Service Migration Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Service Migration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Service Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 104 141
Rank change year-on-year -36 +37 -
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.038% 0.065% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.069% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £426
25th Percentile £413 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.65% -
75th Percentile £438 - £506
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £459
% change year-on-year -15.00% +8.93% -51.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Service 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 2,245 1,445 2,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.53% 93.41% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 872 1,446
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.76% -0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £671
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 53 170
10th Percentile £15.91 £17.50 £15.85
25th Percentile £19.47 £24.66 £20.04
Median hourly rate £55.50 £48.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +12.94% -18.27%
75th Percentile £85.47 £63.00 £62.47
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.85 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Service Migration job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Service Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Service Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Service Migration

Service Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Service Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Service Migration

Service Migration
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 Service Migration within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Berkshire -25 1 £425 -15.00% 1
Service Migration
South East

Service Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow