Migration Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 402 448
Rank change year-on-year +70 +46 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 65 42 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 51
10th Percentile - £166 -
25th Percentile £80 £260 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £248
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +56.57% -23.85%
75th Percentile £569 £508 £425
90th Percentile £619 £551 £475
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +19.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +128.57% -39.13% +19.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,219 22,597 29,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,734 15,842 20,729
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +33 20 £80 -64.84%
East of England +18 16 £80 -80.00%
North of England +42 15 £563 +87.19%
South East +22 13 £475 +57.02% 7
Yorkshire - 11 £575 -
North West +28 4 £475 +58.07%
West Midlands +21 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 - - 1
Migration Engineer
UK

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Migration
2 40 (61.54%) Data Migration
3 37 (56.92%) Micro Focus
4 25 (38.46%) DevSecOps
5 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
5 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
6 13 (20.00%) Data Centre
6 13 (20.00%) Windows
7 10 (15.38%) Aerospace
8 9 (13.85%) Finance
9 8 (12.31%) VMS
9 8 (12.31%) Azure
9 8 (12.31%) Big Data
10 7 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
10 7 (10.77%) SQL
10 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
11 6 (9.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (9.23%) Linux
11 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
12 5 (7.69%) SAN
12 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (6.15%) Aviation
13 4 (6.15%) Database Migration
13 4 (6.15%) IIS
13 4 (6.15%) ITIL
13 4 (6.15%) VMware
13 4 (6.15%) Clustering
13 4 (6.15%) Change Management

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.15%) IIS
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) Azure
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.62%) AWS
4 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) SAN
2 2 (3.08%) SGSN
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) VLAN
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) Big Data
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 10 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Aviation
5 3 (4.62%) Law
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Clustering
3 1 (1.54%) EMC VNX
3 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) NHS
3 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (12.31%) VMS
3 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.23%) Linux
4 6 (9.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.08%) Android
6 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.54%) AIX
7 1 (1.54%) Solaris
7 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Migration
2 40 (61.54%) Data Migration
3 25 (38.46%) DevSecOps
4 4 (6.15%) Change Management
4 4 (6.15%) Database Migration
4 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (6.15%) ITIL
4 4 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (4.62%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (4.62%) Project Delivery
5 3 (4.62%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.08%) Agile
6 2 (3.08%) Architectural Design
6 2 (3.08%) Clean Code
6 2 (3.08%) DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Scrum
6 2 (3.08%) Secure Coding
6 2 (3.08%) Software Engineering
6 2 (3.08%) Software Testing
6 2 (3.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) SQL
2 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) EMC TimeFinder
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (56.92%) Micro Focus
2 4 (6.15%) Twitter
2 4 (6.15%) VMware
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) Apple
4 2 (3.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) Ericsson
4 2 (3.08%) Isilon
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Brocade
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) Dell Compellent
5 1 (1.54%) EMC
5 1 (1.54%) EqualLogic
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Novell
5 1 (1.54%) OpenText
5 1 (1.54%) Sage