Migration Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Migration Architect
England > London

The median Migration Architect daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 368 411
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 10 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.11% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.12% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £460 £491 £553
25th Percentile £499 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £665
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -9.77% +6.40%
75th Percentile £678 £756 £800
90th Percentile £853 £781 £870
England median daily rate £538 £538 £709
% change year-on-year - -24.24% +9.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,950 14,681 18,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.66% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,600 9,530 13,307
10th Percentile £335 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £790
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £59.69
90th Percentile £75.79 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

Migration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Migration Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Migration Architect job vacancy trend in London

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Architect in London

Migration Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Migration Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Central London +4 3 £480 -37.05% 2
Migration Architect
England

Migration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Migration Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Migration Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
5 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Change Management
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) IaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Informatica
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Middleware
6 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
6 2 (20.00%) Network Security
6 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) SAP
6 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Active Directory

Migration Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Boomi
4 1 (10.00%) Collibra
4 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) EDI
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Korn
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica
3 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Facebook
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce