Migration Job Trends in England

Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 72 89
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Migration 1,419 1,391 2,361
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.92% 3.81% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 4.09% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 991 968 1,854
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,125 £97,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,409 34,008 69,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.20% 93.07% 85.98%
Number of salaries quoted 35,591 20,482 53,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,227 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Migration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Migration job vacancy trend in England

Migration
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -13 595 £77,500 -13.89% 339
North of England -45 231 £60,000 +9.09% 144
Midlands -31 179 £58,446 +0.77% 93
South East -46 156 £64,000 +11.30% 194
South West +8 137 £52,500 -16.00% 47
West Midlands -11 137 £57,500 -4.17% 71
Yorkshire -23 103 £60,000 +9.09% 48
North West -48 100 £60,000 +9.09% 77
East of England -19 62 £60,100 +3.62% 49
East Midlands -44 39 £64,000 +70.67% 22
North East -11 28 £70,000 - 19
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 108 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.13%) Confluence
4 14 (0.99%) Apache
4 14 (0.99%) CMS
5 12 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.63%) IIS
7 8 (0.56%) SAS
8 4 (0.28%) Documentum
9 2 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.070%) Drupal
10 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.070%) JBoss
10 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.070%) nginx
10 1 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.49%) Maya
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 15 (1.06%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
6 10 (0.70%) Shopify
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.42%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.28%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.28%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 564 (39.75%) Azure
2 241 (16.98%) AWS
3 221 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 111 (7.82%) SaaS
6 90 (6.34%) Entra ID
7 86 (6.06%) GCP
8 85 (5.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 79 (5.57%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (5.36%) Snowflake
11 59 (4.16%) Azure AI
11 59 (4.16%) Serverless
12 58 (4.09%) Azure Machine Learning
13 50 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
14 42 (2.96%) PaaS
15 39 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (2.47%) Power Automate
17 31 (2.18%) PowerApps
18 29 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
19 27 (1.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 133 (9.37%) DNS
2 121 (8.53%) DHCP
3 118 (8.32%) Firewall
4 80 (5.64%) VPN
5 57 (4.02%) VLAN
6 55 (3.88%) WAN
7 47 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
8 35 (2.47%) SD-WAN
9 34 (2.40%) SAN
10 31 (2.18%) LAN
11 27 (1.90%) Wireless
12 19 (1.34%) Network Security
13 18 (1.27%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (1.13%) TCP/IP
15 11 (0.78%) BGP
16 10 (0.70%) HTTP
17 9 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
17 9 (0.63%) WAAS
18 8 (0.56%) VoIP
19 7 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 106 (7.47%) Power BI
3 80 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.02%) Data Lake
4 57 (4.02%) Metadata
5 53 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (3.10%) Tableau
7 40 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.34%) MySQL
11 18 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.85%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.78%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.63%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (2.47%) Git
2 33 (2.33%) JIRA
3 18 (1.27%) Chocolatey
4 13 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.78%) GitLab
6 9 (0.63%) ERwin
7 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.35%) Selenium
9 3 (0.21%) Gradle
9 3 (0.21%) JMeter
9 3 (0.21%) JUnit
9 3 (0.21%) Maven
9 3 (0.21%) MLflow
9 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.21%) TestNG
10 2 (0.14%) ESLint
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 467 (32.91%) Finance
2 421 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 313 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.08%) Banking
5 106 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (5.50%) Financial Institution
7 63 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 63 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 61 (4.30%) Retail
9 52 (3.66%) Law
10 33 (2.33%) Marketing
11 30 (2.11%) Legal
12 24 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.41%) Games
14 20 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.20%) Retail Banking
16 16 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.06%) Advertising
18 13 (0.92%) Billing
Job Titles
1 238 (16.77%) Senior
2 223 (15.72%) Architect
3 172 (12.12%) Analyst
4 118 (8.32%) Lead
5 101 (7.12%) Consultant
6 93 (6.55%) Developer
7 68 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
9 60 (4.23%) Data Architect
10 57 (4.02%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.95%) Project Manager
12 55 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 53 (3.74%) Senior Architect
13 53 (3.74%) Senior Manager
13 53 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 50 (3.52%) Data Analyst
15 46 (3.24%) IT Engineer
16 45 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
17 41 (2.89%) Data Manager
18 39 (2.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.95%) .NET
2 35 (2.47%) REST
3 30 (2.11%) RESTful
4 27 (1.90%) Middleware
5 25 (1.76%) PySpark
6 23 (1.62%) XML
7 20 (1.41%) Node.js
8 19 (1.34%) CSS
8 19 (1.34%) Web Services
9 18 (1.27%) HTML
10 17 (1.20%) JSON
10 17 (1.20%) Kafka
10 17 (1.20%) React
10 17 (1.20%) Spring
11 15 (1.06%) OAuth
11 15 (1.06%) SOAP
11 15 (1.06%) Spring Boot
12 14 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.92%) .NET Core
13 13 (0.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 199 (14.02%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 60 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.24%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 36 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 34 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.83%) Driving Licence
12 23 (1.62%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.20%) e-Learning
16 17 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.99%) CMDB
18 13 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 12 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 203 (14.31%) Windows
2 118 (8.32%) Linux
3 116 (8.17%) Windows Server
4 67 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.13%) Android
6 14 (0.99%) CentOS
7 11 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.42%) Unix
10 4 (0.28%) VMS
11 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Debian
13 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.070%) MVS
13 1 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE
13 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 332 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (19.17%) Agile
4 226 (15.93%) Roadmaps
5 203 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 196 (13.81%) DevOps
7 189 (13.32%) Analytics
8 183 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 176 (12.40%) AI
10 166 (11.70%) ERP
11 160 (11.28%) Mentoring
12 157 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
13 152 (10.71%) CI/CD
14 151 (10.64%) Data Governance
15 143 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 130 (9.16%) Data Engineering
17 126 (8.88%) Data Modelling
18 117 (8.25%) Data Architecture
19 113 (7.96%) Validation
20 104 (7.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 307 (21.63%) SQL
2 184 (12.97%) Python
3 85 (5.99%) PowerShell
4 82 (5.78%) C#
5 70 (4.93%) Java
6 44 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.75%) Bash
8 31 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.97%) PHP
10 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.70%) Perl
13 9 (0.63%) ABAP
14 7 (0.49%) VBA
15 6 (0.42%) Go
15 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.35%) Bicep
16 5 (0.35%) C++
16 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 178 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.70%) Degree
3 148 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.20%) Azure Certification
5 63 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 59 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (3.10%) PMI Certification
9 42 (2.96%) PMP
10 34 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (2.26%) CCNP
12 31 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 26 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
15 21 (1.48%) ACCA
15 21 (1.48%) CIMA
16 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (1.41%) Master's Degree
17 19 (1.34%) DV Cleared
18 11 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 66 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 42 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (2.82%) GDPR
5 40 (2.82%) QA
6 34 (2.40%) SLA
7 15 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (1.06%) NIST
8 13 (0.92%) IFRS
9 12 (0.85%) GAAP
10 10 (0.70%) GRC
10 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.49%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.49%) PMO
12 6 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.35%) COBIT
14 4 (0.28%) TickIT
15 3 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (10.50%) Active Directory
2 78 (5.50%) Hyper-V
3 65 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (4.44%) Terminal Server
5 61 (4.30%) Docker
6 27 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 4 (0.28%) vSphere
10 3 (0.21%) KVM
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) ACF2
12 1 (0.070%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.070%) RACF
12 1 (0.070%) Squid
12 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.070%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 90 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (6.13%) Terraform
3 69 (4.86%) Kubernetes
4 34 (2.40%) SCCM
5 25 (1.76%) Ansible
6 18 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.20%) Grafana
8 8 (0.56%) Kibana
9 7 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.28%) Autotask
12 3 (0.21%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.21%) Scalr
13 2 (0.14%) CASB
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Flashback
13 2 (0.14%) Puppet
14 1 (0.070%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 472 (33.26%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.60%) VMware
3 113 (7.96%) SAP
4 90 (6.34%) Databricks
5 86 (6.06%) Oracle
6 72 (5.07%) Splunk
7 69 (4.86%) SolarWinds
8 68 (4.79%) Veeam
9 63 (4.44%) Brocade
9 63 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
9 63 (4.44%) Tanium
10 62 (4.37%) Cisco
11 34 (2.40%) Google
12 33 (2.33%) Meraki
13 31 (2.18%) ServiceNow
14 28 (1.97%) Alteryx
15 24 (1.69%) Bloomberg
16 23 (1.62%) Salesforce
17 20 (1.41%) AppDynamics
17 20 (1.41%) Dynatrace