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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 414 352 380
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.76% 8.89% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.31% 10.19% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 239 271
10th Percentile £332 £334 £400
25th Percentile £449 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £639 £694
90th Percentile £720 £687 £738
England median daily rate £515 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% -1.59% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 6 7
10th Percentile £15.91 £25.25 £22.13
25th Percentile £20.57 £33.50 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.42% +67.59% -19.40%
75th Percentile - £53.56 £55.99
90th Percentile £69.55 £68.13 £64.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% -67.15% +24.55%

All Process and 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 3,659 3,456 4,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 86.26% 87.25% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,359 2,138 3,045
10th Percentile £220 £250 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 152 243
10th Percentile £14.53 £18.71 £16.42
25th Percentile £16.89 £26.81 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%
75th Percentile £42.93 £70.00 £65.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +5 230 £500 -11.89% 101
Berkshire +4 150 £525 -9.79% 52
Hampshire +18 110 £536 -5.92% 39
Buckinghamshire +7 54 £375 -25.74% 34
Surrey -11 34 £638 +22.89% 22
West Sussex -1 27 £545 +35.79% 13
Oxfordshire +4 25 £600 +2.13% 18
Kent +2 7 £500 -14.53% 21
East Sussex -4 6 £333 -42.17% 3
Middlesex - 2 £850 - 3
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 10 (2.42%) ArcGIS
2 9 (2.17%) Confluence
3 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.45%) GeoServer
5 6 (1.45%) Smallworld
6 5 (1.21%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 3 (0.72%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (7.25%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.66%) Maximo
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.72%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.72%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.48%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.98%) Azure
2 32 (7.73%) AWS
3 27 (6.52%) OCI
4 19 (4.59%) OpenShift
5 16 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.90%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.42%) GCP
8 10 (2.42%) SaaS
9 8 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.45%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.21%) IaaS
13 4 (0.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (0.97%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (0.97%) AWS KMS
13 4 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (0.97%) GitHub
13 4 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.66%) VPN
2 10 (2.42%) Firewall
3 9 (2.17%) DNS
4 7 (1.69%) WAN
5 6 (1.45%) LAN
6 5 (1.21%) Network Security
7 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Internet
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
8 3 (0.72%) VLAN
8 3 (0.72%) VSAN
9 2 (0.48%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) Intranet
9 2 (0.48%) IPsec
9 2 (0.48%) IPv6
9 2 (0.48%) MPLS
9 2 (0.48%) OSPF
9 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wireless
10 1 (0.24%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.35%) GIS
2 13 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (1.93%) QGIS
6 7 (1.69%) Tableau
7 6 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.45%) Metadata
7 6 (1.45%) Power BI
7 6 (1.45%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.56%) JIRA
2 16 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.72%) GitLab
4 2 (0.48%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) JMeter
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) Gatling
5 1 (0.24%) Gradle
5 1 (0.24%) JUnit
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) Pylint
5 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.98%) Public Sector
3 61 (14.73%) Finance
4 31 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.59%) Manufacturing
5 19 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.66%) Marketing
7 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.93%) Electronics
9 7 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.45%) Legal
10 6 (1.45%) Local Government
11 5 (1.21%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.21%) Retail
12 4 (0.97%) Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.48%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (13.04%) Consultant
2 51 (12.32%) Architect
3 45 (10.87%) Lead
4 33 (7.97%) Network Consultant
5 27 (6.52%) Senior
6 25 (6.04%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.80%) Analyst
8 23 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (5.31%) IT Engineer
10 21 (5.07%) Data Migration Lead
11 16 (3.86%) Migration Engineer
12 14 (3.38%) Administrator
12 14 (3.38%) Support Engineer
13 13 (3.14%) Developer
13 13 (3.14%) Windows Engineer
14 11 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.66%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 11 (2.66%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.42%) Desktop Support
15 10 (2.42%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.17%) .NET
2 9 (2.17%) React
3 8 (1.93%) Middleware
4 4 (0.97%) REST
4 4 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (0.97%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.72%) Visualforce
5 3 (0.72%) Web Services
6 2 (0.48%) BAPI
6 2 (0.48%) CSS
6 2 (0.48%) IDoc
6 2 (0.48%) JSON
6 2 (0.48%) Kafka
6 2 (0.48%) PySpark
6 2 (0.48%) RESTful
6 2 (0.48%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.48%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.11%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.90%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.17%) Life Science
5 9 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
6 8 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.45%) Replication
9 5 (1.21%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.21%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.21%) PKI
9 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.80%) Windows
2 12 (2.90%) Linux
3 9 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (28.99%) Data Migration
2 82 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 69 (16.67%) Agile
4 68 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (14.73%) Workflow
6 59 (14.25%) Workflow Management
7 57 (13.77%) Roadmaps
8 50 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (10.39%) Collaborative Working
10 38 (9.18%) Validation
11 36 (8.70%) ERP
12 35 (8.45%) Data Modelling
13 33 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
14 31 (7.49%) DevOps
15 27 (6.52%) Data Cleansing
16 26 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (6.28%) ITIL
17 24 (5.80%) CI/CD
18 23 (5.56%) Project Delivery
18 23 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.70%) SQL
2 33 (7.97%) Python
3 27 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.90%) C#
4 12 (2.90%) Java
4 12 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.42%) Bash
6 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.72%) Bicep
8 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.48%) VB
9 1 (0.24%) ABAP
9 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.24%) Delphi
9 1 (0.24%) Jython
9 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.24%) PHP
9 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 154 (37.20%) Security Cleared
2 130 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.21%) Degree
4 24 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.17%) OCP
6 9 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.45%) PMP
9 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.72%) PgMP
11 2 (0.48%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CCNA
12 1 (0.24%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) ISEB
12 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.83%) GDPR
2 20 (4.83%) QA
3 12 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.90%) NIST
4 7 (1.69%) NCSC
5 6 (1.45%) COBIT
5 6 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.48%) GRC
6 2 (0.48%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.69%) Docker
5 5 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.21%) vSphere
6 2 (0.48%) NFS
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.59%) Terraform
3 18 (4.35%) Ansible
4 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.97%) Argo
7 3 (0.72%) Grafana
8 2 (0.48%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.48%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (14.73%) Oracle
2 58 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 54 (13.04%) SAP
4 38 (9.18%) Cisco
5 34 (8.21%) Aruba
6 16 (3.86%) ESRI
7 14 (3.38%) VMware
8 13 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.90%) IBM
10 11 (2.66%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.42%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.93%) Google
13 6 (1.45%) Citrix
13 6 (1.45%) Intergraph
13 6 (1.45%) Remedy
14 4 (0.97%) CloudEndure
14 4 (0.97%) IFS
14 4 (0.97%) Informatica
14 4 (0.97%) Pure Storage
15 3 (0.72%) Workday