The first table below looks at the demand for the Migration Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Migration Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Migration Engineer
Rank 469 508 462
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 41 50 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.099% 0.094% 0.195%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.107% 0.101% 0.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 49
Average daily rate £245 £275 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.90% +44.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £153 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £375 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £238 £185
% change year-on-year
+9.47% +28.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 16
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- +31.57%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Migration Engineer
UK

Migration Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Migration Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Migration Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Migration Engineer across the England region.

England Migration Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Migration Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Migration Engineer across the England region.

England Migration Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Migration Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +16 22 £225 -18.18%
South West +24 5 £260 +40.54%
East of England +17 4 £225 +95.65%
North West - 4 £178 -
East Midlands -2 3 £300 -
South East +20 2 £343 +24.54%
North East - 1 - -
Migration Engineer
UK

Migration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Migration Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Migration Engineer in their job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Migration
2 47 (50.54%) Windows
3 32 (34.41%) MS Exchange
4 28 (30.11%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
5 25 (26.88%) Active Directory
6 22 (23.66%) Windows 7
7 21 (22.58%) VMware
8 14 (15.05%) Exchange Server 2003
8 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (15.05%) Citrix
8 14 (15.05%) Windows XP
9 13 (13.98%) UNIX
9 13 (13.98%) Linux
9 13 (13.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (13.98%) Data Migration
10 12 (12.90%) PowerShell
10 12 (12.90%) WAN
11 11 (11.83%) Firewall
11 11 (11.83%) MS Excel
11 11 (11.83%) MS Office
11 11 (11.83%) ITIL
12 10 (10.75%) MCSE
12 10 (10.75%) Red Hat
12 10 (10.75%) Banking
12 10 (10.75%) Exchange Server 2007
12 10 (10.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (10.75%) NetScaler
13 9 (9.677%) DNS
13 9 (9.677%) Cisco

Migration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Migration Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Migration Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (7.527%) Web Services
2 1 (1.075%) COM
Application Platforms
1 32 (34.41%) MS Exchange
2 28 (30.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (15.05%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (10.75%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (6.452%) Lotus Notes
6 4 (4.301%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.151%) GroupWise
7 2 (2.151%) Exchange Server 5.5
8 1 (1.075%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (1.075%) Live Communications Server
8 1 (1.075%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 11 (11.83%) MS Office
1 11 (11.83%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.452%) Office 365
3 3 (3.226%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.075%) Google Apps
4 1 (1.075%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.075%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.075%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) WAN
2 11 (11.83%) Firewall
3 10 (10.75%) NetScaler
4 9 (9.677%) DNS
5 8 (8.602%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.602%) LAN
6 7 (7.527%) SAN
6 7 (7.527%) Internet
7 5 (5.376%) OSPF
7 5 (5.376%) BGP
8 4 (4.301%) iSCSI
9 3 (3.226%) VoIP
10 2 (2.151%) VPN
10 2 (2.151%) Network Security
11 1 (1.075%) LDAP
11 1 (1.075%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.075%) Junos
11 1 (1.075%) SSL
11 1 (1.075%) IPv6
11 1 (1.075%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.226%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.151%) MS Access
2 2 (2.151%) JasperReports
3 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.075%) EDRMS
General
1 10 (10.75%) Banking
2 8 (8.602%) Finance
3 4 (4.301%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.226%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.075%) Retail
5 1 (1.075%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.075%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.075%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.452%) Blackberry
2 5 (5.376%) NHS
3 2 (2.151%) Thin Client
3 2 (2.151%) Fat Client
3 2 (2.151%) iPhone
3 2 (2.151%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.075%) HACMP
4 1 (1.075%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.075%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 47 (50.54%) Windows
2 22 (23.66%) Windows 7
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (15.05%) Windows XP
4 13 (13.98%) Linux
4 13 (13.98%) UNIX
5 10 (10.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (8.602%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (3.226%) AIX
8 2 (2.151%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.075%) Android
9 1 (1.075%) HPUX
9 1 (1.075%) Solaris
9 1 (1.075%) Windows NT
9 1 (1.075%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Migration
2 13 (13.98%) Data Migration
3 11 (11.83%) ITIL
4 8 (8.602%) E-Commerce
5 7 (7.527%) Information Security
5 7 (7.527%) Load Balancing
5 7 (7.527%) Change Control
6 6 (6.452%) High Availability
7 3 (3.226%) Validation
7 3 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (3.226%) Asset Management
8 2 (2.151%) Data Analysis
8 2 (2.151%) Project Management
8 2 (2.151%) Use Case
9 1 (1.075%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (1.075%) Usability Testing
9 1 (1.075%) Performance Testing
9 1 (1.075%) Scalability Testing
9 1 (1.075%) System Testing
9 1 (1.075%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.376%) SQL
3 4 (4.301%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.151%) VBScript
5 1 (1.075%) C
5 1 (1.075%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (10.75%) MCSE
3 6 (6.452%) MCITP
4 4 (4.301%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.301%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.151%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.151%) MCTS
5 2 (2.151%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.151%) CCA
5 2 (2.151%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.075%) CCEA
6 1 (1.075%) CISSP
6 1 (1.075%) MCSA
6 1 (1.075%) CCNP
6 1 (1.075%) CCNA
6 1 (1.075%) Degree
6 1 (1.075%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.075%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.075%) QA
1 1 (1.075%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (26.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.527%) ProxySG
3 6 (6.452%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.376%) VMware ESX
4 5 (5.376%) vSphere
4 5 (5.376%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.301%) UAG
5 4 (4.301%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.301%) XenApp
6 2 (2.151%) XenDesktop
6 2 (2.151%) PowerHA
7 1 (1.075%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.075%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.075%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (7.527%) SCCM
2 4 (4.301%) Backup Exec
3 2 (2.151%) SCOM
4 1 (1.075%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (1.075%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.075%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.075%) MOM
4 1 (1.075%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.075%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.58%) VMware
3 14 (15.05%) Citrix
4 10 (10.75%) Red Hat
5 9 (9.677%) Cisco
6 7 (7.527%) Blue Coat
7 6 (6.452%) Lotus
7 6 (6.452%) Infoblox
7 6 (6.452%) HP
8 4 (4.301%) Novell
8 4 (4.301%) Brocade
9 3 (3.226%) EMC
9 3 (3.226%) Hitachi
9 3 (3.226%) IBM
9 3 (3.226%) Oracle
10 2 (2.151%) JBoss
10 2 (2.151%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.151%) Symantec
10 2 (2.151%) ESRI
11 1 (1.075%) Google
City of London
Exchange / Active directory (AD) / Migration / Integration / Contract / 3 months plus / £225 - £300 / ASAPMy Global Media Client are looking for a Exchange / AD integration / migration engineer to join a...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Our client requires a Domain Migration Engineer to work onsite in Canary Wharf. Our global leading client is looking for a Migration Engineer to work on a domain...
Experis IT
Rate: £200.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Windows 7 Migration Engineers required by Investment Banking client based in the City of London... The successful Windows 7 Migration Engineer will be join the team responsible for...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013