Server Migrations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Migrations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Migrations over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 379 407
Rank change year-on-year +54 +28 +60
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 10 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.030% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.035% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 26
10th Percentile £325 £324 £356
25th Percentile £381 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £519
90th Percentile £591 £553 £556
UK median daily rate £406 £413 £475
% change year-on-year -1.52% -13.16% -9.52%

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Server Migrations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Migrations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Migrations in the UK excluding London

Server Migrations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK excluding London

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 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Migrations in the UK excluding London

Server Migrations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK excluding London

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 19 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
South East +41 7 £400 +1.59% 4
North of England +18 2 £350 -12.50%
North East - 2 £350 -
South West - 1 £575 - 2
Server Migrations
UK

Server Migrations
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 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Nutanix
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
2 2 (20.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (20.00%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Nutanix Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (10.00%) VMS
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) NFS
1 2 (20.00%) Samba
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) yum
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle