Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,217 1,760 2,307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.00% 7.65% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 8.55% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 1,312 1,694
10th Percentile £313 £310 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 33 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.88 £12.48
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.25 £14.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +221.40% +37.33%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £40.08
90th Percentile - £84.05 £63.00
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -5 125 £500 +2.25% 29
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
Wales +12 25 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +16 17 £550 +15.79% 10
Northern Ireland -2 6 - - 15
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 58 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.22%) Confluence
4 9 (0.74%) Apache
4 9 (0.74%) IIS
5 7 (0.58%) ColdFusion
5 7 (0.58%) JBoss
5 7 (0.58%) SAS
6 5 (0.41%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.33%) nginx
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.16%) FileNet
9 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.16%) Jadu
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Maya
7 1 (0.082%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.082%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.82%) SAP CO
4 10 (0.82%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.41%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 3 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 231 (18.98%) Azure
2 119 (9.78%) AWS
3 79 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 76 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
6 46 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.62%) SaaS
8 36 (2.96%) GCP
9 27 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.05%) Amazon S3
11 23 (1.89%) GitHub
12 19 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (1.56%) IaaS
13 18 (1.48%) PaaS
14 17 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.31%) Serverless
16 15 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.23%) OCI
17 14 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.26%) Firewall
2 38 (3.12%) DNS
3 36 (2.96%) LAN
4 35 (2.88%) WAN
5 32 (2.63%) SAN
6 28 (2.30%) DHCP
6 28 (2.30%) VPN
7 26 (2.14%) DMZ
8 24 (1.97%) Network Security
9 20 (1.64%) MPLS
10 16 (1.31%) TCP/IP
11 15 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.07%) NAS
13 11 (0.90%) Internet
14 10 (0.82%) BGP
14 10 (0.82%) IPsec
15 9 (0.74%) VLAN
15 9 (0.74%) Wireless
16 7 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 7 (0.58%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.34%) Power BI
2 54 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 45 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (3.12%) Oracle Database
6 22 (1.81%) Big Data
6 22 (1.81%) Oracle Database 11g
7 19 (1.56%) MySQL
8 18 (1.48%) Metadata
9 17 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.23%) Data Mining
11 14 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.90%) Tableau
15 10 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (5.01%) JIRA
2 20 (1.64%) Git
3 19 (1.56%) GitLab
4 13 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.41%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.41%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.33%) LSMW
8 4 (0.33%) Selenium
9 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.25%) ERwin
9 3 (0.25%) Subversion
9 3 (0.25%) Toad
10 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 318 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 255 (20.95%) Finance
3 133 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.92%) Banking
6 48 (3.94%) Retail
7 42 (3.45%) Legal
8 35 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.89%) Marketing
12 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.56%) Local Government
13 18 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.48%) Billing
14 16 (1.31%) Law
15 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 169 (13.89%) Architect
2 119 (9.78%) Project Manager
3 118 (9.70%) Analyst
4 96 (7.89%) Consultant
5 89 (7.31%) Senior
6 87 (7.15%) Developer
7 81 (6.66%) Lead
8 72 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
9 69 (5.67%) Network Engineer
10 66 (5.42%) Data Engineer
11 60 (4.93%) Migration Engineer
12 54 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
14 36 (2.96%) Data Architect
15 34 (2.79%) Data Analyst
15 34 (2.79%) Migration Manager
16 30 (2.47%) Data Manager
17 26 (2.14%) Migration Consultant
17 26 (2.14%) Senior Network Engineer
17 26 (2.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.81%) REST
2 17 (1.40%) .NET
3 15 (1.23%) Web Services
4 14 (1.15%) JSON
5 13 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 11 (0.90%) SAML
8 10 (0.82%) LDAP
9 9 (0.74%) SOAP
9 9 (0.74%) XML
10 8 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.66%) HTML
11 7 (0.58%) CSS
11 7 (0.58%) Kafka
11 7 (0.58%) OAuth
11 7 (0.58%) OpenID
11 7 (0.58%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 6 (0.49%) Spring
12 6 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.49%) Data Centre
2 76 (6.24%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (2.79%) Management Information System
4 23 (1.89%) Replication
5 22 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.73%) Clustering
6 21 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 20 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (0.99%) NHS
12 11 (0.90%) Client/Server
12 11 (0.90%) FMCG
13 9 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.74%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.66%) CMDB
14 8 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 156 (12.82%) Windows
2 84 (6.90%) Linux
3 47 (3.86%) Unix
4 45 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 37 (3.04%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.97%) VMS
7 18 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.58%) Solaris
12 6 (0.49%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.41%) AIX
14 4 (0.33%) Android
14 4 (0.33%) CentOS
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.25%) Debian
15 3 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (35.58%) Data Migration
2 188 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
3 176 (14.46%) Agile
4 118 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 114 (9.37%) DevOps
6 102 (8.38%) Project Management
7 85 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
7 85 (6.98%) Project Delivery
8 83 (6.82%) ERP
9 75 (6.16%) Data Management
10 71 (5.83%) Analytics
10 71 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 62 (5.09%) Data Modelling
11 62 (5.09%) ETL
12 59 (4.85%) Computer Science
13 55 (4.52%) Roadmaps
13 55 (4.52%) User Acceptance Testing
14 53 (4.35%) CRM
15 52 (4.27%) CI/CD
16 50 (4.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 170 (13.97%) SQL
2 61 (5.01%) PowerShell
3 56 (4.60%) Python
4 43 (3.53%) Java
5 22 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 22 (1.81%) PL/SQL
6 18 (1.48%) PHP
7 16 (1.31%) Bash
7 16 (1.31%) C#
8 10 (0.82%) ABAP
9 9 (0.74%) Perl
9 9 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.66%) Swift
11 7 (0.58%) Go
12 5 (0.41%) ActionScript
13 4 (0.33%) Ruby
13 4 (0.33%) VBScript
14 3 (0.25%) C++
14 3 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 115 (9.45%) Degree
3 113 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 40 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.99%) PMP
10 10 (0.82%) CCNA
10 10 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.58%) CCNP
11 7 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.33%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.33%) ACCA
13 4 (0.33%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 33 (2.71%) QA
3 18 (1.48%) PMO
4 17 (1.40%) GDPR
5 16 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.58%) NIST
7 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.41%) IFRS
7 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.41%) SLA
8 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.082%) GxP
10 1 (0.082%) HL7
10 1 (0.082%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 82 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (2.05%) VMware NSX
5 24 (1.97%) vSphere
6 18 (1.48%) Docker
7 17 (1.40%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
10 10 (0.82%) XenApp
11 6 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.41%) KVM
12 5 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.25%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.16%) HDFS
14 2 (0.16%) NFS
14 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (4.27%) Terraform
2 38 (3.12%) Ansible
3 36 (2.96%) SCCM
4 30 (2.47%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.23%) Grafana
6 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.99%) NetBackup
8 11 (0.90%) Nagios
9 10 (0.82%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 8 (0.66%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.58%) Argo
12 7 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.58%) VxRail
13 6 (0.49%) Istio
13 6 (0.49%) Kibana
13 6 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 216 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 113 (9.29%) Oracle
3 109 (8.96%) VMware
4 108 (8.87%) SAP
5 74 (6.08%) Cisco
6 37 (3.04%) Micro Focus
7 36 (2.96%) CheckPoint
8 29 (2.38%) Dell
9 28 (2.30%) Red Hat
10 25 (2.05%) Arista
10 25 (2.05%) F5
10 25 (2.05%) Google
11 22 (1.81%) Citrix
12 21 (1.73%) Atlassian
13 20 (1.64%) Juniper
14 16 (1.31%) IBM
14 16 (1.31%) Informatica
14 16 (1.31%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.31%) ServiceNow
15 13 (1.07%) Palo Alto