Data Centre Migration Project Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Project Manager - Data Centre Migration
UK > England

The median Project Manager - Data Centre Migration daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 - 520
Rank change year-on-year - - +76
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Migration Project Manager 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £437 - £466
25th Percentile £478 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £541 - £497
90th Percentile £546 - £499
UK median daily rate £513 £800 £488
% change year-on-year -35.94% +64.10% -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 42,862 25,455 29,887
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 91.08% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,286 16,391 18,275
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,687 1,410 1,320
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.44 £17.33 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.87 £52.42 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%

Data Centre Migration Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Migration Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Centre Migration Project Manager job vacancy trend in England

Data Centre Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Migration Project Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Migration Project Manager job vacancies in England

Data Centre Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Migration Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Migration Project Manager in England

Data Centre Migration Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Migration Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
London - 4 £485 - 2
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
South East - 1 £525 - 2
Data Centre Migration Project Manager
UK

Data Centre Migration Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 October 2026, Data Centre Migration Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Migration Project Manager in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) PMO
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) FinOps
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance

Data Centre Migration Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) iSeries
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) FinOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM