Migration Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 15 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,064 1,232 2,255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.73% 8.01% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.79% 9.12% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 813 1,561
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +0.03% -
75th Percentile £656 £646 £638
90th Percentile £856 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 31
10th Percentile £18.39 - £20.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £15.50 £56.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -75.71% +64.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.50 -
90th Percentile £77.57 £71.30 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Migration trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Migration.

Migration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Migration over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Migration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Migration.

Migration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Migration over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Migration hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 55 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (2.16%) Apache
4 22 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.07%) Confluence
5 16 (1.50%) CMS
6 15 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 11 (1.03%) SAS
8 6 (0.56%) Drupal
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) Documentum
9 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.28%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.19%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.094%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.19%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.094%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.094%) Notepad++
6 1 (0.094%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 8 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.47%) Infor LN
7 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.38%) SAP EHS
7 4 (0.38%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 226 (21.24%) Azure
2 163 (15.32%) AWS
3 80 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 61 (5.73%) GCP
6 60 (5.64%) Entra ID
7 39 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.20%) Snowflake
9 30 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (2.82%) SaaS
10 26 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (2.16%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.16%) IaaS
12 22 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (2.07%) OneDrive
12 22 (2.07%) Serverless
13 21 (1.97%) PaaS
14 20 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.88%) dbt
15 19 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.92%) Firewall
2 56 (5.26%) VPN
3 35 (3.29%) DNS
4 28 (2.63%) BGP
5 27 (2.54%) Network Security
6 22 (2.07%) OSPF
7 20 (1.88%) MPLS
8 19 (1.79%) WAN
9 18 (1.69%) DHCP
10 12 (1.13%) LAN
10 12 (1.13%) Multicast
11 11 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.94%) SSL
13 9 (0.85%) IPv6
13 9 (0.85%) NGFW
14 8 (0.75%) Broadband
15 7 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.66%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (12.12%) Data Lake
2 52 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (3.95%) Power BI
3 42 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 41 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 39 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
8 18 (1.69%) Big Data
9 17 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
9 17 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
9 17 (1.60%) Dremio
10 13 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.22%) Tableau
11 12 (1.13%) MySQL
11 12 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (3.38%) JIRA
2 30 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.60%) GitLab
4 15 (1.41%) Git
5 10 (0.94%) Liquibase
5 10 (0.94%) Mockito
5 10 (0.94%) MSI
6 9 (0.85%) Gradle
6 9 (0.85%) JUnit
7 6 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.38%) Postman
9 4 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.28%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 348 (32.71%) Finance
2 250 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 116 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.43%) Front Office
5 93 (8.74%) Banking
6 63 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 31 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 31 (2.91%) Retail
8 21 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.88%) Marketing
10 18 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.60%) Legal
12 15 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.03%) Law
15 10 (0.94%) General Ledger
16 9 (0.85%) Local Government
17 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (13.53%) Consultant
2 127 (11.94%) Architect
3 109 (10.24%) Analyst
4 104 (9.77%) Lead
5 74 (6.95%) Project Manager
6 66 (6.20%) Senior
7 64 (6.02%) Developer
8 45 (4.23%) Business Analyst
8 45 (4.23%) Network Engineer
9 43 (4.04%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (3.57%) Head of Finance
12 32 (3.01%) Data Analyst
13 28 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (2.63%) Migration Engineer
13 28 (2.63%) SAP Consultant
14 25 (2.35%) Migration Manager
14 25 (2.35%) Software Engineer
15 24 (2.26%) Governance Manager
15 24 (2.26%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.35%) REST
2 24 (2.26%) Spring Boot
3 22 (2.07%) PySpark
3 22 (2.07%) Spring
4 17 (1.60%) gRPC
4 17 (1.60%) NumPy
4 17 (1.60%) Pandas
4 17 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (1.60%) SciPy
5 14 (1.32%) Kafka
5 14 (1.32%) React
6 13 (1.22%) SOAP
7 12 (1.13%) .NET
8 11 (1.03%) Middleware
8 11 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (1.03%) Swagger
9 10 (0.94%) OpenAPI
10 9 (0.85%) ADO
10 9 (0.85%) LDAP
10 9 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.53%) Derivative
1 112 (10.53%) Hedge funds
2 110 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 109 (10.24%) Fixed Income
4 108 (10.15%) Equities
5 56 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 48 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (4.04%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.54%) Cloud Native
9 25 (2.35%) Private Cloud
10 20 (1.88%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.32%) Life Science
13 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.03%) PKI
15 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (8.27%) Windows
2 58 (5.45%) Linux
3 34 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.26%) Unix
5 16 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (0.66%) AIX
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.38%) OS/400
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) zOS
12 1 (0.094%) CentOS
12 1 (0.094%) Solaris
12 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (29.04%) Data Migration
2 233 (21.90%) Agile
3 178 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (13.82%) Data Governance
5 128 (12.03%) Roadmaps
6 119 (11.18%) DevOps
7 102 (9.59%) Data Management
8 98 (9.21%) Investment Management
9 96 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 95 (8.93%) Regulatory Compliance
11 84 (7.89%) CI/CD
12 79 (7.42%) Validation
13 76 (7.14%) ETL
13 76 (7.14%) Project Management
14 72 (6.77%) ERP
15 60 (5.64%) Analytics
15 60 (5.64%) Data Modelling
16 58 (5.45%) Test Automation
17 56 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
18 54 (5.08%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (17.39%) SQL
2 112 (10.53%) Python
3 61 (5.73%) Java
4 60 (5.64%) PowerShell
5 35 (3.29%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.29%) PL/SQL
6 31 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.50%) C#
8 14 (1.32%) Bash
9 11 (1.03%) R
10 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.85%) Perl
12 7 (0.66%) Ruby
12 7 (0.66%) VBA
13 6 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.56%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Groovy
14 5 (0.47%) PHP
15 4 (0.38%) ABAP
15 4 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 138 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 62 (5.83%) Degree
4 27 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.22%) CCNP
9 13 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.13%) PMP
11 11 (1.03%) CCIE
12 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.85%) CCNA
13 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.47%) CCIE Service Provider
15 5 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.42%) QA
3 26 (2.44%) GDPR
4 25 (2.35%) MiFID
5 12 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.13%) PMO
6 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.47%) NIST
8 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.28%) SLA
9 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.19%) Basel III
10 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.19%) GAAP
10 2 (0.19%) IFRS
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.094%) EMIR
11 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (6.95%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.29%) Docker
3 30 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.94%) vSphere
7 9 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.38%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.19%) Firmware
11 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.094%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.094%) Microcode
12 1 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.094%) NFS
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.094%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.094%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (6.11%) Terraform
2 51 (4.79%) Ansible
3 38 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 37 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.50%) Grafana
6 16 (1.50%) SCCM
7 9 (0.85%) Argo
7 9 (0.85%) ZABBIX
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.38%) Kibana
10 4 (0.38%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.38%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 173 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 107 (10.06%) Oracle
3 84 (7.89%) SAP
4 46 (4.32%) Cisco
4 46 (4.32%) VMware
5 31 (2.91%) Google
6 19 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.79%) Splunk
7 18 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 18 (1.69%) IBM
8 17 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.50%) Databricks
10 15 (1.41%) BMC
11 14 (1.32%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.22%) Ariba
12 13 (1.22%) IFS
12 13 (1.22%) SolarWinds
13 12 (1.13%) Okta
14 10 (0.94%) Adobe