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 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 23 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,083 4,393 6,856
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 7.88% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 8.78% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,076 3,089 4,852
10th Percentile £338 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £630
90th Percentile £713 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.30% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 51 46
10th Percentile £16.20 £18.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.13 £35.50 £16.94
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £22.62
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +191.84% +42.59%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £58.44
90th Percentile - £85.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +250.00% +29.03%

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 37,078 50,015 79,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 89.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 34,589 56,207
10th Percentile £300 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £646
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 1,687 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
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% -4.76%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 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
England -1 2,631 £525 -4.55% 693
London +1 1,421 £540 -9.24% 302
UK excluding London -5 1,249 £500 - 394
Work from Home -5 1,187 £525 -0.94% 405
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

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
1 187 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 106 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 67 (2.17%) Confluence
4 28 (0.91%) CMS
5 25 (0.81%) Apache
6 17 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.52%) IIS
7 16 (0.52%) SAS
8 15 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
9 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
10 12 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2003
10 12 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
10 12 (0.39%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.26%) JBoss
12 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.097%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.065%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.065%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.065%) Maya
10 1 (0.032%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 117 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.45%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.42%) NEC Housing
8 12 (0.39%) SAP MDG
9 9 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
9 9 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
10 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.23%) Primavera
11 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 701 (22.74%) Azure
2 359 (11.64%) AWS
3 231 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 186 (6.03%) Power Platform
5 155 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
6 140 (4.54%) GCP
7 113 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.24%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.69%) SaaS
10 64 (2.08%) PaaS
11 57 (1.85%) Serverless
12 56 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 55 (1.78%) IaaS
13 55 (1.78%) PowerApps
14 51 (1.65%) GitHub
15 49 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
16 48 (1.56%) OCI
17 42 (1.36%) OneDrive
18 38 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.22%) Firewall
2 72 (2.34%) DNS
3 63 (2.04%) WAN
4 59 (1.91%) VPN
5 57 (1.85%) LAN
6 45 (1.46%) Network Security
7 41 (1.33%) SAN
8 40 (1.30%) MPLS
9 39 (1.27%) DHCP
10 30 (0.97%) BGP
10 30 (0.97%) Wireless
11 27 (0.88%) DMZ
11 27 (0.88%) IPsec
12 26 (0.84%) FTP
13 24 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 24 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.71%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.58%) VoIP
16 17 (0.55%) Internet
16 17 (0.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 143 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 129 (4.18%) Power BI
4 91 (2.95%) Oracle Database
5 88 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (1.49%) Big Data
10 44 (1.43%) NoSQL
11 42 (1.36%) MySQL
12 40 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (1.04%) Tableau
16 26 (0.84%) MongoDB
17 25 (0.81%) Metadata
18 24 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
19 22 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
20 20 (0.65%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 144 (4.67%) JIRA
2 61 (1.98%) Git
3 48 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.01%) TeamCity
5 27 (0.88%) GitLab
6 23 (0.75%) Selenium
7 19 (0.62%) JUnit
8 17 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.42%) ERwin
10 12 (0.39%) JMeter
10 12 (0.39%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 11 (0.36%) LSMW
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) Postman
13 8 (0.26%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.23%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 687 (22.28%) Finance
2 680 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 312 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 235 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (7.23%) Banking
6 84 (2.72%) Retail
7 75 (2.43%) Legal
8 68 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 62 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 47 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.39%) Marketing
14 36 (1.17%) Local Government
15 34 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Billing
17 30 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 30 (0.97%) Law
18 27 (0.88%) Back Office
19 24 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 550 (17.84%) Architect
2 322 (10.44%) Analyst
3 312 (10.12%) Consultant
4 294 (9.54%) Project Manager
5 276 (8.95%) Developer
6 249 (8.08%) Senior
7 212 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
8 185 (6.00%) Lead
9 150 (4.87%) Business Analyst
10 125 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
11 117 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 95 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 95 (3.08%) Network Engineer
13 88 (2.85%) Migration Manager
14 82 (2.66%) Data Analyst
15 81 (2.63%) Data Architect
16 68 (2.21%) Migration Project Manager
17 65 (2.11%) Technical Architect
18 64 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
19 63 (2.04%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (2.98%) .NET
2 67 (2.17%) REST
3 63 (2.04%) Web Services
4 54 (1.75%) JSON
5 45 (1.46%) CSS
6 43 (1.39%) XML
7 42 (1.36%) HTML
8 38 (1.23%) LDAP
8 38 (1.23%) Spring
9 35 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
10 31 (1.01%) Middleware
10 31 (1.01%) SailPoint
10 31 (1.01%) SOAP
10 31 (1.01%) WCF
11 30 (0.97%) Kafka
12 27 (0.88%) React
13 24 (0.78%) Spring Boot
14 23 (0.75%) .NET Framework
14 23 (0.75%) AngularJS
14 23 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (7.01%) Data Centre
2 124 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 86 (2.79%) Replication
4 78 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 53 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 50 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 38 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 32 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (0.88%) Clustering
12 27 (0.88%) NHS
13 26 (0.84%) Taxonomies
14 23 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.68%) PKI
17 20 (0.65%) Mobile App
18 19 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 340 (11.03%) Windows
2 186 (6.03%) Linux
3 108 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.15%) Unix
5 69 (2.24%) Windows 10
6 43 (1.39%) VMS
7 39 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 32 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.52%) Solaris
13 14 (0.45%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
15 11 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
16 9 (0.29%) CentOS
17 8 (0.26%) Android
17 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
18 6 (0.19%) AIX
18 6 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (31.01%) Data Migration
2 483 (15.67%) Agile
3 382 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
4 321 (10.41%) DevOps
5 256 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 255 (8.27%) Project Management
7 189 (6.13%) CI/CD
8 188 (6.10%) Project Delivery
9 172 (5.58%) Data Modelling
10 171 (5.55%) ETL
11 166 (5.38%) Business Intelligence
12 165 (5.35%) Data Management
13 152 (4.93%) Analytics
14 150 (4.87%) Computer Science
15 149 (4.83%) Roadmaps
16 147 (4.77%) Change Management
16 147 (4.77%) ERP
17 132 (4.28%) Scrum
18 131 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 128 (4.15%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 462 (14.99%) SQL
2 192 (6.23%) PowerShell
3 177 (5.74%) Python
4 147 (4.77%) Java
5 101 (3.28%) C#
6 86 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 36 (1.17%) PL/SQL
8 33 (1.07%) Bash
9 31 (1.01%) PHP
10 30 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 29 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 25 (0.81%) Perl
13 23 (0.75%) ABAP
14 17 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.52%) Go
16 11 (0.36%) Bicep
16 11 (0.36%) Scala
17 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.26%) C++
17 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 382 (12.39%) Security Cleared
2 273 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 254 (8.24%) Degree
4 88 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 62 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.84%) CCNP
11 25 (0.81%) PMP
12 22 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.58%) CCNA
15 17 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.52%) CISSP
17 13 (0.42%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
19 11 (0.36%) SAP Certification
19 11 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 122 (3.96%) QA
3 45 (1.46%) GDPR
4 44 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 32 (1.04%) PMO
6 24 (0.78%) NIST
7 12 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.29%) SLA
10 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.26%) WCAG
11 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.19%) GRC
13 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.16%) IFRS
13 5 (0.16%) NCSC
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.097%) GxP
16 2 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 270 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 111 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.14%) Docker
4 50 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.04%) vSphere
6 27 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.58%) NFS
9 17 (0.55%) HDFS
9 17 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.49%) XenApp
11 13 (0.42%) KVM
12 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.065%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.065%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 129 (4.18%) Terraform
2 83 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 64 (2.08%) Ansible
4 56 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.72%) SCCM
6 49 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.97%) Grafana
8 28 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.49%) Prometheus
11 13 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.42%) VxRail
12 12 (0.39%) Nagios
12 12 (0.39%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.32%) Podman
14 10 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.32%) Puppet
15 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 553 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 300 (9.73%) SAP
3 273 (8.86%) Oracle
4 162 (5.25%) VMware
5 143 (4.64%) Cisco
6 69 (2.24%) Google
6 69 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 66 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.78%) Dell
9 45 (1.46%) Databricks
10 42 (1.36%) Citrix
11 40 (1.30%) CheckPoint
11 40 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.27%) F5
13 37 (1.20%) Micro Focus
14 36 (1.17%) Juniper
15 34 (1.10%) Red Hat
16 33 (1.07%) Atlassian
16 33 (1.07%) NetApp
17 29 (0.94%) Splunk