Migration Contracts in the South East

Migration
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Migration 333 431 605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.90% 7.64% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 8.58% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 312 470
10th Percentile £313 £388 £244
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.50 £29.30
25th Percentile £25.13 £21.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.83% +3.89% +143.24%
75th Percentile £32.50 £64.69 £82.50
90th Percentile £39.50 £76.25 £85.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -41.61% +163.46% +63.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the South East

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the South East

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the South East 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
Thames Valley +3 159 £513 -2.38% 31
Berkshire -2 106 £513 -5.53% 21
Hampshire -17 64 £575 +15.00% 22
West Sussex +4 44 £450 +8.70% 2
Buckinghamshire +20 40 £475 +2.70% 7
Surrey -1 39 £513 -2.84% 10
Oxfordshire +1 14 £365 -29.47% 3
East Sussex -4 10 £450 -10.00% 2
Kent +3 6 £425 -15.00% 8
Home Counties +1 2 - -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Middlesex -4 1 £425 -12.37%
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.60%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) FileNet
3 2 (0.60%) Jadu
3 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.60%) Maya
Business Applications
1 13 (3.90%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.20%) Infor SunSystems
3 4 (1.20%) SAP IS-U
4 3 (0.90%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.90%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.71%) Azure
2 29 (8.71%) AWS
3 14 (4.20%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.90%) SaaS
5 12 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.70%) GitHub
6 9 (2.70%) IaaS
7 8 (2.40%) PaaS
8 6 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.20%) Azure API Management
9 4 (1.20%) GCP
9 4 (1.20%) iPaaS
9 4 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.90%) dbt
10 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.90%) Serverless
10 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.41%) Firewall
2 26 (7.81%) DMZ
3 14 (4.20%) Network Security
4 13 (3.90%) SAN
5 11 (3.30%) BGP
5 11 (3.30%) DNS
5 11 (3.30%) MPLS
5 11 (3.30%) VPN
6 9 (2.70%) DHCP
6 9 (2.70%) NAS
6 9 (2.70%) WAN
7 8 (2.40%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (2.10%) LAN
9 6 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (1.50%) NetScaler
11 4 (1.20%) EIGRP
11 4 (1.20%) FTP
11 4 (1.20%) IPsec
11 4 (1.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.61%) Oracle Database
3 18 (5.41%) Oracle Database 11g
4 14 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.60%) Power BI
6 9 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.50%) Big Data
8 5 (1.50%) Tableau
9 4 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.20%) MS Access
9 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.90%) MySQL
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.30%) JIRA
2 9 (2.70%) GitLab
3 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.60%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) kappa
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (24.92%) Finance
2 63 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.21%) Banking
4 28 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.61%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.90%) Retail
8 10 (3.00%) Billing
8 10 (3.00%) Legal
8 10 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.20%) Law
9 4 (1.20%) Marketing
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Electronics
10 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Automotive
11 2 (0.60%) German Language
12 1 (0.30%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 58 (17.42%) Senior
2 47 (14.11%) Network Engineer
3 33 (9.91%) Project Manager
4 30 (9.01%) Analyst
4 30 (9.01%) Architect
5 28 (8.41%) Developer
6 26 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
7 21 (6.31%) Consultant
8 18 (5.41%) Lead
9 15 (4.50%) Data Analyst
10 12 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.60%) Migration Architect
10 12 (3.60%) Migration Manager
10 12 (3.60%) Migration Specialist
10 12 (3.60%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 10 (3.00%) Senior Manager
11 10 (3.00%) Senior Project Manager
12 9 (2.70%) Data Migration Specialist
12 9 (2.70%) Database Specialist
12 9 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.10%) .NET
1 7 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.80%) Web Services
3 4 (1.20%) JSON
4 3 (0.90%) Kafka
5 2 (0.60%) CSS
5 2 (0.60%) HTML
5 2 (0.60%) LAMP
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.30%) BAPI
6 1 (0.30%) Doctrine
6 1 (0.30%) Flash
6 1 (0.30%) LDAP
6 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.30%) Spring
6 1 (0.30%) Symfony
6 1 (0.30%) Web Dynpro
6 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.51%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.20%) Replication
3 10 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.40%) Clustering
5 8 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.20%) e-Health
6 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.60%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.60%) IoT
8 2 (0.60%) IVR
8 2 (0.60%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.60%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.21%) Windows
2 23 (6.91%) Linux
3 17 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.20%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.60%) Unix
6 11 (3.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.90%) Android
9 3 (0.90%) VMS
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.60%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) CentOS
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (27.63%) Data Migration
2 49 (14.71%) Agile
3 37 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (9.61%) Project Management
5 30 (9.01%) Performance Tuning
6 29 (8.71%) DevOps
7 28 (8.41%) Project Delivery
8 25 (7.51%) B2B
9 22 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (6.61%) ERP
10 20 (6.01%) ETL
11 19 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (4.80%) Change Management
13 15 (4.50%) Database Migration
13 15 (4.50%) High Availability
13 15 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (4.20%) Data Integration
14 14 (4.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (4.20%) Task Automation
15 13 (3.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.51%) SQL
2 17 (5.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.90%) Python
4 12 (3.60%) Bash
4 12 (3.60%) PL/SQL
5 9 (2.70%) Java
6 8 (2.40%) PHP
7 7 (2.10%) C#
8 4 (1.20%) ActionScript
8 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.90%) Ruby
9 3 (0.90%) VBScript
10 2 (0.60%) ABAP
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.91%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.31%) Degree
6 6 (1.80%) CCNA
7 5 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.20%) ACCA
8 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.20%) CCNP
8 4 (1.20%) CIMA
8 4 (1.20%) PMP
8 4 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.30%) OCP
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.80%) PMO
3 5 (1.50%) IFRS
4 4 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.90%) SLA
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (9.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.90%) vSphere
4 8 (2.40%) XenApp
5 7 (2.10%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.50%) Docker
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.60%) KVM
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.30%) HDFS
10 1 (0.30%) NFS
10 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (3.60%) SCCM
1 12 (3.60%) Terraform
2 10 (3.00%) Ansible
3 8 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 6 (1.80%) Endace
6 5 (1.50%) Avamar
6 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.20%) vRealize
8 3 (0.90%) MOM
8 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.30%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.30%) SafeCom
10 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.30%) Sysprep
10 1 (0.30%) yum
Vendors
1 48 (14.41%) Cisco
1 48 (14.41%) Oracle
2 45 (13.51%) VMware
3 43 (12.91%) Microsoft
4 36 (10.81%) SAP
5 28 (8.41%) CheckPoint
6 25 (7.51%) Arista
7 20 (6.01%) Juniper
8 16 (4.80%) F5
9 14 (4.20%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.90%) Citrix
10 13 (3.90%) Dell
11 12 (3.60%) SolarWinds
12 9 (2.70%) Informatica
12 9 (2.70%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.40%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.40%) IFS
13 8 (2.40%) Ivanti
14 7 (2.10%) EMC
15 5 (1.50%) IBM