Server Migrations Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Server Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Migrations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 345 401
Rank change year-on-year -48 +56 +49
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 16 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.060% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.069% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £406 £381 £340
25th Percentile £437 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £414
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +20.85% -8.06%
75th Percentile £597 £525 £528
90th Percentile £651 £735 £648
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +10.00% +14.29% -7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Server Migrations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,063 17,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.08% 86.86% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,544 7,687 11,140
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 773 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.28 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -27.46% +39.06%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Server Migrations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Migrations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Server Migrations job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Server Migrations
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Migrations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Migrations

Server Migrations
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Migrations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Migrations in the UK excluding London

Server Migrations
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Migrations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Migrations

Server Migrations
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 Server Migrations within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -24 8 £600 +20.00%
West Midlands - 8 £600 -
North of England -44 4 £430 +27.33%
Yorkshire -41 3 £413 +22.22%
South West - 3 £475 - 1
South East -18 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £675 -
Server Migrations
UK

Server Migrations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) NAS
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Consultant
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 6 (37.50%) IT Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Server Migration Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Server Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Test Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) FMCG
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Validation
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Kanban
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 3 (18.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
1 3 (18.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) F5
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Siemens