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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 18 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 40 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 13.75% 6.27% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.63% 8.33% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 26
10th Percentile £265 £413 £390
25th Percentile £363 £469 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £586
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -12.12% +17.20%
75th Percentile £479 £553 £597
90th Percentile £619 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.93% +151.92%

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 256 288 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.97% 75.20% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 189 388
10th Percentile £186 £143 £180
25th Percentile £285 £313 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +3.16% -2.48%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £584
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 35 26
10th Percentile £13.46 £11.75 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.34 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.17 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +31.19% +5.68% -15.11%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £44.25 £85.60 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 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 31 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
South Wales +14 28 £440 -14.61% 14
North Wales - 6 £284 - 5
Dyfed - 4 £375 -
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Firewall
2 7 (17.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (10.00%) DNS
5 3 (7.50%) LAN
5 3 (7.50%) WAN
6 2 (5.00%) BGP
6 2 (5.00%) DHCP
6 2 (5.00%) IPv4
6 2 (5.00%) OSPF
6 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.00%) VPN
6 2 (5.00%) Wireless
7 1 (2.50%) VoIP
7 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.50%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Consultant
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Data Migration Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Migration Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (5.00%) Commvault Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Network Supervisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) .NET
1 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.50%) REST
1 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.50%) NHS
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.50%) LPAR
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
1 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) TOGAF
2 5 (12.50%) Agile
2 5 (12.50%) Workflow
2 5 (12.50%) Workflow Management
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (7.50%) Data Privacy
4 3 (7.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.50%) ITSM
4 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery
4 3 (7.50%) Service Management
4 3 (7.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (5.00%) Change Management
5 2 (5.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) C
1 1 (2.50%) C#
1 1 (2.50%) Java
1 1 (2.50%) Natural
1 1 (2.50%) PHP
1 1 (2.50%) RPG
1 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Azure Certification
4 7 (17.50%) CCNP
4 7 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (12.50%) CCIE
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (10.00%) Degree
8 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (5.00%) CITP
9 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.50%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
1 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) PowerHA
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Argo
2 1 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Nagios
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Cisco
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) Remedy
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Commvault
5 2 (5.00%) Ekahau
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.50%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.50%) SAP