Re-Platforming Contracts

Re-Platforming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Re-Platforming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Re-Platforming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 525 532
Rank change year-on-year +62 +7 +67
Contract jobs citing Re-Platforming 57 57 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.15% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 136
10th Percentile £416 £423 £419
25th Percentile £450 £506 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £700
90th Percentile £723 £815 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -5.81% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Re-Platforming 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Re-Platforming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Re-Platforming within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +48 41 £500 -16.67% 46
Work from Home +48 27 £470 -21.67% 21
London +36 24 £500 -17.36% 18
UK excluding London +62 23 £495 -5.81% 33
North of England +23 9 £497 -13.65% 13
North West +22 8 £489 -24.77% 9
Scotland +17 6 - - 3
South East +37 4 £540 +13.68% 7
East of England +31 2 £375 -
South West +45 1 £500 -13.04% 9
Yorkshire +7 1 £700 +47.37% 2
Wales - 1 £434 -

Re-Platforming
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 6 (10.53%) Confluence
1 6 (10.53%) SAS
2 4 (7.02%) CMS
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (5.26%) Documentum
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Sage X3
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.75%) Maximo
4 1 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.28%) OCI
5 5 (8.77%) GCP
6 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.51%) IaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Miro
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub
8 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.75%) PaaS
8 1 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
1 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) MySQL
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.02%) Power BI
5 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) DBeaver
2 2 (3.51%) GitLab
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.75%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) Grunt
3 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Retail
5 4 (7.02%) General Ledger
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Developer
2 12 (21.05%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.77%) SAS Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) Angular Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Documentum Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) ETL Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Lead
6 3 (5.26%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Sage Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 5 (8.77%) Entity Framework
3 5 (8.77%) RESTful
4 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.51%) CSS
5 2 (3.51%) Django
5 2 (3.51%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) htmx
5 2 (3.51%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Jest
6 1 (1.75%) Kafka
6 1 (1.75%) LESS
6 1 (1.75%) Middleware
6 1 (1.75%) NgRx
6 1 (1.75%) Sass
6 1 (1.75%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (1.75%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) AIX
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (8.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) Migration
2 18 (31.58%) Agile
3 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) ETL
6 7 (12.28%) Data Integration
6 7 (12.28%) Data Migration
6 7 (12.28%) Microservices
6 7 (12.28%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (10.53%) Project Management
8 5 (8.77%) Analytics
8 5 (8.77%) Data Modelling
8 5 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (7.02%) Integration Testing
9 4 (7.02%) Software Delivery
9 4 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Java
2 4 (7.02%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) C#
3 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.75%) PHP
4 1 (1.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) PMP
3 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) PMO
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.75%) Docker
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) Oracle
3 5 (8.77%) Adobe
4 4 (7.02%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) Sage
4 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.26%) IBM
5 3 (5.26%) SAP
5 3 (5.26%) Siebel
6 2 (3.51%) Citrix
6 2 (3.51%) Databricks
6 2 (3.51%) Okta
6 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.75%) Talend
7 1 (1.75%) VMware
7 1 (1.75%) Wind River