Migration Jobs

Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 90 93
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Migration 1,591 3,029 3,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 2.92% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 3.48% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 2,037 2,474
10th Percentile £39,400 £37,000 £41,825
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.87% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +20.00% -17.76% +15.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Salary trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
England -18 1,432 £70,000 +16.67% 1,444
UK excluding London -59 836 £60,000 +20.00% 797
Work from Home -24 657 £75,000 +30.43% 768
London +24 615 £82,500 +10.00% 746
North of England -80 280 £57,500 +9.52% 186
South East -14 204 £57,500 +11.65% 158
Midlands -16 190 £60,000 +20.00% 161
North West -84 183 £60,000 +20.00% 102
West Midlands +29 140 £62,500 +21.83% 122
Yorkshire -19 89 £57,500 - 73
South West +2 55 £62,500 +13.64% 119
Scotland +5 50 £62,500 +25.00% 57
East Midlands -35 47 £31,500 -33.68% 35
East of England -35 46 £55,000 +15.79% 64
North East -16 8 £54,250 +8.50% 11
Northern Ireland +6 7 £69,000 +72.50% 24
Wales -30 6 £50,000 -3.84% 17
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (1.76%) Apache
4 27 (1.70%) CMS
5 24 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (1.19%) Confluence
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.19%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.063%) Drupal
13 1 (0.063%) nginx
Applications
1 39 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.38%) Maya
7 3 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.063%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 89 (5.59%) NetSuite
2 45 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
5 9 (0.57%) Shopify
6 8 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.44%) Q-Pulse
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.31%) Endur
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.31%) SAP WM
10 4 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
10 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 614 (38.59%) Azure
2 372 (23.38%) AWS
3 191 (12.01%) Microsoft 365
4 155 (9.74%) SaaS
5 143 (8.99%) Power Platform
6 113 (7.10%) GCP
7 98 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (5.09%) Entra ID
10 59 (3.71%) PaaS
11 52 (3.27%) Snowflake
12 51 (3.21%) GitHub
13 46 (2.89%) Power Automate
14 40 (2.51%) IaaS
15 39 (2.45%) Serverless
16 37 (2.33%) OCI
17 35 (2.20%) PowerApps
18 34 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.82%) OneDrive
20 27 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.47%) Firewall
2 83 (5.22%) WAN
3 68 (4.27%) LAN
4 65 (4.09%) DNS
5 53 (3.33%) Network Security
6 51 (3.21%) SD-WAN
7 47 (2.95%) VPN
8 29 (1.82%) VLAN
9 27 (1.70%) DHCP
10 26 (1.63%) TCP/IP
10 26 (1.63%) Wireless
11 24 (1.51%) Cisco Nexus
12 22 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.94%) SAN
14 12 (0.75%) BGP
14 12 (0.75%) SSL
15 11 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
16 10 (0.63%) OSPF
17 7 (0.44%) VoIP
18 6 (0.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (16.78%) SQL Server
2 167 (10.50%) Data Lake
3 110 (6.91%) Power BI
4 58 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (3.27%) MySQL
5 52 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 51 (3.21%) Metadata
7 38 (2.39%) Tableau
8 35 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (1.63%) Oracle ODI
12 24 (1.51%) NoSQL
12 24 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (1.38%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.32%) RDBMS
15 19 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 15 (0.94%) Big Data
18 14 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 131 (8.23%) JIRA
2 106 (6.66%) SonarQube
3 97 (6.10%) Maven
4 96 (6.03%) GitLab
4 96 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 94 (5.91%) Selenium
6 92 (5.78%) Bitbucket
7 91 (5.72%) Cucumber
8 72 (4.53%) Git
9 28 (1.76%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.82%) Gradle
11 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
12 4 (0.25%) WiX
13 3 (0.19%) ERwin
13 3 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.13%) VersaTest
14 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 607 (38.15%) Finance
2 520 (32.68%) Social Skills
3 307 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (11.25%) Banking
5 168 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 128 (8.05%) Retail
7 121 (7.61%) Investment Banking
8 107 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
9 102 (6.41%) Front Office
10 99 (6.22%) Law
11 90 (5.66%) Corporate Banking
12 72 (4.53%) Marketing
13 57 (3.58%) Legal
14 51 (3.21%) Public Sector
15 43 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.95%) Games
17 30 (1.89%) Financial Institution
18 27 (1.70%) Manufacturing
19 24 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (1.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 230 (14.46%) Senior
2 208 (13.07%) Architect
3 188 (11.82%) Developer
4 170 (10.69%) Consultant
5 129 (8.11%) Lead
6 120 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 110 (6.91%) Analyst
8 66 (4.15%) Functional Consultant
9 58 (3.65%) IT Support
10 56 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (3.46%) Data Engineer
12 54 (3.39%) NetSuite Consultant
12 54 (3.39%) Project Manager
13 50 (3.14%) Support Engineer
14 48 (3.02%) Technical Consultant
15 47 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 44 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (2.77%) IT Engineer
16 44 (2.77%) Senior Manager
17 43 (2.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.30%) HTML
2 145 (9.11%) React
3 143 (8.99%) REST
4 134 (8.42%) CSS
5 131 (8.23%) RESTful
6 120 (7.54%) Kafka
7 102 (6.41%) Jest
8 100 (6.29%) CSS3
8 100 (6.29%) HTML5
8 100 (6.29%) Redux
9 99 (6.22%) Spring
10 95 (5.97%) .NET
11 94 (5.91%) JPA
11 94 (5.91%) Spring Boot
12 90 (5.66%) Sass
13 53 (3.33%) XML
14 45 (2.83%) SOAP
15 44 (2.77%) Middleware
16 35 (2.20%) .NET Framework
17 33 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 140 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 124 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
3 118 (7.42%) Legacy Systems
4 102 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 97 (6.10%) Hedge funds
6 93 (5.85%) Fixed Income
7 92 (5.78%) Derivative
8 90 (5.66%) Equities
9 66 (4.15%) Cloud Native
10 58 (3.65%) Data Centre
11 48 (3.02%) Onboarding
12 47 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (2.95%) Management Information System
12 47 (2.95%) Mobile App
13 45 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 39 (2.45%) Data Structures
14 39 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.70%) NHS
16 23 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
17 17 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 169 (10.62%) Windows
2 77 (4.84%) Windows Server
3 57 (3.58%) Linux
4 45 (2.83%) Android
5 34 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.44%) Unix
10 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.31%) CentOS
11 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.25%) VMS
12 4 (0.25%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) HPUX
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (34.13%) Data Migration
2 532 (33.44%) Agile
3 403 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 325 (20.43%) DevOps
5 261 (16.40%) CI/CD
6 245 (15.40%) Mentoring
7 227 (14.27%) ERP
8 209 (13.14%) Data Management
9 202 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 178 (11.19%) CRM
11 176 (11.06%) Data Governance
11 176 (11.06%) Software Engineering
12 175 (11.00%) Project Management
13 155 (9.74%) Analytics
14 154 (9.68%) Microservices
15 152 (9.55%) Containerisation
16 145 (9.11%) Data Modelling
17 141 (8.86%) Performance Optimisation
18 140 (8.80%) User Experience
19 138 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 439 (27.59%) SQL
2 188 (11.82%) Java
3 186 (11.69%) JavaScript
4 157 (9.87%) Python
5 131 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 117 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 100 (6.29%) C#
8 63 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 30 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.57%) Bicep
11 21 (1.32%) Bash
12 13 (0.82%) X++
13 12 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.63%) C++
15 9 (0.57%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.50%) PHP
17 7 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.44%) Objective-C
17 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 164 (10.31%) Degree
2 96 (6.03%) Azure Certification
3 76 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 62 (3.90%) Security Cleared
5 51 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.95%) SC Cleared
8 39 (2.45%) CCNP
9 32 (2.01%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 22 (1.38%) PMP
12 18 (1.13%) CCIE
13 16 (1.01%) CCNA
13 16 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.69%) CCSA
16 10 (0.63%) SAP Certification
17 8 (0.50%) ACCA
17 8 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (9.55%) QA
2 104 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 102 (6.41%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.64%) GDPR
5 38 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.20%) MiFID
7 18 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.94%) ISO 9001
9 14 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.88%) SLA
10 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.57%) NIST
12 8 (0.50%) PMO
13 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.25%) SEPA
16 2 (0.13%) Dublin Core
16 2 (0.13%) GRC
16 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (9.18%) Docker
2 96 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 55 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.51%) Hyper-V
5 33 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.69%) vSphere
8 9 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.25%) HDFS
10 4 (0.25%) Postfix
10 4 (0.25%) PowerHA
11 3 (0.19%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.13%) NFS
12 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.063%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 162 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.78%) Terraform
3 60 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.58%) Ansible
5 33 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.26%) SCCM
7 19 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.50%) AirWatch
10 7 (0.44%) Argo
10 7 (0.44%) Grafana
11 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.25%) Avamar
11 4 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.19%) Autotask
12 3 (0.19%) Iperf
13 2 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 450 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.61%) Oracle
3 92 (5.78%) VMware
4 90 (5.66%) Solace
5 77 (4.84%) Cisco
6 68 (4.27%) SAP
7 58 (3.65%) Databricks
8 57 (3.58%) Salesforce
9 48 (3.02%) Google
10 30 (1.89%) Citrix
11 27 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.63%) IBM
13 18 (1.13%) Zoho
14 17 (1.07%) Meraki
14 17 (1.07%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.94%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.88%) Apple
16 14 (0.88%) CheckPoint
16 14 (0.88%) HP