Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,629 2,988 5,037
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.53% 6.78% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 7.79% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 1,994 3,551
10th Percentile £356 £363 £340
25th Percentile £438 £448 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -
75th Percentile £645 £650 £641
90th Percentile £751 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 59 62
10th Percentile £16.83 £15.50 £16.55
25th Percentile £19.63 £25.00 £23.07
Median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% -38.46% +114.88%
75th Percentile £65.08 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £86.50 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.24 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -49.40% -38.46% +209.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,629 38,371 59,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.66% 87.02% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,023 25,081 41,213
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,145 1,825
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.29 £11.00
25th Percentile £21.03 £16.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.39 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.35 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.45 £35.00 £33.25
% change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% +70.51%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 February 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
England +3 2,251 £550 - 809
London +2 1,211 £550 - 426
Work from Home +6 1,095 £550 +4.76% 462
UK excluding London +3 1,041 £500 -2.44% 478
North of England +7 283 £500 - 139
South East +6 270 £550 +7.32% 161
North West +9 182 £499 -0.25% 63
Midlands +4 176 £500 - 65
South West -1 134 £525 -0.94% 47
West Midlands +5 131 £525 -2.33% 48
Scotland +2 92 £475 -5.00% 28
Yorkshire -2 75 £525 +12.00% 61
East of England +9 70 £550 +10.00% 35
East Midlands -4 40 £425 -15.00% 15
Wales 0 36 £450 -11.33% 13
North East +7 25 £600 +25.00% 16
Northern Ireland -6 8 £413 +51.38% 1
Channel Islands - 4 - -

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 166 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 76 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.83%) Confluence
4 34 (1.29%) Apache
4 34 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.03%) CMS
6 15 (0.57%) Drupal
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.30%) IIS
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
12 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.15%) JBoss
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.27%) Trello
8 5 (0.19%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.11%) Sketch
10 2 (0.076%) 1Password
10 2 (0.076%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.076%) Notepad++
10 2 (0.076%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.038%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.038%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.99%) SAP FI
5 25 (0.95%) SAP CO
5 25 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
6 14 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
7 10 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CAR
10 5 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.19%) SAP Retail
10 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 603 (22.94%) Azure
2 424 (16.13%) AWS
3 198 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (5.93%) Power Platform
5 141 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 137 (5.21%) GCP
7 99 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 94 (3.58%) Serverless
9 84 (3.20%) SaaS
10 80 (3.04%) Amazon S3
11 75 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
12 70 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
13 62 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (2.28%) Snowflake
15 52 (1.98%) PowerApps
16 50 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (1.83%) PaaS
18 43 (1.64%) OneDrive
19 42 (1.60%) IaaS
20 41 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 140 (5.33%) Firewall
2 88 (3.35%) VPN
3 77 (2.93%) DNS
4 59 (2.24%) Network Security
4 59 (2.24%) WAN
5 43 (1.64%) LAN
6 41 (1.56%) BGP
7 40 (1.52%) DHCP
8 37 (1.41%) OSPF
9 31 (1.18%) MPLS
10 28 (1.07%) SSL
10 28 (1.07%) VLAN
11 26 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 23 (0.87%) TCP/IP
13 22 (0.84%) ATM
13 22 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (0.76%) VoIP
15 17 (0.65%) SAN
15 17 (0.65%) Skype
15 17 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.39%) Data Lake
2 150 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 113 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (4.22%) Power BI
5 73 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 70 (2.66%) Oracle Database
7 58 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 54 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 50 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 46 (1.75%) Big Data
11 44 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.26%) MySQL
13 31 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (1.14%) Tableau
15 29 (1.10%) Hadoop
16 27 (1.03%) MongoDB
16 27 (1.03%) NoSQL
17 24 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
18 22 (0.84%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 111 (4.22%) JIRA
2 61 (2.32%) GitLab
3 59 (2.24%) Git
4 57 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.46%) Postman
6 12 (0.46%) Selenium
6 12 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.30%) ERwin
10 7 (0.27%) JMeter
10 7 (0.27%) Maven
10 7 (0.27%) MSI
11 6 (0.23%) Ant
11 6 (0.23%) CA Release Automation
11 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 736 (28.00%) Finance
2 688 (26.17%) Social Skills
3 299 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (8.75%) Banking
5 177 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 126 (4.79%) Front Office
7 72 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 68 (2.59%) Retail
9 67 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 66 (2.51%) Legal
11 53 (2.02%) Marketing
12 44 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 37 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 33 (1.26%) Local Government
15 32 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.18%) General Ledger
17 29 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 28 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 413 (15.71%) Architect
2 302 (11.49%) Analyst
3 276 (10.50%) Consultant
4 212 (8.06%) Lead
5 194 (7.38%) Senior
6 188 (7.15%) Project Manager
7 182 (6.92%) Developer
8 123 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.26%) Business Analyst
10 103 (3.92%) Data Engineer
11 98 (3.73%) Data Analyst
11 98 (3.73%) Network Engineer
12 88 (3.35%) Migration Engineer
13 67 (2.55%) DBA
14 57 (2.17%) Administrator
15 56 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
16 54 (2.05%) Cloud Architect
16 54 (2.05%) SAP Consultant
17 52 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
18 51 (1.94%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (3.00%) .NET
2 53 (2.02%) PySpark
3 49 (1.86%) XML
4 46 (1.75%) HTML
5 45 (1.71%) JSON
5 45 (1.71%) REST
6 41 (1.56%) CSS
7 38 (1.45%) Web Services
8 34 (1.29%) Middleware
9 29 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
10 28 (1.07%) .NET Framework
11 27 (1.03%) SOAP
12 25 (0.95%) Node.js
13 24 (0.91%) Spring
14 23 (0.87%) Kafka
15 22 (0.84%) Pandas
15 22 (0.84%) SAML
15 22 (0.84%) Spring Boot
16 21 (0.80%) gRPC
16 21 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 132 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
2 125 (4.75%) Data Centre
3 124 (4.72%) Derivative
3 124 (4.72%) Hedge funds
4 120 (4.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 119 (4.53%) Fixed Income
6 111 (4.22%) Equities
7 80 (3.04%) Product Ownership
8 71 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 70 (2.66%) Data Structures
10 51 (1.94%) Cloud Native
10 51 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (1.33%) Mainframe
14 32 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.14%) PKI
16 28 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 239 (9.09%) Windows
2 115 (4.37%) Linux
3 96 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.21%) Unix
5 45 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.53%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.27%) Android
11 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.076%) AIX
14 2 (0.076%) CentOS
14 2 (0.076%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (31.19%) Data Migration
2 497 (18.90%) Agile
3 426 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
4 285 (10.84%) DevOps
5 241 (9.17%) Project Management
6 230 (8.75%) Data Governance
6 230 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 212 (8.06%) Roadmaps
8 198 (7.53%) ETL
9 194 (7.38%) Data Management
10 187 (7.11%) Data Modelling
11 184 (7.00%) Validation
12 180 (6.85%) ERP
13 178 (6.77%) Analytics
14 177 (6.73%) CI/CD
15 153 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
16 125 (4.75%) Change Management
16 125 (4.75%) Data Integration
17 124 (4.72%) Risk Management
18 121 (4.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 501 (19.06%) SQL
2 284 (10.80%) Python
3 157 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 140 (5.33%) Java
5 104 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 72 (2.74%) C#
7 59 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 42 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 38 (1.45%) Bash
10 37 (1.41%) R
11 20 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 19 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.68%) Perl
14 16 (0.61%) C++
15 15 (0.57%) PHP
15 15 (0.57%) VBA
16 14 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.53%) C
17 11 (0.42%) Bicep
17 11 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 297 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 248 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 166 (6.31%) Degree
4 69 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
5 68 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 45 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.48%) CCNP
10 32 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 28 (1.07%) PMP
12 25 (0.95%) CCIE
12 25 (0.95%) CISSP
13 24 (0.91%) CCNA
13 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.72%) SAP Certification
15 18 (0.68%) CISM
16 17 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 119 (4.53%) QA
3 48 (1.83%) GDPR
4 29 (1.10%) MiFID
5 27 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.68%) PMO
7 12 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.42%) NIST
9 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.34%) SLA
11 8 (0.30%) NCSC
12 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.19%) SEPA
15 4 (0.15%) IFRS
15 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 79 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (2.21%) Docker
4 33 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.03%) Firmware
6 19 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.23%) SRDF
10 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) XenApp
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.076%) IAG
13 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.076%) vSphere
14 1 (0.038%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 133 (5.06%) Terraform
2 98 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 96 (3.65%) Ansible
4 82 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.71%) SCCM
6 35 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.18%) Grafana
8 20 (0.76%) Puppet
9 19 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (0.65%) Argo
11 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.38%) PingFederate
12 10 (0.38%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 9 (0.34%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.27%) Kibana
16 6 (0.23%) Nagios
17 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 466 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 242 (9.21%) SAP
3 217 (8.25%) Oracle
4 144 (5.48%) Cisco
5 111 (4.22%) VMware
6 82 (3.12%) Google
7 60 (2.28%) Palo Alto
8 52 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 46 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.45%) Databricks
11 36 (1.37%) Ariba
11 36 (1.37%) CheckPoint
12 33 (1.26%) CyberArk
13 30 (1.14%) Juniper
14 28 (1.07%) F5
14 28 (1.07%) Splunk
15 27 (1.03%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.87%) Workday
17 22 (0.84%) Okta
18 21 (0.80%) Nokia