Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 94 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -23
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,011 3,629 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.04% 3.58% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.75% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,065 2,572 3,540
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,915 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,685 £60,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.64% +15.81% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Salary trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 2,540 £60,000 -11.11% 660
UK excluding London +35 2,000 £50,685 -16.64% 387
Work from Home -3 1,273 £57,500 -14.81% 318
London -10 818 £75,000 -3.23% 281
North of England +66 648 £52,500 -12.50% 96
South East +4 373 £51,000 -16.25% 95
North West +73 362 £50,000 -16.67% 51
Midlands +12 321 £50,000 -17.76% 79
Yorkshire +54 205 £57,500 -4.17% 36
South West -17 202 £55,000 -9.69% 48
Scotland +12 193 £50,000 -23.08% 23
West Midlands -13 178 £51,300 -15.63% 49
East of England +23 142 £47,500 -23.01% 35
East Midlands +46 138 £47,500 -21.88% 30
Wales +33 82 £51,997 -14.48% 4
North East +30 81 £50,000 - 10
Northern Ireland +52 38 £54,408 +20.91% 14
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 205 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 173 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.53%) WebLogic
4 40 (1.33%) Confluence
5 32 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 30 (1.00%) Captiva
6 30 (1.00%) FileNet
7 29 (0.96%) IIS
8 20 (0.66%) Apache
9 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 19 (0.63%) CMS
9 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 17 (0.56%) Drupal
10 17 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
11 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
13 10 (0.33%) nginx
13 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 110 (3.65%) MS Visio
2 91 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.53%) Trello
5 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.40%) Sketch
6 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.33%) InfoPath
8 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.100%) FrameMaker
10 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 42 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
5 27 (0.90%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 17 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.37%) SAP CX
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
12 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 8 (0.27%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
15 5 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (40.32%) Azure
2 753 (25.01%) AWS
3 494 (16.41%) Microsoft 365
4 414 (13.75%) Power Platform
5 283 (9.40%) GCP
6 229 (7.61%) SaaS
7 151 (5.01%) Entra ID
8 139 (4.62%) OneDrive
9 129 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 102 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 78 (2.59%) PaaS
13 75 (2.49%) Dropbox
14 73 (2.42%) Serverless
15 72 (2.39%) GitHub
15 72 (2.39%) IaaS
15 72 (2.39%) Power Automate
16 71 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
17 70 (2.32%) PowerApps
18 69 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 209 (6.94%) Firewall
2 194 (6.44%) DNS
3 113 (3.75%) TCP/IP
4 103 (3.42%) LAN
4 103 (3.42%) WAN
5 85 (2.82%) DHCP
6 82 (2.72%) VPN
7 74 (2.46%) SSL
8 68 (2.26%) SAN
9 55 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.79%) Wireless
11 53 (1.76%) BGP
12 46 (1.53%) Network Security
13 40 (1.33%) NAS
14 39 (1.30%) Internet
15 36 (1.20%) VLAN
16 32 (1.06%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.86%) Unified Communications
18 22 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
19 21 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (11.39%) Power BI
2 311 (10.33%) SQL Server
3 234 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
4 194 (6.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 156 (5.18%) Oracle Database
6 122 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 92 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
9 89 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
9 89 (2.96%) Data Lake
10 77 (2.56%) MySQL
11 66 (2.19%) RDBMS
11 66 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (1.63%) Data Mining
13 46 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 42 (1.39%) MongoDB
15 40 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
16 39 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 36 (1.20%) Big Data
18 35 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 206 (6.84%) JIRA
2 111 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 61 (2.03%) Git
4 50 (1.66%) GitLab
5 34 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 23 (0.76%) Subversion
6 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 18 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 17 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.43%) Postman
11 10 (0.33%) gulp
11 10 (0.33%) JMeter
11 10 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.33%) Yeoman
12 9 (0.30%) Selenium
13 8 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 806 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 679 (22.55%) Finance
3 264 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 177 (5.88%) Law
6 174 (5.78%) Retail
7 169 (5.61%) Banking
8 149 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 133 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
10 102 (3.39%) Marketing
11 96 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 76 (2.52%) Legal
13 50 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 40 (1.33%) Retail Banking
16 34 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 34 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (0.90%) Games
19 26 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 585 (19.43%) Senior
2 544 (18.07%) Architect
3 350 (11.62%) Developer
4 295 (9.80%) Analyst
5 287 (9.53%) Consultant
6 268 (8.90%) Lead
7 196 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
8 174 (5.78%) Cloud Architect
9 139 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 132 (4.38%) Senior Developer
11 104 (3.45%) Business Analyst
11 104 (3.45%) IT Engineer
12 100 (3.32%) Database Engineer
13 99 (3.29%) Project Manager
14 98 (3.25%) Administrator
14 98 (3.25%) Senior Database Engineer
15 93 (3.09%) Database Developer
16 91 (3.02%) Data Engineer
16 91 (3.02%) PostgreSQL Developer
17 80 (2.66%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.59%) .NET
2 75 (2.49%) Spring Boot
3 72 (2.39%) HTML
4 63 (2.09%) REST
5 54 (1.79%) CSS
6 51 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 49 (1.63%) Kafka
8 48 (1.59%) React
9 42 (1.39%) Spring
10 41 (1.36%) PySpark
10 41 (1.36%) XML
11 38 (1.26%) Node.js
12 34 (1.13%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.06%) JSON
14 31 (1.03%) Web Services
15 27 (0.90%) SOAP
16 25 (0.83%) Middleware
17 21 (0.70%) ASP.NET
18 19 (0.63%) .NET Framework
18 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.67%) Public Cloud
2 145 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 140 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 105 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
6 89 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 86 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 86 (2.86%) PKI
8 82 (2.72%) Cloud Native
9 69 (2.29%) iPad
10 62 (2.06%) Onboarding
11 57 (1.89%) Private Cloud
12 56 (1.86%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 45 (1.49%) Product Ownership
15 43 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.16%) Reinsurance
17 34 (1.13%) Replication
18 30 (1.00%) DataPower
18 30 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 371 (12.32%) Windows
2 256 (8.50%) Linux
3 201 (6.68%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (1.66%) Unix
6 42 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 32 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.96%) Android
9 28 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.80%) Windows 7
10 24 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
11 22 (0.73%) Windows 8
12 21 (0.70%) VMS
13 15 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.30%) CentOS
16 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.13%) AIX
18 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (26.50%) Data Migration
2 657 (21.82%) Agile
3 487 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
4 422 (14.02%) DevOps
5 388 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
6 377 (12.52%) Roadmaps
7 366 (12.16%) Project Management
8 354 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
9 291 (9.66%) ETL
10 261 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 254 (8.44%) ERP
12 232 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 209 (6.94%) Mentoring
14 203 (6.74%) Data Modelling
15 197 (6.54%) Analytics
16 178 (5.91%) CI/CD
17 174 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 174 (5.78%) TOGAF
18 171 (5.68%) ITIL
19 170 (5.65%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 702 (23.31%) SQL
2 210 (6.97%) Python
3 178 (5.91%) Java
4 176 (5.85%) PowerShell
5 125 (4.15%) PL/SQL
6 109 (3.62%) JavaScript
7 92 (3.06%) C#
8 54 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.30%) PHP
10 32 (1.06%) Bash
10 32 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 26 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 24 (0.80%) Groovy
13 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.60%) Scala
16 17 (0.56%) Perl
17 14 (0.46%) C++
18 11 (0.37%) Bicep
18 11 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 325 (10.79%) Degree
2 255 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 177 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 113 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 103 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 78 (2.59%) DBS Check
8 73 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 60 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.23%) CCNA
13 32 (1.06%) CCNP
14 24 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 20 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
16 19 (0.63%) PMP
17 18 (0.60%) CISSP
18 17 (0.56%) PMI Certification
19 14 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 74 (2.46%) QA
3 71 (2.36%) GDPR
4 34 (1.13%) PMO
5 30 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.86%) SLA
7 14 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) IFRS
9 12 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.23%) NIST
12 6 (0.20%) GAAP
13 4 (0.13%) MiFID
14 3 (0.100%) GMP
14 3 (0.100%) GRC
14 3 (0.100%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.066%) NCSC
System Software
1 299 (9.93%) Active Directory
2 140 (4.65%) Docker
3 113 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 85 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 47 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.37%) vSphere
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.17%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.100%) HDFS
14 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.066%) iptables
14 2 (0.066%) pfSense
14 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.066%) Varnish
14 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 196 (6.51%) Terraform
2 137 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 135 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 102 (3.39%) Ansible
5 36 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 34 (1.13%) SCCM
7 31 (1.03%) Puppet
8 21 (0.70%) Grafana
9 18 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.37%) Packer
13 10 (0.33%) Graphite
13 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
13 10 (0.33%) Nagios
14 7 (0.23%) AirWatch
14 7 (0.23%) Salt
15 6 (0.20%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 971 (32.25%) Microsoft
2 384 (12.75%) Oracle
3 260 (8.64%) Google
4 197 (6.54%) VMware
5 163 (5.41%) SAP
6 105 (3.49%) Cisco
7 96 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 69 (2.29%) Databricks
10 59 (1.96%) IBM
11 51 (1.69%) Sparx
12 49 (1.63%) Citrix
13 37 (1.23%) Informatica
13 37 (1.23%) Veeam
14 32 (1.06%) Apple
15 30 (1.00%) Pega
16 28 (0.93%) Kofax
17 27 (0.90%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.86%) Dell
18 26 (0.86%) HP