Migration Engineer Contracts

Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 583 701
Rank change year-on-year +131 +118 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 126 133 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 106 104
10th Percentile £80 £219 £130
25th Percentile £278 £290 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £579 £510 £500
90th Percentile £619 £594 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £319 £388 £250
% change year-on-year -17.74% +55.00% -23.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 1
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -39.13% +19.79%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +167.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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 +124 120 £450 +12.50% 9
UK excluding London +81 64 £319 -17.74% 11
London +114 55 £475 +8.57%
Work from Home +97 32 £513 +9.04% 2
South West +39 20 £80 -64.84%
East of England +18 16 £80 -80.00%
North of England +39 15 £563 +87.19%
South East +24 12 £475 +57.02% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £575 -
North West +27 4 £475 +58.07%
Midlands +17 1 - - 1
West Midlands +13 1 - -

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (99.21%) Migration
2 57 (45.24%) Data Migration
3 37 (29.37%) Micro Focus
4 32 (25.40%) Azure
5 28 (22.22%) Windows
6 26 (20.63%) Active Directory
7 25 (19.84%) DevSecOps
8 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
9 22 (17.46%) SQL
10 20 (15.87%) SC Cleared
10 20 (15.87%) Security Cleared
11 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
13 17 (13.49%) Finance
13 17 (13.49%) Data Centre
14 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
14 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
16 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Exchange
17 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
18 11 (8.73%) Linux
18 11 (8.73%) VMware
18 11 (8.73%) Agile
19 10 (7.94%) Aerospace
19 10 (7.94%) DevOps
20 9 (7.14%) Windows 10
20 9 (7.14%) Project Delivery
20 9 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
20 9 (7.14%) Big Data

Migration Engineer Skill Set
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 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.97%) IIS
4 2 (1.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (1.59%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.40%) Azure
2 18 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.35%) AWS
5 4 (3.17%) GCP
6 3 (2.38%) IaaS
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.59%) GitHub
7 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.59%) Serverless
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.79%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.35%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) SAN
3 4 (3.17%) DNS
3 4 (3.17%) MPLS
4 3 (2.38%) WAN
5 2 (1.59%) LAN
5 2 (1.59%) SGSN
5 2 (1.59%) VLAN
5 2 (1.59%) VPN
5 2 (1.59%) Wireless
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (0.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.79%) DWDM
6 1 (0.79%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.79%) OSPF
6 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Big Data
2 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.79%) MySQL
6 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.38%) Git
3 2 (1.59%) GitLab
3 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) AppScan
4 1 (0.79%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.79%) Pylint
4 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) Subversion
4 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Finance
3 10 (7.94%) Aerospace
4 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.17%) Aviation
6 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Banking
8 1 (0.79%) German Language
8 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.59%) Playwright
1 2 (1.59%) React
2 1 (0.79%) .NET
2 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.79%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.79%) HTML
2 1 (0.79%) JSON
2 1 (0.79%) Kafka
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.79%) Next.js
2 1 (0.79%) Node.js
2 1 (0.79%) PySpark
2 1 (0.79%) pytest
2 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.79%) Spring
2 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.79%) WCF
2 1 (0.79%) WebSockets
2 1 (0.79%) WinForms
2 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.17%) Clustering
2 4 (3.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 3 (2.38%) Blackberry
3 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) EMC VNX
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Windows
2 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.73%) Linux
4 9 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.35%) VMS
6 7 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.59%) Android
8 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.79%) AIX
9 1 (0.79%) CentOS
9 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.79%) Rocky
9 1 (0.79%) Solaris
9 1 (0.79%) Unix
9 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (99.21%) Migration
2 57 (45.24%) Data Migration
3 25 (19.84%) DevSecOps
4 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (8.73%) Agile
7 10 (7.94%) DevOps
8 9 (7.14%) Project Delivery
9 7 (5.56%) Data Modelling
10 6 (4.76%) Change Management
10 6 (4.76%) Database Migration
10 6 (4.76%) ETL
10 6 (4.76%) ITIL
11 5 (3.97%) CI/CD
12 4 (3.17%) Configuration Management
12 4 (3.17%) Data Management
12 4 (3.17%) Network Design
12 4 (3.17%) Software Engineering
12 4 (3.17%) Strategic Thinking
12 4 (3.17%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) SQL
2 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (2.38%) Java
5 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) Bicep
6 1 (0.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (15.87%) SC Cleared
1 20 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.97%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.38%) CCNP
4 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.59%) CCNA
5 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) CCIE
6 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.79%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.79%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (20.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Docker
3 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) KVM
4 1 (0.79%) SRDF
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) PowerCLI
2 4 (3.17%) VxRail
3 3 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.59%) SCCM
4 2 (1.59%) Terraform
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) EMC TimeFinder
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Graylog
5 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.79%) Nagios
5 1 (0.79%) Nessus
5 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 37 (29.37%) Micro Focus
2 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) VMware
4 7 (5.56%) Cisco
5 5 (3.97%) Dell
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.17%) Twitter
7 3 (2.38%) Splunk
8 2 (1.59%) Apple
8 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.59%) Databricks
8 2 (1.59%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.59%) Isilon
8 2 (1.59%) Juniper
8 2 (1.59%) NEC
9 1 (0.79%) Arista
9 1 (0.79%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.79%) Veracode