Migration Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 110 133
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 -45
Permanent jobs citing Migration 1,144 942 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.47% 2.71% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.10% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 839 597 754
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,625 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,375
90th Percentile £90,125 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,749 30,366 46,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.48% 87.37% 78.45%
Number of salaries quoted 38,485 16,544 29,228
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Migration
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
North of England +6 366 £60,000 +12.41% 147
South East -22 224 £65,000 +13.04% 207
North West +21 213 £60,000 +13.21% 95
South West +16 203 £60,500 +10.00% 82
Midlands -50 154 £59,527 -0.79% 98
West Midlands -38 116 £57,250 -12.93% 57
East of England +7 110 £55,000 - 32
Yorkshire -19 103 £60,000 +11.11% 40
North East -17 50 £50,000 -31.03% 16
Wales -30 41 £72,500 +20.83% 9
East Midlands -45 37 £67,500 +58.82% 40
Scotland -15 36 £67,500 +17.39% 25
Northern Ireland -74 10 £74,654 +43.57% 4
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 133 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (6.38%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.66%) Confluence
4 12 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (0.87%) Apache
7 8 (0.70%) CICS
7 8 (0.70%) IIS
8 7 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.52%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) nginx
11 1 (0.087%) Documentum
11 1 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.087%) SAS
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 30 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.17%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.17%) Windchill
8 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 84 (7.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (5.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.57%) SAP ERP
4 17 (1.49%) iTrent
5 10 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.70%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.70%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.61%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.61%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.44%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
11 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
11 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-BP
11 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 446 (38.99%) Azure
2 231 (20.19%) Microsoft 365
3 212 (18.53%) AWS
4 106 (9.27%) Entra ID
5 87 (7.60%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
7 57 (4.98%) SaaS
8 51 (4.46%) Serverless
9 47 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (3.93%) GCP
11 43 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (2.97%) Snowflake
14 30 (2.62%) Power Automate
15 29 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (1.92%) Azure AI
18 22 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 141 (12.33%) DNS
2 117 (10.23%) DHCP
3 97 (8.48%) Firewall
4 26 (2.27%) LAN
4 26 (2.27%) Network Security
5 24 (2.10%) VPN
5 24 (2.10%) WAN
5 24 (2.10%) Wireless
6 21 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.57%) VLAN
8 15 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.31%) VoIP
9 11 (0.96%) BGP
10 10 (0.87%) Broadband
11 9 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.70%) Cisco Wireless
12 8 (0.70%) MPLS
13 7 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (0.61%) HTTP
13 7 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 85 (7.43%) SQL Server
3 60 (5.24%) Power BI
4 24 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.75%) Metadata
6 16 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (1.31%) MySQL
8 14 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.79%) Db2
11 7 (0.61%) Big Data
11 7 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.61%) Tableau
12 6 (0.52%) Redis
12 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.44%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (4.72%) JIRA
2 28 (2.45%) Git
3 17 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.79%) GitLab
4 9 (0.79%) Hudson
5 8 (0.70%) Selenium
6 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.35%) ChangeMan
7 4 (0.35%) JUnit
7 4 (0.35%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.26%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.17%) LSMW
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.087%) RSpec
General
1 404 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 271 (23.69%) Finance
3 207 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (6.91%) Manufacturing
6 65 (5.68%) Retail
7 58 (5.07%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.32%) Law
9 30 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (2.36%) Legal
11 23 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.01%) Banking
12 22 (1.92%) Local Government
13 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.49%) Marketing
16 12 (1.05%) Aviation
16 12 (1.05%) General Ledger
17 10 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 163 (14.25%) Senior
2 149 (13.02%) Architect
3 107 (9.35%) Developer
4 106 (9.27%) Analyst
5 89 (7.78%) Consultant
6 87 (7.60%) Systems Engineer
7 83 (7.26%) Lead
8 68 (5.94%) Project Manager
9 57 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 57 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 49 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 43 (3.76%) IT Support
12 40 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 39 (3.41%) Business Analyst
14 37 (3.23%) Senior Developer
15 34 (2.97%) Software Engineer
16 31 (2.71%) IT Manager
17 30 (2.62%) Data Manager
18 28 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
18 28 (2.45%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (4.37%) .NET
2 33 (2.88%) REST
3 32 (2.80%) Node.js
4 28 (2.45%) React
5 24 (2.10%) Middleware
5 24 (2.10%) OAuth
6 16 (1.40%) SOAP
6 16 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.31%) SAP Fiori
8 14 (1.22%) CSS
8 14 (1.22%) HTML
8 14 (1.22%) MFC
9 12 (1.05%) .NET Core
10 11 (0.96%) OpenID
10 11 (0.96%) PySpark
10 11 (0.96%) Ruby on Rails
10 11 (0.96%) Spring
10 11 (0.96%) XML
11 10 (0.87%) JSON
11 10 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 189 (16.52%) Legacy Systems
2 68 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 66 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 43 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 35 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.10%) NHS
10 23 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
13 16 (1.40%) Mainframe
14 15 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.31%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.14%) SystemC
16 12 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 207 (18.09%) Windows
2 150 (13.11%) Windows Server
3 125 (10.93%) Linux
4 80 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (0.96%) Windows 7
5 11 (0.96%) Windows 8
6 9 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.52%) CentOS
7 6 (0.52%) VMS
8 5 (0.44%) AIX
8 5 (0.44%) Debian
8 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.35%) Android
9 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.35%) zOS
10 3 (0.26%) Unix
11 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (27.45%) Data Migration
2 298 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
3 231 (20.19%) Agile
4 223 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 184 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 172 (15.03%) ERP
7 132 (11.54%) AI
7 132 (11.54%) Roadmaps
7 132 (11.54%) Validation
8 128 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 123 (10.75%) DevOps
10 119 (10.40%) Customer Service
11 114 (9.97%) CI/CD
12 102 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 99 (8.65%) Customer Experience
13 99 (8.65%) Mentoring
14 98 (8.57%) Project Delivery
15 94 (8.22%) Analytics
15 94 (8.22%) Decision-Making
15 94 (8.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 145 (12.67%) SQL
2 86 (7.52%) Python
3 64 (5.59%) C#
4 59 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 49 (4.28%) Java
6 34 (2.97%) Bash
7 22 (1.92%) PHP
8 21 (1.84%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.75%) COBOL
10 19 (1.66%) ABAP
11 17 (1.49%) C++
12 16 (1.40%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.22%) Bicep
14 13 (1.14%) Ruby
15 9 (0.79%) JCL
15 9 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.52%) Go
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
16 6 (0.52%) VBA
17 5 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 189 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 169 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.12%) Degree
4 38 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 19 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.66%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 13 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.14%) PMP
11 11 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.96%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.79%) CCNA
12 9 (0.79%) HNC
13 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.61%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 89 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 83 (7.26%) PCI DSS
4 32 (2.80%) QA
5 26 (2.27%) GDPR
6 23 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.22%) SLA
9 11 (0.96%) NCSC
10 7 (0.61%) PMO
11 6 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.44%) TickIT
12 5 (0.44%) WCAG
13 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.35%) GRC
14 3 (0.26%) NIST
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.087%) GxP
16 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 165 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 111 (9.70%) Hyper-V
3 80 (6.99%) Terminal Server
4 49 (4.28%) Docker
5 26 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.40%) vSphere
8 8 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.35%) Squid
10 2 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (6.99%) Terraform
2 56 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (3.58%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.66%) Ansible
5 10 (0.87%) Grafana
6 8 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.70%) SCCM
7 7 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.35%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.35%) Packer
9 4 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.26%) Scalr
11 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.17%) Nessus
11 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.17%) Puppet
11 2 (0.17%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.087%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.087%) Istio
Vendors
1 395 (34.53%) Microsoft
2 134 (11.71%) SAP
3 113 (9.88%) VMware
4 88 (7.69%) Splunk
4 88 (7.69%) Veeam
5 82 (7.17%) SolarWinds
6 81 (7.08%) Brocade
7 80 (6.99%) Nimble Storage
7 80 (6.99%) Tanium
8 76 (6.64%) Oracle
9 44 (3.85%) Cisco
9 44 (3.85%) Databricks
10 36 (3.15%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.88%) Google
12 21 (1.84%) Aruba
13 16 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.40%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.31%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.31%) Juniper
15 13 (1.14%) iManage