Migration Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Migration Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 342 385
Rank change year-on-year -37 +43 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Analyst 14 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.10% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.11% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 10
10th Percentile £292 £291 £399
25th Percentile £363 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -10.81% +2.78%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £603
90th Percentile - £544 £643
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,356 13,848 18,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.36% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,265 12,022
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 795 1,208
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

Migration Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Migration Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Migration Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Migration Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Migration Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Analyst in the UK excluding London

Migration Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Migration Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Northern Ireland - 5 £400 -
South West - 3 £475 -
Midlands -40 2 £370 -18.90%
North of England -52 2 £391 -5.15%
Scotland +3 1 - -
North West -29 1 £288 -30.30%
South East -29 1 £223 -25.67% 2
West Midlands -33 1 £400 -12.33%
Yorkshire -41 1 £495 -1.00%
East Midlands - 1 £340 -
Migration Analyst
UK

Migration Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Migration Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring Migration Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 11 (78.57%) Data Migration
3 9 (64.29%) Validation
4 8 (57.14%) ETL
5 7 (50.00%) AWS
6 6 (42.86%) SQL
7 5 (35.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
7 5 (35.71%) Apache Avro
7 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
7 5 (35.71%) Data Validation
7 5 (35.71%) JSON
7 5 (35.71%) Parquet
7 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (35.71%) Postman
7 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
8 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (21.43%) API Testing
9 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
9 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
9 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
10 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
10 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
10 2 (14.29%) DevOps
10 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing

Migration Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon QuickSight
1 5 (35.71%) Parquet
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Apache Avro
1 5 (35.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 11 (78.57%) Data Migration
3 9 (64.29%) Validation
4 8 (57.14%) ETL
5 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
5 5 (35.71%) Data Validation
6 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (21.43%) API Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Server Migrations
8 2 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce