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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 488 262 336
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.03% 8.91% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.89% 9.66% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 173 242
10th Percentile £363 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £419 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £648
90th Percentile £733 £688 £688
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% +2.44% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 6 9
10th Percentile £15.78 £37.38 £23.19
25th Percentile £19.34 £57.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £71.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.91% +137.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £85.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £86.65 £53.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £26.88 £46.23
% change year-on-year -11.35% -41.87% -26.03%

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 4,481 2,711 4,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.87% 92.15% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 1,742 2,887
10th Percentile £275 £258 £213
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +2.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £604 £613 £615
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 393 153 403
10th Percentile £15.30 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.97 £18.10
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80.09 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +8 287 £521 -5.27% 49
Berkshire +7 202 £525 -4.55% 27
Hampshire -1 109 £600 +2.13% 27
Buckinghamshire +3 65 £494 -10.23% 16
Surrey +6 47 £525 +31.25% 13
West Sussex -3 30 £502 +12.32% 1
Oxfordshire -6 20 £500 - 7
Kent -9 11 £500 +50.38% 8
East Sussex 0 4 £475 -25.49% 3
Middlesex - 1 - - 4
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 11 (2.25%) ArcGIS
2 9 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.64%) CMS
3 8 (1.64%) GeoServer
3 8 (1.64%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 8 (1.64%) Smallworld
4 4 (0.82%) Confluence
5 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (10.04%) Oracle EBS
2 28 (5.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (1.43%) SAP ERP
5 6 (1.23%) Maximo
6 5 (1.02%) SAP R/3
7 4 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.61%) Primavera
8 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.61%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.41%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.41%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.41%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 89 (18.24%) Azure
2 52 (10.66%) OCI
3 44 (9.02%) AWS
4 27 (5.53%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.48%) GCP
6 16 (3.28%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.64%) OpenShift
8 8 (1.64%) SaaS
9 6 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.23%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.23%) IaaS
9 6 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.82%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.51%) DNS
2 19 (3.89%) Firewall
3 16 (3.28%) WAN
4 15 (3.07%) DHCP
5 12 (2.46%) Kerberos
5 12 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.05%) LAN
6 10 (2.05%) MPLS
6 10 (2.05%) Network Security
7 8 (1.64%) BGP
7 8 (1.64%) OSPF
7 8 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.43%) VPN
9 6 (1.23%) SAN
10 5 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (1.02%) NAS
10 5 (1.02%) VSAN
11 4 (0.82%) IPsec
11 4 (0.82%) Wireless
12 3 (0.61%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.30%) GIS
2 16 (3.28%) Power BI
3 15 (3.07%) Metadata
4 14 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (2.46%) Geospatial Data
5 12 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.05%) QGIS
7 8 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.61%) OLAP
12 3 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.61%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 8 (1.64%) JIRA
1 8 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.82%) Maven
2 4 (0.82%) Subversion
3 2 (0.41%) GitLab
3 2 (0.41%) JMeter
3 2 (0.41%) JUnit
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.20%) Gatling
4 1 (0.20%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Gradle
4 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.20%) Mockito
General
1 135 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 82 (16.80%) Finance
3 65 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.07%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.87%) Legal
8 13 (2.66%) Marketing
9 12 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.05%) Retail
11 9 (1.84%) Banking
12 8 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.23%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.02%) Electronics
14 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.82%) Automotive
15 4 (0.82%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.82%) Local Government
16 3 (0.61%) Advertising
16 3 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (15.98%) Lead
2 70 (14.34%) Architect
3 63 (12.91%) Consultant
4 35 (7.17%) Project Manager
5 33 (6.76%) Network Consultant
6 31 (6.35%) Analyst
7 25 (5.12%) Data Migration Lead
7 25 (5.12%) Migration Engineer
8 24 (4.92%) Senior
9 20 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.69%) IT Engineer
11 17 (3.48%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.48%) Developer
12 13 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.25%) Accountant
14 11 (2.25%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.05%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.05%) Data Engineer
15 10 (2.05%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (2.66%) LDAP
3 9 (1.84%) .NET
3 9 (1.84%) REST
4 7 (1.43%) Kafka
5 6 (1.23%) XML
6 5 (1.02%) React
6 5 (1.02%) SOAP
7 4 (0.82%) PySpark
7 4 (0.82%) Web Services
8 3 (0.61%) CSS
8 3 (0.61%) CSS3
8 3 (0.61%) HTML
8 3 (0.61%) HTML5
8 3 (0.61%) Middleware
8 3 (0.61%) OAuth
8 3 (0.61%) Vue
9 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.41%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.45%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (4.51%) Replication
3 21 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.43%) CMDB
9 7 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.02%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.82%) PKI
13 3 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.53%) Windows
2 23 (4.71%) Linux
3 14 (2.87%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.41%) Unix
7 2 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (31.97%) Data Migration
2 91 (18.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (14.75%) Agile
4 67 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 64 (13.11%) Validation
6 56 (11.48%) Roadmaps
7 50 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (10.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 49 (10.04%) ERP
9 47 (9.63%) Data Cleansing
10 40 (8.20%) Workflow
11 39 (7.99%) Collaborative Working
11 39 (7.99%) Data Modelling
12 37 (7.58%) DevOps
13 36 (7.38%) Workflow Management
14 35 (7.17%) Analytics
14 35 (7.17%) Data Protection
15 34 (6.97%) Data Validation
16 32 (6.56%) ITIL
17 29 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.76%) SQL
2 29 (5.94%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.10%) Python
4 13 (2.66%) Java
5 11 (2.25%) Bash
6 7 (1.43%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.02%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.82%) Bicep
10 2 (0.41%) C#
10 2 (0.41%) Jython
11 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.20%) Delphi
11 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.20%) Perl
11 1 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
11 1 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 179 (36.68%) Security Cleared
2 148 (30.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.35%) DV Cleared
4 28 (5.74%) Degree
5 11 (2.25%) PMP
6 10 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
11 2 (0.41%) CIMA
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) OCP
11 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.74%) GDPR
3 18 (3.69%) QA
4 15 (3.07%) NIST
5 13 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.25%) COBIT
7 10 (2.05%) NCSC
8 9 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.43%) PMO
10 4 (0.82%) GRC
10 4 (0.82%) SLA
11 2 (0.41%) BS7666
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.43%) vSphere
5 6 (1.23%) Docker
6 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) NFS
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.69%) Terraform
2 13 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (2.25%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.64%) Ansible
5 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.82%) Argo
7 4 (0.82%) Grafana
7 4 (0.82%) SCCM
8 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.41%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) linkerd
9 2 (0.41%) Nessus
10 1 (0.20%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (17.62%) Oracle
2 65 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 59 (12.09%) SAP
4 43 (8.81%) Cisco
5 35 (7.17%) Aruba
6 24 (4.92%) VMware
7 18 (3.69%) ESRI
8 15 (3.07%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.66%) IBM
9 13 (2.66%) Salesforce
10 11 (2.25%) Google
11 9 (1.84%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.64%) Citrix
12 8 (1.64%) Intergraph
13 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.23%) Adobe
14 6 (1.23%) IFS
14 6 (1.23%) Sage
15 5 (1.02%) F5
16 4 (0.82%) Splunk