Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,255 1,750 2,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.89% 7.71% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 8.66% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 1,298 1,670
10th Percentile £320 £312 £300
25th Percentile £420 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.78% +6.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 31 32
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.44 £25.38 £15.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +211.15% +36.98%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 £65.70
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £64.50 £24.62
% change year-on-year -37.98% +162.04% +55.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -5 332 £513 -2.38% 80
North of England -7 315 £500 -4.76% 117
Midlands -7 188 £520 +4.00% 78
South West -1 174 £500 -9.09% 57
North West -3 170 £500 - 56
Yorkshire -5 127 £500 -9.09% 50
Scotland -1 125 £491 +0.93% 35
West Midlands -5 120 £520 +2.31% 57
East of England -13 106 £500 +5.26% 36
East Midlands -2 67 £500 +5.26% 21
Wales +17 24 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +13 20 £569 +33.82% 11
Northern Ireland -4 6 - - 12
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 64 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.47%) Confluence
4 10 (0.80%) Apache
5 9 (0.72%) IIS
5 9 (0.72%) SAS
6 7 (0.56%) ColdFusion
7 6 (0.48%) JBoss
8 5 (0.40%) nginx
9 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) Drupal
11 2 (0.16%) FileNet
11 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.16%) StreamWeaver
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.24%) Shopify
6 3 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 242 (19.28%) Azure
2 121 (9.64%) AWS
3 87 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 81 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.51%) SaaS
8 39 (3.11%) GCP
9 33 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 27 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 25 (1.99%) PowerApps
12 23 (1.83%) GitHub
12 23 (1.83%) IaaS
13 22 (1.75%) PaaS
14 20 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.51%) Serverless
16 18 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (1.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.26%) Firewall
2 36 (2.87%) DNS
3 34 (2.71%) LAN
3 34 (2.71%) SAN
3 34 (2.71%) WAN
4 27 (2.15%) DHCP
5 26 (2.07%) DMZ
6 23 (1.83%) MPLS
6 23 (1.83%) Network Security
7 21 (1.67%) VPN
8 17 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (1.27%) TCP/IP
10 14 (1.12%) NAS
11 13 (1.04%) BGP
12 11 (0.88%) Internet
13 9 (0.72%) IPsec
13 9 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.72%) Wireless
14 8 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.94%) Power BI
2 56 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 54 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.63%) Oracle Database
6 20 (1.59%) MySQL
7 19 (1.51%) Big Data
8 18 (1.43%) Oracle Database 11g
9 17 (1.35%) Metadata
9 17 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.04%) Data Mining
14 11 (0.88%) Tableau
15 10 (0.80%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.72%) NoSQL
17 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (5.50%) JIRA
2 23 (1.83%) Git
3 22 (1.75%) GitLab
4 17 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.48%) Selenium
6 6 (0.48%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.40%) ERwin
7 5 (0.40%) LSMW
7 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.32%) JUnit
8 4 (0.32%) Maven
9 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.24%) Subversion
9 3 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 317 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 254 (20.24%) Finance
3 139 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 91 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (5.58%) Banking
6 44 (3.51%) Retail
7 43 (3.43%) Legal
8 32 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.15%) Local Government
12 24 (1.91%) Billing
12 24 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.43%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.43%) Marketing
15 17 (1.35%) Law
16 15 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.64%) Back Office
17 8 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 198 (15.78%) Architect
2 123 (9.80%) Analyst
3 114 (9.08%) Project Manager
4 99 (7.89%) Developer
5 96 (7.65%) Senior
6 94 (7.49%) Consultant
7 87 (6.93%) Lead
8 82 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
9 66 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 66 (5.26%) Network Engineer
10 61 (4.86%) Migration Engineer
11 54 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (3.59%) Data Migration Engineer
13 37 (2.95%) Data Architect
14 34 (2.71%) Data Analyst
15 32 (2.55%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.55%) Migration Manager
16 27 (2.15%) Senior Network Engineer
16 27 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 26 (2.07%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.87%) REST
2 23 (1.83%) .NET
3 19 (1.51%) Web Services
4 18 (1.43%) HTML
5 17 (1.35%) CSS
6 16 (1.27%) SOAP
7 15 (1.20%) JSON
8 13 (1.04%) AWS CDK
9 11 (0.88%) SAML
9 11 (0.88%) XML
10 10 (0.80%) .NET Framework
10 10 (0.80%) Kafka
10 10 (0.80%) LDAP
10 10 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
10 10 (0.80%) Spring
10 10 (0.80%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.72%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.72%) OAuth
11 9 (0.72%) OpenID
12 8 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.37%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 24 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.67%) Replication
6 20 (1.59%) Clustering
6 20 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 12 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 11 (0.88%) FMCG
11 11 (0.88%) NHS
12 9 (0.72%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.64%) PKI
13 8 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 163 (12.99%) Windows
2 92 (7.33%) Linux
3 49 (3.90%) Unix
3 49 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 40 (3.19%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.91%) VMS
6 23 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.56%) Solaris
12 6 (0.48%) CentOS
13 5 (0.40%) AIX
13 5 (0.40%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.32%) Android
15 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.16%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (32.91%) Data Migration
2 187 (14.90%) Agile
3 165 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (9.32%) DevOps
5 116 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 99 (7.89%) Project Management
7 85 (6.77%) Project Delivery
8 80 (6.37%) ERP
9 79 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
10 71 (5.66%) Data Management
11 70 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 69 (5.50%) Data Modelling
13 62 (4.94%) Analytics
14 58 (4.62%) ETL
14 58 (4.62%) Roadmaps
15 57 (4.54%) CI/CD
15 57 (4.54%) Computer Science
16 50 (3.98%) Scrum
17 49 (3.90%) Change Management
18 47 (3.75%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 179 (14.26%) SQL
2 69 (5.50%) PowerShell
3 57 (4.54%) Python
4 49 (3.90%) Java
5 28 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 19 (1.51%) C#
8 16 (1.27%) Bash
8 16 (1.27%) PHP
9 14 (1.12%) ABAP
10 11 (0.88%) Perl
10 11 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.64%) Swift
13 6 (0.48%) Go
14 5 (0.40%) ActionScript
14 5 (0.40%) VBScript
15 4 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.24%) C++
16 3 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 179 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 120 (9.56%) Degree
3 111 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.88%) CCNA
10 11 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.88%) PMP
11 10 (0.80%) CCNP
12 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.32%) ACCA
14 4 (0.32%) CIMA
14 4 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.24%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 30 (2.39%) QA
3 19 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.43%) PMO
5 15 (1.20%) GDPR
6 7 (0.56%) NIST
7 6 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.40%) IFRS
8 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) SLA
11 1 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.080%) NCSC
System Software
1 123 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 80 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.83%) vSphere
5 21 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.43%) Docker
7 15 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
9 10 (0.80%) XenApp
10 9 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.32%) KVM
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.16%) HDFS
14 2 (0.16%) NFS
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.080%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 52 (4.14%) Terraform
2 40 (3.19%) Ansible
3 35 (2.79%) SCCM
4 30 (2.39%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.51%) Grafana
6 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.96%) NetBackup
8 11 (0.88%) Nagios
9 10 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.56%) Argo
12 7 (0.56%) Istio
12 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.56%) VxRail
13 6 (0.48%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.48%) Endace
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 5 (0.40%) Avamar
Vendors
1 231 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.69%) SAP
2 109 (8.69%) VMware
3 95 (7.57%) Oracle
4 81 (6.45%) Cisco
5 39 (3.11%) CheckPoint
6 37 (2.95%) Micro Focus
7 29 (2.31%) Dell
8 28 (2.23%) F5
8 28 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.07%) Juniper
10 25 (1.99%) Arista
11 24 (1.91%) Atlassian
11 24 (1.91%) Google
12 23 (1.83%) Citrix
13 22 (1.75%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.27%) Informatica
14 16 (1.27%) ServiceNow
15 15 (1.20%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.20%) SolarWinds