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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 55 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 -8
Permanent jobs citing Migration 30 25 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.82% 2.82% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.38% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 16
10th Percentile £50,000 - £48,165
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £57,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £71,667
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -33.72% +32.72%
75th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £75,567
90th Percentile £88,495 £81,000 £77,631
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

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 810 739 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.20% 83.22% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 553 362 617
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,150
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 January 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 7 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
South Wales +5 27 £60,000 +26.32% 17
West Wales - 3 £83,781 - 1
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 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) ColdFusion
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.67%) dbt
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
3 2 (6.67%) Sentry
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) DHCP
1 12 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Health
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Games
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Chief Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Migration Architect
5 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Security Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) CSS
1 2 (6.67%) Django
1 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.33%) CSS3
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 12 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (40.00%) Email Filtering
2 12 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 12 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 12 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 12 (40.00%) Web Filtering
3 3 (10.00%) API Integration
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (10.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (10.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (10.00%) Line Management
3 3 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (6.67%) DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Open Source
4 2 (6.67%) Prototyping
4 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (6.67%) Python
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (40.00%) Terminal Server
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
1 13 (43.33%) Veeam
2 12 (40.00%) Brocade
2 12 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
2 12 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 12 (40.00%) Splunk
2 12 (40.00%) Tanium
2 12 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Anaplan
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (3.33%) Sage
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Verint