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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,661 3,047 4,417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.18% 7.10% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.09% 8.32% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 2,066 3,112
10th Percentile £363 £334 £356
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £663
90th Percentile £750 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 68 50
10th Percentile - £16.20 £18.50
25th Percentile - £23.13 £35.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -38.93% +166.10%
75th Percentile £56.63 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 - £85.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -42.86% +235.09%

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 26,381 36,635 50,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.39% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,765 23,488 34,705
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,136 2,523 1,664
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £56.06 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +74.43%

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 5 June 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 5 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 17 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 5 June 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 2,245 £525 - 6,189
UK excluding London +8 1,137 £500 - 5,691
London 0 1,122 £550 +1.85% 1,211
Work from Home +1 937 £525 - 3,240
North of England +7 322 £499 -0.30% 1,228
South East +12 274 £500 -1.23% 1,545
North West +9 185 £492 -1.60% 579
Midlands +4 176 £500 -4.76% 1,084
South West +12 152 £500 +5.26% 703
Yorkshire +9 129 £500 - 504
West Midlands +8 125 £500 -4.76% 600
Scotland -2 103 £481 -1.94% 282
East of England +7 77 £600 +17.07% 793
East Midlands -2 44 £500 -2.91% 419
Wales +13 40 £425 -17.48% 152
North East -7 14 £506 -7.95% 147
Northern Ireland -2 12 £165 - 79

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
1 149 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 102 (3.83%) Confluence
3 58 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.01%) CMS
5 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.75%) SAS
7 19 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.49%) Apache
8 13 (0.49%) JBoss
9 10 (0.38%) IIS
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.26%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.23%) Drupal
12 6 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
12 6 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.19%) CICS
14 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 61 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 40 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.34%) InfoPath
7 8 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.15%) Trello
9 2 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.075%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.075%) Notepad++
9 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.038%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 146 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 12 (0.45%) SAP PP
5 11 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 11 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
6 10 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 9 (0.34%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.23%) SAP Retail
9 6 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 554 (20.82%) Azure
2 390 (14.66%) AWS
3 173 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 132 (4.96%) GCP
6 124 (4.66%) Entra ID
7 92 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
8 89 (3.34%) SaaS
9 78 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 58 (2.18%) Serverless
12 56 (2.10%) IaaS
12 56 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.95%) PaaS
14 50 (1.88%) Snowflake
15 49 (1.84%) GitHub
16 48 (1.80%) OCI
17 46 (1.73%) Power Automate
18 45 (1.69%) OneDrive
19 34 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 168 (6.31%) Firewall
2 114 (4.28%) VPN
3 80 (3.01%) DNS
4 66 (2.48%) Network Security
5 50 (1.88%) WAN
6 44 (1.65%) BGP
7 39 (1.47%) OSPF
8 38 (1.43%) MPLS
9 36 (1.35%) LAN
10 27 (1.01%) DHCP
11 24 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (0.86%) VoIP
13 19 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.68%) NGFW
15 17 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.64%) TCP/IP
16 16 (0.60%) Internet
16 16 (0.60%) VLAN
17 14 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (4.47%) Data Lake
2 118 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 112 (4.21%) Power BI
5 94 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (2.93%) Relational Database
7 76 (2.86%) Oracle Database
8 42 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
9 39 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.35%) Big Data
11 32 (1.20%) Metadata
12 31 (1.16%) Tableau
13 30 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
15 28 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 24 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (0.75%) MySQL
17 20 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
18 18 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 172 (6.46%) JIRA
2 102 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.74%) GitLab
4 54 (2.03%) Git
5 37 (1.39%) Liquibase
6 35 (1.32%) Mockito
7 34 (1.28%) Gradle
7 34 (1.28%) JUnit
8 21 (0.79%) ScriptRunner
9 16 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (0.41%) CA Release Automation
12 11 (0.41%) Postman
13 10 (0.38%) ERwin
13 10 (0.38%) LSMW
13 10 (0.38%) MSI
13 10 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 794 (29.84%) Finance
2 780 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 307 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (7.29%) Banking
5 180 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 89 (3.34%) Front Office
6 89 (3.34%) Manufacturing
7 88 (3.31%) Marketing
8 74 (2.78%) Legal
9 73 (2.74%) Retail
10 67 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 57 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 53 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 41 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 40 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 30 (1.13%) Local Government
18 29 (1.09%) Electronics
18 29 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 372 (13.98%) Architect
2 291 (10.94%) Analyst
3 274 (10.30%) Consultant
4 212 (7.97%) Project Manager
5 200 (7.52%) Lead
6 193 (7.25%) Senior
7 173 (6.50%) Developer
8 136 (5.11%) Business Analyst
9 121 (4.55%) Network Engineer
10 110 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 79 (2.97%) Migration Engineer
13 78 (2.93%) Data Engineer
14 67 (2.52%) SAP Consultant
15 63 (2.37%) Data Architect
16 62 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
17 56 (2.10%) Migration Manager
18 55 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 53 (1.99%) Cloud Architect
20 48 (1.80%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.89%) Kafka
2 57 (2.14%) Spring Boot
3 55 (2.07%) React
4 52 (1.95%) Spring
5 46 (1.73%) REST
6 43 (1.62%) .NET
7 37 (1.39%) Middleware
8 36 (1.35%) Swagger
9 35 (1.32%) OpenAPI
10 34 (1.28%) Web Services
11 33 (1.24%) OAuth
12 28 (1.05%) HTML
12 28 (1.05%) SOAP
13 25 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
13 25 (0.94%) XML
14 23 (0.86%) ARM Templates
15 20 (0.75%) ADO
15 20 (0.75%) CSS
15 20 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 164 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
2 144 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 80 (3.01%) Hedge funds
4 79 (2.97%) Derivative
5 78 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 75 (2.82%) Fixed Income
7 72 (2.71%) Equities
8 70 (2.63%) Cloud Native
9 65 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 52 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 43 (1.62%) Product Ownership
12 42 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (1.43%) Life Science
14 36 (1.35%) Management Information System
15 34 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.09%) Replication
17 27 (1.01%) Private Cloud
17 27 (1.01%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
19 25 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 275 (10.33%) Windows
2 156 (5.86%) Linux
3 82 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.07%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.32%) Unix
7 11 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (0.38%) AIX
8 10 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.26%) Android
10 7 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.23%) Solaris
11 6 (0.23%) zOS
12 5 (0.19%) VMS
13 4 (0.15%) CentOS
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.15%) OS/400
14 2 (0.075%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (28.52%) Data Migration
2 510 (19.17%) Agile
3 472 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
4 315 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 303 (11.39%) DevOps
6 235 (8.83%) Validation
7 229 (8.61%) Project Management
8 219 (8.23%) CI/CD
9 209 (7.85%) Data Governance
10 203 (7.63%) ETL
11 201 (7.55%) Analytics
12 194 (7.29%) Roadmaps
13 177 (6.65%) Change Management
14 174 (6.54%) Data Modelling
15 171 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
15 171 (6.43%) Data Management
16 166 (6.24%) ERP
17 159 (5.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 148 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
19 128 (4.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 426 (16.01%) SQL
2 255 (9.58%) Python
3 164 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 119 (4.47%) Java
5 62 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 56 (2.10%) C#
6 56 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 50 (1.88%) Bash
8 47 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 29 (1.09%) Groovy
10 27 (1.01%) Perl
11 25 (0.94%) C++
12 23 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.83%) Bicep
14 21 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.68%) R
16 16 (0.60%) VBA
17 15 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.45%) COBOL
18 12 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 447 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 393 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 161 (6.05%) Degree
4 74 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 67 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.65%) CCNP
8 43 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.50%) PMP
10 38 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 33 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 22 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.83%) CCNA
14 21 (0.79%) CCIE
15 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.56%) CISSP
17 12 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 108 (4.06%) QA
3 69 (2.59%) GDPR
4 23 (0.86%) MiFID
5 22 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 21 (0.79%) SLA
7 19 (0.71%) PMO
8 18 (0.68%) NIST
9 17 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.26%) SEPA
14 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.15%) GRC
15 4 (0.15%) NCSC
15 4 (0.15%) PMBOK
16 3 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
16 3 (0.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 180 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 98 (3.68%) Docker
3 81 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.71%) vSphere
8 17 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.45%) Firmware
9 12 (0.45%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.15%) PowerHA
14 3 (0.11%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.075%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
15 2 (0.075%) XenApp
15 2 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 148 (5.56%) Terraform
2 122 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 103 (3.87%) Ansible
4 90 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (1.95%) SCCM
6 40 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.09%) Grafana
8 21 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
9 20 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.71%) Puppet
11 17 (0.64%) Argo
12 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 13 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.41%) Kibana
14 11 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.23%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 5 (0.19%) CEMLI
16 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 451 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 297 (11.16%) SAP
3 260 (9.77%) Oracle
4 134 (5.04%) Cisco
5 111 (4.17%) VMware
6 86 (3.23%) Google
7 63 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 54 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 48 (1.80%) Splunk
11 47 (1.77%) IBM
12 41 (1.54%) Red Hat
13 38 (1.43%) Atlassian
14 37 (1.39%) Databricks
15 36 (1.35%) Workday
16 35 (1.32%) F5
17 34 (1.28%) CheckPoint
18 31 (1.16%) Ariba
18 31 (1.16%) SolarWinds
19 24 (0.90%) Citrix