Migration Engineer Contracts in London

Migration Engineer
England > London

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in London is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 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
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 332 410
Rank change year-on-year +16 +78 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 44 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 36
10th Percentile £178 £403 £215
25th Percentile £375 £431 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £409
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +22.32% -9.17%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £550
90th Percentile £583 £634 £611
England median daily rate £455 £475 £406
% change year-on-year -4.21% +16.92% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.56% - -

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 12,618 15,275 22,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 94.09% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,538 10,757 16,439
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 201 243
10th Percentile £17.89 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £23.23
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -12.97% +15.85%
75th Percentile £49.56 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £71.88 £81.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 4 £450 -24.21% 1
West London - 3 £162 - 1
South London - 1 £425 - 2
Migration Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 42 (95.45%) Migration
2 20 (45.45%) Azure
3 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
4 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (34.09%) Python
5 14 (31.82%) Data Migration
5 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
6 13 (29.55%) AWS
6 13 (29.55%) Finance
7 12 (27.27%) DevOps
8 10 (22.73%) Terraform
9 8 (18.18%) Change Management
9 8 (18.18%) Docker
10 7 (15.91%) Ansible
10 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
10 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (15.91%) Windows
10 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
10 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
11 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
11 6 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
11 6 (13.64%) SQL
11 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
11 6 (13.64%) Firewall
11 6 (13.64%) Workflow
11 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
11 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
11 6 (13.64%) GCP

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 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (9.09%) Confluence
4 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.55%) dbt
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.55%) IaaS
5 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) DNS
3 2 (4.55%) BGP
3 2 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (4.55%) Network Security
3 2 (4.55%) OSPF
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) FCoE
4 1 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.27%) MPLS
4 1 (2.27%) SAN
4 1 (2.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) ScriptRunner
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Local Government
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
1 2 (4.55%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.27%) Node.js
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
2 1 (2.27%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) BYOD
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) CentOS
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Migration
2 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 14 (31.82%) Data Migration
4 12 (27.27%) DevOps
5 8 (18.18%) Change Management
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (13.64%) Workflow
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.09%) ETL
8 4 (9.09%) Fintech
8 4 (9.09%) Project Management
8 4 (9.09%) Runbook
8 4 (9.09%) Time Management
9 3 (6.82%) Agile
9 3 (6.82%) Database Migration
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.82%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) Groovy
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) C++
5 2 (4.55%) Go
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) vSphere
3 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Terraform
2 7 (15.91%) Ansible
3 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.82%) F5
3 3 (6.82%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Dell
5 1 (2.27%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat