Migration Engineer Contracts in England

Migration Engineer
UK > England

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in England is £500, 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 408 421 547
Rank change year-on-year +13 +126 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 77 121 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 75 88
10th Percentile £308 £80 £217
25th Percentile £393 £231 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +5.61%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £514
90th Percentile £675 £619 £608
UK median daily rate £510 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +13.33% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 27 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +128.57% -39.13%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in England

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in England

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in England

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in England

Migration Engineer
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 Engineer within the England 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
London +25 42 £525 +16.67% 1
North of England +22 18 £525 -6.67% 1
North West +27 14 £620 +30.53%
South East +39 6 £300 -36.84%
Midlands +26 5 £513 - 2
West Midlands +17 4 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +1 4 £388 -32.52% 1
East of England +16 2 £450 +462.50%
South West +27 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Migration Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (97.40%) Migration
2 29 (37.66%) Azure
3 28 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (31.17%) SQL
5 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
7 16 (20.78%) ETL
7 16 (20.78%) DevOps
8 15 (19.48%) SharePoint
8 15 (19.48%) Oracle
9 14 (18.18%) Finance
9 14 (18.18%) AWS
10 13 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (15.58%) Data Mapping
11 12 (15.58%) Validation
11 12 (15.58%) Windows
11 12 (15.58%) PL/SQL
12 11 (14.29%) Terraform
12 11 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (12.99%) Data Modelling
14 9 (11.69%) Python
14 9 (11.69%) DNS
14 9 (11.69%) Oracle EBS
14 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (11.69%) CI/CD
14 9 (11.69%) Knowledge Transfer
15 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills

Migration Engineer 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 15 (19.48%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.19%) Confluence
4 2 (2.60%) Apache
4 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.30%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) Azure
2 14 (18.18%) AWS
3 13 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.39%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.19%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.19%) IaaS
6 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.60%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) DNS
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) VPN
4 3 (3.90%) SAN
5 2 (2.60%) BGP
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.60%) DHCP
5 2 (2.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (2.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.60%) IP Telephony
5 2 (2.60%) MPLS
5 2 (2.60%) Network Security
5 2 (2.60%) OSPF
5 2 (2.60%) SMTP
5 2 (2.60%) SSL
5 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.60%) VLAN
5 2 (2.60%) Wireless
6 1 (1.30%) FCoE
6 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.60%) Power BI
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.30%) MS Access
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
7 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) GitLab
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.30%) Appium
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.30%) Flyway
4 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.30%) Postman
4 1 (1.30%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Finance
3 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Law
6 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Local Government
8 1 (1.30%) Automotive
8 1 (1.30%) Aviation
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) JSON
2 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.30%) Chai
2 1 (1.30%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.30%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Replication
2 5 (6.49%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) iPhone
5 1 (1.30%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Linux
3 4 (5.19%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.60%) CentOS
4 2 (2.60%) VMS
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (97.40%) Migration
2 28 (36.36%) Data Migration
2 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.78%) DevOps
3 16 (20.78%) ETL
4 12 (15.58%) Data Mapping
4 12 (15.58%) Validation
5 10 (12.99%) Data Modelling
6 9 (11.69%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (10.39%) Agile
8 7 (9.09%) Change Management
8 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.09%) Project Management
9 6 (7.79%) Database Migration
9 6 (7.79%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (5.19%) Data Integration
11 4 (5.19%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) SQL
2 12 (15.58%) PL/SQL
3 9 (11.69%) Python
4 6 (7.79%) Bash
4 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.60%) PHP
7 1 (1.30%) Groovy
7 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Degree
1 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) CCNA
5 2 (2.60%) HP APS
6 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.30%) HNC
6 1 (1.30%) HND
6 1 (1.30%) MCP
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.79%) vSphere
3 2 (2.60%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) Firmware
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.30%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Terraform
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (3.90%) Puppet
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.48%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) Cisco
4 5 (6.49%) F5
5 4 (5.19%) Google
5 4 (5.19%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.60%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.60%) Epicor
6 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.60%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.60%) HP
6 2 (2.60%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.60%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Zerto