Migration Consultant Contracts

Migration Consultant
UK

The median Migration Consultant daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 534 639
Rank change year-on-year +71 +105 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Consultant 54 56 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 36
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £422 £433 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £610 £580 £604
90th Percentile £665 £741 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +20.92% -8.00% +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 26,982 39,941 54,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.76% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,601 26,001 38,348
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,049 2,673 1,536
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%

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 9 May 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 13 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 9 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
England +57 36 £596 +19.25% 16
Work from Home +35 24 £575 +12.20% 11
UK excluding London +53 23 £556 +20.92% 9
London +57 16 £575 +7.48% 11
South East +41 5 £575 +27.78% 1
North of England +17 5 £600 +23.08% 2
Wales +4 5 £400 -
Scotland +15 4 £475 - 4
North West +13 3 £660 +35.38% 2
East of England +35 2 £605 - 1
South West +32 2 - -
Yorkshire +10 1 £538 +26.47%
North East - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 54 (100.00%) Migration
2 33 (61.11%) Data Migration
3 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
4 15 (27.78%) Validation
4 15 (27.78%) SQL
4 15 (27.78%) SAP
5 14 (25.93%) Azure
6 13 (24.07%) ETL
6 13 (24.07%) Finance
6 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.67%) Oracle
7 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
8 8 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (14.81%) Data Mapping
9 7 (12.96%) Data Validation
9 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
9 7 (12.96%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (11.11%) ERP
10 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.26%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
11 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
11 5 (9.26%) PL/SQL
11 5 (9.26%) Python
11 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
11 5 (9.26%) Data Extraction
11 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared

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 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (3.70%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (3.70%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.85%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.85%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) OCI
5 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Serverless
6 1 (1.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) NGN
1 1 (1.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (3.70%) Power Query
4 1 (1.85%) Adabas
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) LSMW
2 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (1.85%) BAPI
3 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.85%) REST
3 1 (1.85%) Swagger
3 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.70%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) AIX
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Migration
2 33 (61.11%) Data Migration
3 15 (27.78%) Validation
4 13 (24.07%) ETL
4 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.81%) Data Mapping
6 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
6 7 (12.96%) Data Validation
6 7 (12.96%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (11.11%) ERP
7 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.26%) Data Extraction
8 5 (9.26%) DevOps
9 4 (7.41%) Data Cleansing
9 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (7.41%) TOGAF
9 4 (7.41%) Wealth Management
10 3 (5.56%) Data Management
10 3 (5.56%) Project Management
10 3 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) PL/SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Python
3 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.70%) ABAP
5 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) Natural
6 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Azure Certification
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CEH
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) SAP
2 9 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.70%) Sun
5 1 (1.85%) Ariba
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Civica
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.85%) NEC
5 1 (1.85%) Nintex
5 1 (1.85%) OpenText
5 1 (1.85%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.85%) Sophos