Migration Engineer Contracts in London

Migration Engineer
England > London

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in London is £525, 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 311 336 440
Rank change year-on-year +25 +104 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 42 55 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 46
10th Percentile £355 £328 £222
25th Percentile £450 £396 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £547
90th Percentile £690 £621 £610
England median daily rate £500 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in London

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in London

Migration Engineer
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 Engineer within the London 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
Central London +2 10 £519 -11.70%
Migration Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (97.62%) Migration
2 18 (42.86%) Azure
3 13 (30.95%) Data Migration
4 12 (28.57%) AWS
4 12 (28.57%) SQL
4 12 (28.57%) DevOps
5 11 (26.19%) Finance
6 10 (23.81%) Terraform
6 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.67%) Law
8 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 7 (16.67%) Windows
8 7 (16.67%) Python
8 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
8 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 6 (14.29%) Degree
9 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (14.29%) Ansible
9 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
10 5 (11.90%) GitLab
10 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (11.90%) Database Migration
10 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (11.90%) vSphere
10 5 (11.90%) Bash
10 5 (11.90%) F5

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (4.76%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.76%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 4 (9.52%) Firewall
3 3 (7.14%) SAN
4 2 (4.76%) BGP
4 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (4.76%) MPLS
4 2 (4.76%) Network Security
4 2 (4.76%) OSPF
4 2 (4.76%) SMTP
4 2 (4.76%) SSL
4 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (2.38%) FCoE
5 1 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.38%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) MS Access
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
2 3 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.38%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Law
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Local Government
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Replication
2 2 (4.76%) Blackberry
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.38%) iPhone
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.76%) CentOS
4 2 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (97.62%) Migration
2 13 (30.95%) Data Migration
3 12 (28.57%) DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.90%) Change Management
7 5 (11.90%) Database Migration
8 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.52%) ETL
8 4 (9.52%) ITSM
8 4 (9.52%) Load Balancing
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (9.52%) Project Management
9 3 (7.14%) Data Privacy
9 3 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (7.14%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (7.14%) Roadmaps
9 3 (7.14%) Runbook
9 3 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
5 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) HNC
5 1 (2.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) vSphere
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Terraform
2 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) F5
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Hitachi
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.38%) Apple
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) Citrix
5 1 (2.38%) Dell
5 1 (2.38%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.38%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.38%) Nokia
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow