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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,622 3,666 5,374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.05% 7.79% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 8.66% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 2,647 3,900
10th Percentile £330 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £632 £668 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 39 36
10th Percentile £16.10 £19.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £25.00 £33.00 £17.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +150.00% +63.93%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £59.81
90th Percentile - £87.50 £72.41
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £64.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year -37.98% +177.66% +46.47%

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 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
London 0 1,412 £540 -8.98% 291
South East -5 327 £513 -2.38% 78
North of England -6 316 £500 -4.76% 117
Midlands -8 188 £523 +4.50% 82
North West -4 170 £500 - 61
South West -2 169 £475 -13.64% 55
Yorkshire -2 127 £500 -9.09% 46
West Midlands -3 121 £523 +3.47% 56
East of England -14 106 £500 +5.26% 38
East Midlands 0 66 £500 +5.26% 26
North East +18 21 £550 +29.41% 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
1 165 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 97 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.64%) Confluence
4 28 (1.07%) CMS
5 22 (0.84%) Apache
6 16 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
7 14 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (0.53%) SAS
8 13 (0.50%) IIS
9 12 (0.46%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
9 12 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
10 11 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 11 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2003
10 11 (0.42%) Skype for Business
11 9 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.27%) ColdFusion
12 7 (0.27%) JBoss
13 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.15%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.076%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.076%) Maya
10 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 14 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
8 8 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
8 8 (0.31%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 586 (22.35%) Azure
2 282 (10.76%) AWS
3 210 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
4 162 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 131 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 116 (4.42%) GCP
7 96 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.75%) SaaS
10 52 (1.98%) PaaS
11 47 (1.79%) IaaS
12 45 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 37 (1.41%) Serverless
14 36 (1.37%) OneDrive
14 36 (1.37%) Snowflake
15 35 (1.33%) GitHub
16 32 (1.22%) OCI
17 29 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.11%) Amazon S3
17 29 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 114 (4.35%) Firewall
2 70 (2.67%) DNS
3 57 (2.17%) WAN
4 49 (1.87%) LAN
5 43 (1.64%) Network Security
5 43 (1.64%) VPN
6 38 (1.45%) DHCP
6 38 (1.45%) MPLS
7 37 (1.41%) SAN
8 27 (1.03%) DMZ
9 26 (0.99%) Wireless
10 24 (0.92%) BGP
10 24 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (0.88%) FTP
12 21 (0.80%) IPsec
13 19 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
14 16 (0.61%) NAS
14 16 (0.61%) VoIP
15 14 (0.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 129 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (4.31%) Power BI
4 72 (2.75%) Oracle Database
5 67 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.72%) Big Data
7 45 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 31 (1.18%) MySQL
13 28 (1.07%) Tableau
14 21 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
15 19 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.72%) Metadata
15 19 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
16 17 (0.65%) Data Mining
16 17 (0.65%) DB2
Development Applications
1 109 (4.16%) JIRA
2 50 (1.91%) Git
3 38 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.03%) TeamCity
5 23 (0.88%) GitLab
6 21 (0.80%) Selenium
7 18 (0.69%) JUnit
8 17 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 11 (0.42%) ERwin
11 11 (0.42%) LSMW
12 9 (0.34%) Maven
13 8 (0.31%) JMeter
13 8 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.31%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.27%) Postman
14 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 618 (23.57%) Finance
2 570 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 240 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 204 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (7.40%) Banking
6 78 (2.97%) Retail
7 66 (2.52%) Legal
8 61 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 58 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 43 (1.64%) Marketing
12 39 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 38 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (1.37%) Local Government
15 30 (1.14%) Law
16 29 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 24 (0.92%) Billing
17 24 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.88%) Front Office
19 19 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 451 (17.20%) Architect
2 286 (10.91%) Analyst
3 265 (10.11%) Project Manager
4 252 (9.61%) Consultant
5 234 (8.92%) Developer
6 206 (7.86%) Senior
7 165 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
8 163 (6.22%) Lead
9 138 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 118 (4.50%) Migration Engineer
11 104 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 88 (3.36%) Network Engineer
13 86 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 75 (2.86%) Data Architect
15 72 (2.75%) Data Analyst
15 72 (2.75%) Migration Manager
16 59 (2.25%) Technical Architect
17 58 (2.21%) Data Migration Engineer
18 55 (2.10%) Migration Project Manager
19 54 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (2.97%) .NET
2 53 (2.02%) JSON
3 46 (1.75%) Web Services
4 45 (1.72%) REST
5 43 (1.64%) CSS
6 40 (1.53%) HTML
6 40 (1.53%) XML
7 34 (1.30%) LDAP
7 34 (1.30%) Spring
8 30 (1.14%) Kafka
9 26 (0.99%) Middleware
9 26 (0.99%) React
9 26 (0.99%) WCF
10 25 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (0.84%) AngularJS
11 22 (0.84%) SAML
11 22 (0.84%) Spring Boot
12 20 (0.76%) SailPoint
12 20 (0.76%) SOAP
13 18 (0.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 168 (6.41%) Data Centre
2 106 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 58 (2.21%) Replication
5 44 (1.68%) Cloud Native
6 42 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 34 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 34 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 31 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 29 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (0.99%) Clustering
12 25 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (0.95%) NHS
13 23 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (0.84%) Taxonomies
15 20 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
16 18 (0.69%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.69%) PKI
17 15 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 296 (11.29%) Windows
2 147 (5.61%) Linux
3 104 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.97%) Unix
5 66 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 39 (1.49%) VMS
7 35 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 30 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.61%) Solaris
11 15 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (0.53%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.31%) Android
15 8 (0.31%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.19%) CentOS
16 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (31.01%) Data Migration
2 411 (15.68%) Agile
3 321 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (9.73%) DevOps
5 232 (8.85%) Project Management
6 217 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 167 (6.37%) Project Delivery
8 151 (5.76%) Data Modelling
9 149 (5.68%) Data Management
10 148 (5.64%) Business Intelligence
10 148 (5.64%) CI/CD
11 131 (5.00%) Computer Science
12 129 (4.92%) ETL
13 126 (4.81%) Analytics
14 125 (4.77%) ERP
15 121 (4.61%) Roadmaps
16 116 (4.42%) Change Management
16 116 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 105 (4.00%) Scrum
18 102 (3.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 388 (14.80%) SQL
2 171 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 161 (6.14%) Python
4 122 (4.65%) Java
5 86 (3.28%) C#
6 69 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.26%) Bash
8 32 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 26 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 23 (0.88%) PHP
11 20 (0.76%) ABAP
12 19 (0.72%) Perl
12 19 (0.72%) TypeScript
13 16 (0.61%) Go
14 11 (0.42%) Scala
15 10 (0.38%) Bicep
16 8 (0.31%) Groovy
16 8 (0.31%) Swift
17 7 (0.27%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 329 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 235 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 205 (7.82%) Degree
4 76 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.88%) CCNP
11 18 (0.69%) CCNA
11 18 (0.69%) PMP
12 17 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.53%) CISSP
14 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 9 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.31%) CCIE
16 8 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.59%) QA
3 42 (1.60%) GDPR
4 40 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.88%) NIST
5 23 (0.88%) PMO
6 12 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.34%) SLA
8 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.31%) WCAG
9 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.23%) GRC
11 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.19%) IFRS
12 4 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 2 (0.076%) GxP
13 2 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.038%) SOC 2
System Software
1 247 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (2.10%) Docker
4 43 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.84%) vSphere
6 18 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (0.57%) NFS
8 15 (0.57%) XenApp
9 14 (0.53%) HDFS
9 14 (0.53%) Hyper-V
10 13 (0.50%) KVM
11 12 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.076%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.076%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.076%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (3.74%) Terraform
2 69 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 52 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 50 (1.91%) Ansible
5 49 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.87%) SCCM
6 27 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (0.65%) Grafana
8 12 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 12 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.38%) PingFederate
10 10 (0.38%) Podman
10 10 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.34%) Nagios
11 9 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 9 (0.34%) VxRail
12 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 487 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 234 (8.92%) SAP
3 215 (8.20%) Oracle
4 139 (5.30%) VMware
5 121 (4.61%) Cisco
6 58 (2.21%) Google
6 58 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.53%) CheckPoint
8 40 (1.53%) Citrix
8 40 (1.53%) Dell
9 38 (1.45%) Databricks
10 37 (1.41%) Micro Focus
11 35 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.26%) F5
13 31 (1.18%) Juniper
13 31 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.11%) NetApp
15 27 (1.03%) Arista
16 25 (0.95%) Informatica