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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -30
Permanent jobs citing Migration 3,018 3,585 5,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.02% 3.60% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.77% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,056 2,568 3,599
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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 +5 2,540 £60,000 -10.04% 804
UK excluding London +40 2,007 £50,685 -16.64% 515
Work from Home +2 1,269 £57,500 -14.81% 402
London -14 818 £75,000 -3.23% 348
North of England +67 652 £52,500 -12.50% 128
South East +17 372 £51,500 -15.30% 144
North West +72 367 £50,000 -16.67% 61
Midlands +8 320 £50,000 -17.76% 104
Yorkshire +52 205 £57,500 -4.17% 54
South West -18 200 £55,000 -9.54% 45
Scotland +14 195 £50,000 -18.03% 36
West Midlands -12 173 £51,300 -15.63% 69
East Midlands +40 142 £47,500 -21.88% 35
East of England +11 142 £47,500 -22.00% 37
Wales +42 84 £51,997 -14.48% 8
North East +29 80 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Northern Ireland +59 41 £47,204 +4.90% 17
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
1 197 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 166 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.52%) WebLogic
4 44 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 43 (1.42%) Confluence
6 26 (0.86%) IIS
7 25 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 22 (0.73%) Captiva
8 22 (0.73%) FileNet
9 20 (0.66%) Apache
9 20 (0.66%) CMS
10 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
10 19 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
11 17 (0.56%) Drupal
11 17 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
12 13 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
13 11 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
14 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
15 9 (0.30%) nginx
16 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 111 (3.68%) MS Visio
2 93 (3.08%) 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 (0.27%) 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 55 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 41 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
5 26 (0.86%) 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 11 (0.36%) SAP CX
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
12 9 (0.30%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.27%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
15 6 (0.20%) Visualfiles
16 5 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (40.59%) Azure
2 779 (25.81%) AWS
3 485 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
4 410 (13.59%) Power Platform
5 276 (9.15%) GCP
6 224 (7.42%) SaaS
7 147 (4.87%) Entra ID
8 136 (4.51%) OneDrive
9 120 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
10 101 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (2.55%) Amazon S3
12 74 (2.45%) Dropbox
13 73 (2.42%) PaaS
14 72 (2.39%) Serverless
15 71 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (2.29%) GitHub
16 69 (2.29%) Google Drive
17 68 (2.25%) Power Automate
17 68 (2.25%) PowerApps
18 64 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 208 (6.89%) Firewall
2 189 (6.26%) DNS
3 112 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 102 (3.38%) WAN
5 101 (3.35%) LAN
6 82 (2.72%) DHCP
6 82 (2.72%) VPN
7 74 (2.45%) SSL
8 67 (2.22%) SAN
9 55 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (1.76%) BGP
10 53 (1.76%) Wireless
11 46 (1.52%) Network Security
12 40 (1.33%) NAS
13 36 (1.19%) Internet
13 36 (1.19%) VLAN
14 32 (1.06%) SD-WAN
15 26 (0.86%) Unified Communications
16 22 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
17 17 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (11.37%) Power BI
2 305 (10.11%) SQL Server
3 231 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
4 196 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 157 (5.20%) Oracle Database
6 121 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 92 (3.05%) Oracle Database 11g
9 88 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.85%) Data Lake
11 78 (2.58%) MySQL
12 69 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 66 (2.19%) RDBMS
14 62 (2.05%) Geospatial Data
15 47 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 46 (1.52%) Data Mining
17 38 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 38 (1.26%) NoSQL
18 36 (1.19%) Big Data
18 36 (1.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 200 (6.63%) JIRA
2 109 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.12%) Git
4 53 (1.76%) GitLab
5 27 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 22 (0.73%) Subversion
8 17 (0.56%) 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 8 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.27%) JUnit
13 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 827 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 668 (22.13%) Finance
3 266 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 178 (5.90%) Law
6 172 (5.70%) Retail
7 160 (5.30%) Banking
8 154 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 135 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 102 (3.38%) Marketing
11 93 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.45%) Legal
13 53 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 42 (1.39%) Retail Banking
16 34 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 33 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 28 (0.93%) Back Office
18 28 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 586 (19.42%) Senior
2 565 (18.72%) Architect
3 347 (11.50%) Developer
4 293 (9.71%) Analyst
5 284 (9.41%) Consultant
6 272 (9.01%) Lead
7 196 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
8 174 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
9 139 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 134 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 105 (3.48%) IT Engineer
12 102 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 102 (3.38%) Database Engineer
13 100 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 100 (3.31%) Senior Database Engineer
14 95 (3.15%) Administrator
15 93 (3.08%) Database Developer
16 92 (3.05%) Data Engineer
17 91 (3.02%) PostgreSQL Developer
18 80 (2.65%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.48%) .NET
2 76 (2.52%) HTML
3 75 (2.49%) Spring Boot
4 62 (2.05%) REST
5 57 (1.89%) CSS
6 51 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 49 (1.62%) React
8 45 (1.49%) Kafka
9 42 (1.39%) Spring
10 41 (1.36%) PySpark
11 39 (1.29%) Node.js
12 37 (1.23%) XML
13 34 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.99%) JSON
14 30 (0.99%) Web Services
15 27 (0.89%) SOAP
16 26 (0.86%) Middleware
17 19 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
18 18 (0.60%) .NET Framework
18 18 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.79%) Public Cloud
2 143 (4.74%) Management Information System
3 142 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 127 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 92 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (2.85%) PKI
9 84 (2.78%) Cloud Native
10 69 (2.29%) iPad
11 57 (1.89%) Onboarding
12 56 (1.86%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 49 (1.62%) Private Cloud
15 47 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.56%) Product Ownership
16 35 (1.16%) Reinsurance
17 33 (1.09%) Replication
18 30 (0.99%) IoT
19 26 (0.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 362 (11.99%) Windows
2 244 (8.08%) Linux
3 195 (6.46%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.36%) Unix
7 32 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.99%) Android
9 29 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 23 (0.76%) Windows 7
12 21 (0.70%) VMS
12 21 (0.70%) Windows 8
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.27%) 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
1 799 (26.47%) Data Migration
2 679 (22.50%) Agile
3 487 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
4 439 (14.55%) DevOps
5 386 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
6 384 (12.72%) Roadmaps
7 370 (12.26%) Project Management
8 351 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
9 290 (9.61%) ETL
10 258 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
11 254 (8.42%) ERP
12 234 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 210 (6.96%) Mentoring
14 197 (6.53%) Data Modelling
15 192 (6.36%) Analytics
16 180 (5.96%) CI/CD
17 174 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 172 (5.70%) TOGAF
19 169 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
20 168 (5.57%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 699 (23.16%) SQL
2 211 (6.99%) Python
3 177 (5.86%) PowerShell
4 174 (5.77%) Java
5 123 (4.08%) PL/SQL
6 110 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 87 (2.88%) C#
8 54 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.26%) PHP
10 33 (1.09%) Bash
10 33 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 26 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 24 (0.80%) Groovy
13 22 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.70%) Scala
15 18 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.46%) C++
17 13 (0.43%) Go
17 13 (0.43%) Perl
18 11 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 331 (10.97%) Degree
2 256 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 179 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 121 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 120 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 104 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 81 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (2.65%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.29%) CCNA
11 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.13%) CCNP
13 25 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (0.83%) DV Cleared
14 19 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.63%) PMP
15 18 (0.60%) CISSP
15 18 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 75 (2.49%) QA
3 68 (2.25%) GDPR
4 34 (1.13%) PMO
5 30 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (0.89%) SLA
7 14 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.43%) IFRS
9 9 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.27%) NIST
11 6 (0.20%) GAAP
12 4 (0.13%) MiFID
13 3 (0.099%) GMP
13 3 (0.099%) GRC
13 3 (0.099%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.066%) NCSC
System Software
1 293 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 145 (4.80%) Docker
3 112 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 45 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.33%) vSphere
9 8 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
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
1 206 (6.83%) Terraform
2 141 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 131 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 103 (3.41%) Ansible
5 36 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 32 (1.06%) SCCM
7 30 (0.99%) Puppet
8 21 (0.70%) 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
1 964 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 378 (12.52%) Oracle
3 262 (8.68%) Google
4 195 (6.46%) VMware
5 149 (4.94%) SAP
6 105 (3.48%) Cisco
7 87 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.32%) Salesforce
9 69 (2.29%) Databricks
10 51 (1.69%) Sparx
11 49 (1.62%) Citrix
11 49 (1.62%) IBM
12 37 (1.23%) Veeam
13 36 (1.19%) Informatica
14 31 (1.03%) Apple
15 28 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.89%) Fortinet
17 25 (0.83%) HP
18 24 (0.80%) CheckPoint
18 24 (0.80%) Red Hat