Migration Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 302 334 419
Rank change year-on-year +32 +85 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 34 65 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 35
10th Percentile £288 - £168
25th Percentile £382 £80 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% +56.57%
75th Percentile £608 £569 £508
90th Percentile £670 £619 £549
UK median daily rate £510 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +13.33% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 23 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +128.57% -39.13%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Migration Engineer
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 Engineer 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
North of England +22 18 £525 -6.67% 1
North West +27 14 £620 +30.53%
South East +39 6 £300 -36.84%
Midlands +26 5 £513 - 2
West Midlands +17 4 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +1 4 £388 -32.52% 1
East of England +16 2 £450 +462.50%
South West +27 1 - -
Wales - 1 £586 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Migration Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Migration Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (97.06%) Migration
2 20 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (47.06%) Data Migration
4 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
5 12 (35.29%) Data Mapping
5 12 (35.29%) SQL
5 12 (35.29%) ETL
5 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (32.35%) Oracle
7 10 (29.41%) PL/SQL
7 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
7 10 (29.41%) Azure
7 10 (29.41%) Validation
8 9 (26.47%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (26.47%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (26.47%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
10 7 (20.59%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (14.71%) DevOps
12 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
12 5 (14.71%) Agile
13 4 (11.76%) Windows
13 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (11.76%) Cisco
13 4 (11.76%) DNS
13 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
13 4 (11.76%) Project Management
13 4 (11.76%) OneDrive

Migration Engineer 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 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (8.82%) Confluence
4 1 (2.94%) IBM Notes
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) OneDrive
4 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) IaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) IP Telephony
2 2 (5.88%) VLAN
2 2 (5.88%) VPN
2 2 (5.88%) Wireless
3 1 (2.94%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (2.94%) GGSN
3 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.94%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Appium
2 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.94%) Flyway
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.94%) Postman
2 1 (2.94%) Selenium
2 1 (2.94%) Vagrant
2 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Aviation
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.94%) Chai
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.94%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Migration
2 20 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (47.06%) Data Migration
4 12 (35.29%) Data Mapping
4 12 (35.29%) ETL
5 10 (29.41%) Validation
6 9 (26.47%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
8 5 (14.71%) DevOps
9 4 (11.76%) Project Management
10 3 (8.82%) Data Governance
10 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
11 2 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (5.88%) Data Management
11 2 (5.88%) E-Discovery
11 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) HP APS
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CSSLP
3 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.94%) MCP
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Argo
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Nagios
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.88%) Epicor
4 2 (5.88%) HP
4 2 (5.88%) Infoblox
4 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) Commvault
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Huawei
5 1 (2.94%) Lotus
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) NetApp
5 1 (2.94%) Nokia
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Zerto