Migration Job Trends in the South West

Migration
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 61 92
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 -11
Permanent jobs citing Migration 214 121 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.01% 3.37% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 4.12% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 111 49 63
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -4.35% -5.19%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,607 2,936 5,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.60% 81.87% 76.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,171 1,848 2,853
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the South West

Migration
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South West over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Migration in the South West

Migration
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Bristol -1 83 £57,000 +8.57% 20
Wiltshire +1 56 £57,350 +59.31% 17
Somerset -22 35 £33,750 -51.79% 10
Dorset - 17 £72,500 - 15
Gloucestershire -70 12 £60,500 +10.00% 14
Devon -23 9 £33,500 -25.56% 9
Cornwall - 1 £32,464 -
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 69 (32.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.21%) Confluence
3 5 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (52.80%) Azure
2 83 (38.79%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (13.08%) AWS
4 25 (11.68%) Power Platform
5 18 (8.41%) SaaS
6 17 (7.94%) Entra ID
7 16 (7.48%) n8n
7 16 (7.48%) Power Automate
7 16 (7.48%) Zapier
8 9 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.74%) Serverless
10 7 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.34%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (1.40%) Lucidchart
15 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 74 (34.58%) DNS
2 71 (33.18%) DHCP
3 18 (8.41%) Firewall
4 7 (3.27%) Network Security
5 6 (2.80%) SAN
6 5 (2.34%) Unified Communications
6 5 (2.34%) VLAN
7 4 (1.87%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.87%) IPv4
7 4 (1.87%) NAS
7 4 (1.87%) RS-232
7 4 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.87%) VoIP
8 3 (1.40%) WAN
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.93%) LAN
9 2 (0.93%) NGFW
9 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (29.91%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (9.35%) Power BI
3 9 (4.21%) Big Data
4 7 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.87%) Metadata
6 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.93%) MySQL
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.47%) Power Query
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.67%) JIRA
2 6 (2.80%) Git
3 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.87%) GitLab
3 4 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 107 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 87 (40.65%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (21.03%) Finance
4 18 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.61%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.27%) Local Government
9 6 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.87%) Advertising
10 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.87%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (29.91%) Systems Engineer
2 32 (14.95%) Architect
3 29 (13.55%) Senior
4 15 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (5.61%) Software Engineer
6 11 (5.14%) Developer
6 11 (5.14%) Lead
6 11 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (4.67%) IT Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Consultant
8 9 (4.21%) IT Support
8 9 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.21%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Systems Support
9 8 (3.74%) Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) C++ Developer
9 8 (3.74%) Senior C++ Developer
10 6 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.21%) Terraform
2 8 (3.74%) MFC
2 8 (3.74%) Middleware
3 4 (1.87%) boto
3 4 (1.87%) EDI
3 4 (1.87%) JSON
3 4 (1.87%) XML
4 3 (1.40%) .NET
4 3 (1.40%) React
5 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.93%) CSS
5 2 (0.93%) HTML
5 2 (0.93%) PySpark
5 2 (0.93%) Vue
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.47%) Kafka
6 1 (0.47%) Playwright
6 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (34.58%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.07%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.61%) Replication
5 8 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.27%) NHS
7 5 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.87%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) PKI
11 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.47%) EPoS
11 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (44.86%) Windows
2 77 (35.98%) Windows Server
3 67 (31.31%) Linux
4 64 (29.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Solaris
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (47.66%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (31.78%) Customer Experience
3 67 (31.31%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 64 (29.91%) Customer Service
5 63 (29.44%) Email Filtering
5 63 (29.44%) Kalman Filter
5 63 (29.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 63 (29.44%) Web Filtering
6 31 (14.49%) Agile
6 31 (14.49%) AI
7 30 (14.02%) Data Migration
8 25 (11.68%) Validation
9 22 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (8.41%) CRM
14 16 (7.48%) Decision-Making
14 16 (7.48%) ERP
14 16 (7.48%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.07%) C#
2 12 (5.61%) Python
2 12 (5.61%) SQL
3 9 (4.21%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.74%) C++
5 6 (2.80%) Bash
6 5 (2.34%) Java
7 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) ABAP
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (37.85%) Security Cleared
2 75 (35.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.34%) ACCA
5 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.34%) CIMA
6 4 (1.87%) CCNA
6 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.87%) MCSA
6 4 (1.87%) OSCP
6 4 (1.87%) RHCE
6 4 (1.87%) RHCSA
7 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) Degree
7 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (32.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 63 (29.44%) PCI DSS
3 23 (10.75%) Data Quality
4 18 (8.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.87%) QA
6 3 (1.40%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.93%) GxP
7 2 (0.93%) WCAG
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (40.19%) Active Directory
2 73 (34.11%) Hyper-V
3 63 (29.44%) Terminal Server
4 6 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.34%) Docker
5 5 (2.34%) vSphere
6 4 (1.87%) Squid
6 4 (1.87%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.74%) Ansible
2 7 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.87%) Packer
4 4 (1.87%) SCCM
4 4 (1.87%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.40%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (54.21%) Microsoft
2 69 (32.24%) VMware
3 68 (31.78%) Veeam
4 67 (31.31%) SolarWinds
4 67 (31.31%) Splunk
5 63 (29.44%) Brocade
5 63 (29.44%) Nimble Storage
5 63 (29.44%) Tanium
6 8 (3.74%) Oracle
7 6 (2.80%) Cisco
8 5 (2.34%) Databricks
9 4 (1.87%) Google
9 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.40%) Workday
10 3 (1.40%) Xero
11 2 (0.93%) Dell
11 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.93%) IFS
11 2 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.47%) Citrix