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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,130 1,236 1,748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.67% 5.96% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 7.15% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 838 1,296
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 60 35
10th Percentile - £15.50 £18.03
25th Percentile - £24.44 £29.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -42.86% +235.09%
75th Percentile £39.50 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - £80.61
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.93% +151.92%

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 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
North of England +7 321 £497 -0.60% 195
South East +13 274 £495 -1.00% 165
North West +6 186 £477 -4.70% 110
Midlands +4 170 £500 -4.76% 165
South West +11 144 £500 +5.26% 122
Yorkshire +9 128 £500 - 74
West Midlands +8 121 £500 -4.76% 123
Scotland -2 111 £475 -3.85% 59
East of England +6 78 £588 +11.90% 64
East Midlands -5 43 £500 -2.91% 37
Wales +12 40 £425 -17.48% 20
North East -4 13 £575 +9.52% 11
Northern Ireland -6 12 £165 - 24
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 66 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.60%) Confluence
3 33 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.15%) SAS
5 10 (0.88%) JBoss
6 7 (0.62%) CMS
6 7 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.35%) CICS
9 4 (0.35%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 27 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 21 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.27%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.088%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 64 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 11 (0.97%) SAP PP
6 7 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.44%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.35%) Avolution ABACUS
9 4 (0.35%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.35%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.27%) BASE24
10 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.27%) Eloqua
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
11 2 (0.18%) Maximo
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 202 (17.88%) Azure
2 147 (13.01%) AWS
3 83 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 52 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 45 (3.98%) SaaS
7 39 (3.45%) GCP
8 30 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (2.57%) Serverless
10 28 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 26 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.30%) PowerApps
12 24 (2.12%) PaaS
13 23 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.04%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 18 (1.59%) IaaS
16 16 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.42%) Snowflake
17 13 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.19%) Firewall
2 32 (2.83%) DNS
3 26 (2.30%) WAN
4 24 (2.12%) VPN
5 22 (1.95%) Network Security
6 18 (1.59%) LAN
7 17 (1.50%) VoIP
8 14 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.15%) MPLS
10 11 (0.97%) PBX
10 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.88%) BGP
11 10 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (0.71%) DHCP
13 8 (0.71%) OSPF
13 8 (0.71%) TCP/IP
14 7 (0.62%) ATM
15 6 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (4.69%) Power BI
3 49 (4.34%) Oracle Database
4 44 (3.89%) SQL Server
5 38 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 37 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.50%) Metadata
8 17 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.33%) RDBMS
11 13 (1.15%) Big Data
12 12 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.88%) GIS
14 9 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.80%) Tableau
15 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.71%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 92 (8.14%) JIRA
2 49 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.01%) GitLab
4 31 (2.74%) Git
5 14 (1.24%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.06%) Mockito
6 12 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.97%) JUnit
7 11 (0.97%) Liquibase
7 11 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (0.88%) CA Release Automation
8 10 (0.88%) Gradle
9 9 (0.80%) Selenium
10 8 (0.71%) Postman
11 6 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.53%) GoogleTest
11 6 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.53%) ScriptRunner
General
1 355 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 288 (25.49%) Finance
3 136 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 78 (6.90%) Banking
6 49 (4.34%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 33 (2.92%) Marketing
9 32 (2.83%) Legal
10 29 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 26 (2.30%) Retail
12 25 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.59%) Electronics
15 17 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.42%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.15%) Law
18 11 (0.97%) Local Government
19 8 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 148 (13.10%) Architect
2 129 (11.42%) Analyst
3 92 (8.14%) Consultant
4 89 (7.88%) Project Manager
5 74 (6.55%) Lead
6 68 (6.02%) Senior
7 61 (5.40%) Developer
8 53 (4.69%) Business Analyst
9 44 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (3.81%) Data Analyst
11 42 (3.72%) Network Engineer
12 37 (3.27%) Data Engineer
13 36 (3.19%) Migration Engineer
14 28 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (2.12%) Migration Manager
16 23 (2.04%) Data Consultant
17 22 (1.95%) Migration Consultant
17 22 (1.95%) SAP Consultant
18 20 (1.77%) Administrator
18 20 (1.77%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.57%) Kafka
2 24 (2.12%) React
3 22 (1.95%) Spring Boot
4 21 (1.86%) Web Services
5 20 (1.77%) .NET
5 20 (1.77%) Middleware
6 17 (1.50%) REST
7 16 (1.42%) Spring
8 13 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (1.15%) OAuth
9 12 (1.06%) SOAP
10 11 (0.97%) OpenAPI
10 11 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (0.97%) Swagger
11 10 (0.88%) JMS
11 10 (0.88%) LDAP
12 8 (0.71%) AWS CDK
12 8 (0.71%) HTML
12 8 (0.71%) SAML
12 8 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.99%) Data Centre
2 70 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 30 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.30%) Life Science
6 25 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.86%) Replication
9 18 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.15%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
14 12 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.88%) IoT
16 10 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 121 (10.71%) Windows
2 74 (6.55%) Linux
3 42 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.97%) Unix
7 9 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.44%) Android
10 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.35%) Solaris
10 4 (0.35%) VMS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) OS/400
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.18%) HPUX
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.088%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (28.58%) Data Migration
2 222 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
3 197 (17.43%) Agile
4 131 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 118 (10.44%) DevOps
6 102 (9.03%) Validation
7 100 (8.85%) ETL
8 97 (8.58%) Change Management
9 91 (8.05%) Project Management
10 87 (7.70%) Analytics
11 85 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
12 84 (7.43%) CI/CD
13 83 (7.35%) Data Modelling
14 70 (6.19%) Data Governance
15 66 (5.84%) Roadmaps
16 61 (5.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 60 (5.31%) Performance Tuning
18 57 (5.04%) ERP
19 56 (4.96%) Workflow
20 54 (4.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 203 (17.96%) SQL
2 104 (9.20%) Python
3 74 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 50 (4.42%) Java
5 39 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 26 (2.30%) C#
7 25 (2.21%) Bash
7 25 (2.21%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.77%) Perl
9 15 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.24%) C++
11 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.88%) R
13 8 (0.71%) Groovy
14 7 (0.62%) COBOL
15 6 (0.53%) VB
15 6 (0.53%) VBA
16 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 225 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 186 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 65 (5.75%) Degree
4 41 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.21%) CCNP
8 17 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.97%) CCIE
12 11 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.88%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.80%) CCNA
14 9 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.80%) PMP
15 4 (0.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.07%) QA
3 28 (2.48%) GDPR
4 9 (0.80%) SLA
5 8 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.62%) NIST
7 6 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.53%) PMO
8 5 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.35%) NCSC
9 4 (0.35%) PMBOK
10 3 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) OASIS TOSCA
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
11 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 50 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.19%) Docker
4 15 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.71%) Firmware
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.53%) vSphere
10 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.27%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.18%) XenApp
13 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.088%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 48 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.27%) Ansible
3 33 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.65%) Terraform
5 18 (1.59%) SCCM
6 17 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
7 16 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.06%) Grafana
9 10 (0.88%) Kibana
9 10 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.62%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.62%) Puppet
11 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.35%) Amdocs OSS
11 4 (0.35%) BMC PATROL
11 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.35%) vRealize
12 3 (0.27%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 194 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 128 (11.33%) SAP
3 121 (10.71%) Oracle
4 71 (6.28%) Cisco
5 60 (5.31%) VMware
6 34 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 27 (2.39%) Google
9 21 (1.86%) Splunk
10 20 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 19 (1.68%) F5
12 18 (1.59%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.42%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.33%) Citrix
14 15 (1.33%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.24%) Juniper
16 13 (1.15%) Ariba
16 13 (1.15%) CheckPoint
16 13 (1.15%) Ericsson
16 13 (1.15%) Nokia