Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,245 1,749 2,273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.98% 7.68% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 8.61% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,294 1,685
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.83% +6.74%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 32
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.44 £29.75 £15.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +235.09% +35.87%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £40.62
90th Percentile - £80.61 £63.00
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK excluding London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -2 333 £500 -4.76% 81
North of England -6 319 £500 -4.76% 103
Midlands -8 177 £525 +5.00% 85
North West -2 173 £500 - 57
South West -2 167 £475 -13.64% 42
Yorkshire -2 130 £500 -9.09% 38
Scotland -1 129 £491 +0.67% 48
West Midlands -6 114 £525 +3.96% 61
East of England -13 105 £525 +10.53% 44
East Midlands +2 62 £515 +8.42% 23
Wales +13 24 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +16 18 £525 +23.53% 9
Northern Ireland -3 6 - - 10
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Migration
UK

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 63 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (2.25%) Confluence
4 10 (0.80%) Apache
5 9 (0.72%) IIS
5 9 (0.72%) SAS
6 7 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 7 (0.56%) JBoss
7 5 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.32%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) FileNet
10 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Jadu
Applications
1 28 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 16 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.48%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.48%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 235 (18.88%) Azure
2 121 (9.72%) AWS
3 81 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 78 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.61%) SaaS
7 39 (3.13%) GCP
8 31 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 27 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 25 (2.01%) GitHub
11 22 (1.77%) PaaS
12 21 (1.69%) IaaS
13 19 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.53%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.45%) Serverless
15 16 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (1.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.06%) Firewall
2 37 (2.97%) DNS
3 36 (2.89%) WAN
4 35 (2.81%) LAN
5 34 (2.73%) SAN
6 28 (2.25%) DHCP
6 28 (2.25%) VPN
7 26 (2.09%) DMZ
8 23 (1.85%) Network Security
9 22 (1.77%) MPLS
10 18 (1.45%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (1.12%) NAS
13 12 (0.96%) BGP
13 12 (0.96%) IPsec
14 11 (0.88%) Internet
15 9 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.72%) Wireless
16 8 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.14%) Power BI
2 55 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 45 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (2.81%) Oracle Database
6 20 (1.61%) Big Data
7 19 (1.53%) Oracle Database 11g
8 18 (1.45%) Metadata
8 18 (1.45%) MySQL
9 17 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.29%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.04%) Data Mining
12 13 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.88%) Tableau
14 10 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.72%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (5.30%) JIRA
2 21 (1.69%) Git
2 21 (1.69%) GitLab
3 15 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (0.40%) LSMW
6 5 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.24%) JUnit
8 3 (0.24%) Maven
8 3 (0.24%) Subversion
8 3 (0.24%) Toad
9 2 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 316 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 253 (20.32%) Finance
3 141 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.70%) Banking
6 46 (3.69%) Retail
7 43 (3.45%) Legal
8 35 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.85%) Billing
13 21 (1.69%) Marketing
14 20 (1.61%) Local Government
15 18 (1.45%) Aerospace
15 18 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.29%) Law
17 14 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.64%) Back Office
18 8 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 183 (14.70%) Architect
2 123 (9.88%) Analyst
3 115 (9.24%) Project Manager
4 100 (8.03%) Consultant
5 95 (7.63%) Developer
6 92 (7.39%) Senior
7 85 (6.83%) Lead
8 75 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
9 68 (5.46%) Network Engineer
10 67 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 61 (4.90%) Migration Engineer
12 53 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (3.61%) Data Migration Engineer
14 34 (2.73%) Data Analyst
14 34 (2.73%) Data Architect
15 31 (2.49%) Migration Manager
16 30 (2.41%) Business Analyst
17 27 (2.17%) Senior Network Engineer
17 27 (2.17%) Support Engineer
18 26 (2.09%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.49%) REST
2 20 (1.61%) Web Services
3 19 (1.53%) .NET
4 14 (1.12%) AWS CDK
4 14 (1.12%) SOAP
5 13 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (0.96%) CSS
6 12 (0.96%) JSON
7 11 (0.88%) HTML
7 11 (0.88%) SAML
8 10 (0.80%) LDAP
9 9 (0.72%) Kafka
9 9 (0.72%) OAuth
9 9 (0.72%) OpenID
9 9 (0.72%) Spring
9 9 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 68 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 24 (1.93%) Onboarding
4 24 (1.93%) Replication
5 21 (1.69%) Clustering
5 21 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 19 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 12 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 11 (0.88%) FMCG
11 11 (0.88%) NHS
12 9 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (0.72%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.64%) CMDB
13 8 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 159 (12.77%) Windows
2 88 (7.07%) Linux
3 47 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 46 (3.69%) Unix
5 37 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.93%) VMS
7 21 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.56%) Solaris
13 5 (0.40%) AIX
13 5 (0.40%) CentOS
13 5 (0.40%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.32%) Android
14 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 3 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (33.98%) Data Migration
2 185 (14.86%) Agile
3 172 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (9.24%) DevOps
6 98 (7.87%) Project Management
7 85 (6.83%) Project Delivery
8 83 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 80 (6.43%) ERP
10 74 (5.94%) Data Management
11 71 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 69 (5.54%) Analytics
13 65 (5.22%) Data Modelling
14 59 (4.74%) Computer Science
15 58 (4.66%) ETL
16 57 (4.58%) Roadmaps
17 55 (4.42%) CI/CD
18 52 (4.18%) Scrum
19 50 (4.02%) Change Management
20 47 (3.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 177 (14.22%) SQL
2 65 (5.22%) PowerShell
3 57 (4.58%) Python
4 46 (3.69%) Java
5 26 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.77%) PL/SQL
7 18 (1.45%) PHP
8 17 (1.37%) C#
9 16 (1.29%) Bash
10 15 (1.20%) ABAP
11 11 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.72%) Perl
12 9 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.64%) Swift
14 6 (0.48%) Go
15 5 (0.40%) ActionScript
15 5 (0.40%) VBScript
16 3 (0.24%) C
16 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 179 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 118 (9.48%) Degree
3 110 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 12 (0.96%) PMP
11 11 (0.88%) CCNA
12 10 (0.80%) CCNP
13 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 5 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.32%) ACCA
15 4 (0.32%) CIMA
15 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 29 (2.33%) QA
3 19 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.37%) PMO
5 16 (1.29%) GDPR
6 7 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.56%) NIST
7 5 (0.40%) IFRS
7 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.24%) SLA
10 1 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.080%) GxP
10 1 (0.080%) NCSC
10 1 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 121 (9.72%) Active Directory
2 80 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.93%) vSphere
5 21 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.45%) Docker
7 16 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
9 10 (0.80%) XenApp
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.32%) KVM
11 4 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.16%) HDFS
13 2 (0.16%) NFS
13 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.080%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 51 (4.10%) Terraform
2 40 (3.21%) Ansible
3 35 (2.81%) SCCM
4 30 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (2.33%) Kubernetes
6 18 (1.45%) Grafana
7 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.96%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.88%) Nagios
10 10 (0.80%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (0.64%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.56%) Argo
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.56%) VxRail
13 6 (0.48%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.48%) Endace
13 6 (0.48%) Istio
13 6 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 220 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 113 (9.08%) SAP
3 109 (8.76%) VMware
4 104 (8.35%) Oracle
5 81 (6.51%) Cisco
6 39 (3.13%) CheckPoint
7 37 (2.97%) Micro Focus
8 29 (2.33%) Dell
8 29 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.25%) F5
10 25 (2.01%) Arista
10 25 (2.01%) Juniper
11 24 (1.93%) Google
12 23 (1.85%) Citrix
13 22 (1.77%) Atlassian
14 18 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 16 (1.29%) Informatica
15 16 (1.29%) ServiceNow
16 15 (1.20%) Palo Alto
17 14 (1.12%) IBM