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 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 19 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,644 3,067 4,588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.04% 7.04% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 8.15% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,726 2,052 3,261
10th Percentile £364 £350 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 69 47
10th Percentile £17.32 £16.30 £17.63
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +136.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.73 - £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 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
England +5 2,240 £537 +2.29% 1,112
London +1 1,191 £550 - 539
Work from Home +5 1,064 £550 +4.73% 608
UK excluding London +5 1,041 £500 - 587
North of England +8 299 £500 - 156
South East +7 258 £500 - 137
North West +7 179 £525 +5.00% 89
Midlands +6 176 £510 -7.27% 114
South West +6 126 £500 +5.26% 106
West Midlands +14 125 £525 -6.67% 84
Yorkshire +8 111 £500 - 56
Scotland -3 88 £491 -0.66% 25
East of England +5 69 £550 +10.00% 45
East Midlands +1 46 £490 -10.91% 27
Wales +3 33 £446 -13.40% 12
North East -2 15 £650 +30.00% 11
Northern Ireland -4 11 £500 - 4
Channel Islands - 3 - -

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
1 164 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 87 (3.29%) Confluence
3 72 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 28 (1.06%) Apache
6 27 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (1.02%) CMS
7 20 (0.76%) SAS
8 12 (0.45%) JBoss
9 10 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.34%) IIS
11 8 (0.30%) Drupal
12 7 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
12 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.19%) CICS
13 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.15%) Documentum
14 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.42%) InfoPath
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.076%) 1Password
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.076%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.076%) Notepad++
9 2 (0.076%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.038%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.038%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
5 12 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 11 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
6 11 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.38%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.38%) SAP PP
8 9 (0.34%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.30%) SAP MM
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (0.23%) SAP Retail
11 6 (0.23%) SAP SD
11 6 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 569 (21.52%) Azure
2 414 (15.66%) AWS
3 206 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
4 163 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 149 (5.64%) Entra ID
6 139 (5.26%) GCP
7 99 (3.74%) SaaS
8 89 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (2.46%) Serverless
11 64 (2.42%) IaaS
12 61 (2.31%) Amazon S3
13 59 (2.23%) Snowflake
14 56 (2.12%) PowerApps
15 55 (2.08%) PaaS
16 54 (2.04%) OneDrive
17 50 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
18 49 (1.85%) Power Automate
19 37 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
20 36 (1.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 165 (6.24%) Firewall
2 125 (4.73%) VPN
3 95 (3.59%) DNS
4 69 (2.61%) Network Security
5 53 (2.00%) WAN
6 49 (1.85%) BGP
7 42 (1.59%) OSPF
8 38 (1.44%) MPLS
9 37 (1.40%) DHCP
10 34 (1.29%) LAN
11 24 (0.91%) NGFW
12 23 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (0.87%) SSL
13 21 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
14 19 (0.72%) VoIP
15 18 (0.68%) VLAN
16 17 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
17 16 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.61%) Wireless
18 15 (0.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (5.98%) Data Lake
2 118 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 107 (4.05%) Power BI
5 101 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 91 (3.44%) Oracle Database
7 78 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (1.40%) Tableau
10 33 (1.25%) Big Data
11 32 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
11 32 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
12 31 (1.17%) Hadoop
13 30 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.13%) Metadata
13 30 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 26 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.76%) MySQL
17 19 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 145 (5.48%) JIRA
2 81 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.76%) GitLab
4 45 (1.70%) Git
5 35 (1.32%) Liquibase
6 33 (1.25%) Gradle
6 33 (1.25%) Mockito
7 32 (1.21%) JUnit
8 20 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
9 16 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.45%) MSI
12 11 (0.42%) Postman
12 11 (0.42%) Selenium
12 11 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (0.38%) CA Release Automation
14 9 (0.34%) ERwin
15 7 (0.26%) Eclipse
General
1 768 (29.05%) Finance
2 722 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 299 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (7.83%) Banking
5 175 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 127 (4.80%) Front Office
7 82 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 77 (2.91%) Marketing
9 72 (2.72%) Legal
10 71 (2.69%) Retail
11 68 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 48 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
16 33 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 32 (1.21%) Local Government
17 32 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
18 31 (1.17%) Financial Institution
19 27 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 375 (14.18%) Architect
2 298 (11.27%) Consultant
3 289 (10.93%) Analyst
4 211 (7.98%) Lead
5 203 (7.68%) Project Manager
6 187 (7.07%) Senior
7 165 (6.24%) Developer
8 142 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 116 (4.39%) Network Engineer
10 115 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 89 (3.37%) Data Engineer
12 83 (3.14%) Data Analyst
13 82 (3.10%) Migration Engineer
14 60 (2.27%) Migration Manager
14 60 (2.27%) SAP Consultant
15 58 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
16 56 (2.12%) Data Architect
17 50 (1.89%) Cloud Architect
18 49 (1.85%) Migration Consultant
19 48 (1.82%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.23%) Kafka
2 56 (2.12%) Spring Boot
3 49 (1.85%) Spring
4 47 (1.78%) React
5 46 (1.74%) REST
6 44 (1.66%) .NET
7 36 (1.36%) Swagger
8 35 (1.32%) OpenAPI
9 32 (1.21%) Web Services
10 31 (1.17%) Middleware
11 29 (1.10%) OAuth
11 29 (1.10%) PySpark
12 28 (1.06%) SOAP
13 26 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 26 (0.98%) XML
14 24 (0.91%) SAML
15 20 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (0.72%) Pandas
17 18 (0.68%) ADO
17 18 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 143 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 120 (4.54%) Derivative
4 118 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 118 (4.46%) Hedge funds
5 114 (4.31%) Fixed Income
6 108 (4.08%) Equities
7 62 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 61 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 58 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 57 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 40 (1.51%) Public Cloud
13 39 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 38 (1.44%) Life Science
15 36 (1.36%) Mainframe
16 33 (1.25%) Private Cloud
17 32 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 32 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
18 30 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 255 (9.64%) Windows
2 139 (5.26%) Linux
3 100 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.74%) Unix
5 40 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.40%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (0.38%) AIX
8 10 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.30%) VMS
10 7 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.23%) Android
11 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.19%) Solaris
12 5 (0.19%) zOS
13 4 (0.15%) CentOS
13 4 (0.15%) OS/400
14 2 (0.076%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (29.65%) Data Migration
2 517 (19.55%) Agile
3 481 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
4 300 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 295 (11.16%) DevOps
6 242 (9.15%) Data Governance
7 235 (8.89%) Project Management
8 223 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 215 (8.13%) Validation
10 197 (7.45%) ETL
11 187 (7.07%) Analytics
11 187 (7.07%) CI/CD
12 181 (6.85%) Data Management
13 175 (6.62%) ERP
14 169 (6.39%) Change Management
15 158 (5.98%) Business Intelligence
16 156 (5.90%) Data Modelling
17 135 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 128 (4.84%) User Acceptance Testing
19 119 (4.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 455 (17.21%) SQL
2 250 (9.46%) Python
3 166 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 125 (4.73%) Java
5 70 (2.65%) PL/SQL
6 63 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 61 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 49 (1.85%) C#
9 43 (1.63%) Bash
10 26 (0.98%) Perl
11 25 (0.95%) Groovy
12 24 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.76%) Bicep
13 20 (0.76%) C++
13 20 (0.76%) VBA
14 18 (0.68%) R
15 15 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.42%) PHP
17 9 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 390 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 343 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 166 (6.28%) Degree
4 83 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 53 (2.00%) CCNP
8 48 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 38 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 34 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.29%) PMP
11 28 (1.06%) CCNA
12 25 (0.95%) CCIE
12 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 22 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (0.83%) CISSP
15 21 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (0.57%) CISM
17 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.39%) QA
3 66 (2.50%) GDPR
4 28 (1.06%) MiFID
5 22 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.79%) PMO
7 18 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.53%) NIST
10 11 (0.42%) SLA
11 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.30%) SEPA
13 5 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.15%) EMIR
14 4 (0.15%) GRC
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) NCSC
14 4 (0.15%) PMBOK
System Software
1 199 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 95 (3.59%) Docker
3 84 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.61%) vSphere
8 15 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.42%) Firmware
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.15%) PowerHA
13 3 (0.11%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.076%) IAG
14 2 (0.076%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 146 (5.52%) Terraform
2 106 (4.01%) Kubernetes
3 101 (3.82%) Ansible
4 97 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (1.93%) SCCM
6 45 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.25%) Grafana
8 21 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
9 20 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.72%) Argo
11 13 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.42%) Kibana
13 11 (0.42%) Prometheus
13 11 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.38%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.38%) Puppet
15 7 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.23%) Nagios
16 6 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 470 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 269 (10.17%) SAP
3 261 (9.87%) Oracle
4 127 (4.80%) Cisco
5 111 (4.20%) VMware
6 94 (3.56%) Google
7 57 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 54 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.66%) Splunk
11 38 (1.44%) Atlassian
12 36 (1.36%) IBM
12 36 (1.36%) Workday
13 35 (1.32%) CheckPoint
14 34 (1.29%) F5
15 33 (1.25%) Databricks
16 30 (1.13%) Ariba
16 30 (1.13%) CyberArk
16 30 (1.13%) SolarWinds
17 26 (0.98%) Red Hat