Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -29
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,024 3,534 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.00% 3.59% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.75% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,054 2,528 3,571
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,970 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,685 £60,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.64% +15.81% +10.53%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration.

Salary trend for Migration in the UK

Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Migration in the UK

Migration
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +1 2,547 £60,000 -7.69% 661
UK excluding London +40 2,016 £50,685 -16.64% 425
Work from Home +1 1,271 £57,500 -14.81% 381
London -13 819 £75,000 -3.23% 260
North of England +67 659 £52,500 -12.50% 116
North West +70 374 £50,000 -17.76% 61
South East +5 374 £52,000 -14.47% 98
Midlands +5 318 £50,000 -17.76% 87
Yorkshire +47 205 £57,500 -0.54% 45
South West -17 197 £55,000 -9.54% 40
Scotland +21 195 £50,000 -18.03% 36
West Midlands -9 171 £51,300 -15.76% 54
East of England +12 145 £47,500 -22.00% 31
East Midlands +50 142 £47,500 -21.88% 33
Wales +42 84 £51,997 -14.48% 7
North East +25 80 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Northern Ireland +57 43 £40,000 -11.11% 14
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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
1 195 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 162 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.52%) Confluence
3 46 (1.52%) WebLogic
4 41 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.79%) IIS
6 20 (0.66%) Apache
6 20 (0.66%) CMS
7 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 19 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 17 (0.56%) Drupal
8 17 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
9 16 (0.53%) FileNet
10 15 (0.50%) Captiva
11 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
13 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
14 9 (0.30%) nginx
15 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 111 (3.67%) MS Visio
2 94 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.53%) Trello
5 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.43%) Sketch
7 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.26%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.099%) FrameMaker
11 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.033%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 42 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
5 25 (0.83%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
10 10 (0.33%) SAP CX
11 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 7 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payroll
13 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (40.77%) Azure
2 791 (26.16%) AWS
3 483 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
4 412 (13.62%) Power Platform
5 270 (8.93%) GCP
6 224 (7.41%) SaaS
7 147 (4.86%) Entra ID
8 135 (4.46%) OneDrive
9 122 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 101 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (2.51%) Amazon S3
12 74 (2.45%) Dropbox
13 72 (2.38%) PaaS
14 71 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
14 71 (2.35%) Serverless
15 69 (2.28%) Google Drive
16 67 (2.22%) Power Automate
17 66 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
18 65 (2.15%) PowerApps
19 64 (2.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 209 (6.91%) Firewall
2 187 (6.18%) DNS
3 112 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 104 (3.44%) WAN
5 102 (3.37%) LAN
6 80 (2.65%) DHCP
6 80 (2.65%) VPN
7 74 (2.45%) SSL
8 66 (2.18%) SAN
9 56 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.79%) BGP
10 54 (1.79%) Wireless
11 47 (1.55%) Network Security
12 39 (1.29%) NAS
13 36 (1.19%) VLAN
14 35 (1.16%) Internet
15 34 (1.12%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.86%) Unified Communications
17 23 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
18 18 (0.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (11.38%) Power BI
2 303 (10.02%) SQL Server
3 232 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
4 195 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 157 (5.19%) Oracle Database
6 121 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 92 (3.04%) Oracle Database 11g
9 88 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.84%) Data Lake
11 76 (2.51%) MySQL
12 73 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
13 69 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 66 (2.18%) RDBMS
15 47 (1.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 43 (1.42%) Data Mining
17 39 (1.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 38 (1.26%) NoSQL
19 36 (1.19%) Big Data
20 34 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 198 (6.55%) JIRA
2 112 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 65 (2.15%) Git
4 55 (1.82%) GitLab
5 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 22 (0.73%) Artifactory
6 22 (0.73%) Subversion
7 21 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
8 19 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 13 (0.43%) Postman
10 13 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.36%) Selenium
11 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.33%) gulp
12 10 (0.33%) JMeter
12 10 (0.33%) Yeoman
13 9 (0.30%) JUnit
14 8 (0.26%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 838 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 661 (21.86%) Finance
3 267 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 177 (5.85%) Law
6 173 (5.72%) Retail
7 157 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 153 (5.06%) Banking
9 137 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
10 103 (3.41%) Marketing
11 93 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.45%) Legal
13 54 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.46%) Retail Banking
14 44 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 34 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 30 (0.99%) Back Office
17 28 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 585 (19.35%) Senior
2 574 (18.98%) Architect
3 344 (11.38%) Developer
4 295 (9.76%) Analyst
5 288 (9.52%) Consultant
6 274 (9.06%) Lead
7 196 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
8 171 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
9 140 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 134 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 102 (3.37%) Business Analyst
11 102 (3.37%) Database Engineer
11 102 (3.37%) IT Engineer
12 100 (3.31%) Senior Database Engineer
13 98 (3.24%) Project Manager
14 95 (3.14%) Administrator
15 94 (3.11%) Data Engineer
16 93 (3.08%) Database Developer
17 91 (3.01%) PostgreSQL Developer
18 80 (2.65%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.47%) .NET
2 75 (2.48%) Spring Boot
3 74 (2.45%) HTML
4 61 (2.02%) REST
5 56 (1.85%) CSS
6 51 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 47 (1.55%) React
8 43 (1.42%) Spring
9 42 (1.39%) Kafka
10 41 (1.36%) PySpark
11 39 (1.29%) Node.js
12 37 (1.22%) XML
13 34 (1.12%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.99%) JSON
15 29 (0.96%) Web Services
16 27 (0.89%) SOAP
17 26 (0.86%) Middleware
18 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
18 19 (0.63%) RESTful
19 18 (0.60%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.77%) Public Cloud
2 144 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 143 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 136 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 96 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 91 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 89 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (2.84%) PKI
9 83 (2.74%) Cloud Native
10 69 (2.28%) iPad
11 56 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 55 (1.82%) Onboarding
13 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 50 (1.65%) Product Ownership
15 47 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 42 (1.39%) Private Cloud
17 35 (1.16%) Reinsurance
18 32 (1.06%) Replication
19 31 (1.03%) IoT
20 26 (0.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 359 (11.87%) Windows
2 242 (8.00%) Linux
3 192 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 55 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 36 (1.19%) Unix
7 31 (1.03%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.99%) Android
9 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.76%) Windows 7
11 22 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 21 (0.69%) VMS
13 20 (0.66%) Windows 8
14 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
14 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (26.49%) Data Migration
2 681 (22.52%) Agile
3 487 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 451 (14.91%) DevOps
5 388 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
6 383 (12.67%) Roadmaps
7 364 (12.04%) Project Management
8 346 (11.44%) Actionable Insight
9 292 (9.66%) ETL
10 258 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence
11 253 (8.37%) ERP
12 231 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 211 (6.98%) Mentoring
14 196 (6.48%) Data Modelling
15 192 (6.35%) Analytics
16 185 (6.12%) CI/CD
17 173 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 171 (5.65%) TOGAF
19 168 (5.56%) ITIL
19 168 (5.56%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 693 (22.92%) SQL
2 217 (7.18%) Python
3 180 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 168 (5.56%) Java
5 123 (4.07%) PL/SQL
6 109 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 88 (2.91%) C#
8 55 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 36 (1.19%) PHP
10 34 (1.12%) Bash
11 31 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 26 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 25 (0.83%) Groovy
14 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.69%) Scala
16 18 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.50%) Go
18 14 (0.46%) C++
18 14 (0.46%) Perl
19 11 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 327 (10.81%) Degree
2 253 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 181 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 124 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 123 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 104 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 82 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 81 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 66 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.39%) CCNA
12 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.22%) CCNP
14 25 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.73%) DV Cleared
16 19 (0.63%) CISSP
16 19 (0.63%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.60%) PMP
18 16 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
19 13 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.44%) Data Quality
2 76 (2.51%) QA
3 63 (2.08%) GDPR
4 34 (1.12%) PMO
5 29 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (0.89%) SLA
7 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.43%) IFRS
9 11 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.30%) NIST
11 6 (0.20%) GAAP
12 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.13%) MiFID
13 3 (0.099%) GMP
13 3 (0.099%) GRC
13 3 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.066%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.066%) NCSC
System Software
1 291 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 149 (4.93%) Docker
3 109 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 82 (2.71%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.33%) vSphere
9 8 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.099%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.099%) HDFS
12 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.066%) Firmware
12 2 (0.066%) pfSense
12 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.066%) Varnish
12 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 212 (7.01%) Terraform
2 145 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 129 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 106 (3.51%) Ansible
5 36 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 31 (1.03%) SCCM
7 30 (0.99%) Puppet
8 21 (0.69%) Grafana
9 18 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.36%) Packer
13 9 (0.30%) Graphite
13 9 (0.30%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.30%) Nagios
14 6 (0.20%) Backup Exec
14 6 (0.20%) Kibana
14 6 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 962 (31.81%) Microsoft
2 373 (12.33%) Oracle
3 259 (8.56%) Google
4 193 (6.38%) VMware
5 141 (4.66%) SAP
6 105 (3.47%) Cisco
7 80 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 69 (2.28%) Databricks
10 51 (1.69%) Sparx
11 48 (1.59%) Citrix
12 44 (1.46%) IBM
13 38 (1.26%) Veeam
14 36 (1.19%) Informatica
15 31 (1.03%) Apple
16 29 (0.96%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.93%) Fortinet
18 26 (0.86%) HP
19 25 (0.83%) CheckPoint
20 24 (0.79%) Red Hat