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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 472 286 335
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 7.76% 9.46% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 10.33% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 182 237
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £435 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £588
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 8
10th Percentile £14.12 - £21.48
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £26.31
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.18% +91.67% -35.83%
75th Percentile £41.83 £72.50 £36.88
90th Percentile £84.42 £86.25 £50.90
England median hourly rate £25.76 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.43% -37.13% -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 4,917 2,768 4,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.81% 91.59% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,124 1,751 2,740
10th Percentile £280 £250 £262
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.15% -1.33%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £661 £700
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 202 472
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.01
25th Percentile £22.18 £15.12 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82.25 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -3 232 £530 +11.29% 40
Berkshire +4 160 £558 +11.50% 17
Hampshire -5 116 £555 +3.35% 19
Buckinghamshire -8 57 £525 +38.16% 19
Surrey +2 54 £525 +5.00% 12
West Sussex +2 41 £467 -3.71% 6
Kent +7 16 £475 +11.76% 8
Oxfordshire -32 15 £500 +38.89% 4
East Sussex -4 4 £471 -9.20% 3
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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.48%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.48%) CMS
3 6 (1.27%) Confluence
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.42%) Drupal
7 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.42%) JBoss
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 2 (0.42%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 43 (9.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.45%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.27%) NEC Housing
3 6 (1.27%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.85%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.85%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.85%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.85%) SAP VC
5 4 (0.85%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.64%) Primavera
6 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.64%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.42%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 92 (19.49%) Azure
2 62 (13.14%) AWS
3 35 (7.42%) OCI
4 27 (5.72%) GCP
5 25 (5.30%) Entra ID
6 24 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 18 (3.81%) SaaS
8 14 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.48%) IaaS
11 6 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.27%) PaaS
12 5 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.06%) Serverless
13 4 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.85%) Boomi
13 4 (0.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.36%) Firewall
2 27 (5.72%) DNS
3 20 (4.24%) WAN
4 19 (4.03%) DHCP
5 16 (3.39%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.75%) LAN
7 12 (2.54%) Kerberos
8 11 (2.33%) Network Security
8 11 (2.33%) VPN
9 10 (2.12%) BGP
10 9 (1.91%) MPLS
10 9 (1.91%) OSPF
10 9 (1.91%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (1.48%) VLAN
12 6 (1.27%) NAS
12 6 (1.27%) SAN
13 5 (1.06%) IPsec
13 5 (1.06%) VSAN
14 4 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.08%) Power BI
2 14 (2.97%) GIS
2 14 (2.97%) Metadata
2 14 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.48%) Spatial Data
9 6 (1.27%) QGIS
10 5 (1.06%) Big Data
10 5 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.85%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (3.39%) JIRA
2 8 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.27%) GitLab
3 6 (1.27%) Postman
4 5 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.85%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.85%) Maven
5 4 (0.85%) Subversion
6 3 (0.64%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.42%) Introscope
8 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.21%) Git
8 1 (0.21%) Hudson
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.21%) Mockito
8 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 105 (22.25%) Finance
2 100 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.66%) Legal
7 20 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 20 (4.24%) Retail
8 18 (3.81%) Automotive
9 12 (2.54%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.12%) Marketing
11 9 (1.91%) Banking
12 8 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.27%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.85%) Local Government
16 3 (0.64%) Advertising
17 2 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (20.76%) Lead
2 62 (13.14%) Architect
3 41 (8.69%) Analyst
4 39 (8.26%) Project Manager
5 36 (7.63%) Data Migration Lead
6 28 (5.93%) Consultant
7 27 (5.72%) Senior
8 25 (5.30%) Migration Engineer
9 22 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.45%) Developer
11 16 (3.39%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.97%) Accountant
13 13 (2.75%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (2.75%) Data Migration Engineer
14 12 (2.54%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.33%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.12%) Administrator
16 10 (2.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (3.18%) Kafka
3 13 (2.75%) REST
4 12 (2.54%) LDAP
5 11 (2.33%) SOAP
6 10 (2.12%) XML
7 7 (1.48%) Middleware
8 5 (1.06%) RESTful
9 4 (0.85%) EDI
9 4 (0.85%) JSON
9 4 (0.85%) OAuth
9 4 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.85%) Spring
9 4 (0.85%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.64%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.64%) PySpark
10 3 (0.64%) React
11 2 (0.42%) CSS3
11 2 (0.42%) HTML5
11 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.59%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 26 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.03%) Replication
5 15 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.12%) CMDB
10 9 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.06%) PKI
12 5 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.85%) LLPG
13 4 (0.85%) NLPG
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.36%) Windows
2 25 (5.30%) Linux
3 7 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.06%) Unix
5 5 (1.06%) VMS
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (38.98%) Data Migration
2 93 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 80 (16.95%) Agile
4 70 (14.83%) Validation
5 64 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
6 59 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.02%) ERP
8 43 (9.11%) Data Cleansing
9 41 (8.69%) Data Protection
10 38 (8.05%) Data Modelling
11 35 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (7.42%) Change Management
12 34 (7.20%) Analytics
13 33 (6.99%) ETL
13 33 (6.99%) Scenario Testing
14 32 (6.78%) DevOps
14 32 (6.78%) Project Delivery
15 30 (6.36%) Project Management
16 29 (6.14%) CI/CD
16 29 (6.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (10.81%) SQL
2 32 (6.78%) PowerShell
3 28 (5.93%) Python
4 19 (4.03%) Bash
5 15 (3.18%) PL/SQL
6 12 (2.54%) Java
7 8 (1.69%) Bicep
8 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.42%) Jython
10 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 134 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 103 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.26%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.39%) Degree
5 10 (2.12%) PMP
6 8 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.85%) ACCA
10 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.85%) CIMA
10 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.42%) CCIE
12 2 (0.42%) CCNP
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.26%) Data Quality
1 39 (8.26%) GDPR
2 23 (4.87%) QA
3 11 (2.33%) NIST
4 9 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.69%) NCSC
6 6 (1.27%) PMO
7 5 (1.06%) COBIT
7 5 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.06%) SLA
8 4 (0.85%) BS7666
8 4 (0.85%) GRC
9 3 (0.64%) IFRS
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.21%) DICOM
11 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.91%) vSphere
4 8 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.64%) Docker
7 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.21%) Postfix
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (4.24%) Terraform
2 14 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (1.91%) Ansible
3 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.27%) SCCM
6 4 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.64%) Grafana
7 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.42%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.42%) Istio
8 2 (0.42%) linkerd
8 2 (0.42%) Nessus
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.42%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.42%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 70 (14.83%) Oracle
3 64 (13.56%) SAP
4 27 (5.72%) VMware
5 22 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.24%) Cisco
7 17 (3.60%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.39%) Google
9 15 (3.18%) IFS
10 10 (2.12%) IBM
11 9 (1.91%) ESRI
11 9 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.91%) Siebel
12 8 (1.69%) F5
13 7 (1.48%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.27%) Databricks
14 6 (1.27%) NEC
14 6 (1.27%) SolarWinds
15 5 (1.06%) Ab Initio
15 5 (1.06%) NetApp