Migration Job Trends in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 107 134
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 -17
Permanent jobs citing Migration 182 209 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.25% 2.68% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.97% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 163 107 237
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,650 £31,150
25th Percentile £53,125 £46,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -13.65%
75th Percentile £95,625 £70,000 £68,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £88,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,435 7,045 14,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.47% 90.23% 81.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,370 3,393 10,340
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,969 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the South East

Migration
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Thames Valley -8 74 £70,000 +16.67% 36
Buckinghamshire +9 42 £77,500 +34.78% 13
Hampshire -34 31 £60,000 - 17
Surrey -12 25 £47,500 +11.76% 16
Kent -21 21 £90,000 +38.46% 7
Berkshire -21 20 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East Sussex -4 16 £112,500 +125.00% 2
Oxfordshire -16 12 £65,000 +56.63% 4
West Sussex -9 9 £87,500 +34.62% 8
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.75%) SAS
3 4 (2.20%) CICS
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.10%) PTC Creo
3 2 (1.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.20%) Oracle Retail
3 3 (1.65%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.42%) Azure
2 35 (19.23%) SaaS
3 31 (17.03%) AWS
4 22 (12.09%) Azure AI
4 22 (12.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 22 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (12.09%) Snowflake
5 16 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.49%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.40%) Serverless
9 7 (3.85%) IaaS
9 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.75%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.75%) Datadog
11 5 (2.75%) GCP
11 5 (2.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.04%) DNS
2 7 (3.85%) Firewall
2 7 (3.85%) HTTP
3 4 (2.20%) DHCP
3 4 (2.20%) RFID
3 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.55%) Multicast
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.93%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.75%) Metadata
4 4 (2.20%) Db2
4 4 (2.20%) MySQL
5 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.10%) Power BI
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Git
2 4 (2.20%) ChangeMan
2 4 (2.20%) JIRA
3 3 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.10%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.10%) Selenium
5 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 63 (34.62%) Finance
2 43 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.99%) Retail
4 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.85%) Banking
5 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.75%) Marketing
8 4 (2.20%) Law
8 4 (2.20%) Local Government
9 3 (1.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.10%) Aviation
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.55%) Back Office
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (17.58%) Senior
2 31 (17.03%) Developer
3 21 (11.54%) Senior Developer
4 19 (10.44%) Analyst
4 19 (10.44%) Engineering Manager
4 19 (10.44%) Finance Manager
5 18 (9.89%) Data Manager
6 14 (7.69%) Architect
7 13 (7.14%) Lead
8 9 (4.95%) COBOL Developer
8 9 (4.95%) Head of Engineering
8 9 (4.95%) Senior COBOL Developer
8 9 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.95%) Support Analyst
9 8 (4.40%) Backend Developer
9 8 (4.40%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Consultant
10 7 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) HTML
1 6 (3.30%) Laravel
2 5 (2.75%) .NET
2 5 (2.75%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.75%) Loki
2 5 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (2.75%) YAML
3 4 (2.20%) JSON
3 4 (2.20%) MFC
3 4 (2.20%) React
4 3 (1.65%) CSS
4 3 (1.65%) LAMP
4 3 (1.65%) RESTful
5 2 (1.10%) jQuery
5 2 (1.10%) Middleware
5 2 (1.10%) OAuth
5 2 (1.10%) Web Services
5 2 (1.10%) WinForms
5 2 (1.10%) XHTML
5 2 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.20%) Contactless
6 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.20%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.20%) NHS
6 4 (2.20%) VSAM
7 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.65%) PMI
8 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.40%) Linux
2 7 (3.85%) CentOS
2 7 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.85%) Windows
3 4 (2.20%) zOS
4 3 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Debian
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.82%) Agile
2 41 (22.53%) Roadmaps
3 38 (20.88%) Data Migration
4 30 (16.48%) AI
5 28 (15.38%) DevOps
5 28 (15.38%) Line Management
6 26 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 25 (13.74%) Data Engineering
8 23 (12.64%) Machine Learning
9 22 (12.09%) Data Architecture
9 22 (12.09%) Data Development
9 22 (12.09%) Regulatory Compliance
10 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.44%) ERP
12 18 (9.89%) CI/CD
13 17 (9.34%) Mentoring
13 17 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (7.69%) CRM
15 13 (7.14%) Microservices
16 11 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.47%) SQL
2 17 (9.34%) PHP
2 17 (9.34%) Python
3 10 (5.49%) Java
4 9 (4.95%) COBOL
5 8 (4.40%) C#
5 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.85%) Perl
7 6 (3.30%) Bash
8 5 (2.75%) Bicep
8 5 (2.75%) C++
9 4 (2.20%) JCL
10 3 (1.65%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.65%) VBA
11 2 (1.10%) ABAP
11 2 (1.10%) Ruby
11 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.55%) Go
12 1 (0.55%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.24%) Degree
2 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.65%) CCNA
3 3 (1.65%) CCNP
3 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.65%) CISSP
3 3 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (1.65%) GCIA
3 3 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.65%) SANS
3 3 (1.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.10%) MCAD
4 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.49%) QA
3 5 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) NCSC
4 2 (1.10%) PMO
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) PERC
System Software
1 22 (12.09%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.04%) Terraform
2 5 (2.75%) Grafana
2 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.75%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.20%) CA Endevor
4 3 (1.65%) Scalr
5 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (31.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.09%) Databricks
3 9 (4.95%) Oracle
4 8 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.85%) SAP
6 6 (3.30%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.20%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
8 2 (1.10%) Epicor
8 2 (1.10%) PTC
8 2 (1.10%) Veeam
8 2 (1.10%) Workday
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) IFS
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) Sparx
9 1 (0.55%) webMethods