Migration Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Migration Engineer
England > North of England

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £153, 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 190 149 194
Rank change year-on-year -41 +45 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 4 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.38% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.42% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile - £250 £428
25th Percentile - £553 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £563 £444
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +26.76% +61.36%
75th Percentile £364 £619 £458
90th Percentile £491 - £464
England median daily rate £455 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -4.21% -7.32% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -65.90% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,694 3,826 4,833
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.02% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,424 2,189 3,244
10th Percentile £250 £275 £263
25th Percentile £368 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £585 £600
90th Percentile £653 £670 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 242 206
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.39 £18.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.75 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +23.40% +29.71%
75th Percentile £49.28 £49.69 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.30 £70.00 £62.87
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the North of England

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the North of England

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -16 4 £153 -38.80%
Migration Engineer
England

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Aviation
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Chai
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Chai
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) SendGrid