Migration Contracts in Wales

Migration
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 32 30
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 35 31 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.52% 4.81% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 5.60% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 44
10th Percentile £306 £366 £254
25th Percentile £450 £431 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £586 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +30.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £625 £593 £550
90th Percentile £673 £650 £692
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 554 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.81% 86.02% 83.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 425 623
10th Percentile £161 £180 £201
25th Percentile £325 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £565 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 35
10th Percentile £11.69 £14.13 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -24.74% +40.85%
75th Percentile £50.81 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.18 £48.88 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Wales

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Migration in Wales

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Wales over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Wales

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Wales

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
South Wales +14 23 £525 -10.41% 8
West Wales +2 2 £413 -14.29%
North Wales - 2 £725 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) GitHub
2 11 (31.43%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) SAN
2 4 (11.43%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) DHCP
3 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) MySQL
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Project Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Migration Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (17.14%) DBA
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) CRM Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Data Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Data Migration Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Migration Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Product Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) MySQL DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.86%) IT Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.71%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.71%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.71%) AIX
6 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
2 11 (31.43%) Scrum
2 11 (31.43%) SDLC
3 10 (28.57%) Project Management
4 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.14%) Data Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Analytics
6 5 (14.29%) Data Mapping
7 4 (11.43%) Change Control
7 4 (11.43%) DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL
8 3 (8.57%) Change Management
8 3 (8.57%) Converged Infrastructure
8 3 (8.57%) CRM
8 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.57%) Data Analytics
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.57%) Project Governance
8 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) PHP
2 7 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Argo
2 7 (20.00%) Ansible
2 7 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
3 4 (11.43%) Graylog
3 4 (11.43%) Nagios
3 4 (11.43%) NetBackup
3 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) VxRail
5 2 (5.71%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.43%) Brocade
3 4 (11.43%) Dell
3 4 (11.43%) HP
3 4 (11.43%) Splunk
3 4 (11.43%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) 3PAR
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) NetApp
6 1 (2.86%) Veritas