Migration Contracts in Wales

Migration
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 13 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 33 34 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 11.19% 8.48% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 10.73% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 25
10th Percentile £363 £413 £370
25th Percentile £400 £494 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £515 £586
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% -12.12% +17.20%
75th Percentile £538 £639 £600
90th Percentile £638 £682 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 256 317 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 86.78% 79.05% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 218 421
10th Percentile £185 £172 £183
25th Percentile £285 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% +4.21% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £570 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
South Wales +9 26 £448 -14.26% 8
Dyfed - 3 £375 -
North Wales +1 1 £400 -44.83% 4
West Wales 0 1 £550 +10.00%
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (12.12%) DNS
5 2 (6.06%) BGP
5 2 (6.06%) DHCP
5 2 (6.06%) IPv4
5 2 (6.06%) LAN
5 2 (6.06%) OSPF
5 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.06%) VPN
5 2 (6.06%) WAN
5 2 (6.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.03%) Adabas
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Consultant
1 7 (21.21%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Migration Consultant
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Data Centre Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Data Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Data Migration Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Migration Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Commvault Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Network Supervisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) NHS
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.03%) LPAR
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) TOGAF
2 5 (15.15%) Agile
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 3 (9.09%) Data Privacy
4 3 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 3 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 3 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (6.06%) Change Management
5 2 (6.06%) CRM
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL
5 2 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) C
1 1 (3.03%) C#
1 1 (3.03%) Java
1 1 (3.03%) Natural
1 1 (3.03%) PHP
1 1 (3.03%) Python
1 1 (3.03%) RPG
1 1 (3.03%) Ruby
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 7 (21.21%) CCNP
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (15.15%) CCIE
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.12%) Degree
5 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) CITP
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.03%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) PowerHA
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Argo
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Nagios
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Cisco
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Commvault
4 2 (6.06%) Ekahau
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Freshdesk
5 1 (3.03%) HubSpot