Migration Contracts in England

Migration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,539 3,660 5,460
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.98% 7.60% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 8.43% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,753 2,648 3,923
10th Percentile £334 £339 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 41 35
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £12.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.00 £16.34
Median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +163.46% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £54.88
90th Percentile - £87.50 £68.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -39.39% +153.85% +62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in England.

Daily rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in England.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in England

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in England

Migration
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 1,357 £550 -6.38% 294
South East -3 322 £500 -4.76% 106
North of England -3 315 £500 -4.76% 118
Midlands -5 169 £550 +10.00% 90
South West +3 166 £464 -11.67% 43
North West -5 166 £500 - 66
Yorkshire -2 134 £500 -9.09% 43
West Midlands -7 109 £550 +10.00% 57
East of England -11 104 £525 +23.53% 33
East Midlands +7 59 £563 +18.42% 33
North East +16 17 £550 +15.79% 10
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 158 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 91 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.30%) Confluence
4 31 (1.22%) CMS
5 17 (0.67%) Apache
5 17 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2007
7 13 (0.51%) IIS
7 13 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
8 12 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 11 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2003
9 11 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.32%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.28%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.28%) JBoss
12 6 (0.24%) Drupal
12 6 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.16%) Trello
8 3 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.079%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.079%) Maya
10 1 (0.039%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.039%) Weka
10 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.10%) Loan IQ
4 26 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.55%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 12 (0.47%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
7 10 (0.39%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
8 9 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.28%) SAP Retail
11 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 569 (22.41%) Azure
2 250 (9.85%) AWS
3 204 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 158 (6.22%) Power Platform
5 130 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
6 102 (4.02%) GCP
7 100 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 78 (3.07%) SaaS
10 45 (1.77%) PaaS
11 42 (1.65%) IaaS
12 36 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 34 (1.34%) Serverless
13 34 (1.34%) Snowflake
14 33 (1.30%) GitHub
14 33 (1.30%) OneDrive
15 32 (1.26%) OCI
16 28 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 28 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 116 (4.57%) Firewall
2 71 (2.80%) DNS
3 61 (2.40%) WAN
4 56 (2.21%) LAN
5 47 (1.85%) Network Security
6 45 (1.77%) VPN
7 40 (1.58%) DHCP
8 39 (1.54%) SAN
9 35 (1.38%) MPLS
10 28 (1.10%) Wireless
11 27 (1.06%) DMZ
12 23 (0.91%) BGP
12 23 (0.91%) FTP
13 21 (0.83%) IPsec
13 21 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.67%) NAS
15 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
16 15 (0.59%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.55%) Kerberos
17 14 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 132 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (4.53%) Power BI
4 63 (2.48%) Oracle Database
5 54 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (1.85%) Big Data
7 45 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.73%) Data Lake
9 39 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 35 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.18%) MySQL
13 29 (1.14%) Tableau
14 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 23 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
16 20 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (0.67%) Data Mining
17 17 (0.67%) Metadata
18 15 (0.59%) BigQuery
18 15 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 95 (3.74%) JIRA
2 46 (1.81%) Git
3 34 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 20 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.75%) GitLab
6 19 (0.75%) Selenium
7 13 (0.51%) JUnit
8 12 (0.47%) ERwin
9 11 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.35%) LSMW
12 8 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.24%) JMeter
14 6 (0.24%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.24%) Maven
14 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 633 (24.93%) Finance
2 583 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 239 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 199 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 190 (7.48%) Banking
6 81 (3.19%) Retail
7 62 (2.44%) Legal
8 61 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.77%) Marketing
11 40 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 39 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.30%) Local Government
15 30 (1.18%) Law
16 29 (1.14%) Investment Banking
17 26 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
18 22 (0.87%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.79%) Billing
20 19 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 414 (16.31%) Architect
2 278 (10.95%) Project Manager
3 269 (10.59%) Analyst
4 241 (9.49%) Consultant
5 211 (8.31%) Developer
6 199 (7.84%) Senior
7 168 (6.62%) Lead
8 149 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
9 134 (5.28%) Business Analyst
10 114 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
11 102 (4.02%) Data Engineer
12 90 (3.54%) Network Engineer
13 87 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 78 (3.07%) Migration Manager
15 75 (2.95%) Data Architect
16 73 (2.88%) Data Analyst
17 61 (2.40%) Migration Project Manager
18 55 (2.17%) Technical Architect
19 52 (2.05%) Data Migration Engineer
20 51 (2.01%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.07%) .NET
2 50 (1.97%) JSON
3 42 (1.65%) Web Services
4 36 (1.42%) XML
5 34 (1.34%) LDAP
6 29 (1.14%) REST
7 28 (1.10%) CSS
8 27 (1.06%) Spring
9 26 (1.02%) Kafka
10 25 (0.98%) HTML
10 25 (0.98%) Middleware
11 24 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
12 23 (0.91%) WCF
13 22 (0.87%) React
14 20 (0.79%) SAML
15 19 (0.75%) Spring Boot
16 18 (0.71%) WinForms
17 17 (0.67%) SailPoint
18 14 (0.55%) AngularJS
18 14 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 167 (6.58%) Data Centre
2 114 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 59 (2.32%) Replication
4 57 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 42 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 42 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 37 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 34 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.06%) Clustering
12 25 (0.98%) NHS
13 23 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (0.87%) Taxonomies
15 20 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (0.79%) PKI
16 15 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 284 (11.19%) Windows
2 136 (5.36%) Linux
3 99 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.88%) Unix
5 57 (2.24%) Windows 10
6 37 (1.46%) VMS
7 36 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.59%) Solaris
13 14 (0.55%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.28%) Android
18 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
20 4 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (33.40%) Data Migration
2 396 (15.60%) Agile
3 339 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (9.89%) DevOps
5 250 (9.85%) Project Management
6 221 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 171 (6.73%) Project Delivery
8 158 (6.22%) Data Modelling
9 157 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
10 151 (5.95%) Data Management
11 140 (5.51%) CI/CD
12 139 (5.47%) Analytics
13 137 (5.40%) ETL
14 127 (5.00%) Computer Science
14 127 (5.00%) ERP
15 126 (4.96%) Change Management
16 125 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 125 (4.92%) User Acceptance Testing
17 114 (4.49%) Roadmaps
18 106 (4.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 368 (14.49%) SQL
2 162 (6.38%) PowerShell
3 146 (5.75%) Python
4 105 (4.14%) Java
5 85 (3.35%) C#
6 55 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.22%) Bash
7 31 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 25 (0.98%) T-SQL
9 22 (0.87%) PHP
10 20 (0.79%) Perl
11 16 (0.63%) ABAP
12 14 (0.55%) Go
13 12 (0.47%) Scala
14 10 (0.39%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.32%) Bicep
15 8 (0.32%) Groovy
15 8 (0.32%) Swift
16 6 (0.24%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 308 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 224 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 198 (7.80%) Degree
4 75 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 55 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) CCNP
11 18 (0.71%) PMP
12 16 (0.63%) CCNA
13 14 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.51%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.43%) CISSP
16 10 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.32%) CCIE
17 8 (0.32%) SAP Certification
18 7 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.17%) QA
3 43 (1.69%) GDPR
4 37 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.18%) PMO
6 25 (0.98%) NIST
7 11 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.39%) SLA
9 8 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) WCAG
11 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.20%) GRC
12 5 (0.20%) IFRS
13 4 (0.16%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.079%) GxP
14 2 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.039%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (9.69%) Active Directory
2 91 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (1.93%) Docker
4 42 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.87%) vSphere
6 21 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.59%) NFS
9 14 (0.55%) HDFS
9 14 (0.55%) KVM
9 14 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.55%) XenApp
10 11 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
11 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.079%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (3.47%) Terraform
2 65 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (1.85%) Ansible
4 47 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (1.85%) SCCM
5 31 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (0.55%) Grafana
7 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 10 (0.39%) PingFederate
9 10 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.35%) Nagios
10 9 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 9 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.35%) VxRail
11 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.24%) Avamar
12 6 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 472 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 235 (9.26%) SAP
3 212 (8.35%) Oracle
4 132 (5.20%) VMware
5 115 (4.53%) Cisco
6 57 (2.24%) Google
7 52 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 44 (1.73%) Databricks
9 42 (1.65%) Dell
10 40 (1.58%) Citrix
10 40 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 37 (1.46%) CheckPoint
11 37 (1.46%) Micro Focus
12 36 (1.42%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.30%) F5
14 28 (1.10%) Juniper
14 28 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.06%) Arista
15 27 (1.06%) IBM
15 27 (1.06%) NetApp