Service Migration Contracts in England

Service Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Service Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Migration 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 467 525 606
Rank change year-on-year +58 +81 +138
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 18 17 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.046% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 21
10th Percentile £438 £426 £350
25th Percentile £446 £541 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.84% -12.84%
75th Percentile £650 £715 £730
90th Percentile £808 £743 £743
UK median daily rate £460 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -29.23% +36.84% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Service Migration 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%

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Service Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Migration in England

Service Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Migration in England

Service Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Migration in England

Service Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Migration in England

Service Migration
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 Service Migration 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 +41 13 £460 -29.23% 2
South West +49 4 £446 -28.64% 3
North of England +18 2 £625 +13.64% 1
North West - 2 £625 - 1
Service Migration
UK

Service Migration
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) IaaS
2 4 (22.22%) PaaS
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 5 (27.78%) French Language
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Military
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Service Designer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Migration
2 10 (55.56%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Service Management
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Operational Stability
6 2 (11.11%) Service Design
7 1 (5.56%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft