sussex 0 40 £488 -13.33% 14
Oxfordshire -25 21 £450 +12.50% 20
Kent +8 17 £563 +24.31% 16
Middlesex -19 6 - - 5
East Sussex -4 2 £471 +147.89% 4
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 18 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.97%) Confluence
3 6 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Drupal
6 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.44%) JBoss
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.44%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Predix
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.22%) Houdini
5 1 (0.22%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 41 (8.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.09%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (1.09%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.87%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.87%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.87%) SAP GTS
4 4 (0.87%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.87%) SAP VC
4 4 (0.87%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.66%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.44%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 105 (22.93%) Azure
2 86 (18.78%) AWS
3 37 (8.08%) GCP
4 26 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.59%) SaaS
7 20 (4.37%) OCI
8 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.53%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.53%) Serverless
10 6 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.31%) GitHub
10 6 (1.31%) IaaS
10 6 (1.31%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.09%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (0.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.55%) Firewall
2 19 (4.15%) DNS
3 16 (3.49%) WAN
4 14 (3.06%) LAN
4 14 (3.06%) VPN
5 12 (2.62%) DHCP
6 11 (2.40%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.40%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.97%) BGP
8 7 (1.53%) OSPF
8 7 (1.53%) VLAN
8 7 (1.53%) VSAN
9 6 (1.31%) Network Security
10 5 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (1.09%) IPsec
10 5 (1.09%) MPLS
10 5 (1.09%) NGFW
10 5 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.68%) Power BI
2 18 (3.93%) Oracle Database
3 14 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.06%) Metadata
4 10 (2.18%) GIS
5 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.53%) Big Data
6 7 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.09%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (1.09%) Spatial Data
8 4 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.87%) QGIS
8 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.66%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (5.02%) JIRA
2 7 (1.53%) GitLab
3 6 (1.31%) Postman
4 5 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.66%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.44%) Introscope
8 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.22%) Git
8 1 (0.22%) Hudson
8 1 (0.22%) JUnit
8 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.22%) Mockito
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) RStudio
8 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 116 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.43%) Finance
3 50 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.90%) Retail
7 25 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.93%) Automotive
8 18 (3.93%) Legal
9 16 (3.49%) Aerospace
10 15 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.06%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.75%) Banking
13 8 (1.75%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.53%) Marketing
14 7 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Local Government
15 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 87 (19.00%) Lead
2 67 (14.63%) Architect
3 40 (8.73%) Project Manager
4 39 (8.52%) Consultant
4 39 (8.52%) Senior
5 38 (8.30%) Analyst
6 30 (6.55%) Data Migration Lead
7 24 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.24%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.15%) Migration Engineer
10 18 (3.93%) Developer
11 15 (3.28%) Data Migration Engineer
12 14 (3.06%) Accountant
12 14 (3.06%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.62%) Administrator
13 12 (2.62%) SAP Consultant
14 11 (2.40%) Migration Architect
14 11 (2.40%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.46%) Terraform
2 17 (3.71%) REST
3 15 (3.28%) Kafka
4 12 (2.62%) SOAP
5 11 (2.40%) LDAP
5 11 (2.40%) Middleware
6 6 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.31%) XML
7 5 (1.09%) PySpark
7 5 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.87%) EDI
8 4 (0.87%) JSON
8 4 (0.87%) RESTful
9 3 (0.66%) Spring
9 3 (0.66%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.66%) Web Services
10 2 (0.44%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.44%) JDBC
10 2 (0.44%) JMS
10 2 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.17%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.02%) Data Centre
3 21 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.71%) CMDB
7 16 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.62%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.40%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.09%) PKI
13 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.87%) LLPG
14 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.42%) Windows
2 31 (6.77%) Linux
3 13 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.53%) Unix
6 4 (0.87%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (37.77%) Data Migration
2 110 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (16.59%) Agile
4 66 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (13.10%) Validation
6 54 (11.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 45 (9.83%) ERP
8 44 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 38 (8.30%) DevOps
10 36 (7.86%) Analytics
10 36 (7.86%) Data Modelling
11 35 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (7.64%) Project Delivery
12 34 (7.42%) CI/CD
13 33 (7.21%) Data Protection
14 31 (6.77%) ETL
14 31 (6.77%) Roadmaps
15 29 (6.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (6.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.70%) SQL
2 39 (8.52%) Python
3 27 (5.90%) Bash
4 23 (5.02%) PowerShell
5 14 (3.06%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.97%) Bicep
7 6 (1.31%) Java
8 4 (0.87%) Perl
9 2 (0.44%) Jython
9 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.83%) DV Cleared
4 18 (3.93%) Degree
5 12 (2.62%) PMP
6 11 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.31%) ACCA
9 6 (1.31%) CIMA
10 5 (1.09%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.66%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.77%) GDPR
3 23 (5.02%) QA
4 7 (1.53%) NCSC
4 7 (1.53%) NIST
5 5 (1.09%) IFRS
6 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.87%) BS7666
7 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.66%) PMO
7 3 (0.66%) SLA
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) DICOM
9 1 (0.22%) GAAP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.22%) OpenSCAP
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (1.97%) VMware NSX
3 9 (1.97%) vSphere
4 8 (1.75%) Docker
5 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.22%) IAG
7 1 (0.22%) Postfix
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.84%) Ansible
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.31%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (1.31%) SCCM
5 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.66%) Puppet
8 2 (0.44%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.44%) Istio
8 2 (0.44%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.22%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.22%) Avamar
9 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 80 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 67 (14.63%) Oracle
2 67 (14.63%) SAP
3 28 (6.11%) VMware
4 24 (5.24%) Cisco
5 21 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.93%) Databricks
7 15 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 14 (3.06%) Google
9 13 (2.84%) IFS
10 12 (2.62%) BMC
11 11 (2.40%) CyberArk
12 10 (2.18%) Siebel
13 8 (1.75%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.75%) Workday
14 7 (1.53%) IBM
14 7 (1.53%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.31%) F5
15 6 (1.31%) Remedy
16 5 (1.09%) NetApp