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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,990 4,442 6,890
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 7.83% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.18% 8.73% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,011 3,131 4,850
10th Percentile £338 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +6.06%
75th Percentile £630 £652 £630
90th Percentile £713 £739 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 49 53
10th Percentile £15.80 £19.70 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.00 £35.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +153.85% +63.21%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £51.00
90th Percentile - £85.50 £66.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -42.86% +221.40% +37.33%

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 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 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
England 0 2,548 £525 -4.55% 797
London +2 1,370 £550 -6.78% 340
UK excluding London -3 1,215 £500 - 522
Work from Home -5 1,162 £525 - 395
South East -2 322 £500 -4.76% 156
North of England -4 315 £500 -4.76% 131
North West -5 168 £500 - 64
Midlands -5 168 £540 +8.00% 102
South West +2 167 £465 -15.45% 43
Yorkshire -1 131 £500 -9.09% 55
Scotland -5 124 £497 +1.64% 33
West Midlands -6 109 £525 +5.00% 69
East of England -11 103 £525 +20.69% 36
East Midlands +3 58 £540 +13.68% 33
Wales +13 25 £515 -12.12% 8
North East +15 18 £525 +16.67% 13
Northern Ireland -5 6 - - 17

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
1 187 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 100 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (1.91%) Confluence
4 31 (1.04%) CMS
5 20 (0.67%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (0.57%) IIS
8 16 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
9 14 (0.47%) SAS
10 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
10 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
11 12 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
11 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
12 8 (0.27%) JBoss
13 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.23%) Drupal
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.067%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 107 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.80%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 13 (0.43%) Elite 3E
8 11 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
10 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
10 9 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.27%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 678 (22.68%) Azure
2 324 (10.84%) AWS
3 229 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 152 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
6 125 (4.18%) GCP
7 115 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (3.14%) Entra ID
9 89 (2.98%) SaaS
10 58 (1.94%) PaaS
11 55 (1.84%) Serverless
12 53 (1.77%) IaaS
13 50 (1.67%) Amazon S3
13 50 (1.67%) OCI
14 48 (1.61%) PowerApps
15 46 (1.54%) GitHub
16 41 (1.37%) OneDrive
17 39 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
18 38 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
19 34 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.25%) Firewall
2 75 (2.51%) DNS
3 62 (2.07%) WAN
4 59 (1.97%) LAN
5 58 (1.94%) VPN
6 48 (1.61%) Network Security
7 42 (1.40%) DHCP
7 42 (1.40%) SAN
8 36 (1.20%) MPLS
9 28 (0.94%) Wireless
10 27 (0.90%) DMZ
11 26 (0.87%) FTP
12 25 (0.84%) BGP
13 24 (0.80%) IPsec
14 22 (0.74%) TCP/IP
15 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (0.60%) Internet
17 17 (0.57%) NAS
17 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
18 15 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 145 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.41%) Power BI
4 84 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 75 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.57%) Big Data
9 43 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (1.34%) MySQL
10 40 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 35 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (1.14%) Tableau
13 31 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
15 27 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
17 23 (0.77%) Metadata
18 21 (0.70%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 130 (4.35%) JIRA
2 54 (1.81%) Git
3 44 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 24 (0.80%) GitLab
6 22 (0.74%) Selenium
7 20 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.47%) ERwin
8 14 (0.47%) JUnit
9 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.37%) LSMW
10 11 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.30%) JMeter
11 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) Maven
13 7 (0.23%) Postman
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 690 (23.08%) Finance
1 690 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 309 (10.33%) Public Sector
3 226 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.42%) Banking
5 86 (2.88%) Retail
6 72 (2.41%) Legal
7 67 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 62 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 46 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.44%) Marketing
12 39 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.07%) Local Government
14 31 (1.04%) Law
15 29 (0.97%) Billing
16 27 (0.90%) Back Office
17 26 (0.87%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.67%) German Language
Job Titles
1 512 (17.12%) Architect
2 315 (10.54%) Analyst
3 304 (10.17%) Project Manager
4 296 (9.90%) Consultant
5 257 (8.60%) Developer
6 242 (8.09%) Senior
7 192 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
8 184 (6.15%) Lead
9 145 (4.85%) Business Analyst
10 119 (3.98%) Migration Engineer
11 113 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 96 (3.21%) Network Engineer
13 95 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 89 (2.98%) Migration Manager
15 85 (2.84%) Data Analyst
16 78 (2.61%) Data Architect
17 70 (2.34%) Migration Project Manager
18 62 (2.07%) Technical Architect
19 60 (2.01%) DBA
20 59 (1.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (3.18%) .NET
2 54 (1.81%) REST
2 54 (1.81%) Web Services
3 50 (1.67%) JSON
4 40 (1.34%) LDAP
5 39 (1.30%) XML
6 32 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
7 31 (1.04%) Spring
8 30 (1.00%) CSS
9 29 (0.97%) Middleware
10 28 (0.94%) SailPoint
11 27 (0.90%) HTML
12 26 (0.87%) Kafka
12 26 (0.87%) WCF
13 25 (0.84%) SOAP
14 24 (0.80%) React
15 23 (0.77%) SAML
16 21 (0.70%) Spring Boot
17 19 (0.64%) WinForms
18 18 (0.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 128 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
3 88 (2.94%) Replication
4 74 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 54 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 50 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 43 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 38 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 34 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 28 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 28 (0.94%) NHS
13 27 (0.90%) Clustering
14 26 (0.87%) Taxonomies
15 23 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (0.70%) PKI
17 20 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
18 17 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 331 (11.07%) Windows
2 176 (5.89%) Linux
3 107 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 91 (3.04%) Unix
5 60 (2.01%) Windows 10
6 42 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (1.34%) VMS
8 35 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.54%) Solaris
13 14 (0.47%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.23%) Android
17 7 (0.23%) CentOS
17 7 (0.23%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (32.44%) Data Migration
2 472 (15.79%) Agile
3 391 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (10.43%) DevOps
5 268 (8.96%) Project Management
6 253 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 187 (6.25%) Project Delivery
8 181 (6.05%) CI/CD
9 174 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
9 174 (5.82%) Data Modelling
10 173 (5.79%) ETL
11 164 (5.48%) Data Management
12 163 (5.45%) Analytics
13 157 (5.25%) Change Management
14 148 (4.95%) ERP
15 144 (4.82%) Computer Science
16 143 (4.78%) Roadmaps
17 136 (4.55%) CRM
18 135 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 131 (4.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 439 (14.68%) SQL
2 189 (6.32%) PowerShell
3 168 (5.62%) Python
4 135 (4.52%) Java
5 101 (3.38%) C#
6 74 (2.47%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.17%) PL/SQL
8 32 (1.07%) Bash
9 31 (1.04%) PHP
10 27 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 23 (0.77%) Perl
12 20 (0.67%) ABAP
12 20 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 16 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.47%) Go
15 12 (0.40%) Scala
16 10 (0.33%) Bicep
17 9 (0.30%) Groovy
18 8 (0.27%) Swift
19 7 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 360 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 258 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 244 (8.16%) Degree
4 86 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 59 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.77%) CCNP
10 23 (0.77%) PMP
11 19 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 16 (0.54%) CCNA
13 14 (0.47%) CISSP
14 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.33%) SAP Certification
16 9 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 129 (4.31%) QA
3 45 (1.51%) GDPR
4 43 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.24%) PMO
6 24 (0.80%) NIST
7 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.33%) SLA
9 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.27%) WCAG
11 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.17%) GRC
13 5 (0.17%) IFRS
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.10%) GxP
16 2 (0.067%) NCSC
16 2 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 266 (8.90%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (2.07%) Docker
4 49 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.07%) vSphere
6 29 (0.97%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.60%) NFS
9 17 (0.57%) HDFS
10 16 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.50%) KVM
12 14 (0.47%) XenApp
13 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
15 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
18 2 (0.067%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 121 (4.05%) Terraform
2 75 (2.51%) Kubernetes
3 59 (1.97%) Ansible
4 54 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.77%) SCCM
6 48 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (0.84%) Grafana
9 15 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.43%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.43%) VxRail
11 12 (0.40%) Nagios
11 12 (0.40%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (0.37%) PingFederate
13 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 9 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.30%) Puppet
14 8 (0.27%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 554 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 296 (9.90%) SAP
3 272 (9.10%) Oracle
4 158 (5.28%) VMware
5 132 (4.41%) Cisco
6 72 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 68 (2.27%) Google
8 59 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.91%) Dell
10 48 (1.61%) Databricks
11 41 (1.37%) Citrix
12 38 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 37 (1.24%) CheckPoint
13 37 (1.24%) Micro Focus
14 35 (1.17%) F5
15 33 (1.10%) NetApp
16 31 (1.04%) Juniper
16 31 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 30 (1.00%) IBM
18 29 (0.97%) Atlassian