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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Migration 419 331 342
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.48% 9.01% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.14% 10.20% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 225 239
10th Percentile £350 £311 £400
25th Percentile £450 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £720 £688 £738
England median daily rate £514 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.64% -2.00% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 5 7
10th Percentile £15.91 £23.90 £22.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £32.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +40.74% -4.42%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £55.99
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.00 £64.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £75.75
% change year-on-year +14.32% -70.96% +20.72%

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 3,760 3,244 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.11% 88.32% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 2,019 2,869
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 122 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.43 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.99 £26.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -16.14% +46.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.76 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +7 238 £500 -9.09% 114
Berkshire +4 153 £539 -6.35% 69
Hampshire +13 109 £550 - 43
Buckinghamshire +10 61 £400 -20.40% 33
Surrey -11 32 £600 +20.00% 41
West Sussex -2 26 £575 +43.39% 15
Oxfordshire +1 23 £600 -4.00% 12
Kent -1 7 £500 -14.53% 27
East Sussex -2 6 £333 -33.50% 10
Middlesex - 1 - - 7
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 (2.39%) ArcGIS
2 8 (1.91%) Confluence
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.43%) GeoServer
3 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.43%) Smallworld
4 5 (1.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.72%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (8.35%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.63%) Maximo
4 6 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.72%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.72%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.72%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.48%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.48%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.48%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle BRM
9 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.80%) Azure
2 33 (7.88%) OCI
3 31 (7.40%) AWS
4 19 (4.53%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (2.39%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.15%) GCP
8 6 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.95%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (0.95%) AWS KMS
9 4 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (0.95%) GitHub
9 4 (0.95%) IaaS
9 4 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.15%) DNS
1 9 (2.15%) Firewall
1 9 (2.15%) VPN
2 7 (1.67%) WAN
3 6 (1.43%) LAN
4 5 (1.19%) Network Security
5 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.72%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) SSL
6 3 (0.72%) VLAN
6 3 (0.72%) VSAN
7 2 (0.48%) BGP
7 2 (0.48%) Intranet
7 2 (0.48%) IPsec
7 2 (0.48%) IPv6
7 2 (0.48%) MPLS
7 2 (0.48%) OSPF
7 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.48%) Wireless
8 1 (0.24%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.30%) GIS
2 12 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.91%) Metadata
5 8 (1.91%) QGIS
6 7 (1.67%) Tableau
7 6 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.43%) Power BI
7 6 (1.43%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.77%) JIRA
2 15 (3.58%) 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
1 134 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.27%) Public Sector
3 57 (13.60%) Finance
4 28 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.30%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.30%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.86%) Marketing
7 9 (2.15%) Electronics
7 9 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.43%) Banking
9 6 (1.43%) General Ledger
9 6 (1.43%) Legal
10 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.19%) Retail
11 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.72%) Local Government
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (13.13%) Architect
2 54 (12.89%) Consultant
3 49 (11.69%) Lead
4 33 (7.88%) Network Consultant
5 26 (6.21%) Project Manager
5 26 (6.21%) Senior
6 25 (5.97%) IT Engineer
7 23 (5.49%) Analyst
7 23 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (5.01%) Data Migration Lead
9 15 (3.58%) Migration Engineer
9 15 (3.58%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.34%) Administrator
11 13 (3.10%) Developer
12 12 (2.86%) Windows Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) Technical Manager
14 10 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.39%) SAP Data Migration Lead
14 10 (2.39%) Senior Manager
15 9 (2.15%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.15%) .NET
3 8 (1.91%) Middleware
3 8 (1.91%) React
4 5 (1.19%) REST
4 5 (1.19%) Web Services
5 4 (0.95%) PySpark
5 4 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (0.95%) SAP PI
6 3 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.72%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.48%) BAPI
7 2 (0.48%) CSS
7 2 (0.48%) IDoc
7 2 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.48%) Kafka
7 2 (0.48%) RESTful
7 2 (0.48%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.48%) SOAP
8 1 (0.24%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.55%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.06%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.63%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.43%) Life Science
9 6 (1.43%) Replication
9 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.19%) PKI
11 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.25%) Windows
2 13 (3.10%) Linux
3 11 (2.63%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.40%) Data Migration
2 80 (19.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 69 (16.47%) Agile
4 67 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (14.56%) Workflow
6 60 (14.32%) Workflow Management
7 54 (12.89%) Roadmaps
8 47 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (10.50%) Collaborative Working
10 36 (8.59%) Validation
11 34 (8.11%) Data Modelling
11 34 (8.11%) ERP
12 33 (7.88%) User Acceptance Testing
13 32 (7.64%) DevOps
14 28 (6.68%) Data Cleansing
15 25 (5.97%) ITIL
16 24 (5.73%) CI/CD
17 23 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (5.49%) Project Delivery
17 23 (5.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.35%) SQL
2 34 (8.11%) Python
3 26 (6.21%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.63%) Java
4 11 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.39%) Bash
5 10 (2.39%) C#
6 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.72%) Bicep
8 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
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%) VB
9 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 160 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 134 (31.98%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.16%) Degree
4 23 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.15%) OCP
6 9 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.43%) PMP
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.72%) PgMP
11 2 (0.48%) ACCA
11 2 (0.48%) CIMA
12 1 (0.24%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.77%) GDPR
3 19 (4.53%) QA
4 12 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.86%) NIST
5 7 (1.67%) NCSC
6 6 (1.43%) COBIT
6 6 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) GRC
7 3 (0.72%) PMO
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.48%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.67%) Docker
5 5 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.19%) vSphere
6 2 (0.48%) NFS
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.53%) Kubernetes
1 19 (4.53%) Terraform
2 17 (4.06%) Ansible
3 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
4 4 (0.95%) Argo
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (15.75%) Oracle
2 55 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 55 (13.13%) SAP
3 38 (9.07%) Cisco
4 34 (8.11%) Aruba
5 16 (3.82%) ESRI
6 13 (3.10%) VMware
7 12 (2.86%) IBM
7 12 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.91%) Remedy
10 7 (1.67%) Google
11 6 (1.43%) Informatica
11 6 (1.43%) Intergraph
12 5 (1.19%) Citrix
13 4 (0.95%) BMC
13 4 (0.95%) CloudEndure
13 4 (0.95%) Pure Storage
14 3 (0.72%) Workday