Migration Contracts

Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,095 4,402 6,746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 7.93% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 8.84% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,085 3,110 4,785
10th Percentile £342 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £631
90th Percentile £713 £744 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 46 46
10th Percentile £16.20 £18.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.13 £31.25 £17.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £64.50 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% +162.04% +55.20%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £61.94
90th Percentile - £86.25 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -38.46% +211.15% +36.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,651 £525 -4.55% 714
London +2 1,438 £540 -9.24% 296
UK excluding London -5 1,255 £500 - 424
Work from Home -5 1,195 £525 - 441
South East -5 332 £513 -2.38% 83
North of England -7 315 £500 -4.76% 120
Midlands -7 188 £520 +4.00% 80
South West -1 174 £500 -9.09% 59
North West -3 170 £500 - 59
Yorkshire -5 127 £500 -9.09% 50
Scotland -1 125 £491 +0.93% 37
West Midlands -5 120 £520 +2.31% 59
East of England -13 106 £500 +5.26% 37
East Midlands -2 67 £500 +5.26% 21
Wales +17 24 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +13 20 £569 +33.82% 11
Northern Ireland -4 6 - - 12

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 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 108 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 67 (2.16%) Confluence
4 29 (0.94%) Apache
5 28 (0.90%) CMS
6 17 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.52%) IIS
7 16 (0.52%) SAS
8 15 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2007
9 13 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 12 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2003
10 12 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
10 12 (0.39%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.23%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.23%) JBoss
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 58 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) 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
1 112 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 16 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.45%) Elite 3E
7 13 (0.42%) NEC Housing
8 12 (0.39%) Primavera
8 12 (0.39%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.36%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
10 9 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
11 8 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.23%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
13 6 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 703 (22.71%) Azure
2 355 (11.47%) AWS
3 234 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
4 189 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 155 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
6 139 (4.49%) GCP
7 114 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 105 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 81 (2.62%) SaaS
10 64 (2.07%) PaaS
11 59 (1.91%) IaaS
12 58 (1.87%) Serverless
13 56 (1.81%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.78%) Amazon S3
15 52 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
16 49 (1.58%) GitHub
17 44 (1.42%) OCI
17 44 (1.42%) OneDrive
18 41 (1.32%) Snowflake
19 36 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.20%) Firewall
2 72 (2.33%) DNS
3 60 (1.94%) WAN
4 55 (1.78%) LAN
5 52 (1.68%) VPN
6 45 (1.45%) Network Security
7 41 (1.32%) SAN
8 40 (1.29%) MPLS
9 39 (1.26%) DHCP
10 27 (0.87%) BGP
10 27 (0.87%) DMZ
10 27 (0.87%) Wireless
11 26 (0.84%) FTP
12 24 (0.78%) TCP/IP
12 24 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.68%) IPsec
15 20 (0.65%) VoIP
16 17 (0.55%) Internet
16 17 (0.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 143 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (4.14%) Power BI
4 91 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 86 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (2.07%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (1.49%) Big Data
10 44 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 42 (1.36%) MySQL
12 39 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (1.03%) Tableau
16 26 (0.84%) Metadata
17 25 (0.81%) MongoDB
18 24 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
19 22 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
20 21 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 144 (4.65%) JIRA
2 58 (1.87%) Git
3 48 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 26 (0.84%) GitLab
6 23 (0.74%) Selenium
7 18 (0.58%) ERwin
7 18 (0.58%) JUnit
8 17 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 14 (0.45%) JMeter
9 14 (0.45%) 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
1 695 (22.46%) Finance
2 689 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 310 (10.02%) Public Sector
4 232 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (7.30%) Banking
6 81 (2.62%) Retail
7 77 (2.49%) Legal
8 65 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 62 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 55 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 45 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.39%) Marketing
14 39 (1.26%) Local Government
15 34 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 32 (1.03%) Billing
18 30 (0.97%) Law
19 28 (0.90%) Front Office
20 27 (0.87%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 565 (18.26%) Architect
2 327 (10.57%) Analyst
3 299 (9.66%) Consultant
4 295 (9.53%) Project Manager
5 275 (8.89%) Developer
6 250 (8.08%) Senior
7 216 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
8 190 (6.14%) Lead
9 153 (4.94%) Business Analyst
10 127 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
11 119 (3.84%) Data Engineer
12 95 (3.07%) Network Engineer
13 92 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 88 (2.84%) Data Architect
15 86 (2.78%) Migration Manager
16 81 (2.62%) Data Analyst
17 67 (2.16%) Migration Project Manager
18 65 (2.10%) Technical Architect
19 64 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
20 62 (2.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (2.91%) .NET
2 69 (2.23%) REST
3 63 (2.04%) Web Services
4 54 (1.74%) JSON
5 46 (1.49%) CSS
6 44 (1.42%) XML
7 43 (1.39%) HTML
8 39 (1.26%) LDAP
9 37 (1.20%) Spring
10 33 (1.07%) SOAP
11 32 (1.03%) Kafka
11 32 (1.03%) Middleware
11 32 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
12 31 (1.00%) WCF
13 28 (0.90%) React
13 28 (0.90%) SailPoint
14 24 (0.78%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.78%) SAML
15 23 (0.74%) .NET Framework
15 23 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 223 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 124 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
3 85 (2.75%) Replication
4 76 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 53 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 50 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 43 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.07%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
13 28 (0.90%) NHS
13 28 (0.90%) Taxonomies
14 26 (0.84%) Clustering
15 23 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (0.65%) Mobile App
17 19 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 346 (11.18%) Windows
2 188 (6.07%) Linux
3 109 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 96 (3.10%) Unix
5 73 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 40 (1.29%) VMS
7 39 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 32 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.52%) Solaris
13 15 (0.48%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.32%) CentOS
16 9 (0.29%) Android
17 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
18 6 (0.19%) AIX
18 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (30.89%) Data Migration
2 482 (15.57%) Agile
3 373 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
4 317 (10.24%) DevOps
5 257 (8.30%) Project Management
6 253 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (6.07%) Project Delivery
8 187 (6.04%) CI/CD
9 180 (5.82%) Data Modelling
10 175 (5.65%) ETL
11 167 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
12 162 (5.23%) Data Management
13 155 (5.01%) Analytics
14 153 (4.94%) Roadmaps
15 150 (4.85%) ERP
16 147 (4.75%) Computer Science
17 143 (4.62%) Change Management
18 130 (4.20%) Scrum
19 129 (4.17%) CRM
20 126 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 468 (15.12%) SQL
2 196 (6.33%) PowerShell
3 185 (5.98%) Python
4 152 (4.91%) Java
5 99 (3.20%) C#
6 90 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 40 (1.29%) PL/SQL
8 34 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 32 (1.03%) Bash
10 31 (1.00%) PHP
10 31 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.81%) Perl
12 24 (0.78%) ABAP
13 16 (0.52%) Go
14 14 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.36%) Bicep
15 11 (0.36%) Scala
16 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.26%) Groovy
16 8 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 377 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 267 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 252 (8.14%) Degree
4 86 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 63 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 33 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (0.87%) PMP
11 26 (0.84%) CCNP
12 22 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.61%) CCNA
15 17 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.52%) CISSP
17 13 (0.42%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 11 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 119 (3.84%) QA
3 46 (1.49%) GDPR
4 42 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.00%) PMO
6 24 (0.78%) NIST
7 12 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.29%) SLA
10 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.26%) WCAG
11 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.19%) GRC
12 6 (0.19%) IFRS
13 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.16%) NCSC
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 15022
15 2 (0.065%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 275 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (2.07%) Docker
4 49 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.03%) vSphere
6 27 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.58%) NFS
7 18 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (0.55%) HDFS
9 16 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (0.48%) XenApp
11 13 (0.42%) KVM
12 10 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
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 (4.17%) Terraform
2 80 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 63 (2.04%) Ansible
4 56 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.74%) SCCM
6 50 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.97%) Grafana
8 28 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.48%) Prometheus
11 13 (0.42%) VxRail
12 12 (0.39%) Nagios
12 12 (0.39%) NetBackup
13 11 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.36%) 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%) Istio
Vendors
1 563 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 293 (9.47%) SAP
3 268 (8.66%) Oracle
4 163 (5.27%) VMware
5 141 (4.56%) Cisco
6 67 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 64 (2.07%) Google
7 64 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.78%) Dell
9 51 (1.65%) Databricks
10 44 (1.42%) Citrix
11 40 (1.29%) CheckPoint
11 40 (1.29%) F5
12 37 (1.20%) Micro Focus
12 37 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 33 (1.07%) Juniper
13 33 (1.07%) NetApp
14 32 (1.03%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.94%) Splunk