Migration Project Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Migration Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Migration Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 354 399
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Project Manager 21 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.085% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.092% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £500 £413 £450
25th Percentile £505 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% +1.20% +3.75%
75th Percentile £606 £606 £655
90th Percentile £625 £625 £693
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £556
% change year-on-year +2.33% -3.37% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.53 - -
25th Percentile £42.11 - -
Median hourly rate £48.64 - -
75th Percentile £54.61 - -
90th Percentile £57.84 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.64 - -

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 13,914 16,298 20,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 92.25% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,564 9,294 13,581
10th Percentile £210 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,306 1,339 1,223
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.59 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -2.27% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.56 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.83 £74.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Migration Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Migration Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Migration Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Migration Project Manager
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 Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands -18 7 £600 -
West Midlands -13 6 £600 -
North of England -22 5 £513 -2.38% 1
Scotland +2 4 £475 -
North West -7 4 £513 -2.38%
South West +21 3 £600 +33.33% 1
South East +15 2 £500 +19.05% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £573 - 1
Migration Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, Migration Project Manager 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Migration
2 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (42.86%) Project Management
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
5 7 (33.33%) Data Migration
6 6 (28.57%) Azure
7 5 (23.81%) Finance
8 4 (19.05%) ETL
8 4 (19.05%) Validation
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 3 (14.29%) AWS
9 3 (14.29%) Power BI
9 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (14.29%) ERP
9 3 (14.29%) SQL
9 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 2 (9.52%) Law
10 2 (9.52%) Change Management
10 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
10 2 (9.52%) PMP
10 2 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
10 2 (9.52%) Data Validation
10 2 (9.52%) JIRA
10 2 (9.52%) QA

Migration Project Manager 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Boomi
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) OCI
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) QlikView
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Migration
2 9 (42.86%) Project Management
2 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) ERP
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.52%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.52%) Programme Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Server Migrations
6 2 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Cognos
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Informatica
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Progress
2 1 (4.76%) Remedy
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Talend