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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 1,249 1,754 2,298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.92% 7.71% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 8.65% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,297 1,708
10th Percentile £313 £310 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.30% +5.68%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.11 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.44 £29.88 £15.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +250.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £49.38
90th Percentile - £78.88 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £22.62
% change year-on-year -39.39% +191.84% +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 17,522 20,276 27,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.98% 89.11% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 13,889 19,180
10th Percentile £250 £260 £244
25th Percentile £375 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £582
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 2,171 1,255 1,348
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.43 £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 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -4 327 £513 -2.38% 77
North of England -6 316 £500 -4.76% 116
Midlands -8 187 £523 +4.50% 73
North West -3 170 £500 - 65
South West 0 169 £475 -13.64% 49
Scotland +2 128 £494 +1.86% 35
Yorkshire -4 127 £500 -9.09% 41
West Midlands -5 120 £523 +2.15% 47
East of England -10 106 £500 +5.26% 38
East Midlands 0 66 £500 +5.26% 26
Wales +12 24 £515 -12.12% 4
North East +15 21 £550 +29.41% 10
Northern Ireland -4 6 - - 11
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 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.48%) 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%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) Drupal
10 2 (0.16%) FileNet
10 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.16%) StreamWeaver
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.16%) Maya
8 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
6 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
6 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.24%) SAP MDM
7 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (19.06%) Azure
2 120 (9.61%) AWS
3 85 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 79 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
4 79 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (3.60%) SaaS
6 39 (3.12%) GCP
7 30 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 27 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.00%) GitHub
10 24 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 22 (1.76%) PaaS
12 20 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (1.60%) IaaS
13 19 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.44%) Serverless
15 17 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.04%) Firewall
2 36 (2.88%) DNS
3 35 (2.80%) WAN
4 34 (2.72%) LAN
4 34 (2.72%) SAN
5 27 (2.16%) DHCP
6 26 (2.08%) DMZ
7 25 (2.00%) VPN
8 23 (1.84%) MPLS
8 23 (1.84%) Network Security
9 17 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.28%) TCP/IP
11 14 (1.12%) NAS
12 13 (1.04%) 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 63 (5.04%) Power BI
2 59 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 55 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.56%) Oracle Database
6 20 (1.60%) MySQL
7 19 (1.52%) Big Data
8 18 (1.44%) Oracle Database 11g
9 17 (1.36%) Metadata
9 17 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.28%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.04%) Data Mining
13 11 (0.88%) Tableau
14 9 (0.72%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (5.52%) JIRA
2 23 (1.84%) Git
2 23 (1.84%) GitLab
3 16 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.48%) Selenium
5 6 (0.48%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.40%) LSMW
6 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.32%) JUnit
7 4 (0.32%) Maven
8 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.24%) Subversion
8 3 (0.24%) Toad
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 313 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 251 (20.10%) Finance
3 140 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (5.52%) Banking
6 45 (3.60%) Retail
7 43 (3.44%) Legal
8 34 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (1.92%) Local Government
11 24 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.84%) Billing
13 19 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.52%) Marketing
14 18 (1.44%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.36%) Law
16 15 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.64%) Back Office
17 8 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 191 (15.29%) Architect
2 124 (9.93%) Analyst
3 113 (9.05%) Project Manager
4 100 (8.01%) Developer
5 96 (7.69%) Senior
6 95 (7.61%) Consultant
7 85 (6.81%) Lead
8 80 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
9 66 (5.28%) Data Engineer
9 66 (5.28%) Network Engineer
10 60 (4.80%) Migration Engineer
11 55 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
13 34 (2.72%) Data Analyst
13 34 (2.72%) Data Architect
14 33 (2.64%) Migration Manager
15 32 (2.56%) Business Analyst
16 27 (2.16%) Senior Network Engineer
16 27 (2.16%) Support Engineer
17 26 (2.08%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.80%) REST
2 24 (1.92%) .NET
3 19 (1.52%) Web Services
4 18 (1.44%) HTML
5 17 (1.36%) CSS
6 15 (1.20%) JSON
6 15 (1.20%) SOAP
7 13 (1.04%) AWS CDK
7 13 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (0.88%) SAML
8 11 (0.88%) XML
9 10 (0.80%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.80%) LDAP
9 10 (0.80%) Spring
9 10 (0.80%) Spring Boot
10 9 (0.72%) Kafka
10 9 (0.72%) OAuth
10 9 (0.72%) OpenID
11 8 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.24%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 24 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 22 (1.76%) Replication
6 21 (1.68%) Clustering
7 20 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.96%) Client/Server
12 11 (0.88%) FMCG
12 11 (0.88%) NHS
13 9 (0.72%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.64%) CMDB
14 8 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 161 (12.89%) Windows
2 89 (7.13%) Linux
3 49 (3.92%) Unix
3 49 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 39 (3.12%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.92%) VMS
6 22 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.56%) Solaris
12 5 (0.40%) AIX
12 5 (0.40%) CentOS
12 5 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.32%) Android
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
14 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.16%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (33.31%) Data Migration
2 188 (15.05%) Agile
3 171 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 116 (9.29%) DevOps
6 98 (7.85%) Project Management
7 86 (6.89%) Project Delivery
8 80 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
8 80 (6.41%) ERP
9 73 (5.84%) Data Management
10 71 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 66 (5.28%) Data Modelling
12 62 (4.96%) Analytics
13 59 (4.72%) Computer Science
14 57 (4.56%) Roadmaps
15 56 (4.48%) CI/CD
15 56 (4.48%) ETL
16 51 (4.08%) Scrum
17 49 (3.92%) Change Management
18 48 (3.84%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 181 (14.49%) SQL
2 66 (5.28%) PowerShell
3 57 (4.56%) Python
4 48 (3.84%) Java
5 28 (2.24%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.68%) C#
6 21 (1.68%) PL/SQL
7 17 (1.36%) Bash
7 17 (1.36%) PHP
8 13 (1.04%) ABAP
9 11 (0.88%) Perl
10 10 (0.80%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.64%) Swift
13 6 (0.48%) Go
14 5 (0.40%) ActionScript
14 5 (0.40%) VBScript
15 4 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.24%) C++
16 3 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 121 (9.69%) Degree
3 109 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.88%) CCNA
10 11 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.88%) PMP
11 10 (0.80%) CCNP
12 6 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.32%) ACCA
14 4 (0.32%) CIMA
14 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 30 (2.40%) QA
3 19 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.36%) PMO
5 16 (1.28%) 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
System Software
1 120 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 81 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.92%) vSphere
5 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.44%) Docker
7 15 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
9 10 (0.80%) XenApp
10 7 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.32%) KVM
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.16%) HDFS
14 2 (0.16%) NFS
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.080%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 52 (4.16%) Terraform
2 41 (3.28%) Ansible
3 34 (2.72%) SCCM
4 30 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (2.32%) Kubernetes
6 19 (1.52%) Grafana
7 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.96%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.88%) Nagios
10 10 (0.80%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.72%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.56%) Argo
13 7 (0.56%) Istio
13 7 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.56%) VxRail
14 6 (0.48%) Data Guard
14 6 (0.48%) Endace
15 5 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 225 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.81%) VMware
3 109 (8.73%) SAP
4 98 (7.85%) Oracle
5 81 (6.49%) Cisco
6 39 (3.12%) CheckPoint
7 37 (2.96%) Micro Focus
8 29 (2.32%) Dell
8 29 (2.32%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.24%) F5
10 26 (2.08%) Juniper
11 25 (2.00%) Arista
12 24 (1.92%) Atlassian
12 24 (1.92%) Google
13 23 (1.84%) Citrix
13 23 (1.84%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.28%) Informatica
14 16 (1.28%) ServiceNow
15 15 (1.20%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.20%) SolarWinds