Migration Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Migration Architect
UK > England

The median Migration Architect daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 488 583
Rank change year-on-year -14 +95 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 18 47 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.14% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.15% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 22
10th Percentile £400 £390 £469
25th Percentile £431 £431 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £669
90th Percentile £638 £725 £795
UK median daily rate £480 £625 £578
% change year-on-year -23.20% +8.23% -9.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,187 30,511 40,033
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 92.98% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,216 19,002 27,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,457 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.56 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Migration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Architect in England

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in England

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Architect in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Architect in England

Migration Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in England

Migration Architect
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 Migration Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
London +12 9 £480 -8.57% 1
South East +14 6 £600 -14.29%
West Midlands -10 2 £390 -13.33% 2
Midlands -14 2 £390 -13.33% 2
South West +27 1 £500 -25.93%
Migration Architect
UK

Migration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Migration Architect 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 England region featuring Migration Architect in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Migration
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 5 (27.78%) Data Governance
4 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 3 (16.67%) VPN
6 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (16.67%) Open Source
7 2 (11.11%) SIEM
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (11.11%) PostGIS
7 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
7 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (11.11%) Trello
7 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
7 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
7 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (11.11%) Spatial Data

Migration Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (11.11%) ArcGIS
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Spatial
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 2 (11.11%) Collibra
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.11%) ShareGate
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) 2G
3 1 (5.56%) 3G
3 1 (5.56%) 4G
3 1 (5.56%) 5G
3 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.56%) VoLTE
3 1 (5.56%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) GIS
2 2 (11.11%) Spatial Data
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SAP BW
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Health
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) PostGIS
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (27.78%) Data Governance
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) RBAC
5 2 (11.11%) Runbook
5 2 (11.11%) SIEM
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Magik
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.56%) CITP
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) ESRI
2 2 (11.11%) Informatica
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) SAP