Migration Job Trends in Wales

Migration
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -52 +19 -4
Permanent jobs citing Migration 39 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.25% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.49% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 24 8 11
10th Percentile £49,875 £52,125 £37,101
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +26.32% -21.88%
75th Percentile £78,668 £74,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +3.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,035 683 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.18% 82.39% 65.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 511 658
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +7.18% -0.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,324
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Migration job vacancy trend in Wales

Migration
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in Wales over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Migration in Wales

Migration
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
South Wales -40 20 £63,948 +6.58% 21
West Wales -44 17 £72,500 -
North Wales - 2 £52,500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.95%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (10.26%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (28.21%) Serverless
3 9 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (15.38%) CloudFront
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) dbt
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Intacct
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) DHCP
1 9 (23.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) SAN
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Adabas
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Git
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Mocha
4 1 (2.56%) RSpec
General
1 18 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (23.08%) Finance
5 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Legal
9 1 (2.56%) Marketing
9 1 (2.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) ERP Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Node.js
1 11 (28.21%) Ruby on Rails
1 11 (28.21%) Spring Boot
1 11 (28.21%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) REST
3 6 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 6 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 5 (12.82%) React
4 5 (12.82%) Spring
5 4 (10.26%) CSS
5 4 (10.26%) CSS3
5 4 (10.26%) HTML
5 4 (10.26%) HTML5
6 1 (2.56%) Jest
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
3 10 (25.64%) Mainframe
4 7 (17.95%) Digital Wallet
5 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.56%) CMDB
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) EPoS
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (10.26%) AIX
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.77%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 9 (23.08%) Customer Experience
6 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
6 9 (23.08%) Email Filtering
6 9 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 9 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 9 (23.08%) Web Filtering
7 8 (20.51%) AI
7 8 (20.51%) Data Protection
7 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.95%) Data Migration
8 7 (17.95%) Scrum
8 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Java
1 11 (28.21%) Ruby
2 6 (15.38%) COBOL
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) Natural
3 1 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) SC Cleared
1 17 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
2 7 (17.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.38%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (10.26%) PMI Certification
4 4 (10.26%) PMP
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.56%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (23.08%) PCI DSS
2 6 (15.38%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (15.38%) NCSC
3 4 (10.26%) WCAG
4 3 (7.69%) QA
5 2 (5.13%) GDPR
6 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.56%) GAAP
6 1 (2.56%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 9 (23.08%) Hyper-V
1 9 (23.08%) Terminal Server
2 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) Brocade
2 9 (23.08%) Nimble Storage
2 9 (23.08%) SolarWinds
2 9 (23.08%) Splunk
2 9 (23.08%) Tanium
2 9 (23.08%) Veeam
2 9 (23.08%) VMware
3 5 (12.82%) OneLogin
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) NetApp
4 1 (2.56%) Sage
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow