Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,041 1,243 1,796
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.17% 5.98% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 7.05% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 825 1,349
10th Percentile £345 £313 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.71%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 60 36
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.24 £24.81 £20.94
Median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +209.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £78.88
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,515 17,619 21,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.40% 84.74% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,242 10,546 14,950
10th Percentile £235 £246 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 823 2,041 1,307
10th Percentile £14.22 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.76 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North of England +8 299 £500 - 153
South East +7 258 £500 - 136
North West +7 179 £525 +5.00% 87
Midlands +6 176 £510 -7.27% 113
South West +6 126 £500 +5.26% 105
West Midlands +14 125 £525 -6.67% 84
Yorkshire +8 111 £500 - 56
Scotland -3 88 £491 -0.66% 24
East of England +5 69 £550 +10.00% 42
East Midlands +1 46 £490 -10.91% 26
Wales +3 33 £446 -13.40% 12
North East -2 15 £650 +30.00% 10
Northern Ireland -4 11 £500 - 4
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 71 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.23%) Confluence
3 33 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.25%) SAS
5 9 (0.86%) JBoss
5 9 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.58%) CMS
6 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.38%) CICS
7 4 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.19%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
Applications
1 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 20 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.48%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.29%) Trello
8 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 55 (5.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 9 (0.86%) SAP PP
6 7 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.48%) Infor LN
7 5 (0.48%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.38%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.29%) BASE24
9 3 (0.29%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.19%) Maximo
10 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.19%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 207 (19.88%) Azure
2 150 (14.41%) AWS
3 92 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (7.11%) Power Platform
5 54 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 51 (4.90%) SaaS
7 45 (4.32%) GCP
8 36 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (2.88%) Serverless
10 29 (2.79%) PowerApps
11 27 (2.59%) PaaS
12 26 (2.50%) Amazon S3
12 26 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (2.11%) Power Automate
14 21 (2.02%) IaaS
15 20 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.83%) OneDrive
17 17 (1.63%) OpenShift
18 14 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.57%) Firewall
2 34 (3.27%) DNS
3 26 (2.50%) VPN
4 21 (2.02%) Network Security
4 21 (2.02%) WAN
5 12 (1.15%) BGP
5 12 (1.15%) LAN
5 12 (1.15%) VoIP
6 11 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (1.06%) PBX
7 10 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (0.96%) DHCP
7 10 (0.96%) OSPF
7 10 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.86%) MPLS
9 7 (0.67%) ATM
9 7 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.67%) Wireless
10 6 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.48%) Oracle Database
2 52 (5.00%) Power BI
3 50 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (3.46%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.63%) Metadata
10 16 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (1.25%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (1.06%) Tableau
14 10 (0.96%) Big Data
15 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.77%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.77%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 79 (7.59%) JIRA
2 38 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.36%) GitLab
4 25 (2.40%) Git
5 12 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (1.15%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.06%) Liquibase
6 11 (1.06%) Mockito
7 10 (0.96%) Gradle
7 10 (0.96%) JUnit
7 10 (0.96%) Selenium
8 9 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (0.86%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.67%) ERwin
10 6 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.58%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.58%) GoogleTest
10 6 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 328 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 253 (24.30%) Finance
3 130 (12.49%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.30%) Banking
6 44 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 36 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 32 (3.07%) Legal
9 27 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 25 (2.40%) Marketing
11 23 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.63%) Retail
14 13 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.15%) Local Government
16 11 (1.06%) Electronics
17 9 (0.86%) Law
18 8 (0.77%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 148 (14.22%) Architect
2 112 (10.76%) Consultant
3 110 (10.57%) Analyst
4 87 (8.36%) Project Manager
5 66 (6.34%) Senior
6 60 (5.76%) Lead
7 55 (5.28%) Developer
8 52 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 39 (3.75%) Network Engineer
11 38 (3.65%) Data Engineer
12 37 (3.55%) Data Analyst
13 35 (3.36%) Migration Engineer
14 24 (2.31%) Administrator
14 24 (2.31%) Data Consultant
14 24 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (2.31%) Migration Manager
15 20 (1.92%) Data Manager
16 19 (1.83%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (1.83%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.40%) Spring Boot
2 21 (2.02%) .NET
3 20 (1.92%) React
3 20 (1.92%) REST
4 19 (1.83%) Kafka
4 19 (1.83%) Spring
4 19 (1.83%) Web Services
5 14 (1.34%) Middleware
6 13 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.15%) XML
8 11 (1.06%) OpenAPI
8 11 (1.06%) Swagger
9 10 (0.96%) OAuth
9 10 (0.96%) SAML
9 10 (0.96%) SOAP
10 9 (0.86%) JSON
11 8 (0.77%) ASP.NET
11 8 (0.77%) AWS CDK
11 8 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.34%) Data Centre
2 65 (6.24%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (2.98%) Data Structures
4 24 (2.31%) Life Science
4 24 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 20 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 20 (1.92%) Replication
6 19 (1.83%) Mainframe
6 19 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.44%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
10 13 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (0.86%) Blackberry
12 9 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.70%) Windows
2 67 (6.44%) Linux
3 44 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.34%) Unix
4 14 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.38%) Android
7 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.38%) VMS
8 3 (0.29%) AIX
8 3 (0.29%) OS/400
8 3 (0.29%) Solaris
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.19%) HPUX
9 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) zOS
10 1 (0.096%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (31.60%) Data Migration
2 224 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (17.77%) Agile
4 121 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (11.05%) DevOps
6 98 (9.41%) Project Management
7 95 (9.13%) ETL
8 93 (8.93%) Validation
9 85 (8.17%) Change Management
10 79 (7.59%) Analytics
11 76 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
12 72 (6.92%) ERP
13 71 (6.82%) CI/CD
14 68 (6.53%) Data Modelling
15 67 (6.44%) Data Governance
15 67 (6.44%) Roadmaps
16 60 (5.76%) Performance Tuning
17 57 (5.48%) Microservices
18 56 (5.38%) Data Management
19 53 (5.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 212 (20.37%) SQL
2 90 (8.65%) Python
3 69 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 47 (4.51%) PL/SQL
5 44 (4.23%) Java
6 26 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 25 (2.40%) Bash
8 21 (2.02%) C#
9 20 (1.92%) Perl
10 18 (1.73%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.34%) C++
12 12 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.86%) R
14 8 (0.77%) Groovy
15 7 (0.67%) COBOL
16 6 (0.58%) VBA
16 6 (0.58%) VBScript
17 5 (0.48%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.38%) JCL
18 4 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 190 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.44%) Degree
4 44 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.59%) CCNP
8 18 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.44%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.15%) CCNA
12 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.06%) PMP
12 11 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.96%) CCIE
14 9 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.61%) QA
3 23 (2.21%) GDPR
4 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 8 (0.77%) PMO
5 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) NCSC
8 4 (0.38%) PMBOK
8 4 (0.38%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.07%) Docker
4 15 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.77%) Firmware
9 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.58%) vSphere
10 3 (0.29%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.096%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.096%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.096%) XenApp
12 1 (0.096%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.88%) Terraform
3 27 (2.59%) Ansible
4 17 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
4 17 (1.63%) SCCM
5 15 (1.44%) Progress Chef
5 15 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.25%) Grafana
7 10 (0.96%) Kibana
7 10 (0.96%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.48%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.48%) Puppet
11 4 (0.38%) BMC PATROL
11 4 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.38%) vRealize
12 3 (0.29%) CASB
12 3 (0.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 191 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 123 (11.82%) Oracle
3 99 (9.51%) SAP
4 59 (5.67%) Cisco
4 59 (5.67%) VMware
5 29 (2.79%) Google
6 27 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.92%) Splunk
9 18 (1.73%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.44%) F5
10 15 (1.44%) Juniper
11 14 (1.34%) BMC
11 14 (1.34%) Nokia
12 12 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 12 (1.15%) Commvault
12 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.15%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.06%) Ericsson