Data Migration Engineer Contracts

Data Migration Engineer
UK

The median Data Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £80 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 687 841
Rank change year-on-year +151 +154 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 54 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.027% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.029% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 13
10th Percentile - £328 £386
25th Percentile - £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £80 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -84.39% +13.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £554 £525
90th Percentile £619 £602 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £80 £388 £425
% change year-on-year -79.35% -8.82% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £72.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England +164 52 £80 -84.76%
UK excluding London +96 45 £80 -79.35% 2
South West +38 20 £80 -79.35%
East of England - 16 £80 -
Work from Home +129 13 £563 +2.27%
North of England +37 9 £588 +95.51%
Yorkshire - 8 £588 -
London +90 7 £469 -14.77%
North West +17 1 - -

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Data 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 featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Migration
2 43 (79.63%) Data Migration
3 37 (68.52%) Micro Focus
4 25 (46.30%) DevSecOps
5 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
5 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
6 11 (20.37%) SQL
7 10 (18.52%) Aerospace
8 9 (16.67%) Big Data
8 9 (16.67%) Data Centre
9 8 (14.81%) Finance
9 8 (14.81%) VMS
10 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
10 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (12.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (11.11%) ETL
12 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
13 4 (7.41%) Analytics
13 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
13 4 (7.41%) Twitter
13 4 (7.41%) Clustering
13 4 (7.41%) Data Management
13 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
13 4 (7.41%) IIS
13 4 (7.41%) Windows
13 4 (7.41%) Linux
13 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
13 4 (7.41%) SAN
13 4 (7.41%) Windows Server

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.41%) IIS
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.70%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) SAN
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.85%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Big Data
2 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (18.52%) Aerospace
2 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Aviation
3 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) VMS
2 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Migration
2 43 (79.63%) Data Migration
3 25 (46.30%) DevSecOps
4 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
5 6 (11.11%) ETL
6 4 (7.41%) Analytics
6 4 (7.41%) Data Management
7 3 (5.56%) Agile
7 3 (5.56%) Business Analytics
7 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (5.56%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (5.56%) Database Migration
7 3 (5.56%) DataOps
7 3 (5.56%) Decision-Making
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) Information Exploitation
7 3 (5.56%) Information Management
7 3 (5.56%) Visualisation
8 2 (3.70%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (3.70%) Housing Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) SQL
2 3 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (68.52%) Micro Focus
2 4 (7.41%) Twitter
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) NEC
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Arista
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Isilon
4 1 (1.85%) Novell
4 1 (1.85%) OpenText