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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,630 3,659 5,430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.06% 7.73% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 8.59% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,822 2,638 3,926
10th Percentile £326 £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 £633 £666 £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 43 37
10th Percentile £16.10 £20.00 £13.82
25th Percentile £25.00 £43.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +163.46% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - £87.00 £72.78
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £24.62
% change year-on-year -38.93% +166.10% +55.20%

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 31,896 42,584 64,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.63% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,753 29,899 46,066
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £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 2,340 1,520 1,731
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 1,420 £540 -8.47% 273
South East -4 329 £513 -2.38% 75
North of England -4 316 £500 -4.76% 116
Midlands -8 187 £525 +5.00% 75
North West -3 171 £500 - 64
South West 0 170 £475 -13.64% 51
Yorkshire -4 127 £500 -9.09% 42
West Midlands -4 120 £525 +2.64% 48
East of England -10 104 £513 +7.89% 39
East Midlands 0 66 £500 +5.26% 27
North East +16 20 £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
1 163 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 97 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (1.60%) Confluence
4 28 (1.06%) 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 (0.49%) 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%) Drupal
13 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.49%) 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 85 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 14 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.49%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.38%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
9 8 (0.30%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.30%) 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
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
12 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 584 (22.21%) Azure
2 282 (10.72%) AWS
3 209 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
4 163 (6.20%) Power Platform
5 134 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
6 116 (4.41%) GCP
7 97 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (3.46%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.74%) SaaS
10 52 (1.98%) PaaS
11 48 (1.83%) IaaS
12 43 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 38 (1.44%) Serverless
14 37 (1.41%) Snowflake
15 36 (1.37%) OneDrive
16 35 (1.33%) GitHub
17 32 (1.22%) OCI
18 29 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (1.10%) Amazon S3
18 29 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.45%) Firewall
2 70 (2.66%) DNS
3 60 (2.28%) WAN
4 52 (1.98%) LAN
5 47 (1.79%) VPN
6 43 (1.63%) Network Security
7 38 (1.44%) DHCP
7 38 (1.44%) MPLS
8 37 (1.41%) SAN
9 29 (1.10%) Wireless
10 27 (1.03%) BGP
10 27 (1.03%) DMZ
11 24 (0.91%) IPsec
11 24 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (0.87%) FTP
13 19 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
14 16 (0.61%) NAS
14 16 (0.61%) VoIP
15 15 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 130 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (4.33%) Power BI
4 71 (2.70%) Oracle Database
5 67 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.75%) Big Data
8 45 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 44 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (1.18%) MySQL
12 31 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (1.06%) 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 (4.14%) JIRA
2 50 (1.90%) Git
3 38 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.03%) TeamCity
5 22 (0.84%) GitLab
6 21 (0.80%) Selenium
7 18 (0.68%) 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 (0.30%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.27%) JMeter
14 7 (0.27%) LoadRunner
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
1 623 (23.69%) Finance
2 573 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 241 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 208 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (7.49%) Banking
6 79 (3.00%) Retail
7 66 (2.51%) Legal
8 62 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 58 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 43 (1.63%) Marketing
12 39 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.37%) Local Government
14 30 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 30 (1.14%) Law
15 24 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.87%) Billing
16 23 (0.87%) Front Office
17 19 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 446 (16.96%) Architect
2 290 (11.03%) Analyst
3 268 (10.19%) Project Manager
4 255 (9.70%) Consultant
5 234 (8.90%) Developer
6 206 (7.83%) Senior
7 163 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (6.12%) Lead
9 139 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 118 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
11 105 (3.99%) Data Engineer
12 88 (3.35%) Network Engineer
13 86 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 75 (2.85%) Migration Manager
15 74 (2.81%) Data Architect
16 73 (2.78%) Data Analyst
17 58 (2.21%) Data Migration Engineer
18 57 (2.17%) Technical Architect
19 56 (2.13%) Migration Project Manager
20 53 (2.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (2.89%) .NET
2 51 (1.94%) JSON
3 46 (1.75%) Web Services
4 45 (1.71%) REST
5 41 (1.56%) CSS
6 39 (1.48%) XML
7 38 (1.44%) HTML
8 34 (1.29%) LDAP
8 34 (1.29%) Spring
9 30 (1.14%) Kafka
10 26 (0.99%) React
11 25 (0.95%) Middleware
11 25 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
11 25 (0.95%) WCF
12 22 (0.84%) AngularJS
12 22 (0.84%) SAML
12 22 (0.84%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.76%) SailPoint
13 20 (0.76%) SOAP
14 18 (0.68%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 166 (6.31%) Data Centre
2 106 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 58 (2.21%) Replication
5 45 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 41 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 34 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 30 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (0.99%) Clustering
13 25 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 25 (0.95%) NHS
14 23 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.84%) Taxonomies
16 21 (0.80%) PKI
17 19 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
18 18 (0.68%) Mobile App
19 15 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 295 (11.22%) Windows
2 147 (5.59%) Linux
3 104 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.93%) Unix
5 66 (2.51%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.56%) VMS
7 35 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 30 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.87%) 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 (0.30%) Android
15 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.19%) CentOS
16 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (31.22%) Data Migration
2 419 (15.93%) Agile
3 327 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
4 257 (9.77%) DevOps
5 233 (8.86%) Project Management
6 220 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 166 (6.31%) Project Delivery
8 152 (5.78%) Data Modelling
9 151 (5.74%) Data Management
10 149 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
11 146 (5.55%) CI/CD
12 132 (5.02%) Computer Science
13 130 (4.94%) ETL
14 128 (4.87%) Analytics
15 126 (4.79%) ERP
16 122 (4.64%) Roadmaps
17 120 (4.56%) Change Management
18 119 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 104 (3.95%) User Acceptance Testing
20 103 (3.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 388 (14.75%) SQL
2 170 (6.46%) PowerShell
3 162 (6.16%) Python
4 122 (4.64%) Java
5 86 (3.27%) C#
6 69 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.25%) Bash
8 32 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 25 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 23 (0.87%) PHP
11 19 (0.72%) ABAP
11 19 (0.72%) Perl
11 19 (0.72%) TypeScript
12 16 (0.61%) Go
13 11 (0.42%) Scala
14 10 (0.38%) Bicep
15 8 (0.30%) Groovy
15 8 (0.30%) Swift
16 7 (0.27%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 330 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 235 (8.94%) SC Cleared
3 207 (7.87%) Degree
4 77 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.87%) CCNP
11 18 (0.68%) CCNA
11 18 (0.68%) PMP
12 17 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.49%) CISSP
15 9 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 9 (0.34%) SAP Certification
16 8 (0.30%) CCIE
16 8 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.69%) QA
3 41 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.56%) GDPR
4 24 (0.91%) PMO
5 23 (0.87%) NIST
6 12 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.34%) SLA
8 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.30%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 248 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (2.09%) Docker
4 43 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.84%) vSphere
6 18 (0.68%) 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 (0.49%) 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 97 (3.69%) Terraform
2 69 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 52 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (1.86%) Ansible
4 49 (1.86%) SCCM
5 48 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (0.61%) Grafana
8 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 11 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.38%) PingFederate
11 10 (0.38%) Podman
11 10 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.34%) Nagios
12 9 (0.34%) NetBackup
12 9 (0.34%) VxRail
13 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 488 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 234 (8.90%) SAP
3 214 (8.14%) Oracle
4 139 (5.29%) VMware
5 124 (4.71%) Cisco
6 58 (2.21%) Google
6 58 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.56%) Citrix
7 41 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 40 (1.52%) Dell
9 39 (1.48%) Databricks
10 38 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 37 (1.41%) Micro Focus
12 34 (1.29%) Juniper
13 33 (1.25%) F5
14 31 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.06%) NetApp
16 27 (1.03%) Arista
17 25 (0.95%) Informatica