Migration Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £465, 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 357 347 411
Rank change year-on-year -10 +64 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 13 27 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.15% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.16% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 9
10th Percentile £420 - £400
25th Percentile £437 £390 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.36% +25.00% -10.20%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £588
90th Percentile £616 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £480 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -21.63% +6.52% -9.80%

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 13,882 16,547 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 92.27% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,532 9,572 13,610
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 1,426 1,206
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.68% +99.20%
75th Percentile £51.85 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies 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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Architect in the UK excluding London

Migration Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies 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 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
South East +6 6 £600 -14.29%
Wales - 3 £446 -
West Midlands -6 2 £390 -13.33% 2
Midlands -16 2 £390 -13.33% 2
South West +25 1 £500 -25.93%
Scotland - 1 - -
Migration Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 13 (100.00%) Migration
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) TOGAF
5 4 (30.77%) Google
5 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
6 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Open Source
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco
7 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 2 (15.38%) Middleware
7 2 (15.38%) Sophos
7 2 (15.38%) Oracle
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (15.38%) ITIL
7 2 (15.38%) SharePoint

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 2 (15.38%) ArcGIS
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Spatial
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
1 2 (15.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (15.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
4 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) ShareGate
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) GIS
1 2 (15.38%) Spatial Data
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Health
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) PostGIS
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) TOGAF
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Magik
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) CITP
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) ESRI
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Sophos
5 1 (7.69%) Databricks
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki