Migration Consultant Contracts

Migration Consultant
UK

The median Migration Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 546 647
Rank change year-on-year +76 +101 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Consultant 49 54 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 35
10th Percentile £389 £325 £363
25th Percentile £409 £433 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £607 £606 £590
90th Percentile £711 £741 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +22.25% -9.00% +7.53%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Migration Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Consultant in the UK

Migration Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Consultant in the UK

Migration Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Consultant over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Consultant in the UK

Migration Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Consultant in the UK

Migration Consultant
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +54 34 £575 +9.52% 23
Work from Home +45 23 £575 +6.98% 14
London +29 18 £575 +1.32% 12
UK excluding London +47 17 £556 +22.25% 12
South East +44 5 £575 +27.78% 2
North of England +29 5 £600 +41.18% 4
Wales +7 5 £400 -
North West +12 3 £660 - 4
South West +40 2 - -
Yorkshire +14 1 £538 +26.47%
North East - 1 £600 -

Migration Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Migration Consultant 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 Migration Consultant in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Migration
2 30 (61.22%) Data Migration
3 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
4 15 (30.61%) Azure
4 15 (30.61%) SQL
5 13 (26.53%) SAP
5 13 (26.53%) ETL
5 13 (26.53%) Validation
5 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.41%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (20.41%) Oracle
7 9 (18.37%) Finance
7 9 (18.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (16.33%) Data Mapping
9 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
9 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
10 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
11 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
11 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
11 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
11 5 (10.20%) Data Validation
11 5 (10.20%) ERP
11 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
11 5 (10.20%) PL/SQL
11 5 (10.20%) Python
11 5 (10.20%) Oracle EBS

Migration Consultant 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 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (18.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (4.08%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (4.08%) SAP HCM
5 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (2.04%) NEC Housing
5 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (2.04%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) OCI
5 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
1 1 (2.04%) NGN
1 1 (2.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) Power Query
4 1 (2.04%) Adabas
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) LSMW
2 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Automotive
5 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Billing
6 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) BAPI
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Swagger
3 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) AIX
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) VMS
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Migration
2 30 (61.22%) Data Migration
3 13 (26.53%) ETL
3 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (26.53%) Validation
4 8 (16.33%) Data Mapping
5 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 5 (10.20%) Data Validation
6 5 (10.20%) ERP
7 4 (8.16%) DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) TOGAF
8 3 (6.12%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (6.12%) Data Extraction
8 3 (6.12%) Data Management
8 3 (6.12%) Data Transformation
8 3 (6.12%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.12%) Project Management
8 3 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.08%) CRM
9 2 (4.08%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) PL/SQL
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.12%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.08%) ABAP
5 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) Natural
6 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) CEH
4 1 (2.04%) CISM
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) SAP
2 10 (20.41%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Sun
6 1 (2.04%) Ariba
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) Civica
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.04%) NEC
6 1 (2.04%) OpenText
6 1 (2.04%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.04%) Sophos
6 1 (2.04%) Zuora