Migration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Migration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Migration 145 158 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.72% 6.06% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.46% 6.96% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 114 153
10th Percentile £340 £245 £450
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -2.38% +7.97%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £663 £688 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £21.16 - £24.90
25th Percentile - £18.50 £34.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.37% -63.46% -6.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.50 £70.50
90th Percentile £75.73 - £80.70
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +108.33% -52.00% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 2,271 2,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 87.08% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 1,261 1,775
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £400 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.76 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the Thames Valley

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 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
Berkshire +11 102 £500 -2.44% 55
Buckinghamshire +5 24 £413 -8.33% 38
Oxfordshire +3 21 £500 +36.99% 32
Migration
South East

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (4.14%) Umbraco
2 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.76%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (2.76%) CMS
3 4 (2.76%) Confluence
4 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.07%) Smallworld
5 2 (1.38%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.38%) Camunda
5 2 (1.38%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.38%) IIS
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (1.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.69%) Documentum
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (8.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 12 (8.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (6.21%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.38%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.69%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.69%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.69%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.69%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.07%) Azure
2 31 (21.38%) AWS
3 13 (8.97%) GCP
4 9 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.52%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.14%) IaaS
6 6 (4.14%) OCI
6 6 (4.14%) PaaS
6 6 (4.14%) SaaS
7 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.07%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 3 (2.07%) GitHub
9 3 (2.07%) Serverless
10 2 (1.38%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.38%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.28%) Firewall
2 9 (6.21%) MPLS
3 6 (4.14%) VPN
4 5 (3.45%) Network Security
5 4 (2.76%) BGP
5 4 (2.76%) DNS
5 4 (2.76%) OSPF
5 4 (2.76%) VoIP
5 4 (2.76%) WAN
5 4 (2.76%) xDSL
6 3 (2.07%) 4G
6 3 (2.07%) 5G
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.07%) DOCSIS
6 3 (2.07%) GPON
6 3 (2.07%) LAN
6 3 (2.07%) NGFW
6 3 (2.07%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.07%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.83%) Big Data
3 7 (4.83%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.45%) Metadata
6 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.07%) GIS
7 3 (2.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.07%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.38%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.69%) Impala
9 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) ERwin
1 4 (2.76%) JIRA
1 4 (2.76%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (2.07%) GitLab
3 2 (1.38%) DBeaver
3 2 (1.38%) QARun
3 2 (1.38%) WinRunner
General
1 57 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Finance
4 13 (8.97%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Agriculture
7 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Publishing
10 1 (0.69%) Automotive
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (22.76%) Architect
2 18 (12.41%) Analyst
2 18 (12.41%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 8 (5.52%) Consultant
5 8 (5.52%) Developer
5 8 (5.52%) SAP Manager
6 7 (4.83%) Data Migration Analyst
6 7 (4.83%) Lead
6 7 (4.83%) Migration Analyst
7 6 (4.14%) Senior
8 5 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.45%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) React Developer
9 4 (2.76%) AWS Architect
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) Data Modeller
9 4 (2.76%) Migration Consultant
9 4 (2.76%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.76%) .NET
2 3 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.38%) HTML
3 2 (1.38%) JSON
3 2 (1.38%) Middleware
3 2 (1.38%) Next.js
3 2 (1.38%) OAuth
3 2 (1.38%) OpenID
3 2 (1.38%) PostGIS
3 2 (1.38%) SAML
4 1 (0.69%) Kafka
4 1 (0.69%) LDAP
4 1 (0.69%) PySpark
4 1 (0.69%) React
4 1 (0.69%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.69%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (8.97%) Life Science
3 12 (8.28%) Renewable Energy
4 10 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.07%) CMDB
7 3 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.07%) Replication
7 3 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.07%) TM Forum
8 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.34%) Windows
2 10 (6.90%) Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.07%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.69%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.31%) Data Migration
2 51 (35.17%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (20.00%) Agile
3 29 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (13.79%) Change Management
4 20 (13.79%) DevOps
5 18 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 13 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
7 13 (8.97%) Validation
8 12 (8.28%) Data Modelling
8 12 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (7.59%) Data Governance
9 11 (7.59%) ETL
9 11 (7.59%) Project Delivery
10 10 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (6.90%) Data Security
10 10 (6.90%) ERP
10 10 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.31%) SQL
2 16 (11.03%) Python
3 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.21%) Bash
5 6 (4.14%) C#
5 6 (4.14%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.07%) Bicep
6 3 (2.07%) Java
6 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.38%) Magik
7 2 (1.38%) VB
8 1 (0.69%) ABAP
8 1 (0.69%) Fortran
8 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) PMI Certification
5 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) PMP
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.69%) ACCA
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) CCAB
8 1 (0.69%) CIMA
8 1 (0.69%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.14%) GDPR
2 6 (4.14%) HIPAA
2 6 (4.14%) QA
3 4 (2.76%) NIST
3 4 (2.76%) PMBOK
4 2 (1.38%) COBIT
4 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) NCSC
4 2 (1.38%) OASIS TOSCA
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.07%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
4 1 (0.69%) XenApp
4 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Ansible
1 5 (3.45%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Amdocs OSS
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.76%) Puppet
3 2 (1.38%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (1.38%) SCCM
3 2 (1.38%) SCOM
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.69%) yum
Vendors
1 27 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.48%) SAP
3 20 (13.79%) Oracle
4 11 (7.59%) Cisco
5 10 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.83%) VMware
7 6 (4.14%) Google
7 6 (4.14%) Virgin Media
8 5 (3.45%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.76%) Sitecore
9 4 (2.76%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.07%) Aruba
10 3 (2.07%) Citrix
10 3 (2.07%) Databricks
10 3 (2.07%) ESRI
10 3 (2.07%) HP
11 2 (1.38%) BMC
11 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.38%) Juniper
11 2 (1.38%) Workday