Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 23 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,536 5,907 6,768
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 7.57% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 8.39% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,408 4,196 4,757
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £458 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £733 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 70 104
10th Percentile £22.06 £15.09 £12.30
25th Percentile £27.04 £21.38 £15.04
Median hourly rate £63.00 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% +148.14% +26.47%
75th Percentile £86.50 £70.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £89.16 £82.63 £64.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.75 £50.50 £18.56
% change year-on-year +4.46% +172.13% +17.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,646 70,386 79,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.22% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,253 48,791 55,756
10th Percentile £310 £343 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £619
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,565 1,689 1,973
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.41 £11.92
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.30 £13.50
Median hourly rate £43.84 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% +62.79% -14.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.05 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £32.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +39.06% +77.78% -20.00%

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023. 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 +2 2,976 £550 +2.33% 854
Work from Home +5 1,579 £542 +3.16% 473
UK excluding London +4 1,539 £525 +5.00% 530
London +3 1,487 £565 -0.88% 366
South East +9 395 £550 +4.76% 154
North of England -2 371 £500 - 142
Midlands +5 257 £475 -4.04% 100
South West +15 232 £550 +10.00% 63
North West +1 215 £510 +7.37% 69
West Midlands +5 169 £480 -2.04% 68
Scotland -9 157 £518 +5.61% 22
Yorkshire -1 150 £500 -4.76% 53
East of England +5 111 £530 +17.78% 49
East Midlands +6 83 £475 -9.26% 31
Wales +2 36 £500 +5.26% 13
North East +13 12 £425 -15.00% 22
Northern Ireland +14 7 £295 +15.23% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £376 -

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
1 196 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 83 (2.35%) Confluence
3 33 (0.93%) MS Exchange
4 21 (0.59%) IIS
5 15 (0.42%) CMS
6 14 (0.40%) Apache
7 13 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.34%) NetWeaver
8 12 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.23%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.17%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (0.14%) Appian
12 5 (0.14%) CICS
12 5 (0.14%) nginx
12 5 (0.14%) SAS
13 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 104 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 48 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Trello
8 7 (0.20%) CATIA
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
9 6 (0.17%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.028%) Notepad++
11 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.028%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Weka
Business Applications
1 117 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (1.02%) Loan IQ
4 35 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.62%) SAP CO
6 22 (0.62%) SAP FI
7 20 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
8 18 (0.51%) SAP MDG
8 18 (0.51%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
10 13 (0.37%) NetSuite
11 12 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.34%) Teamcenter
12 11 (0.31%) Workday HCM
13 10 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
13 10 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
14 9 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
14 9 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 918 (25.96%) Azure
2 501 (14.17%) AWS
3 274 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 185 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 166 (4.69%) SaaS
6 153 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (3.22%) Entra ID
9 111 (3.14%) GCP
10 87 (2.46%) IaaS
11 82 (2.32%) GitHub
12 81 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
13 74 (2.09%) Serverless
14 73 (2.06%) PaaS
15 59 (1.67%) PowerApps
16 50 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (1.41%) Power Automate
17 49 (1.39%) Azure AKS
18 46 (1.30%) Amazon S3
19 40 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 161 (4.55%) Firewall
2 140 (3.96%) DNS
3 98 (2.77%) WAN
4 89 (2.52%) VPN
5 88 (2.49%) LAN
6 79 (2.23%) DHCP
7 77 (2.18%) SAN
8 65 (1.84%) Network Security
9 50 (1.41%) VLAN
10 39 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 36 (1.02%) NAS
12 35 (0.99%) BGP
13 27 (0.76%) MPLS
13 27 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (0.74%) SSL
15 25 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 24 (0.68%) Wireless
17 20 (0.57%) Internet
18 18 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 18 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 144 (4.07%) Power BI
3 101 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (2.32%) Oracle Database
6 50 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 43 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 43 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (1.16%) MySQL
10 38 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (0.96%) Big Data
12 33 (0.93%) Metadata
12 33 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
13 31 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
13 31 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 30 (0.85%) Tableau
15 26 (0.74%) MongoDB
16 25 (0.71%) SAP HANA
17 21 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 169 (4.78%) JIRA
2 101 (2.86%) Git
3 87 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.07%) TeamCity
5 35 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 28 (0.79%) GitLab
7 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 26 (0.74%) Selenium
9 22 (0.62%) Subversion
10 20 (0.57%) Artifactory
11 18 (0.51%) Postman
12 16 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.34%) ERwin
14 11 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.31%) Eclipse
14 11 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 10 (0.28%) Appium
16 9 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 875 (24.75%) Finance
2 742 (20.98%) Social Skills
3 288 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 271 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (6.00%) Banking
6 87 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 75 (2.12%) Legal
8 68 (1.92%) Marketing
9 64 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 60 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 56 (1.58%) Law
12 52 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 51 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 49 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 41 (1.16%) Retail
16 40 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (0.76%) Billing
19 22 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 486 (13.74%) Architect
2 402 (11.37%) Analyst
3 391 (11.06%) Project Manager
4 359 (10.15%) Consultant
5 277 (7.83%) Senior
6 270 (7.64%) Lead
7 234 (6.62%) Developer
8 227 (6.42%) Business Analyst
9 141 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
10 136 (3.85%) Migration Manager
11 125 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 123 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 112 (3.17%) Migration Project Manager
14 98 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
15 97 (2.74%) Data Analyst
16 91 (2.57%) Data Engineer
17 88 (2.49%) Migration Engineer
18 78 (2.21%) Cloud Engineer
19 70 (1.98%) Data Architect
20 69 (1.95%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (3.28%) .NET
2 88 (2.49%) REST
3 85 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 63 (1.78%) JSON
5 54 (1.53%) XML
6 49 (1.39%) HTML
7 45 (1.27%) SOAP
8 42 (1.19%) ARM Templates
9 34 (0.96%) Web Services
10 31 (0.88%) CSS
10 31 (0.88%) LDAP
11 30 (0.85%) Middleware
12 27 (0.76%) .NET Framework
12 27 (0.76%) Node.js
13 26 (0.74%) Kafka
14 24 (0.68%) React
15 20 (0.57%) ASP.NET
16 17 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
17 16 (0.45%) RESTful
17 16 (0.45%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 287 (8.12%) Data Centre
2 126 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
3 83 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 64 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (1.81%) Replication
5 55 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 50 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 49 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 46 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
11 39 (1.10%) PKI
12 36 (1.02%) Cloud Native
13 34 (0.96%) Private Cloud
14 32 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 32 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 32 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 469 (13.26%) Windows
2 329 (9.30%) Linux
3 188 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 120 (3.39%) Unix
5 85 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (1.56%) Solaris
7 51 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 46 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (1.27%) Windows 10
10 38 (1.07%) VMS
11 35 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (0.65%) Ubuntu
13 19 (0.54%) Apple iOS
14 16 (0.45%) AIX
14 16 (0.45%) CentOS
14 16 (0.45%) SUSE
15 14 (0.40%) Android
16 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,075 (30.40%) Data Migration
2 566 (16.01%) Agile
3 480 (13.57%) DevOps
4 456 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 398 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 348 (9.84%) Project Management
7 227 (6.42%) CI/CD
8 212 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
9 208 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
10 201 (5.68%) ERP
11 192 (5.43%) Roadmaps
12 190 (5.37%) ETL
13 189 (5.35%) Analytics
14 187 (5.29%) Change Management
14 187 (5.29%) Data Modelling
15 183 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 152 (4.30%) Project Delivery
17 151 (4.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 143 (4.04%) Requirements Gathering
19 131 (3.70%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 561 (15.87%) SQL
2 261 (7.38%) Python
3 187 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 137 (3.87%) Java
5 129 (3.65%) C#
6 93 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 85 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 75 (2.12%) Bash
9 41 (1.16%) ABAP
10 39 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 32 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 28 (0.79%) PHP
12 28 (0.79%) Ruby
13 26 (0.74%) Bicep
14 25 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 24 (0.68%) Perl
16 18 (0.51%) VB
16 18 (0.51%) VBA
17 14 (0.40%) R
18 13 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 566 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 444 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 217 (6.14%) Degree
4 121 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 76 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 48 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (0.82%) PMP
11 27 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 26 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.62%) SAP Certification
14 21 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.57%) MCSE
16 18 (0.51%) RHCSA
17 17 (0.48%) ISTQB
18 16 (0.45%) CCIE
19 14 (0.40%) CCNP
20 13 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.01%) Data Quality
2 142 (4.02%) QA
3 62 (1.75%) PMO
4 31 (0.88%) SLA
5 28 (0.79%) GDPR
6 27 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.54%) NIST
9 15 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
10 12 (0.34%) HL7
11 11 (0.31%) NCSC
12 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.20%) GRC
13 7 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
15 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.14%) EMIR
16 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.11%) IFRS
17 3 (0.085%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 313 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 137 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (2.77%) Docker
4 57 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.51%) NFS
8 17 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.48%) vSphere
9 10 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 7 (0.20%) KVM
11 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.17%) Firmware
12 6 (0.17%) XenApp
13 5 (0.14%) Squid
13 5 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 195 (5.51%) Terraform
2 148 (4.19%) Kubernetes
3 144 (4.07%) Ansible
4 77 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (1.53%) SCCM
6 30 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 25 (0.71%) Puppet
8 23 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.51%) Grafana
11 14 (0.40%) VxRail
12 13 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.34%) SCOM
14 11 (0.31%) Argo
14 11 (0.31%) Control-M
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 11 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.31%) Tivoli
15 10 (0.28%) HP ALM
16 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 622 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 447 (12.64%) Oracle
3 348 (9.84%) SAP
4 214 (6.05%) VMware
5 159 (4.50%) Cisco
6 89 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 81 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 71 (2.01%) IBM
9 68 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.75%) Google
11 49 (1.39%) Databricks
12 46 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 45 (1.27%) Workday
14 44 (1.24%) Citrix
15 43 (1.22%) NetApp
16 35 (0.99%) HP
17 32 (0.90%) Dell
17 32 (0.90%) F5
18 30 (0.85%) Ariba
19 27 (0.76%) Fortinet