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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 83 101
Rank change year-on-year +32 +18 +17
Permanent jobs citing Migration 158 126 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.14% 2.93% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 3.47% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 43 61 83
10th Percentile £33,000 £46,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £51,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +10.60%
75th Percentile £63,125 £79,000 £72,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £87,500 £87,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -2.99%

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 3,637 3,629 4,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.33% 84.43% 91.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 1,859 3,058
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +5.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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
Wiltshire +31 55 £36,000 -42.40% 4
Somerset +3 41 £32,500 -40.91% 3
Bristol +6 34 £54,750 -27.96% 7
Gloucestershire +13 17 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Devon +8 5 £40,000 - 5
Dorset -1 5 £45,000 -45.45% 3
Cornwall - 1 - - 10
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 88 (55.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.16%) IIS
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Drupal
5 1 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Acrobat
1 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Smart View
1 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP EWM
1 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.27%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 109 (68.99%) Azure
2 101 (63.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.80%) AWS
3 6 (3.80%) GitHub
4 5 (3.16%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.53%) Serverless
6 3 (1.90%) IaaS
6 3 (1.90%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.90%) PaaS
7 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.27%) OCI
7 2 (1.27%) Slack
8 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (58.86%) DNS
2 90 (56.96%) DHCP
3 11 (6.96%) Firewall
4 7 (4.43%) VLAN
4 7 (4.43%) VPN
5 5 (3.16%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (3.16%) IPsec
5 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.16%) VoIP
5 5 (3.16%) Wireless
6 3 (1.90%) DKIM
6 3 (1.90%) DMARC
7 2 (1.27%) BGP
7 2 (1.27%) LAN
7 2 (1.27%) MPLS
7 2 (1.27%) Network Security
7 2 (1.27%) NGFW
7 2 (1.27%) OSPF
7 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (56.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.43%) MySQL
3 7 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.53%) Power BI
5 3 (1.90%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.27%) Tableau
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.90%) GitLab
2 3 (1.90%) Gradle
2 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.90%) JUnit
2 3 (1.90%) Maven
2 3 (1.90%) TestNG
3 2 (1.27%) Checkstyle
3 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.27%) ESLint
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) Mockito
3 2 (1.27%) Selenium
3 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 109 (68.99%) Social Skills
2 87 (55.06%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.86%) Finance
4 8 (5.06%) Legal
5 7 (4.43%) Fire and Rescue
5 7 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Local Government
5 7 (4.43%) Marketing
5 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Electronics
8 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Games
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (53.16%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (10.76%) Analyst
3 12 (7.59%) Developer
4 9 (5.70%) Software Developer
5 8 (5.06%) IT Support
5 8 (5.06%) Senior
6 7 (4.43%) .NET Developer
6 7 (4.43%) .NET Software Developer
6 7 (4.43%) Business Change Analyst
6 7 (4.43%) Change Analyst
7 6 (3.80%) Support Analyst
7 6 (3.80%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) Senior IT Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) Senior IT Support
8 5 (3.16%) Senior Support Engineer
9 4 (2.53%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 4 (2.53%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.70%) .NET
2 7 (4.43%) CSS
2 7 (4.43%) HTML
3 4 (2.53%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.53%) Autofac
3 4 (2.53%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.90%) REST
4 3 (1.90%) Spring
4 3 (1.90%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.90%) Spring MVC
5 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.27%) JWT
5 2 (1.27%) OAuth
5 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.27%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Security
5 2 (1.27%) Swagger
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 90 (56.96%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.43%) NHS
3 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.16%) Clustering
5 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 98 (62.03%) Windows
2 96 (60.76%) Windows Server
3 91 (57.59%) Linux
4 85 (53.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (64.56%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (56.96%) Customer Service
3 87 (55.06%) Customer Experience
4 84 (53.16%) Email Filtering
4 84 (53.16%) Kalman Filter
4 84 (53.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 84 (53.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 84 (53.16%) Web Filtering
5 22 (13.92%) Data Migration
6 16 (10.13%) ITIL
7 15 (9.49%) Agile
8 14 (8.86%) Service Management
9 12 (7.59%) Containerisation
10 11 (6.96%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (5.70%) DevOps
12 9 (5.70%) Project Management
13 8 (5.06%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.23%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.96%) C#
2 11 (6.96%) Python
3 9 (5.70%) SQL
4 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.16%) Bash
6 3 (1.90%) Bicep
6 3 (1.90%) Java
6 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.27%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (57.59%) Security Cleared
2 90 (56.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) Degree
4 5 (3.16%) ACMT
4 5 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) CCNP
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (56.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 84 (53.16%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.53%) SLA
4 2 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (56.96%) Active Directory
1 90 (56.96%) Hyper-V
2 84 (53.16%) Terminal Server
3 12 (7.59%) Docker
4 5 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.16%) Autotask
3 5 (3.16%) Terraform
3 5 (3.16%) vCenter Server
4 4 (2.53%) SCCM
5 3 (1.90%) Ansible
6 2 (1.27%) Grafana
6 2 (1.27%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 107 (67.72%) Microsoft
2 89 (56.33%) Veeam
2 89 (56.33%) VMware
3 87 (55.06%) Splunk
4 86 (54.43%) SolarWinds
5 84 (53.16%) Brocade
5 84 (53.16%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (53.16%) Tanium
6 10 (6.33%) Oracle
7 8 (5.06%) Cisco
8 6 (3.80%) SAP
9 5 (3.16%) Apple
9 5 (3.16%) Datto
9 5 (3.16%) Sophos
10 3 (1.90%) Google
11 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.27%) McAfee
11 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.27%) Symantec
11 2 (1.27%) Verint