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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,608 3,665 5,391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.07% 7.72% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 8.58% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 2,642 3,901
10th Percentile £325 £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 £630 £666 £638
90th Percentile £719 £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 43 36
10th Percentile £16.10 £20.00 £13.81
25th Percentile £25.00 £43.00 £17.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +163.46% +63.93%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £59.81
90th Percentile - £87.00 £73.54
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £22.62
% change year-on-year -38.93% +189.63% +42.59%

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 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +2 1,404 £540 -9.24% 308
South East -2 333 £500 -4.76% 82
North of England -6 319 £500 -4.76% 102
Midlands -8 177 £525 +5.00% 87
North West -2 173 £500 - 56
South West -2 167 £475 -13.64% 42
Yorkshire -2 130 £500 -9.09% 38
West Midlands -6 114 £525 +3.96% 63
East of England -13 105 £525 +10.53% 44
East Midlands +2 62 £515 +8.42% 23
North East +16 18 £525 +23.53% 9
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
1 163 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 95 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.50%) Confluence
4 29 (1.11%) CMS
5 18 (0.69%) Apache
6 17 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
7 15 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2007
8 14 (0.54%) SAS
9 13 (0.50%) IIS
9 13 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
10 12 (0.46%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
11 11 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2003
11 11 (0.42%) Skype for Business
12 9 (0.35%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.27%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.27%) Drupal
13 7 (0.27%) JBoss
13 7 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.15%) Trello
8 3 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.077%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.077%) Maya
10 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 13 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.42%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.38%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
9 8 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.31%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.27%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.23%) SAP PP
12 5 (0.19%) SAP MDM
12 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 583 (22.35%) Azure
2 277 (10.62%) AWS
3 207 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
4 158 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 128 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
6 109 (4.18%) GCP
7 97 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.80%) SaaS
10 52 (1.99%) PaaS
11 48 (1.84%) IaaS
12 40 (1.53%) PowerApps
13 37 (1.42%) Serverless
14 35 (1.34%) OneDrive
15 34 (1.30%) GitHub
16 33 (1.27%) Snowflake
17 32 (1.23%) OCI
18 28 (1.07%) Amazon S3
18 28 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.49%) Firewall
2 72 (2.76%) DNS
3 62 (2.38%) WAN
4 55 (2.11%) LAN
5 49 (1.88%) VPN
6 44 (1.69%) Network Security
7 40 (1.53%) DHCP
8 39 (1.50%) SAN
9 37 (1.42%) MPLS
10 29 (1.11%) Wireless
11 27 (1.04%) DMZ
12 26 (1.00%) BGP
13 24 (0.92%) IPsec
13 24 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (0.88%) FTP
15 21 (0.81%) TCP/IP
16 19 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.61%) NAS
17 16 (0.61%) VoIP
18 15 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 130 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (4.29%) Power BI
4 70 (2.68%) Oracle Database
5 64 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (1.76%) Big Data
6 46 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.73%) Relational Database
8 42 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 38 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (1.15%) MySQL
12 28 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (1.07%) Tableau
13 22 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
14 20 (0.77%) Metadata
14 20 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.65%) Data Mining
17 16 (0.61%) DB2
Development Applications
1 104 (3.99%) JIRA
2 48 (1.84%) Git
3 37 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 21 (0.81%) GitLab
6 20 (0.77%) Selenium
7 17 (0.65%) JUnit
7 17 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.42%) ERwin
9 11 (0.42%) LSMW
9 11 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.31%) Maven
10 8 (0.31%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.27%) Postman
12 6 (0.23%) JMeter
12 6 (0.23%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 620 (23.77%) Finance
2 576 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 244 (9.36%) Public Sector
4 206 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (7.36%) Banking
6 80 (3.07%) Retail
7 65 (2.49%) Legal
8 63 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 59 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 44 (1.69%) Marketing
12 40 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.23%) Local Government
15 29 (1.11%) Law
16 26 (1.00%) Investment Banking
17 24 (0.92%) Billing
17 24 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.73%) Back Office
19 18 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 436 (16.72%) Architect
2 289 (11.08%) Analyst
3 262 (10.05%) Project Manager
4 256 (9.82%) Consultant
5 231 (8.86%) Developer
6 204 (7.82%) Senior
7 160 (6.13%) Lead
8 156 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
9 138 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 117 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
11 104 (3.99%) Data Engineer
12 90 (3.45%) Network Engineer
13 85 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 73 (2.80%) Data Analyst
14 73 (2.80%) Data Architect
15 72 (2.76%) Migration Manager
16 56 (2.15%) Data Migration Engineer
16 56 (2.15%) Technical Architect
17 53 (2.03%) Migration Project Manager
18 51 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.84%) .NET
2 49 (1.88%) JSON
3 47 (1.80%) Web Services
4 40 (1.53%) REST
5 37 (1.42%) XML
6 35 (1.34%) CSS
7 34 (1.30%) LDAP
8 33 (1.27%) Spring
9 32 (1.23%) HTML
10 30 (1.15%) Kafka
11 25 (0.96%) Middleware
11 25 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
11 25 (0.96%) React
12 23 (0.88%) WCF
13 21 (0.81%) SAML
13 21 (0.81%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.73%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.69%) SailPoint
15 18 (0.69%) SOAP
15 18 (0.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 167 (6.40%) Data Centre
2 103 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (2.45%) Management Information System
4 59 (2.26%) Replication
5 43 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 42 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 35 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 31 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.00%) Clustering
13 25 (0.96%) NHS
14 24 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (0.84%) Taxonomies
16 21 (0.81%) PKI
17 19 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
18 17 (0.65%) Mobile App
19 14 (0.54%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 292 (11.20%) Windows
2 143 (5.48%) Linux
3 102 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.95%) Unix
5 64 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.57%) VMS
7 37 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.61%) Solaris
11 16 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.58%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
14 8 (0.31%) Android
14 8 (0.31%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.19%) CentOS
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (31.63%) Data Migration
2 410 (15.72%) Agile
3 327 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (9.62%) DevOps
5 232 (8.90%) Project Management
6 219 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 164 (6.29%) Project Delivery
8 155 (5.94%) Data Modelling
9 152 (5.83%) Data Management
10 151 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
11 147 (5.64%) CI/CD
12 135 (5.18%) Analytics
13 132 (5.06%) ETL
14 131 (5.02%) Computer Science
15 127 (4.87%) ERP
16 120 (4.60%) Change Management
16 120 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 119 (4.56%) Roadmaps
18 111 (4.26%) User Acceptance Testing
19 102 (3.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 380 (14.57%) SQL
2 168 (6.44%) PowerShell
3 157 (6.02%) Python
4 114 (4.37%) Java
5 83 (3.18%) C#
6 62 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 32 (1.23%) Bash
8 31 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 25 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 24 (0.92%) PHP
11 21 (0.81%) ABAP
11 21 (0.81%) Perl
12 14 (0.54%) Go
13 13 (0.50%) TypeScript
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
1 331 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 236 (9.05%) SC Cleared
3 202 (7.75%) Degree
4 76 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (2.91%) DV Cleared
5 59 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.88%) CCNP
10 18 (0.69%) CCNA
10 18 (0.69%) PMP
11 17 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.50%) CISSP
15 9 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 9 (0.35%) SAP Certification
16 8 (0.31%) CCIE
17 7 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.76%) QA
3 41 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.57%) GDPR
4 24 (0.92%) PMO
5 23 (0.88%) NIST
6 12 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.35%) 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 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.19%) GRC
10 5 (0.19%) IFRS
11 4 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.12%) NCSC
13 2 (0.077%) GxP
13 2 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (2.11%) Docker
4 43 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.84%) vSphere
6 18 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.58%) NFS
8 15 (0.58%) XenApp
9 14 (0.54%) HDFS
10 13 (0.50%) KVM
11 11 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
13 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.077%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.077%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 95 (3.64%) Terraform
2 67 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (1.88%) SCCM
5 48 (1.84%) Ansible
6 47 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (0.58%) Grafana
9 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 11 (0.42%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.38%) PingFederate
12 10 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.35%) Nagios
13 9 (0.35%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.35%) Podman
13 9 (0.35%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.35%) VxRail
14 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.23%) Endace
Vendors
1 480 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 235 (9.01%) SAP
3 209 (8.01%) Oracle
4 138 (5.29%) VMware
5 125 (4.79%) Cisco
6 57 (2.19%) Google
7 54 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 42 (1.61%) Dell
9 41 (1.57%) Citrix
9 41 (1.57%) Databricks
9 41 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 40 (1.53%) CheckPoint
11 38 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 37 (1.42%) Micro Focus
13 35 (1.34%) F5
14 33 (1.27%) Juniper
15 30 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 28 (1.07%) NetApp
17 27 (1.04%) Arista
18 25 (0.96%) Informatica