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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 529 596
Rank change year-on-year +86 +67 +137
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 24 13 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.036% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.041% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 19
10th Percentile £438 £459 £345
25th Percentile £446 £556 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £656 £737
90th Percentile £808 £743 £789
UK median daily rate £480 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -24.71% +27.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.18 - -
Median hourly rate £52.67 - -
75th Percentile £69.25 - -
90th Percentile £78.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.67 - -

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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Migration in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 22 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 +46 12 £530 -18.46% 2
South West +43 10 £442 -29.28% 3
North of England +18 3 £625 +13.64% 1
North West - 3 £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 (25.00%) Azure
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.67%) IaaS
2 4 (16.67%) PaaS
2 4 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (20.83%) French Language
2 3 (12.50%) Military
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
1 6 (25.00%) Designer
1 6 (25.00%) Service Designer
2 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Service Transition Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Transition Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Migration
2 10 (41.67%) ITIL
3 9 (37.50%) Service Management
4 7 (29.17%) ITSM
5 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (25.00%) Service Design
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Change Management
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Operational Stability
10 1 (4.17%) Acceptance Criteria
10 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
10 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
10 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Automation
10 1 (4.17%) Observability
10 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft