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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 89 57 19
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.63% 8.33% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.97% 8.70% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 31 11
10th Percentile £409 £380 £500
25th Percentile £471 £409 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +26.61% -16.28% -8.50%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £566
90th Percentile £710 £650 £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.80% -2.44% -5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £20.08 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £25.15 £32.40
% change year-on-year - -22.38% -

All Process & 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 992 655 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 85.00% 95.76% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 439 220
10th Percentile £366 £306 £230
25th Percentile £434 £388 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £480 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -7.25% -11.91%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 14
10th Percentile - £14.66 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.87 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +47.08% -37.41%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.44 £16.68
90th Percentile £24.86 £25.15 £21.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £25.04 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +31.78% -10.84%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Migration job vacancy trend 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 14 October 2026.

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 14 October 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
Sheffield -8 83 £575 +27.78% 24
Doncaster - 4 £530 - 4
Migration
Yorkshire

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (11.24%) Confluence
2 4 (4.49%) SAS
3 3 (3.37%) CICS
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) Azure
1 15 (16.85%) OpenShift
2 10 (11.24%) AWS
3 6 (6.74%) GCP
4 4 (4.49%) GitHub
4 4 (4.49%) SaaS
5 3 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (3.37%) Stackdriver
6 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Datadog
7 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.12%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.12%) IaaS
7 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) Network Security
2 3 (3.37%) DNS
3 2 (2.25%) Firewall
3 2 (2.25%) NAS
3 2 (2.25%) SAN
3 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.25%) VPN
4 1 (1.12%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.12%) DHCP
4 1 (1.12%) DWDM
4 1 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.12%) LAN
4 1 (1.12%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.12%) TACACS
4 1 (1.12%) VSAN
4 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) Db2
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.12%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) JIRA
2 6 (6.74%) Git
3 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.25%) Flyway
4 2 (2.25%) git-flow
4 2 (2.25%) JUnit
4 2 (2.25%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.25%) Mockito
5 1 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (37.08%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Banking
4 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Law
6 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Back Office
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Front Office
7 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Automotive
8 1 (1.12%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Architect
2 13 (14.61%) Lead
2 13 (14.61%) Project Manager
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 12 (13.48%) Java Architect
4 10 (11.24%) GCP Architect
4 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes Architect
4 10 (11.24%) Migration Architect
5 8 (8.99%) Technical Manager
6 7 (7.87%) Technical Leader
7 6 (6.74%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.62%) Migration Manager
8 5 (5.62%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 3 (3.37%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Middleware
2 4 (4.49%) REST
3 3 (3.37%) OAuth
4 2 (2.25%) Drools
4 2 (2.25%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.25%) HATEOAS
4 2 (2.25%) Jasypt
4 2 (2.25%) JDBC
4 2 (2.25%) JPA
4 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (2.25%) RESTful
4 2 (2.25%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.25%) Spring
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (13.48%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.87%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.87%) Replication
5 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.74%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.62%) Mainframe
7 3 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.25%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.25%) Equities
8 2 (2.25%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (1.12%) CMDB
9 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Linux
1 9 (10.11%) Windows
2 4 (4.49%) zOS
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.25%) CoreOS
4 2 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (23.60%) Roadmaps
4 20 (22.47%) Agile
5 16 (17.98%) Data Migration
5 16 (17.98%) Data Protection
6 14 (15.73%) DevOps
7 12 (13.48%) Change Management
7 12 (13.48%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (12.36%) Project Delivery
9 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.24%) Observability
9 10 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (11.24%) Validation
10 9 (10.11%) Decision-Making
10 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (10.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) Java
2 11 (12.36%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) SQL
4 6 (6.74%) Bash
5 4 (4.49%) JCL
5 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.25%) PromQL
7 1 (1.12%) COBOL
7 1 (1.12%) Go
7 1 (1.12%) Groovy
7 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.62%) PMI Certification
2 5 (5.62%) PMP
3 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.25%) CCNP
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.25%) NCDA
5 2 (2.25%) NCIE
5 2 (2.25%) OCP
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.25%) RHCA
6 1 (1.12%) CCIE
6 1 (1.12%) CCNA
6 1 (1.12%) CISSP
6 1 (1.12%) MBA
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.37%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) GRC
2 2 (2.25%) MiFID
2 2 (2.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.12%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) PMO
3 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.11%) vSphere
3 7 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (5.62%) Docker
5 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.37%) Ceph
6 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.25%) ACF2
7 2 (2.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (2.25%) RACF
7 2 (2.25%) SRDF
8 1 (1.12%) NFS
8 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (29.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.24%) Ansible
3 8 (8.99%) Grafana
3 8 (8.99%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.37%) Argo
4 3 (3.37%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.25%) Consul
5 2 (2.25%) Control-M
5 2 (2.25%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.25%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.25%) SnapMirror
5 2 (2.25%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.25%) Zipkin
6 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.12%) Autotask
6 1 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.12%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (1.12%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) VMware
2 10 (11.24%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.74%) IBM
5 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.49%) Cisco
6 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.37%) Dell
7 3 (3.37%) SAP
8 2 (2.25%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.25%) Brocade
8 2 (2.25%) EMC
8 2 (2.25%) NetApp
8 2 (2.25%) Oracle
8 2 (2.25%) Solace
8 2 (2.25%) Veeam
9 1 (1.12%) Arista
9 1 (1.12%) Concur
9 1 (1.12%) F5
9 1 (1.12%) Google