Migration Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Migration Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £153, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 118 142
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.38% 0.058% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.063% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -72.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile £276 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,414 1,575 2,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 91.57% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 951 1,428
10th Percentile £213 £200 £250
25th Percentile £360 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £581
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 61
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.33 £12.26
25th Percentile £20.00 £16.37 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.62 £20.94 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% +7.38% +10.05%
75th Percentile £41.65 £24.18 £59.03
90th Percentile £64.67 £28.25 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Migration Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in Scotland

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Moray - 4 £153 -
Fife - 2 £153 -
Edinburgh +6 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £358 -
Migration Engineer
UK

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Migration Engineer 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 Scotland region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) QA
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Time Management
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow Management
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Time Management
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow Management
4 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft