Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 94 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -18
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,024 3,777 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.59% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.76% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,090 2,655 3,645
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.06% +5.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +15 2,558 £60,000 -11.11% 723
UK excluding London +37 2,003 £50,000 -16.67% 400
Work from Home -1 1,292 £57,500 -14.81% 393
London -12 827 £75,000 -3.23% 341
North of England +64 639 £52,500 -9.19% 111
South East +11 382 £50,000 -20.00% 102
North West +83 362 £50,000 -13.79% 55
Midlands +20 321 £50,000 -13.04% 71
South West -10 207 £56,000 -8.04% 42
Yorkshire +44 197 £57,500 -2.39% 41
Scotland 0 189 £50,000 -24.53% 27
West Midlands -6 183 £51,300 -8.73% 40
East of England +34 146 £47,500 -24.00% 31
East Midlands +48 133 £47,500 -19.76% 30
Wales +41 81 £51,997 -13.34% 8
North East +37 81 £50,000 - 16
Northern Ireland +43 38 £54,408 +1.22% 14
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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
1 214 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 180 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.52%) WebLogic
5 41 (1.36%) Confluence
6 32 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 31 (1.03%) FileNet
8 30 (0.99%) Captiva
8 30 (0.99%) IIS
9 19 (0.63%) Apache
9 19 (0.63%) CMS
9 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 18 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (0.56%) Drupal
12 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
13 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
14 11 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
15 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
16 9 (0.30%) nginx
17 6 (0.20%) Appian
Applications
1 109 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 89 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.53%) Trello
5 15 (0.50%) InfoPath
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.40%) Sketch
7 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.099%) FrameMaker
10 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 41 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
5 29 (0.96%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 17 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.36%) SAP CX
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
11 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
14 5 (0.17%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (40.01%) Azure
2 743 (24.57%) AWS
3 507 (16.77%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (13.66%) Power Platform
5 280 (9.26%) GCP
6 236 (7.80%) SaaS
7 154 (5.09%) Entra ID
8 140 (4.63%) OneDrive
9 129 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
10 104 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 80 (2.65%) PaaS
12 76 (2.51%) Amazon S3
12 76 (2.51%) Dropbox
13 75 (2.48%) IaaS
13 75 (2.48%) Power Automate
14 72 (2.38%) Serverless
15 71 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (2.35%) GitHub
15 71 (2.35%) PowerApps
16 69 (2.28%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 214 (7.08%) Firewall
2 203 (6.71%) DNS
3 116 (3.84%) TCP/IP
4 101 (3.34%) LAN
5 100 (3.31%) WAN
6 91 (3.01%) DHCP
7 85 (2.81%) VPN
8 74 (2.45%) SSL
9 67 (2.22%) SAN
10 55 (1.82%) Wireless
11 54 (1.79%) BGP
11 54 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
12 47 (1.55%) Network Security
13 40 (1.32%) NAS
13 40 (1.32%) VLAN
14 39 (1.29%) Internet
15 31 (1.03%) SD-WAN
16 25 (0.83%) Unified Communications
17 23 (0.76%) HTTP
18 22 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (11.24%) Power BI
2 311 (10.28%) SQL Server
3 231 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
4 196 (6.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 169 (5.59%) Oracle Database
6 135 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (3.51%) Oracle Database 11g
7 106 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 85 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
10 73 (2.41%) MySQL
11 63 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 61 (2.02%) RDBMS
13 55 (1.82%) Data Mining
14 45 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 42 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 38 (1.26%) MongoDB
17 37 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 36 (1.19%) Big Data
18 36 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 205 (6.78%) JIRA
2 110 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.92%) Git
4 50 (1.65%) GitLab
5 34 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 24 (0.79%) Subversion
7 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 18 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 18 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 16 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (0.46%) Postman
11 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.33%) gulp
12 10 (0.33%) JMeter
12 10 (0.33%) Yeoman
13 9 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.30%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 788 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 670 (22.16%) Finance
3 261 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 173 (5.72%) Law
6 171 (5.65%) Retail
7 168 (5.56%) Banking
8 142 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 133 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
10 98 (3.24%) Marketing
11 94 (3.11%) Manufacturing
12 77 (2.55%) Legal
13 49 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 36 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 34 (1.12%) Retail Banking
17 33 (1.09%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.89%) Games
18 27 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (0.83%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 601 (19.87%) Senior
2 527 (17.43%) Architect
3 373 (12.33%) Developer
4 296 (9.79%) Analyst
5 287 (9.49%) Consultant
6 258 (8.53%) Lead
7 195 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
8 181 (5.99%) Cloud Architect
9 147 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 144 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 107 (3.54%) Database Developer
12 105 (3.47%) IT Engineer
12 105 (3.47%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 104 (3.44%) Business Analyst
14 102 (3.37%) Project Manager
15 99 (3.27%) Database Engineer
16 98 (3.24%) Administrator
17 97 (3.21%) Senior Database Engineer
18 94 (3.11%) Senior Database Developer
19 90 (2.98%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.51%) .NET
2 73 (2.41%) Spring Boot
3 68 (2.25%) HTML
4 62 (2.05%) REST
5 55 (1.82%) Kafka
6 50 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
7 49 (1.62%) CSS
8 45 (1.49%) React
9 42 (1.39%) XML
10 40 (1.32%) PySpark
11 37 (1.22%) Node.js
11 37 (1.22%) Spring
12 33 (1.09%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.09%) Web Services
13 32 (1.06%) JSON
14 27 (0.89%) SOAP
15 26 (0.86%) Middleware
16 22 (0.73%) ASP.NET
17 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 228 (7.54%) Public Cloud
2 149 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 143 (4.73%) Data Centre
4 95 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 86 (2.84%) PKI
7 84 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 84 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 82 (2.71%) Cloud Native
9 69 (2.28%) iPad
10 66 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 59 (1.95%) Private Cloud
12 53 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 50 (1.65%) Driving Licence
14 42 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.39%) Product Ownership
15 35 (1.16%) Replication
16 33 (1.09%) Reinsurance
17 30 (0.99%) DataPower
18 28 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 386 (12.76%) Windows
2 256 (8.47%) Linux
3 212 (7.01%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 52 (1.72%) Unix
6 45 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 33 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.96%) Android
8 29 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (0.89%) Windows 7
10 25 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (0.79%) Windows 8
12 22 (0.73%) VMS
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.36%) CentOS
16 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.13%) AIX
18 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (27.08%) Data Migration
2 629 (20.80%) Agile
3 490 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
4 403 (13.33%) DevOps
5 385 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
6 375 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
6 375 (12.40%) Roadmaps
7 371 (12.27%) Project Management
8 293 (9.69%) ETL
9 272 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence
10 257 (8.50%) ERP
11 240 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 206 (6.81%) Mentoring
13 202 (6.68%) Data Modelling
14 189 (6.25%) Analytics
15 178 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 178 (5.89%) ITIL
16 174 (5.75%) TOGAF
17 172 (5.69%) CI/CD
18 169 (5.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 717 (23.71%) SQL
2 206 (6.81%) Python
3 181 (5.99%) PowerShell
4 174 (5.75%) Java
5 137 (4.53%) PL/SQL
6 111 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 93 (3.08%) C#
8 53 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 35 (1.16%) PHP
10 33 (1.09%) Bash
10 33 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 24 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 24 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 22 (0.73%) Groovy
12 22 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.66%) Perl
14 17 (0.56%) Scala
15 14 (0.46%) C++
16 12 (0.40%) Bicep
17 10 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 324 (10.71%) Degree
2 259 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 178 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 108 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 102 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 74 (2.45%) DBS Check
8 70 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 59 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.22%) CCNA
13 31 (1.03%) CCNP
14 27 (0.89%) DV Cleared
15 24 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.66%) PMP
17 18 (0.60%) CISSP
17 18 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
18 15 (0.50%) PMI Certification
19 14 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.34%) Data Quality
2 78 (2.58%) QA
3 71 (2.35%) GDPR
4 34 (1.12%) PMO
5 32 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.86%) SLA
7 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.33%) IFRS
10 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.23%) NIST
12 4 (0.13%) GAAP
13 3 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.099%) GMP
13 3 (0.099%) GRC
13 3 (0.099%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.099%) MiFID
13 3 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.066%) JSP 440
System Software
1 307 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 133 (4.40%) Docker
3 121 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 90 (2.98%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.36%) vSphere
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.20%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.099%) HDFS
14 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.066%) iptables
14 2 (0.066%) NFS
14 2 (0.066%) pfSense
14 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 190 (6.28%) Terraform
2 142 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (4.50%) Kubernetes
4 103 (3.41%) Ansible
5 37 (1.22%) SCCM
6 35 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 33 (1.09%) Puppet
8 22 (0.73%) Grafana
9 15 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.40%) Nagios
12 11 (0.36%) Packer
13 10 (0.33%) AirWatch
13 10 (0.33%) Graphite
13 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.23%) Salt
14 7 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 981 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 391 (12.93%) Oracle
3 259 (8.56%) Google
4 206 (6.81%) VMware
5 160 (5.29%) SAP
6 108 (3.57%) Cisco
7 100 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 69 (2.28%) Databricks
10 58 (1.92%) IBM
11 51 (1.69%) Sparx
12 50 (1.65%) Citrix
13 39 (1.29%) Veeam
14 38 (1.26%) Informatica
15 35 (1.16%) Apple
16 30 (0.99%) Pega
17 29 (0.96%) Dell
18 28 (0.93%) Kofax
19 27 (0.89%) HP
19 27 (0.89%) Palo Alto