Migration Architect Contract Job Trends

Migration Architect
UK

The median Migration Architect daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 508 579
Rank change year-on-year -55 +71 +165
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Architect 21 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.11% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.11% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 24
10th Percentile £490 £390 £481
25th Percentile £504 £398 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £667
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -21.29% -4.72%
75th Percentile £609 £700 £795
90th Percentile £875 £766 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £669
% change year-on-year +22.22% -32.73% -7.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,513 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Migration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Migration Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Migration Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the UK

Migration Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Architect over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Architect in the UK

Migration Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Architect job vacancies in the UK

Migration Architect
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -46 16 £575 +9.52% 1
London -17 10 £588 +2.17% 1
Work from Home -2 8 £525 -
UK excluding London -45 7 £550 +22.22% 1
South East -22 3 £600 -14.29% 1
West Midlands -32 2 £390 -13.33%
Midlands -40 2 £390 -13.33%
South West -8 1 £500 -25.93%
Scotland - 1 - -

Migration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Migration Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Migration Architect in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) Migration
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) AWS
6 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Cisco
6 4 (19.05%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (19.05%) Terraform
7 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (14.29%) VMware
7 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (14.29%) VPN
8 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (9.52%) Change Management
8 2 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials

Migration Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.76%) Boomi
6 1 (4.76%) Collibra
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Hub
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) EDI
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) VMS
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
6 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation
6 2 (9.52%) Information Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Runbook
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM
6 2 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Korn
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Informatica
4 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 2 (9.52%) Sophos
5 1 (4.76%) Facebook
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce