Service Migration Contracts

Service Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 656 803
Rank change year-on-year +77 +147 -147
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 19 63 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.11% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.12% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 23
10th Percentile £330 £369 £423
25th Percentile £492 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% +34.15%
75th Percentile £697 £541 £688
90th Percentile £743 £743 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -13.64% +34.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +98 17 £650 +30.00% 3
London +81 10 £650 -9.72% 1
Work from Home +95 7 £550 +15.79%
UK excluding London +46 7 £459 -3.37% 1
North of England +34 3 £550 +25.71%
South East +24 3 £425 -38.96% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
South West +16 1 £625 +47.06%

Service 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 2 (10.53%) Documentum
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
1 2 (10.53%) GitHub
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) IP Telephony
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Billing
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Local Government
5 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Applications Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Applications Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Analytics Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Online Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Migration
2 6 (31.58%) Capacity Management
2 6 (31.58%) Cost Management
2 6 (31.58%) Security Management
3 5 (26.32%) Data Management
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Network Management
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Change Management
5 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) B2B
6 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.53%) Document Management
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) Workflow
6 2 (10.53%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) ActionScript
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
1 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Genesys
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) F5
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix