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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 3,001 4,483 6,916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 7.78% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 8.66% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,010 3,174 4,852
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £713 £738 £718
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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 2,553 £525 -4.11% 698
London +2 1,369 £550 -5.98% 288
UK excluding London -3 1,226 £500 - 429
Work from Home -4 1,177 £525 - 361
South East -2 326 £500 -4.76% 105
North of England -3 314 £500 -4.76% 108
South West +1 169 £465 -11.43% 42
Midlands -5 167 £550 +10.00% 85
North West -6 163 £500 - 58
Yorkshire -2 136 £500 -8.26% 38
Scotland -6 127 £497 +1.64% 33
West Midlands -8 107 £550 +10.00% 52
East of England -9 106 £513 +20.59% 41
East Midlands +7 59 £563 +18.42% 33
Wales +14 26 £515 -12.12% 6
North East +16 17 £550 +10.00% 13
Northern Ireland 0 6 - - 16

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
1 186 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 101 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 52 (1.73%) Confluence
4 30 (1.00%) CMS
5 20 (0.67%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (0.57%) IIS
8 16 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
9 14 (0.47%) SAS
10 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
10 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
11 12 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 12 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2003
11 12 (0.40%) Skype for Business
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%) FileNet
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 (0.100%) 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
1 102 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (2.33%) 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
1 693 (23.09%) Azure
2 325 (10.83%) AWS
3 228 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
4 185 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 151 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
6 125 (4.17%) GCP
7 115 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 90 (3.00%) SaaS
10 58 (1.93%) PaaS
11 57 (1.90%) IaaS
12 50 (1.67%) OCI
12 50 (1.67%) Serverless
13 48 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 46 (1.53%) Amazon S3
15 43 (1.43%) GitHub
16 39 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (1.30%) OneDrive
17 38 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 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%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (0.80%) IPsec
16 18 (0.60%) Internet
16 18 (0.60%) NAS
17 17 (0.57%) WLAN
18 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 144 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.40%) Power BI
4 85 (2.83%) Oracle Database
5 76 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.60%) Big Data
9 44 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.40%) MySQL
11 39 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 37 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 35 (1.17%) Tableau
14 32 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (0.90%) Oracle Database 11g
15 27 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
16 24 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (0.73%) Metadata
17 22 (0.73%) MongoDB
18 21 (0.70%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 135 (4.50%) JIRA
2 56 (1.87%) Git
3 45 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.10%) TeamCity
5 23 (0.77%) GitLab
6 22 (0.73%) Selenium
7 21 (0.70%) Visual Studio
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%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) Maven
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 706 (23.53%) Finance
2 701 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 316 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 229 (7.63%) Banking
5 228 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (2.83%) Retail
7 71 (2.37%) Legal
8 66 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 64 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 60 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 47 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.43%) Marketing
14 42 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.10%) Local Government
16 31 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 30 (1.00%) Law
18 28 (0.93%) Back Office
18 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.90%) Billing
Job Titles
1 502 (16.73%) Architect
2 306 (10.20%) Analyst
3 304 (10.13%) Project Manager
4 302 (10.06%) Consultant
5 250 (8.33%) Developer
6 244 (8.13%) Senior
7 188 (6.26%) Solutions Architect
8 187 (6.23%) Lead
9 148 (4.93%) Business Analyst
10 121 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
11 119 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 99 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 98 (3.27%) Network Engineer
14 87 (2.90%) Migration Manager
15 82 (2.73%) Data Analyst
16 76 (2.53%) Data Architect
17 69 (2.30%) Migration Project Manager
18 62 (2.07%) DBA
18 62 (2.07%) Technical Architect
19 59 (1.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (3.17%) .NET
2 55 (1.83%) JSON
3 54 (1.80%) REST
3 54 (1.80%) Web Services
4 42 (1.40%) XML
5 39 (1.30%) LDAP
6 32 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
7 30 (1.00%) Middleware
7 30 (1.00%) Spring
8 28 (0.93%) SailPoint
9 26 (0.87%) CSS
9 26 (0.87%) WCF
10 24 (0.80%) Kafka
10 24 (0.80%) SOAP
11 23 (0.77%) HTML
12 22 (0.73%) React
12 22 (0.73%) SAML
13 21 (0.70%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.63%) WinForms
15 18 (0.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 211 (7.03%) Data Centre
2 130 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
3 89 (2.97%) Replication
4 71 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 54 (1.80%) 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 23 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (0.67%) PKI
15 16 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 344 (11.46%) Windows
2 187 (6.23%) Linux
3 108 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 94 (3.13%) 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
1 993 (33.09%) Data Migration
2 475 (15.83%) Agile
3 401 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (10.43%) DevOps
5 275 (9.16%) Project Management
6 256 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (6.30%) Project Delivery
8 185 (6.16%) Data Modelling
9 181 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
10 180 (6.00%) ETL
11 179 (5.96%) CI/CD
12 173 (5.76%) Analytics
13 169 (5.63%) Data Management
14 160 (5.33%) Change Management
15 146 (4.87%) ERP
16 145 (4.83%) User Acceptance Testing
17 144 (4.80%) Computer Science
18 143 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 141 (4.70%) Roadmaps
20 139 (4.63%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 445 (14.83%) SQL
2 185 (6.16%) PowerShell
3 167 (5.56%) Python
4 136 (4.53%) Java
5 101 (3.37%) C#
6 75 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 33 (1.10%) Bash
9 30 (1.00%) PHP
10 27 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.80%) Perl
12 20 (0.67%) ABAP
13 17 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.50%) Go
16 12 (0.40%) Scala
17 9 (0.30%) Bicep
17 9 (0.30%) Groovy
18 8 (0.27%) COBOL
18 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 363 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 265 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 239 (7.96%) Degree
4 86 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (0.73%) CCNP
10 22 (0.73%) PMP
11 19 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.57%) CCNA
12 17 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.47%) CISSP
14 13 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.30%) CCIE
16 9 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 135 (4.50%) QA
3 45 (1.50%) GDPR
4 37 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.23%) PMO
5 26 (0.87%) NIST
6 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 11 (0.37%) SLA
7 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
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 (0.100%) GxP
13 3 (0.100%) NCSC
14 2 (0.067%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 273 (9.10%) Active Directory
2 114 (3.80%) 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 (0.100%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.067%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 119 (3.97%) Terraform
2 78 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 64 (2.13%) Ansible
4 53 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.73%) SCCM
6 48 (1.60%) 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
1 550 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 294 (9.80%) SAP
3 275 (9.16%) Oracle
4 160 (5.33%) VMware
5 137 (4.57%) Cisco
6 74 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 70 (2.33%) Google
8 57 (1.90%) Dell
8 57 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 51 (1.70%) Databricks
10 41 (1.37%) Citrix
11 40 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 37 (1.23%) F5
12 37 (1.23%) Micro Focus
13 36 (1.20%) CheckPoint
13 36 (1.20%) IBM
14 33 (1.10%) NetApp
15 32 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 30 (1.00%) Juniper
17 29 (0.97%) Informatica