Migration Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Migration Architect
England > South East

The median Migration Architect daily rate in the South East is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 174 208
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.072% 0.13% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.14% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £678 -
25th Percentile - £681 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -22.45%
75th Percentile - £719 £488
90th Percentile - £723 -
England median daily rate £538 £538 £709
% change year-on-year - -24.24% +9.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,737 3,700 4,936
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 92.78% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,386 2,263 3,233
10th Percentile £208 £238 £207
25th Percentile £393 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £686 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 187 250
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.15 £16.23
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.18 £24.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +2.46% +36.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £65.96
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

Migration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Migration Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the South East

Migration Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +1 3 £600 -14.29% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £600 -
Berkshire - 1 - - 1
Migration Architect
England

Migration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Migration Architect 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 South East region featuring Migration Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins

Migration Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos