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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,056 1,204 2,218
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.67% 7.90% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.71% 8.99% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 797 1,533
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £659 £645 £638
90th Percentile £861 £713 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 33
10th Percentile £18.39 - £20.50
25th Percentile £21.50 £15.50 £62.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -75.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.13 -
90th Percentile £77.57 £37.58 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +128.07%

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 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
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 £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 56 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (2.18%) Apache
3 23 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.99%) Confluence
5 16 (1.52%) CMS
6 15 (1.42%) Apache Spark
7 11 (1.04%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) 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 (0.095%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.095%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.095%) Notepad++
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.76%) SAP MDG
4 8 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.38%) Infor LN
6 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.28%) SAP EHS
7 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 225 (21.31%) Azure
2 166 (15.72%) AWS
3 78 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 61 (5.78%) GCP
6 58 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 40 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.22%) Snowflake
9 30 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (2.84%) SaaS
10 26 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (2.18%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.18%) IaaS
12 22 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (1.99%) OneDrive
13 21 (1.99%) PaaS
13 21 (1.99%) Serverless
14 20 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.97%) Firewall
2 55 (5.21%) VPN
3 36 (3.41%) DNS
4 27 (2.56%) BGP
4 27 (2.56%) Network Security
5 21 (1.99%) OSPF
6 20 (1.89%) MPLS
7 19 (1.80%) WAN
8 18 (1.70%) DHCP
9 12 (1.14%) LAN
10 11 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (1.04%) Multicast
11 9 (0.85%) IPv6
11 9 (0.85%) NGFW
12 8 (0.76%) Broadband
12 8 (0.76%) SSL
13 7 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (12.12%) Data Lake
2 52 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 41 (3.88%) Oracle Database
4 41 (3.88%) Power BI
5 39 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
8 18 (1.70%) Big Data
9 17 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
9 17 (1.61%) Apache Ignite
9 17 (1.61%) Dremio
10 13 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.14%) MySQL
11 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.14%) Tableau
12 8 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (3.31%) JIRA
2 30 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.61%) GitLab
4 14 (1.33%) Git
5 10 (0.95%) Liquibase
5 10 (0.95%) Mockito
5 10 (0.95%) MSI
6 9 (0.85%) Gradle
6 9 (0.85%) JUnit
7 6 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.57%) 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
1 350 (33.14%) Finance
2 246 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 117 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.51%) Front Office
5 93 (8.81%) Banking
6 66 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 31 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.75%) Retail
9 21 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 20 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.89%) Marketing
11 19 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.61%) Legal
13 16 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.04%) Law
17 10 (0.95%) General Ledger
18 9 (0.85%) Local Government
19 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (13.35%) Consultant
2 124 (11.74%) Architect
3 112 (10.61%) Analyst
4 102 (9.66%) Lead
5 71 (6.72%) Project Manager
6 66 (6.25%) Senior
7 65 (6.16%) Developer
8 44 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 44 (4.17%) Network Engineer
9 42 (3.98%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (3.60%) Head of Finance
12 37 (3.50%) Data Analyst
13 29 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (2.56%) SAP Consultant
15 25 (2.37%) Migration Engineer
15 25 (2.37%) Software Engineer
16 24 (2.27%) Governance Manager
16 24 (2.27%) Migration Manager
16 24 (2.27%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.46%) REST
2 24 (2.27%) Spring Boot
3 22 (2.08%) PySpark
3 22 (2.08%) Spring
4 17 (1.61%) gRPC
4 17 (1.61%) NumPy
4 17 (1.61%) Pandas
4 17 (1.61%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (1.61%) SciPy
5 14 (1.33%) Kafka
5 14 (1.33%) React
6 13 (1.23%) SOAP
7 12 (1.14%) .NET
8 11 (1.04%) Middleware
8 11 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (1.04%) Swagger
9 10 (0.95%) OpenAPI
10 9 (0.85%) ADO
10 9 (0.85%) LDAP
10 9 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.61%) Derivative
1 112 (10.61%) Hedge funds
2 110 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 109 (10.32%) Fixed Income
4 108 (10.23%) Equities
5 59 (5.59%) Data Centre
6 47 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (3.98%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.56%) Cloud Native
9 25 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 20 (1.89%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.33%) Life Science
13 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.04%) Replication
15 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (8.43%) Windows
2 58 (5.49%) Linux
3 35 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.27%) Unix
5 16 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.76%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.66%) AIX
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.38%) OS/400
10 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) zOS
12 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.095%) CentOS
12 1 (0.095%) Solaris
12 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (28.88%) Data Migration
2 228 (21.59%) Agile
3 170 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 146 (13.83%) Data Governance
5 127 (12.03%) Roadmaps
6 118 (11.17%) DevOps
7 104 (9.85%) Data Management
8 98 (9.28%) Investment Management
9 96 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 95 (9.00%) Regulatory Compliance
11 83 (7.86%) CI/CD
12 80 (7.58%) Validation
13 76 (7.20%) ETL
14 73 (6.91%) Project Management
15 71 (6.72%) ERP
16 59 (5.59%) Analytics
16 59 (5.59%) Test Automation
17 57 (5.40%) Data Modelling
18 55 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
19 52 (4.92%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (17.42%) SQL
2 111 (10.51%) Python
3 61 (5.78%) Java
3 61 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 36 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.31%) PL/SQL
6 31 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.52%) C#
8 15 (1.42%) Bash
9 11 (1.04%) R
10 10 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.85%) Perl
12 7 (0.66%) Ruby
12 7 (0.66%) VBA
13 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.57%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Groovy
14 5 (0.47%) PHP
15 4 (0.38%) RPG
15 4 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 138 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 121 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.40%) Degree
4 25 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 17 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.23%) CCNP
8 13 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.14%) PMP
10 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.95%) CCIE
11 9 (0.85%) CCNA
11 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.76%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) CCIE Service Provider
14 5 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.26%) QA
3 26 (2.46%) GDPR
4 25 (2.37%) MiFID
5 12 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.04%) PMO
7 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.47%) NIST
9 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.28%) SLA
10 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.19%) Basel III
11 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.19%) GAAP
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.095%) EMIR
12 1 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (7.01%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.31%) Docker
3 31 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.95%) vSphere
7 9 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.38%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.19%) Firmware
10 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.095%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.095%) NFS
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.095%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.095%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.095%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (6.16%) Terraform
2 51 (4.83%) Ansible
3 38 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 36 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.52%) Grafana
6 16 (1.52%) 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
1 169 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 109 (10.32%) Oracle
3 82 (7.77%) SAP
4 47 (4.45%) VMware
5 45 (4.26%) Cisco
6 31 (2.94%) Google
7 19 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.80%) Splunk
8 18 (1.70%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.70%) IBM
9 17 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.42%) BMC
10 15 (1.42%) Databricks
11 14 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.23%) Ariba
12 13 (1.23%) IFS
12 13 (1.23%) SolarWinds
13 12 (1.14%) Okta
14 10 (0.95%) Adobe