Migration Contract Job Trends in the South West

Migration
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 15 40
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing Migration 204 188 121
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.51% 9.60% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 10.62% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 104 72
10th Percentile £390 £252 £329
25th Percentile £470 £396 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £596 £665
90th Percentile £760 £730 £688
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.98% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 41 0
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £17.75 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% - -
75th Percentile £24.28 - -
90th Percentile £33.70 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.55% -24.29%

All Process & 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 2,878 1,771 2,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.70% 90.45% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,021 1,344
10th Percentile £325 £220 £277
25th Percentile £430 £368 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £701
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 233 217
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.87 £16.75
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.51 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -64.07% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.74 £69.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Migration job vacancy trend in the South West

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South West over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South West

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South West over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 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
Bristol -13 65 £550 +1.38% 48
Wiltshire -9 50 £500 +42.86% 7
Somerset -14 31 £523 +19.43% 18
Gloucestershire -1 24 £400 -13.51% 50
Dorset -2 13 £538 +4.88% 5
Devon -25 11 £525 +31.25% 8
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.47%) Windchill
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.98%) Primavera
3 2 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.98%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.98%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) BASE24
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.49%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.49%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.49%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.18%) Azure
2 29 (14.22%) AWS
3 13 (6.37%) Entra ID
3 13 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.90%) SaaS
5 9 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.92%) GCP
6 8 (3.92%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.43%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.45%) Google Drive
9 5 (2.45%) Serverless
10 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.96%) OCI
11 3 (1.47%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.47%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.39%) Firewall
2 9 (4.41%) DNS
3 5 (2.45%) BGP
3 5 (2.45%) WAN
4 4 (1.96%) Internet
5 3 (1.47%) DKIM
5 3 (1.47%) DMARC
6 2 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.98%) VSAN
6 2 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.49%) ATM
7 1 (0.49%) DHCP
7 1 (0.49%) DMZ
7 1 (0.49%) HTTP
7 1 (0.49%) LAN
7 1 (0.49%) PSTN
7 1 (0.49%) SAN
7 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.49%) VoIP
7 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) Metadata
2 5 (2.45%) Power BI
3 4 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.98%) GIS
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.49%) Tableau
6 1 (0.49%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) JIRA
2 4 (1.96%) Git
3 2 (0.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.49%) Codeception
4 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.49%) Gatling
4 1 (0.49%) Hudson
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 33 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.22%) Finance
4 25 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.94%) Military
9 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.96%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.96%) Local Government
11 3 (1.47%) Advertising
11 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.47%) Banking
12 2 (0.98%) Legal
12 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (20.59%) Architect
2 34 (16.67%) Analyst
3 21 (10.29%) Consultant
4 19 (9.31%) Lead
5 14 (6.86%) Senior
6 13 (6.37%) Administrator
6 13 (6.37%) IT Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Applications Support
7 11 (5.39%) Applications Support Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Data Architect
7 11 (5.39%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.39%) IT Support
7 11 (5.39%) IT Support Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.39%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.41%) Migration Architect
9 9 (4.41%) Migration Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.88%) Terraform
2 7 (3.43%) .NET
3 6 (2.94%) Middleware
3 6 (2.94%) OAuth
3 6 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.96%) Kafka
5 3 (1.47%) OpenID
5 3 (1.47%) SAML
6 2 (0.98%) FHIR
6 2 (0.98%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.98%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.49%) FIDO
7 1 (0.49%) IDoc
7 1 (0.49%) Playwright
7 1 (0.49%) PySpark
7 1 (0.49%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.49%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.49%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.49%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.96%) EPoS
7 4 (1.96%) Replication
8 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.27%) Windows
2 7 (3.43%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.47%) CentOS
4 3 (1.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.49%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.63%) Data Migration
2 39 (19.12%) Validation
3 35 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (13.73%) ERP
5 25 (12.25%) Roadmaps
5 25 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 23 (11.27%) DevOps
8 22 (10.78%) ETL
9 21 (10.29%) Agile
10 19 (9.31%) Decision-Making
11 17 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (7.84%) Analytics
13 15 (7.35%) AI
13 15 (7.35%) Data Cleansing
13 15 (7.35%) Data Modelling
14 14 (6.86%) Data Mapping
14 14 (6.86%) Enterprise Architecture
14 14 (6.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.31%) SQL
2 11 (5.39%) Python
3 5 (2.45%) Java
4 3 (1.47%) Bash
4 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.98%) C#
5 2 (0.98%) PHP
6 1 (0.49%) C
6 1 (0.49%) C++
6 1 (0.49%) COBOL
6 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.98%) ACCA
4 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.98%) CIMA
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.39%) QA
3 7 (3.43%) GDPR
4 5 (2.45%) NCSC
5 4 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.96%) NIST
5 4 (1.96%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.98%) DICOM
6 2 (0.98%) GRC
6 2 (0.98%) HL7
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.47%) Docker
3 3 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) NFS
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.43%) Ansible
2 6 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.98%) Grafana
5 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.98%) SCCM
5 2 (0.98%) VxRail
6 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.49%) Kibana
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.49%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.33%) Oracle
3 10 (4.90%) Google
4 7 (3.43%) SAP
4 7 (3.43%) VMware
5 6 (2.94%) Cisco
5 6 (2.94%) Informatica
5 6 (2.94%) InterSystems
6 5 (2.45%) OneLogin
6 5 (2.45%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.96%) Pega
8 3 (1.47%) Civica
8 3 (1.47%) Databricks
9 2 (0.98%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.98%) Juniper
9 2 (0.98%) Palantir
9 2 (0.98%) Sage
9 2 (0.98%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.98%) Veritas
10 1 (0.49%) Zerto