Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,988 4,445 6,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.02% 7.81% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 8.70% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,003 3,138 4,802
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £713 £738 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.47% +7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 46 49
10th Percentile £15.80 £19.25 £13.85
25th Percentile £25.00 £31.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +153.85% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £86.25 £67.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -42.86% +221.40% +37.33%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England 0 2,544 £525 -4.55% 764
London +2 1,362 £550 -6.58% 338
UK excluding London -3 1,220 £500 - 486
Work from Home -5 1,162 £525 - 415
South East +1 322 £500 -4.76% 142
North of England -3 317 £500 -4.76% 121
North West -4 168 £500 - 60
Midlands -5 168 £550 +10.00% 94
South West -1 166 £464 -15.68% 42
Yorkshire -3 133 £500 -9.09% 51
Scotland -2 126 £500 +2.67% 34
West Midlands -7 108 £550 +10.00% 61
East of England -10 105 £525 +20.69% 35
East Midlands +4 59 £563 +18.42% 33
Wales +11 25 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +18 18 £525 +16.67% 11
Northern Ireland -3 6 - - 16

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
1 185 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 97 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 52 (1.74%) Confluence
4 31 (1.04%) CMS
5 20 (0.67%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (0.57%) IIS
8 16 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
9 14 (0.47%) SAS
10 13 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
10 13 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
11 12 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
11 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
12 8 (0.27%) JBoss
13 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.20%) FileNet
Applications
1 53 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.067%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 102 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.87%) Loan IQ
5 18 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) Elite 3E
8 11 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
9 10 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
10 9 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.27%) SAP Retail
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 679 (22.72%) Azure
2 323 (10.81%) AWS
3 225 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 183 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 154 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
6 126 (4.22%) GCP
7 114 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (3.15%) Entra ID
9 90 (3.01%) SaaS
10 56 (1.87%) PaaS
11 52 (1.74%) Serverless
12 51 (1.71%) IaaS
12 51 (1.71%) OCI
13 48 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 47 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 45 (1.51%) GitHub
16 39 (1.31%) OneDrive
17 38 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.32%) Firewall
2 75 (2.51%) DNS
3 62 (2.07%) WAN
4 59 (1.97%) LAN
5 58 (1.94%) VPN
6 49 (1.64%) Network Security
7 43 (1.44%) SAN
8 41 (1.37%) DHCP
9 38 (1.27%) MPLS
10 28 (0.94%) Wireless
11 27 (0.90%) DMZ
12 26 (0.87%) BGP
12 26 (0.87%) FTP
13 24 (0.80%) IPsec
14 23 (0.77%) TCP/IP
15 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (0.60%) NAS
17 17 (0.57%) Internet
18 16 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 15 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 143 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (4.38%) Power BI
4 84 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 73 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.64%) Big Data
7 49 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 43 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (1.37%) MySQL
10 40 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 35 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (1.14%) Tableau
13 31 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
15 26 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
16 24 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 23 (0.77%) Metadata
18 22 (0.74%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 129 (4.32%) JIRA
2 55 (1.84%) Git
3 44 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 24 (0.80%) GitLab
6 22 (0.74%) Selenium
7 20 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.47%) ERwin
8 14 (0.47%) JUnit
9 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.37%) LSMW
10 11 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.30%) JMeter
11 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) Maven
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 697 (23.33%) Finance
2 689 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 312 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 227 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 221 (7.40%) Banking
6 88 (2.95%) Retail
7 71 (2.38%) Legal
8 67 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 64 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 60 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 46 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (1.47%) Marketing
14 41 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.10%) Local Government
16 30 (1.00%) Billing
16 30 (1.00%) Law
17 28 (0.94%) Back Office
18 27 (0.90%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 512 (17.14%) Architect
2 307 (10.27%) Analyst
3 303 (10.14%) Project Manager
4 299 (10.01%) Consultant
5 252 (8.43%) Developer
6 244 (8.17%) Senior
7 191 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
8 189 (6.33%) Lead
9 143 (4.79%) Business Analyst
10 120 (4.02%) Migration Engineer
11 116 (3.88%) Data Engineer
12 96 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 96 (3.21%) Network Engineer
13 90 (3.01%) Migration Manager
14 85 (2.84%) Data Analyst
15 79 (2.64%) Data Architect
16 71 (2.38%) Migration Project Manager
17 63 (2.11%) Technical Architect
18 61 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.01%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (3.18%) .NET
2 54 (1.81%) Web Services
3 53 (1.77%) REST
4 51 (1.71%) JSON
5 39 (1.31%) LDAP
5 39 (1.31%) XML
6 32 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
7 31 (1.04%) Spring
8 30 (1.00%) Middleware
9 29 (0.97%) CSS
10 28 (0.94%) SailPoint
11 26 (0.87%) HTML
11 26 (0.87%) Kafka
11 26 (0.87%) WCF
12 24 (0.80%) React
12 24 (0.80%) SOAP
13 22 (0.74%) SAML
14 21 (0.70%) Spring Boot
15 19 (0.64%) WinForms
16 18 (0.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 203 (6.79%) Data Centre
2 130 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 87 (2.91%) Replication
4 73 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 54 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 50 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 42 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 34 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 28 (0.94%) Clustering
11 28 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (0.90%) NHS
13 26 (0.87%) Taxonomies
14 23 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (0.67%) PKI
17 17 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 328 (10.98%) Windows
2 175 (5.86%) Linux
3 105 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 92 (3.08%) Unix
5 60 (2.01%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.37%) VMS
7 40 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 32 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.54%) Solaris
13 14 (0.47%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.23%) Android
17 7 (0.23%) CentOS
17 7 (0.23%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (32.90%) Data Migration
2 470 (15.73%) Agile
3 395 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (10.44%) DevOps
5 266 (8.90%) Project Management
6 259 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (6.29%) Project Delivery
8 180 (6.02%) CI/CD
9 178 (5.96%) Data Modelling
10 175 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
11 174 (5.82%) ETL
12 168 (5.62%) Analytics
12 168 (5.62%) Data Management
13 153 (5.12%) Change Management
14 145 (4.85%) ERP
15 143 (4.79%) Computer Science
15 143 (4.79%) Roadmaps
16 137 (4.59%) CRM
16 137 (4.59%) User Acceptance Testing
17 135 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 439 (14.69%) SQL
2 183 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 166 (5.56%) Python
4 133 (4.45%) Java
5 101 (3.38%) C#
6 74 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 32 (1.07%) Bash
9 30 (1.00%) PHP
10 26 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 23 (0.77%) Perl
12 21 (0.70%) ABAP
13 20 (0.67%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.54%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.50%) Go
16 12 (0.40%) Scala
17 10 (0.33%) Bicep
18 9 (0.30%) Groovy
19 8 (0.27%) COBOL
19 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 363 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 262 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 240 (8.03%) Degree
4 85 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 57 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 48 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.77%) PMP
11 22 (0.74%) CCNP
12 19 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.54%) CCNA
15 13 (0.44%) CISSP
15 13 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.33%) SAP Certification
17 9 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 132 (4.42%) QA
3 45 (1.51%) GDPR
4 42 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.20%) PMO
6 26 (0.87%) NIST
7 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.37%) SLA
8 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.27%) WCAG
10 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.17%) GRC
12 5 (0.17%) IFRS
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
14 3 (0.10%) GxP
15 2 (0.067%) NCSC
15 2 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 266 (8.90%) Active Directory
2 111 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (2.04%) Docker
4 48 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.07%) vSphere
6 30 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 22 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.60%) NFS
9 17 (0.57%) HDFS
10 15 (0.50%) KVM
11 14 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.47%) XenApp
12 11 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
13 10 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
14 9 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
18 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 118 (3.95%) Terraform
2 77 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 59 (1.97%) Ansible
4 53 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.74%) SCCM
6 47 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (0.84%) Grafana
9 15 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 13 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.44%) Prometheus
11 13 (0.44%) VxRail
12 12 (0.40%) Nagios
12 12 (0.40%) NetBackup
13 11 (0.37%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.33%) Data Guard
15 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (0.30%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 545 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 299 (10.01%) SAP
3 277 (9.27%) Oracle
4 157 (5.25%) VMware
5 132 (4.42%) Cisco
6 73 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.31%) Google
8 59 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.91%) Dell
10 50 (1.67%) Databricks
11 39 (1.31%) Citrix
12 38 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 37 (1.24%) CheckPoint
13 37 (1.24%) Micro Focus
14 35 (1.17%) F5
15 33 (1.10%) NetApp
16 31 (1.04%) IBM
16 31 (1.04%) Juniper
16 31 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 29 (0.97%) Informatica