Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,249 1,794 2,403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.02% 7.48% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 8.35% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,344 1,755
10th Percentile £312 £304 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £698 £657
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 33
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £12.76
25th Percentile £24.81 £20.94 £15.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +209.52% +32.41%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £41.00
90th Percentile - £78.88 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% +136.36% +71.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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 1 May 2024.

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 1 May 2024.

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 1 May 2024. 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
South East +1 340 £500 -4.76% 98
North of England -1 315 £500 -4.76% 103
South West +4 171 £465 -9.27% 46
North West -1 169 £500 -0.05% 48
Midlands -6 169 £563 +12.50% 74
Yorkshire -1 131 £500 -9.09% 41
Scotland -7 123 £494 +0.66% 28
West Midlands -10 106 £566 +13.25% 37
East of England -12 105 £500 +17.65% 28
East Midlands +3 62 £550 +15.79% 37
Wales +19 34 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +27 17 £500 - 15
Northern Ireland +3 7 £500 +25.00% 14
South Coast - 3 £500 -
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 54 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.16%) Confluence
4 8 (0.64%) CMS
4 8 (0.64%) IIS
5 7 (0.56%) ColdFusion
5 7 (0.56%) JBoss
5 7 (0.56%) SAS
6 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.32%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) Drupal
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) FileNet
9 2 (0.16%) GemFire
9 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.16%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.16%) Jadu
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.72%) SAP CO
4 9 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 9 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) ENOVIA
8 3 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.24%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 252 (20.18%) Azure
2 133 (10.65%) AWS
3 85 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 68 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
6 51 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.52%) SaaS
8 36 (2.88%) GCP
9 32 (2.56%) Entra ID
10 27 (2.16%) GitHub
11 26 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (1.60%) IaaS
14 18 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.44%) PaaS
14 18 (1.44%) Serverless
15 17 (1.36%) PowerApps
16 16 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (1.28%) OCI
17 14 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.36%) Firewall
2 52 (4.16%) DNS
3 43 (3.44%) LAN
4 41 (3.28%) WAN
5 37 (2.96%) DHCP
6 33 (2.64%) VPN
7 32 (2.56%) SAN
8 28 (2.24%) DMZ
8 28 (2.24%) Network Security
9 21 (1.68%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (1.44%) MPLS
12 13 (1.04%) NAS
13 11 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.88%) IPsec
13 11 (0.88%) NetScaler
13 11 (0.88%) SSL
13 11 (0.88%) VLAN
14 10 (0.80%) Internet
14 10 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.36%) Power BI
2 62 (4.96%) SQL Server
3 56 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (3.44%) Oracle Database
6 25 (2.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 22 (1.76%) MySQL
7 22 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 21 (1.68%) Big Data
9 19 (1.52%) Metadata
10 13 (1.04%) Data Mining
10 13 (1.04%) RDBMS
10 13 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (0.96%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.88%) Tableau
13 10 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (4.64%) JIRA
2 23 (1.84%) Git
3 21 (1.68%) GitLab
4 17 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.32%) LSMW
9 4 (0.32%) Selenium
10 3 (0.24%) ERwin
10 3 (0.24%) Subversion
10 3 (0.24%) Toad
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 319 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 262 (20.98%) Finance
3 136 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (5.60%) Banking
6 49 (3.92%) Retail
7 42 (3.36%) Legal
8 32 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.00%) Marketing
11 25 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.44%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.36%) Law
13 17 (1.36%) Local Government
14 14 (1.12%) Billing
15 11 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.80%) German Language
Job Titles
1 175 (14.01%) Architect
2 123 (9.85%) Project Manager
3 114 (9.13%) Analyst
4 104 (8.33%) Consultant
5 101 (8.09%) Developer
6 88 (7.05%) Senior
7 78 (6.24%) Lead
8 71 (5.68%) Network Engineer
9 70 (5.60%) Data Engineer
10 67 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (5.20%) Migration Engineer
12 55 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
14 38 (3.04%) Data Architect
14 38 (3.04%) Migration Manager
15 33 (2.64%) Data Analyst
16 29 (2.32%) Migration Project Manager
17 28 (2.24%) Data Manager
18 27 (2.16%) Senior Network Engineer
18 27 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.00%) REST
2 21 (1.68%) JSON
3 20 (1.60%) .NET
4 14 (1.12%) Web Services
5 12 (0.96%) AWS CDK
5 12 (0.96%) Web Dynpro
6 11 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (0.80%) LDAP
7 10 (0.80%) SAML
7 10 (0.80%) SOAP
8 9 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.64%) XML
10 7 (0.56%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.56%) OAuth
10 7 (0.56%) OpenID
10 7 (0.56%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.48%) CSS
11 6 (0.48%) HTML
11 6 (0.48%) Kafka
11 6 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.05%) Data Centre
2 75 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 24 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 21 (1.68%) Clustering
6 21 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.68%) Replication
7 20 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (0.96%) NHS
11 11 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 11 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (0.88%) FMCG
12 9 (0.72%) PKI
13 8 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.56%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 168 (13.45%) Windows
2 95 (7.61%) Linux
3 50 (4.00%) Unix
4 49 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 40 (3.20%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.84%) VMS
7 18 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.48%) Solaris
13 5 (0.40%) AIX
14 4 (0.32%) Android
14 4 (0.32%) CentOS
14 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 3 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (35.55%) Data Migration
2 205 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
3 190 (15.21%) Agile
4 127 (10.17%) DevOps
5 117 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (8.49%) Project Management
7 90 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
8 89 (7.13%) Project Delivery
9 82 (6.57%) ERP
10 78 (6.24%) Analytics
11 73 (5.84%) Data Management
12 71 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 62 (4.96%) Data Modelling
14 60 (4.80%) ETL
15 58 (4.64%) Computer Science
16 55 (4.40%) CI/CD
16 55 (4.40%) User Acceptance Testing
17 53 (4.24%) CRM
17 53 (4.24%) Roadmaps
18 52 (4.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (14.33%) SQL
2 60 (4.80%) PowerShell
3 57 (4.56%) Python
4 47 (3.76%) Java
5 28 (2.24%) PL/SQL
6 27 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.84%) PHP
8 20 (1.60%) C#
9 18 (1.44%) Bash
10 16 (1.28%) ABAP
11 13 (1.04%) Perl
12 9 (0.72%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.64%) Swift
14 7 (0.56%) Go
15 5 (0.40%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.32%) Ruby
16 4 (0.32%) VBScript
17 3 (0.24%) C++
17 3 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 180 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 128 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.61%) Degree
4 45 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 41 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.12%) PMP
10 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.88%) CCNA
11 11 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.48%) CCNP
13 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.40%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.32%) ACCA
15 4 (0.32%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.12%) QA
3 18 (1.44%) PMO
4 17 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.20%) GDPR
6 8 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.56%) NIST
8 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.40%) IFRS
8 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.40%) SLA
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) HL7
10 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.080%) GxP
11 1 (0.080%) NCSC
System Software
1 125 (10.01%) Active Directory
2 86 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 24 (1.92%) vSphere
6 19 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.44%) Docker
8 15 (1.20%) VMware Workstation
9 14 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.72%) KVM
11 9 (0.72%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.16%) HDFS
15 2 (0.16%) NFS
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (4.80%) Terraform
2 43 (3.44%) Ansible
3 34 (2.72%) SCCM
4 31 (2.48%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.28%) Grafana
7 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.96%) Argo
9 12 (0.96%) Nagios
9 12 (0.96%) NetBackup
10 9 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.64%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (0.64%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.56%) VxRail
13 6 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.48%) Istio
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 229 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 120 (9.61%) Oracle
3 117 (9.37%) SAP
4 114 (9.13%) VMware
5 78 (6.24%) Cisco
6 37 (2.96%) Micro Focus
7 31 (2.48%) CheckPoint
8 28 (2.24%) Dell
9 27 (2.16%) Atlassian
9 27 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 26 (2.08%) Google
11 25 (2.00%) Arista
12 22 (1.76%) Citrix
12 22 (1.76%) F5
13 19 (1.52%) Adobe
13 19 (1.52%) ServiceNow
14 18 (1.44%) Juniper
15 15 (1.20%) IBM
15 15 (1.20%) Salesforce
16 13 (1.04%) Informatica