Migration Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Migration Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 131 139
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.11% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.12% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £176 - -
25th Percentile £268 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.88% -14.14%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £438
90th Percentile £525 £535 -
England median daily rate £455 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -4.21% -7.32% +13.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,374 2,548 2,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 93.16% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,606 1,927
10th Percentile £213 £250 £220
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 114 107
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% +3.88% +14.78%
75th Percentile £32.44 £40.44 £32.77
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.32 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the Midlands

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the Midlands

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
West Midlands -4 5 £270 -40.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Migration Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Midlands region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Trello
5 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (25.00%) ShareGate
6 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (12.50%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) ShareGate
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Lotus