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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 463 270 343
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 8.99% 8.96% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.87% 9.76% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 180 254
10th Percentile £350 £349 £316
25th Percentile £447 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £688 £700
England median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 5 10
10th Percentile £15.78 £33.60 £23.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £56.25 £25.63
Median hourly rate £23.58 £80.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +166.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £86.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £86.73 £62.54
England median hourly rate £23.83 £24.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.73% -49.47% -26.92%

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 4,259 2,766 4,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.72% 91.77% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 1,752 2,927
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 133 383
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.00 £18.26
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.26
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +7 267 £513 -6.82% 46
Berkshire +3 186 £525 -4.11% 27
Hampshire +2 111 £600 - 23
Buckinghamshire +4 61 £445 -17.21% 10
Surrey +1 44 £525 +31.25% 16
West Sussex -2 29 £500 +11.98% 1
Oxfordshire -6 20 £500 - 11
Kent -11 10 £500 -6.98% 14
East Sussex +2 4 £475 -24.00% 1
Home Counties - 1 £700 -
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.94%) ArcGIS
3 8 (1.73%) CMS
3 8 (1.73%) GeoServer
3 8 (1.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 8 (1.73%) Smallworld
4 4 (0.86%) Confluence
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (10.37%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (4.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.73%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.51%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.30%) Maximo
6 5 (1.08%) SAP R/3
7 4 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.65%) Primavera
8 3 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.65%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.43%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.43%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 83 (17.93%) Azure
2 50 (10.80%) OCI
3 45 (9.72%) AWS
4 26 (5.62%) Entra ID
5 18 (3.89%) GCP
6 12 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.59%) OpenShift
6 12 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.73%) SaaS
8 6 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.30%) AWS KMS
8 6 (1.30%) IaaS
8 6 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.08%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (0.86%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.32%) DNS
2 14 (3.02%) DHCP
2 14 (3.02%) Firewall
3 12 (2.59%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.59%) WAN
4 9 (1.94%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.73%) MPLS
5 8 (1.73%) Network Security
6 6 (1.30%) LAN
7 5 (1.08%) VPN
8 4 (0.86%) BGP
8 4 (0.86%) OSPF
9 3 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.65%) SAN
9 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.65%) VSAN
10 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.43%) SNMP
10 2 (0.43%) VoIP
10 2 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.10%) GIS
2 15 (3.24%) Metadata
3 14 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
4 12 (2.59%) Power BI
4 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.73%) QGIS
7 7 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.86%) MySQL
10 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (1.73%) JIRA
2 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.86%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.86%) Maven
3 4 (0.86%) Subversion
4 2 (0.43%) JMeter
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) Gatling
5 1 (0.22%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Gradle
5 1 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 132 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.85%) Finance
3 60 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.59%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.59%) Marketing
6 12 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.94%) Banking
7 9 (1.94%) Legal
8 8 (1.73%) Retail
9 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Electronics
10 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.86%) Local Government
12 3 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.65%) Publishing
13 2 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (15.12%) Architect
2 66 (14.25%) Lead
3 58 (12.53%) Consultant
4 33 (7.13%) Network Consultant
5 29 (6.26%) Analyst
6 27 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.18%) Migration Engineer
8 23 (4.97%) Senior
9 22 (4.75%) Data Migration Lead
9 22 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.89%) IT Engineer
11 17 (3.67%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.67%) Developer
12 13 (2.81%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.59%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.38%) Accountant
14 11 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.16%) Migration Manager
15 10 (2.16%) SAP Data Migration Lead
15 10 (2.16%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (2.81%) LDAP
3 10 (2.16%) REST
4 8 (1.73%) .NET
5 5 (1.08%) SOAP
6 4 (0.86%) Kafka
6 4 (0.86%) PySpark
6 4 (0.86%) React
6 4 (0.86%) Web Services
6 4 (0.86%) XML
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) CSS3
7 3 (0.65%) HTML
7 3 (0.65%) HTML5
7 3 (0.65%) OAuth
7 3 (0.65%) Vue
8 2 (0.43%) JSR 170
8 2 (0.43%) OSGi
8 2 (0.43%) RESTful
8 2 (0.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.29%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.75%) Replication
4 17 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.51%) CMDB
10 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) Clustering
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.40%) Windows
2 19 (4.10%) Linux
3 14 (3.02%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (30.67%) Data Migration
2 87 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (15.55%) Agile
4 66 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 58 (12.53%) Roadmaps
6 56 (12.10%) Validation
7 47 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 43 (9.29%) ERP
9 42 (9.07%) Data Modelling
10 41 (8.86%) Workflow
11 39 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
11 39 (8.42%) Data Cleansing
12 38 (8.21%) Workflow Management
13 36 (7.78%) DevOps
14 34 (7.34%) Analytics
15 33 (7.13%) Data Validation
16 31 (6.70%) Data Protection
17 29 (6.26%) Project Management
18 28 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.99%) SQL
2 30 (6.48%) PowerShell
3 24 (5.18%) Python
4 13 (2.81%) Bash
5 12 (2.59%) Java
6 6 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.86%) Bicep
9 2 (0.43%) C#
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Delphi
10 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.22%) Jython
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 166 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 138 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.05%) Degree
4 22 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.16%) PMP
7 9 (1.94%) OCP
7 9 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.94%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PgMP
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) CIMA
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.62%) GDPR
3 23 (4.97%) QA
4 14 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.59%) NIST
6 11 (2.38%) COBIT
7 8 (1.73%) NCSC
8 7 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.51%) PMO
9 4 (0.86%) GRC
9 4 (0.86%) SLA
10 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.30%) vSphere
5 5 (1.08%) Docker
5 5 (1.08%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.43%) NFS
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (3.89%) Terraform
2 13 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.51%) Ansible
4 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.30%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.86%) Argo
6 4 (0.86%) Grafana
6 4 (0.86%) SCCM
7 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.43%) Istio
8 2 (0.43%) linkerd
8 2 (0.43%) Nessus
9 1 (0.22%) CASB
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (18.14%) Oracle
2 65 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 53 (11.45%) SAP
4 39 (8.42%) Cisco
5 35 (7.56%) Aruba
6 18 (3.89%) VMware
7 16 (3.46%) ESRI
8 15 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.59%) Google
10 11 (2.38%) IBM
11 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.73%) Citrix
12 8 (1.73%) Intergraph
13 6 (1.30%) Adobe
13 6 (1.30%) Informatica
13 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.30%) Sage
14 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.86%) IFS
15 4 (0.86%) Virgin Media