Migration Contracts in the South West

Migration
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 126 175 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.48% 5.47% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 6.60% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 95 179
10th Percentile £348 £173 £248
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £675
90th Percentile £680 £715 £731
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 9
10th Percentile - £37.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +344.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - - £92.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.12 £65.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -33.67% +142.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,521 2,651 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.32% 82.90% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,695 2,396
10th Percentile £235 £217 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 332 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the South West

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the South West

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South West

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the South West

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the South West

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Bristol +8 51 £525 +19.53% 37
Wiltshire +21 30 £513 -0.24% 21
Gloucestershire +4 17 £450 -4.00% 26
Dorset +12 13 £500 -10.71% 9
Somerset 0 7 £525 - 18
Devon +10 4 £500 -11.11% 6
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.56%) SAS
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) BASE24
1 3 (2.38%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) Azure
2 21 (16.67%) SaaS
3 20 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 13 (10.32%) AWS
6 10 (7.94%) PaaS
7 7 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (4.76%) Google Workspace
8 6 (4.76%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.38%) GCP
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.59%) Serverless
12 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) PBX
1 11 (8.73%) VoIP
2 6 (4.76%) Skype
3 3 (2.38%) 4G
3 3 (2.38%) 5G
3 3 (2.38%) ATM
3 3 (2.38%) VPN
4 2 (1.59%) BGP
4 2 (1.59%) Broadband
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.59%) DNS
4 2 (1.59%) Firewall
4 2 (1.59%) IPv6
4 2 (1.59%) MPLS
4 2 (1.59%) Multicast
4 2 (1.59%) OSPF
4 2 (1.59%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (5.56%) Power BI
1 7 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.38%) Tableau
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.59%) MySQL
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.59%) VersaTest
3 1 (0.79%) Flyway
General
1 36 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.40%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Legal
4 12 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.94%) Banking
6 10 (7.94%) Marketing
7 6 (4.76%) Local Government
8 5 (3.97%) Military
9 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Police
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (14.29%) Architect
2 10 (7.94%) Analyst
2 10 (7.94%) Data Manager
2 10 (7.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 8 (6.35%) Consultant
3 8 (6.35%) Lead
3 8 (6.35%) Project Manager
4 7 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
4 7 (5.56%) Data Analytics Manager
4 7 (5.56%) Insight Manager
4 7 (5.56%) Senior
4 7 (5.56%) Strategy Manager
5 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
5 5 (3.97%) Data Architect
5 5 (3.97%) Data Migration Lead
5 5 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (3.97%) SAP Analyst
5 5 (3.97%) SAP Data Analyst
5 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (3.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (3.17%) .NET
4 3 (2.38%) D3.js
5 2 (1.59%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (7.14%) Blackberry
3 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.38%) EMV
6 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.70%) Windows
2 10 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.38%) Unix
4 2 (1.59%) AIX
4 2 (1.59%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.02%) Data Migration
2 25 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (13.49%) Agile
3 17 (13.49%) Visualisation
4 16 (12.70%) Validation
5 15 (11.90%) Data Visualisation
5 15 (11.90%) Project Management
6 13 (10.32%) ETL
6 13 (10.32%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (9.52%) Analytics
7 12 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
8 11 (8.73%) Commercial Awareness
8 11 (8.73%) Impact Assessments
8 11 (8.73%) Service Design
9 10 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (7.94%) Roadmaps
9 10 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.14%) Thought Leadership
11 8 (6.35%) Critical Thinking
11 8 (6.35%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.25%) SQL
2 17 (13.49%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.56%) R
4 4 (3.17%) Python
5 3 (2.38%) COBOL
6 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Java
7 1 (0.79%) VB
7 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.73%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (7.14%) CCNP
5 9 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.59%) CCIE
6 2 (1.59%) Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MCP
7 1 (0.79%) MCSA
7 1 (0.79%) MCSE
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.59%) GDPR
2 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.59%) QA
2 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.79%) NCSC
3 1 (0.79%) PMO
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.79%) Docker
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.97%) SCCM
3 4 (3.17%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (2.38%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (2.38%) PingFederate
4 3 (2.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 3 (2.38%) Terraform
5 2 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.59%) Nagios
6 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.79%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.49%) Cisco
2 17 (13.49%) Oracle
3 13 (10.32%) Juniper
3 13 (10.32%) Palo Alto
4 12 (9.52%) F5
4 12 (9.52%) VMware
5 11 (8.73%) Ericsson
5 11 (8.73%) Nokia
6 9 (7.14%) Avaya
6 9 (7.14%) Ribbon
7 7 (5.56%) Adobe
7 7 (5.56%) Google
7 7 (5.56%) Teradata
8 5 (3.97%) Ariba
8 5 (3.97%) McAfee
8 5 (3.97%) SAP
8 5 (3.97%) Symantec
9 4 (3.17%) HP
10 3 (2.38%) Salesforce