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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 317 386
Rank change year-on-year -10 +69 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 41 61 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 25
10th Percentile £153 - £266
25th Percentile £174 £80 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +1.12% +17.49%
75th Percentile £648 £550 £530
90th Percentile £670 £589 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -5.26% +6.74% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.56% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £53.09 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -68.56% +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 13,770 16,993 21,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,432 10,367 14,371
10th Percentile £215 £220 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 1,773 1,162
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +76.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 5 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 August 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 -11 16 £620 +10.22%
North West +4 13 £645 +35.79%
South East +29 8 £153 -67.79% 3
South West +11 6 £377 +370.63% 2
East of England -3 6 £153 +91.25% 2
Midlands -7 6 £350 -22.22% 2
Scotland 0 5 £153 -72.18%
West Midlands -2 4 £190 -57.78% 2
Yorkshire -11 3 £388 -31.02%
Northern Ireland - 2 £162 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Migration Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 40 (97.56%) Migration
2 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
3 17 (41.46%) Data Migration
4 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (34.15%) Validation
5 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
6 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
6 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (31.71%) Oracle
7 12 (29.27%) SQL
8 11 (26.83%) ETL
8 11 (26.83%) Data Mapping
9 10 (24.39%) PL/SQL
10 9 (21.95%) Windows
10 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
10 9 (21.95%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (21.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (21.95%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (17.07%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (17.07%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (14.63%) Workflow Management
12 6 (14.63%) Workflow
13 5 (12.20%) Time Management
13 5 (12.20%) Azure
13 5 (12.20%) QA
13 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
14 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
14 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.32%) Confluence
3 2 (4.88%) Documentum
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.44%) IBM Notes
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.88%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 2 (4.88%) ShareGate
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) 4G
2 1 (2.44%) 5G
2 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Appium
2 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.44%) Vagrant
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Aviation
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.44%) Chai
1 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.44%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Migration
2 17 (41.46%) Data Migration
3 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (34.15%) Validation
5 11 (26.83%) Data Mapping
5 11 (26.83%) ETL
6 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
6 9 (21.95%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (17.07%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (14.63%) Workflow
8 6 (14.63%) Workflow Management
9 5 (12.20%) Time Management
10 3 (7.32%) Agile
10 3 (7.32%) Data Validation
10 3 (7.32%) DevOps
10 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 2 (4.88%) Change Management
11 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (4.88%) Logistics
11 2 (4.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 10 (24.39%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) MCP
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.44%) Puppet
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco
3 2 (4.88%) EMC
3 2 (4.88%) McAfee
3 2 (4.88%) Sophos
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Commvault
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Lotus
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) SendGrid
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) VMware