Migration Engineer Contracts in Central London

Migration Engineer
London > Central London

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in Central London is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 162
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 10 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £300 £325 £146
25th Percentile £347 £388 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £588 £275
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +113.64% -41.95%
75th Percentile £750 £606 £348
90th Percentile - £634 £410
London median daily rate £525 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +16.67% +2.86% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in Central London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in Central London

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in Central London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in Central London

Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +5 9 £588 -
Southwark - 1 £450 -
Migration Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (30.00%) Git
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) GitLab
5 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (20.00%) Finance
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
7 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (10.00%) Firewall
7 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
7 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (10.00%) Apple
7 1 (10.00%) MPLS

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Database Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Runbook
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat