Server Migrations Contracts in England

Server Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Server Migrations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Migrations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 528 587
Rank change year-on-year +60 +59 +103
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 17 14 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.038% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.043% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 53
10th Percentile £333 £363 £370
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -10.53% -18.45%
75th Percentile £503 £553 £575
90th Percentile £599 £600 £643
UK median daily rate £444 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +7.58% -13.16% -17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Migrations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Migrations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Migrations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Migrations in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations in England.

Daily rate trend for Server Migrations in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Migrations in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations in England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Migrations in England

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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 Server Migrations 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
South East +53 9 £400 +1.59% 1
London +33 2 £444 +10.94% 4
North of England +19 2 £350 -12.50%
North East - 2 £350 -
South West - 1 £575 - 4
Server Migrations
UK

Server Migrations
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 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Nutanix
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
2 4 (23.53%) FTP
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
2 4 (23.53%) tcpdump
2 4 (23.53%) Telnet
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) NGFW
4 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Nutanix Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Support
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (5.88%) VMS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Migration
2 8 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Server Management
6 1 (5.88%) Application Security
6 1 (5.88%) Data Security
6 1 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL
6 1 (5.88%) RBAC
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) NFS
1 4 (23.53%) Samba
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
1 4 (23.53%) yum
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (17.65%) HP
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.88%) IBM
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) Tenable
6 1 (5.88%) Zscaler