Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 2,999 4,519 6,921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 7.77% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 8.65% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,014 3,203 4,855
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +7.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £713 £738 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 46 53
10th Percentile £15.90 £19.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.88 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +153.85% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £86.25 £69.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -42.86% +235.09% +31.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 May 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
England +1 2,556 £525 -4.33% 718
London +2 1,369 £550 -5.98% 300
UK excluding London -2 1,226 £500 - 432
Work from Home -3 1,181 £525 - 360
South East -1 332 £500 -4.76% 105
North of England -3 314 £500 -4.76% 115
South West +3 168 £465 -11.43% 43
Midlands -5 168 £556 +11.25% 87
North West -4 165 £500 - 58
Yorkshire -1 134 £500 -8.26% 42
Scotland -4 124 £500 +2.67% 29
West Midlands -7 108 £563 +12.50% 57
East of England -13 103 £500 +17.65% 38
East Midlands +7 59 £563 +18.42% 30
Wales +15 26 £515 -12.12% 5
North East +16 17 £550 +11.39% 16
Northern Ireland 0 6 - - 17

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 184 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 101 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (1.77%) Confluence
4 29 (0.97%) CMS
5 19 (0.63%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
7 16 (0.53%) IIS
8 14 (0.47%) SAS
9 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
10 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
10 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.37%) Apache Spark
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.27%) JBoss
13 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.067%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.033%) Weka
10 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 101 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.23%) Loan IQ
4 30 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 18 (0.60%) SAP MDG
7 14 (0.47%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.43%) Elite 3E
9 12 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
11 10 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
12 9 (0.30%) NetSuite
12 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
13 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.27%) SAP Retail
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 690 (23.01%) Azure
2 328 (10.94%) AWS
3 228 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 151 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
6 124 (4.13%) GCP
7 114 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 90 (3.00%) SaaS
10 56 (1.87%) IaaS
10 56 (1.87%) PaaS
11 50 (1.67%) Serverless
12 48 (1.60%) OCI
12 48 (1.60%) PowerApps
13 47 (1.57%) Amazon S3
14 42 (1.40%) GitHub
15 39 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (1.27%) OneDrive
17 35 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.57%) Firewall
2 79 (2.63%) DNS
3 67 (2.23%) WAN
4 63 (2.10%) LAN
5 62 (2.07%) VPN
6 51 (1.70%) Network Security
7 45 (1.50%) DHCP
8 43 (1.43%) SAN
9 40 (1.33%) MPLS
10 31 (1.03%) Wireless
11 28 (0.93%) BGP
12 27 (0.90%) DMZ
13 26 (0.87%) FTP
14 25 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (0.80%) IPsec
15 24 (0.80%) TCP/IP
16 18 (0.60%) Internet
16 18 (0.60%) NAS
17 17 (0.57%) WLAN
18 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 140 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.40%) Power BI
4 87 (2.90%) Oracle Database
5 79 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.57%) Big Data
9 43 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.40%) MySQL
11 39 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 35 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.17%) Tableau
13 32 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
15 24 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
16 22 (0.73%) Metadata
16 22 (0.73%) MongoDB
17 21 (0.70%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 136 (4.53%) JIRA
2 56 (1.87%) Git
3 45 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.10%) TeamCity
5 23 (0.77%) GitLab
6 21 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.67%) Selenium
8 14 (0.47%) ERwin
8 14 (0.47%) JUnit
9 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.30%) JMeter
11 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.30%) LSMW
12 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Maven
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 704 (23.47%) Finance
2 697 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 317 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 228 (7.60%) Banking
5 227 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (2.83%) Retail
7 71 (2.37%) Legal
8 65 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 64 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 47 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 44 (1.47%) Marketing
14 42 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.10%) Local Government
16 32 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 31 (1.03%) Law
18 28 (0.93%) Back Office
18 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.90%) Billing
Job Titles
1 501 (16.71%) Architect
2 307 (10.24%) Project Manager
3 306 (10.20%) Analyst
4 302 (10.07%) Consultant
5 249 (8.30%) Developer
6 242 (8.07%) Senior
7 188 (6.27%) Lead
8 186 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
9 148 (4.93%) Business Analyst
10 123 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
11 119 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 99 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 98 (3.27%) Network Engineer
14 88 (2.93%) Migration Manager
15 81 (2.70%) Data Analyst
16 77 (2.57%) Data Architect
17 70 (2.33%) Migration Project Manager
18 62 (2.07%) DBA
18 62 (2.07%) Technical Architect
19 61 (2.03%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (3.13%) .NET
2 56 (1.87%) JSON
3 54 (1.80%) REST
4 53 (1.77%) Web Services
5 42 (1.40%) XML
6 38 (1.27%) LDAP
7 31 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.00%) Middleware
8 30 (1.00%) Spring
9 28 (0.93%) SailPoint
10 26 (0.87%) WCF
11 25 (0.83%) CSS
12 24 (0.80%) SOAP
13 23 (0.77%) Kafka
14 22 (0.73%) HTML
15 21 (0.70%) React
15 21 (0.70%) SAML
15 21 (0.70%) Spring Boot
16 19 (0.63%) WinForms
17 17 (0.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 212 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 130 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
3 89 (2.97%) Replication
4 71 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 53 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 52 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 43 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 35 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 28 (0.93%) Clustering
10 28 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 27 (0.90%) NHS
12 26 (0.87%) Taxonomies
13 24 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (0.67%) PKI
17 16 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 345 (11.50%) Windows
2 190 (6.34%) Linux
3 108 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 92 (3.07%) Unix
5 63 (2.10%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 39 (1.30%) VMS
8 35 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 34 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 23 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.50%) Solaris
13 14 (0.47%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 11 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
16 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.33%) Windows 7
17 9 (0.30%) CentOS
18 7 (0.23%) Android
19 6 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 999 (33.31%) Data Migration
2 474 (15.81%) Agile
3 404 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
4 316 (10.54%) DevOps
5 275 (9.17%) Project Management
6 256 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (6.30%) Project Delivery
8 184 (6.14%) Data Modelling
9 181 (6.04%) CI/CD
10 179 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
11 178 (5.94%) ETL
12 172 (5.74%) Analytics
13 170 (5.67%) Data Management
14 161 (5.37%) Change Management
15 148 (4.93%) ERP
16 147 (4.90%) User Acceptance Testing
17 144 (4.80%) Computer Science
18 143 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 141 (4.70%) CRM
20 140 (4.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 443 (14.77%) SQL
2 182 (6.07%) PowerShell
3 167 (5.57%) Python
4 134 (4.47%) Java
5 101 (3.37%) C#
6 75 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 31 (1.03%) Bash
9 30 (1.00%) PHP
10 26 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.80%) Perl
12 21 (0.70%) ABAP
13 16 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 12 (0.40%) Scala
15 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.30%) Bicep
16 9 (0.30%) Groovy
17 8 (0.27%) COBOL
17 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 364 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 266 (8.87%) SC Cleared
3 239 (7.97%) Degree
4 86 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 57 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.77%) PMP
11 21 (0.70%) CCNP
12 19 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.57%) CCNA
15 14 (0.47%) CISSP
16 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.33%) SAP Certification
18 9 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 136 (4.53%) QA
3 45 (1.50%) GDPR
4 38 (1.27%) PMO
5 37 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 26 (0.87%) NIST
7 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.37%) SLA
8 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.17%) GRC
12 5 (0.17%) IFRS
12 5 (0.17%) WCAG
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
14 3 (0.10%) GxP
14 3 (0.10%) NCSC
15 2 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 271 (9.04%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (1.97%) Docker
4 51 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.07%) vSphere
6 30 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 24 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.60%) NFS
9 17 (0.57%) HDFS
9 17 (0.57%) KVM
10 14 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
10 14 (0.47%) XenApp
11 13 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 120 (4.00%) Terraform
2 78 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 64 (2.13%) Ansible
4 52 (1.73%) SCCM
5 51 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 49 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (0.87%) Grafana
9 18 (0.60%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 14 (0.47%) Prometheus
12 13 (0.43%) Nagios
12 13 (0.43%) VxRail
13 12 (0.40%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.37%) PingFederate
14 11 (0.37%) Puppet
15 10 (0.33%) Data Guard
16 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
16 9 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 549 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 294 (9.80%) SAP
3 273 (9.10%) Oracle
4 159 (5.30%) VMware
5 136 (4.53%) Cisco
6 75 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 70 (2.33%) Google
8 57 (1.90%) Dell
8 57 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.67%) Databricks
10 41 (1.37%) Citrix
11 39 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 37 (1.23%) Micro Focus
13 35 (1.17%) CheckPoint
13 35 (1.17%) IBM
14 33 (1.10%) F5
14 33 (1.10%) NetApp
15 32 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 31 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 29 (0.97%) Juniper