Migration Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 389 432
Rank change year-on-year +61 +43 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 8 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.052% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 26
10th Percentile £440 £461 £456
25th Percentile £455 £466 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £623 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +10.76% -7.22%
75th Percentile £713 £668 £775
90th Percentile £788 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £700 £748 £565
% change year-on-year -6.42% +32.39% -13.08%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Migration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Migration Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Migration Architect in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Migration Architect in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Architect in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Migration Architect in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wales - 3 £446 - 4
South East +45 2 £700 +47.37% 4
Midlands +19 1 - - 2
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Scotland +12 1 - -
North of England - 1 £825 - 1
North East - 1 £825 -
Migration Architect
UK

Migration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Migration Architect 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 UK excluding London region featuring Migration Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) TOGAF
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Google
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) CITP
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL

Migration Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) TOGAF
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Case Management
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CITP
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Workday