Migration Contracts in South Wales

Migration
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 26 23 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 10.74% 6.87% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.93% 8.58% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 21
10th Percentile £400 £411 £363
25th Percentile £403 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £523 £586
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -10.84% +26.70%
75th Percentile £538 £633 £600
90th Percentile £669 £667 £650
Wales median daily rate £446 £515 £586
% change year-on-year -13.40% -12.12% +17.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 268 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.08% 80.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £284 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in South Wales

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Migration in South Wales

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in South Wales

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in South Wales

Migration
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cardiff +9 23 £450 -13.88% 7
Newport +5 1 £950 +83.13% 2
Bridgend - 1 £300 -
Migration
Wales

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Cisco Firepower
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (15.38%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) BGP
4 2 (7.69%) DHCP
4 2 (7.69%) IPv4
4 2 (7.69%) OSPF
4 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) Wireless
General
1 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
2 1 (3.85%) Legal
2 1 (3.85%) Marketing
2 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Network Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Consultant
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Data Centre Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Data Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Data Migration Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Migration Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Migration Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Linked Data
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) TOGAF
2 4 (15.38%) Agile
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
3 3 (11.54%) Data Privacy
3 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
3 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
3 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
3 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (7.69%) CRM
4 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) ITIL
4 2 (7.69%) Open Source
4 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) C
1 1 (3.85%) C#
1 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Azure Certification
2 7 (26.92%) CCNP
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (23.08%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (19.23%) CCIE
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
5 4 (15.38%) Degree
6 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (7.69%) CITP
7 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.85%) CSSLP
8 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Argo
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Nagios
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Cisco
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) Ekahau
4 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) BMC
5 1 (3.85%) Freshdesk
5 1 (3.85%) HubSpot