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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,019 4,486 6,891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.02% 7.75% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 8.63% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,027 3,181 4,823
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £713 £738 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 46 54
10th Percentile £15.90 £19.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.88 £17.68
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +114.63% +93.03%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - £86.25 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +233.33% +32.41%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 0 2,569 £525 -4.55% 660
London +2 1,373 £550 -5.98% 281
UK excluding London -2 1,236 £500 - 389
Work from Home -3 1,189 £525 - 328
South East 0 335 £500 -4.76% 94
North of England -3 316 £500 -4.76% 101
South West 0 168 £465 -11.43% 42
Midlands -4 168 £556 +11.25% 81
North West -5 166 £500 - 53
Yorkshire -1 135 £500 -9.09% 38
Scotland -5 124 £494 +1.02% 24
West Midlands -10 107 £556 +11.25% 53
East of England -12 104 £500 +17.65% 34
East Midlands +7 60 £575 +21.05% 28
Wales +14 30 £515 -12.12% 5
North East +19 17 £550 +11.39% 11
Northern Ireland -1 6 - - 15

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
1 185 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 101 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (1.76%) Confluence
4 30 (0.99%) CMS
5 19 (0.63%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (0.56%) IIS
8 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
9 14 (0.46%) SAS
10 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
10 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
11 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
11 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
12 11 (0.36%) Apache Spark
13 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.26%) JBoss
14 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.20%) FileNet
Applications
1 55 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.099%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.066%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.066%) Maya
10 1 (0.033%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.033%) Weka
10 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 103 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.23%) Loan IQ
4 30 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 18 (0.60%) SAP MDG
7 14 (0.46%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.43%) Elite 3E
9 12 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
11 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 10 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
12 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
13 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.26%) SAP Retail
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
14 7 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 697 (23.09%) Azure
2 331 (10.96%) AWS
3 230 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 152 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
6 124 (4.11%) GCP
7 116 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.15%) Entra ID
9 92 (3.05%) SaaS
10 56 (1.85%) IaaS
10 56 (1.85%) PaaS
11 50 (1.66%) Serverless
12 48 (1.59%) OCI
12 48 (1.59%) PowerApps
13 47 (1.56%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.49%) GitHub
15 39 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (1.29%) OneDrive
16 38 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.60%) Firewall
2 81 (2.68%) DNS
3 67 (2.22%) WAN
4 63 (2.09%) LAN
4 63 (2.09%) VPN
5 54 (1.79%) Network Security
6 46 (1.52%) DHCP
7 43 (1.42%) SAN
8 40 (1.32%) MPLS
9 31 (1.03%) Wireless
10 28 (0.93%) BGP
11 27 (0.89%) DMZ
12 26 (0.86%) FTP
12 26 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (0.79%) IPsec
13 24 (0.79%) TCP/IP
14 18 (0.60%) Internet
14 18 (0.60%) NAS
15 17 (0.56%) WLAN
16 16 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 140 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.37%) Power BI
4 88 (2.91%) Oracle Database
5 80 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.56%) Big Data
9 45 (1.49%) MySQL
10 44 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (1.29%) NoSQL
12 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.16%) Tableau
13 32 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
15 25 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
17 22 (0.73%) Metadata
17 22 (0.73%) MongoDB
18 21 (0.70%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 136 (4.50%) JIRA
2 56 (1.85%) Git
3 45 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 24 (0.79%) GitLab
6 21 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.66%) Selenium
8 14 (0.46%) ERwin
8 14 (0.46%) JUnit
9 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.30%) JMeter
11 9 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.30%) LSMW
12 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Maven
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 708 (23.45%) Finance
2 704 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 318 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 230 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 229 (7.59%) Banking
6 85 (2.82%) Retail
7 71 (2.35%) Legal
8 65 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 62 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 45 (1.49%) Marketing
13 42 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.09%) Local Government
15 32 (1.06%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.03%) Law
17 28 (0.93%) Back Office
17 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 502 (16.63%) Architect
2 313 (10.37%) Project Manager
3 307 (10.17%) Consultant
4 306 (10.14%) Analyst
5 252 (8.35%) Developer
6 242 (8.02%) Senior
7 189 (6.26%) Lead
8 187 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
9 148 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 123 (4.07%) Migration Engineer
11 119 (3.94%) Data Engineer
12 100 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 98 (3.25%) Network Engineer
14 92 (3.05%) Migration Manager
15 81 (2.68%) Data Analyst
16 76 (2.52%) Data Architect
17 74 (2.45%) Migration Project Manager
18 63 (2.09%) Technical Architect
19 62 (2.05%) DBA
20 61 (2.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (3.15%) .NET
2 57 (1.89%) JSON
3 54 (1.79%) REST
4 53 (1.76%) Web Services
5 42 (1.39%) XML
6 38 (1.26%) LDAP
7 31 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (0.99%) Middleware
8 30 (0.99%) Spring
9 28 (0.93%) SailPoint
10 26 (0.86%) WCF
11 25 (0.83%) CSS
12 24 (0.79%) SOAP
13 23 (0.76%) 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 (0.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.09%) Data Centre
2 133 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 89 (2.95%) Replication
4 71 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 53 (1.76%) Data Structures
6 52 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 42 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 35 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 29 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
11 28 (0.93%) Clustering
12 26 (0.86%) NHS
12 26 (0.86%) Taxonomies
13 25 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (0.66%) PKI
17 16 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 350 (11.59%) Windows
2 191 (6.33%) Linux
3 110 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 92 (3.05%) Unix
5 66 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 42 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (1.32%) VMS
8 35 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 35 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (0.50%) Solaris
12 14 (0.46%) Apple iOS
13 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
14 11 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.36%) Windows 7
15 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.30%) CentOS
17 7 (0.23%) Android
18 6 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,005 (33.29%) Data Migration
2 482 (15.97%) Agile
3 410 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
4 318 (10.53%) DevOps
5 279 (9.24%) Project Management
6 257 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (6.26%) Project Delivery
8 184 (6.09%) Data Modelling
9 181 (6.00%) CI/CD
10 179 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
10 179 (5.93%) ETL
11 173 (5.73%) Analytics
12 170 (5.63%) Data Management
13 160 (5.30%) Change Management
14 150 (4.97%) ERP
15 149 (4.94%) User Acceptance Testing
16 144 (4.77%) Computer Science
16 144 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 142 (4.70%) CRM
17 142 (4.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 446 (14.77%) SQL
2 184 (6.09%) PowerShell
3 168 (5.56%) Python
4 135 (4.47%) Java
5 102 (3.38%) C#
6 76 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 33 (1.09%) PHP
9 31 (1.03%) Bash
10 26 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.79%) Perl
12 22 (0.73%) 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 (0.26%) COBOL
17 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 367 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 269 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 243 (8.05%) Degree
4 86 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 57 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.76%) PMP
11 21 (0.70%) CCNP
12 19 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.56%) CCNA
15 14 (0.46%) CISSP
16 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 11 (0.36%) SAP Certification
18 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
19 9 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.54%) Data Quality
2 136 (4.50%) QA
3 45 (1.49%) GDPR
4 38 (1.26%) PMO
5 37 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 26 (0.86%) NIST
7 11 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.36%) SLA
8 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.17%) GRC
11 5 (0.17%) IFRS
11 5 (0.17%) WCAG
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.099%) GxP
13 3 (0.099%) NCSC
14 2 (0.066%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 274 (9.08%) Active Directory
2 115 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (1.95%) Docker
4 52 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.06%) vSphere
6 30 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 24 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.60%) KVM
8 18 (0.60%) NFS
9 17 (0.56%) HDFS
10 15 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
10 15 (0.50%) XenApp
11 14 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.099%) BitLocker
17 2 (0.066%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 121 (4.01%) Terraform
2 79 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 64 (2.12%) Ansible
4 53 (1.76%) SCCM
5 51 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (0.86%) Grafana
9 19 (0.63%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 14 (0.46%) Prometheus
12 13 (0.43%) Nagios
12 13 (0.43%) VxRail
13 12 (0.40%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
14 11 (0.36%) Puppet
15 10 (0.33%) Argo
15 10 (0.33%) Data Guard
16 9 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 555 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 297 (9.84%) SAP
3 274 (9.08%) Oracle
4 161 (5.33%) VMware
5 137 (4.54%) Cisco
6 76 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 70 (2.32%) Google
8 58 (1.92%) Dell
9 57 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 50 (1.66%) Databricks
11 43 (1.42%) Citrix
12 39 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 37 (1.23%) Micro Focus
14 36 (1.19%) CheckPoint
15 35 (1.16%) IBM
16 34 (1.13%) Atlassian
17 33 (1.09%) F5
17 33 (1.09%) NetApp
18 32 (1.06%) Red Hat
19 30 (0.99%) Juniper