Migration Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Migration
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Migration skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing Migration 58 20 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 9.11% 4.40% 5.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 5.01% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 28
10th Percentile £379 £336 £493
25th Percentile £411 £499 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £531 £587
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% -9.57% +23.68%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £625
90th Percentile £650 £614 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -52.10% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 399 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.29% 87.69% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 211 278
10th Percentile £293 £300 £363
25th Percentile £369 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -9.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £675
90th Percentile £618 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in South Yorkshire

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in South Yorkshire

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Sheffield +14 53 £447 -14.45% 7
Barnsley -10 1 £450 -19.28%
Migration
Yorkshire

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 20 (34.48%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.90%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.72%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Azure
3 4 (6.90%) IaaS
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Lucidchart
4 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) DNS
2 7 (12.07%) NAS
2 7 (12.07%) SAN
3 3 (5.17%) Kerberos
3 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.45%) NGFW
4 2 (3.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle Database
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.17%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) Power Query
3 1 (1.72%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) JIRA
2 10 (17.24%) Git
2 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.07%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (5.17%) Postman
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Analyst
2 7 (12.07%) Commvault Engineer
2 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Backup Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Senior
4 4 (6.90%) Administrator
4 4 (6.90%) Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Developer
4 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (5.17%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) SAP Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Server Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) Server Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Kafka Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) Middleware
2 3 (5.17%) OAuth
2 3 (5.17%) OpenID
2 3 (5.17%) SAML
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (1.72%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) VMS
4 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.72%) AIX
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Solaris
5 1 (1.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (36.21%) Agile
3 18 (31.03%) Data Migration
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Automation
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (18.97%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (15.52%) Change Management
5 9 (15.52%) Problem Management
5 9 (15.52%) Scrum
5 9 (15.52%) Translating Business Requirements
6 8 (13.79%) DevOps
6 8 (13.79%) Kanban
7 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.62%) Business Analysis
9 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.62%) Data Management
9 5 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (8.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) Python
2 11 (18.97%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.90%) Bash
4 4 (6.90%) Groovy
5 3 (5.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) PMO
2 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.52%) VMware NSX
3 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (12.07%) vSphere
5 2 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.72%) XenApp
6 1 (1.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) vCenter Server
3 7 (12.07%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (12.07%) vRealize
4 3 (5.17%) Puppet
4 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) SCCM
5 1 (1.72%) SCOM
5 1 (1.72%) Terraform
5 1 (1.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) VMware
2 7 (12.07%) Commvault
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
3 6 (10.34%) SAP
4 4 (6.90%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.17%) F5
5 3 (5.17%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Confluent
6 2 (3.45%) Databricks
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) Sage
6 2 (3.45%) Xero
7 1 (1.72%) Citrix
7 1 (1.72%) Lotus
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) Veritas
7 1 (1.72%) Zscaler