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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 144 167 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.40% 5.15% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 6.26% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 95 167
10th Percentile £308 £173 £257
25th Percentile £402 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +13.64%
75th Percentile £596 £611 £684
90th Percentile £739 £715 £742
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 8
10th Percentile - £37.75 £17.50
25th Percentile - £40.00 £41.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% -17.86% +344.73%
75th Percentile £41.28 £80.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £61.25 - £95.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -41.61% +163.46%

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 1,557 2,668 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.84% 82.32% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,694 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £227 £313
25th Percentile £381 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 358 318
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.74
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
Bristol +11 65 £500 +13.84% 50
Wiltshire +27 35 £463 -10.19% 22
Gloucestershire +11 14 £430 -5.86% 23
Dorset +7 11 £425 -38.41% 11
Devon +10 7 £500 -12.09% 10
Somerset 0 7 £500 +42.86% 16
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 13 (9.03%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.86%) SAS
3 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) BASE24
1 3 (2.08%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.97%) Azure
2 21 (14.58%) AWS
3 20 (13.89%) SaaS
4 13 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (6.94%) PaaS
6 8 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.86%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (4.86%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.17%) OneDrive
9 5 (3.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.39%) Serverless
12 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) PBX
1 11 (7.64%) VoIP
2 5 (3.47%) Skype
3 3 (2.08%) 4G
3 3 (2.08%) 5G
3 3 (2.08%) ATM
3 3 (2.08%) Firewall
3 3 (2.08%) VPN
4 2 (1.39%) BGP
4 2 (1.39%) Broadband
4 2 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.39%) IPv6
4 2 (1.39%) MPLS
4 2 (1.39%) Multicast
4 2 (1.39%) OSPF
4 2 (1.39%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.69%) DNS
5 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.86%) Power BI
2 7 (4.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.08%) MySQL
4 3 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.69%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.69%) DTS
6 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) MS Access
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) VersaTest
3 1 (0.69%) Flyway
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (27.08%) Finance
2 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.72%) Telecoms
5 13 (9.03%) Marketing
6 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.86%) Banking
7 7 (4.86%) Legal
7 7 (4.86%) Military
8 6 (4.17%) Local Government
9 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.08%) Electronics
10 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.08%) Retail
11 2 (1.39%) Police
12 1 (0.69%) Billing
12 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (11.11%) Architect
2 12 (8.33%) Analyst
3 11 (7.64%) Lead
4 10 (6.94%) Data Manager
4 10 (6.94%) Project Manager
5 7 (4.86%) Analytics Manager
5 7 (4.86%) AWS Architect
5 7 (4.86%) Data Analytics Manager
5 7 (4.86%) Data Migration Lead
5 7 (4.86%) Insight Manager
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 7 (4.86%) Strategy Manager
6 6 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (4.17%) Designer
6 6 (4.17%) Service Designer
7 5 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (3.47%) Data Analyst
7 5 (3.47%) Developer
7 5 (3.47%) SAP Analyst
7 5 (3.47%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.47%) .NET
2 4 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.69%) CSS
4 1 (0.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.69%) HTML
4 1 (0.69%) jQuery
4 1 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.69%) ODBC
4 1 (0.69%) React
4 1 (0.69%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.94%) Data Centre
1 10 (6.94%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (6.25%) Blackberry
3 5 (3.47%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.08%) EMV
5 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.19%) Windows
2 9 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.83%) Data Migration
2 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.81%) Agile
4 15 (10.42%) ETL
4 15 (10.42%) Service Design
4 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (9.72%) Validation
5 14 (9.72%) Visualisation
6 13 (9.03%) Analytics
6 13 (9.03%) Customer Requirements
6 13 (9.03%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
8 11 (7.64%) Commercial Awareness
8 11 (7.64%) Impact Assessments
9 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (6.94%) Project Management
9 10 (6.94%) Roadmaps
9 10 (6.94%) Workflow
10 9 (6.25%) Service Migration
10 9 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.81%) SQL
2 10 (6.94%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.86%) R
4 6 (4.17%) Python
5 3 (2.08%) COBOL
6 2 (1.39%) C#
6 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.39%) VB
6 2 (1.39%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.69%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) VB6
7 1 (0.69%) VBA
7 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 43 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (6.25%) CCNP
5 9 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.39%) CCIE
6 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Degree
7 1 (0.69%) MCP
7 1 (0.69%) MCSA
7 1 (0.69%) MCSE
7 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) GDPR
2 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) PMO
3 1 (0.69%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.69%) Docker
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.78%) Terraform
3 3 (2.08%) PingFederate
3 3 (2.08%) SCCM
4 2 (1.39%) Nagios
5 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (11.81%) Cisco
1 17 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.03%) Juniper
2 13 (9.03%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.03%) VMware
3 12 (8.33%) F5
4 11 (7.64%) Ericsson
4 11 (7.64%) Nokia
5 10 (6.94%) Oracle
6 9 (6.25%) Avaya
6 9 (6.25%) Ribbon
7 8 (5.56%) SAP
8 7 (4.86%) Adobe
8 7 (4.86%) Teradata
9 5 (3.47%) Ariba
10 4 (2.78%) HP
10 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.08%) Google
12 2 (1.39%) Aruba
12 2 (1.39%) SolarWinds