Migration Engineer Contracts

Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 464 565
Rank change year-on-year +17 +101 +154
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 87 129 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 75 97
10th Percentile £159 £80 £220
25th Percentile £394 £278 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £600 £569 £538
90th Percentile £694 £614 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £213 £419
% change year-on-year +135.29% -49.25% +29.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 1
10th Percentile - £41.00 -
25th Percentile - £63.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.56% +128.57% -39.13%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £67.06 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.56% - -

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 27,617 40,796 52,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.91% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,719 26,125 36,530
10th Percentile £289 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.36% -1.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,193 3,003 1,492
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.45 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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 +7 78 £500 +11.11% 37
London +30 39 £518 +8.95% 18
UK excluding London +16 39 £500 +135.29% 21
Work from Home +33 25 £463 -14.35% 5
North of England +18 18 £550 -2.22% 1
North West +20 14 £633 +84.00% 1
South East +45 7 £153 -67.79% 11
South West +23 6 £377 +370.63% 4
Midlands +16 6 £350 - 1
East of England +14 5 £153 +91.25% 2
West Midlands +13 4 £190 - 1
Yorkshire -1 4 £388 -32.52%
Scotland - 3 £153 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £162 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2025, 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 Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 85 (97.70%) Migration
2 32 (36.78%) Data Migration
3 30 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (28.74%) Azure
5 22 (25.29%) SQL
6 20 (22.99%) Security Cleared
7 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
8 17 (19.54%) DevOps
9 16 (18.39%) Oracle
9 16 (18.39%) ETL
9 16 (18.39%) Validation
10 15 (17.24%) Windows
10 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
10 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (16.09%) SharePoint
12 13 (14.94%) Finance
12 13 (14.94%) AWS
12 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
13 12 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (12.64%) Data Mapping
14 11 (12.64%) Python
14 11 (12.64%) Data Modelling
15 10 (11.49%) PL/SQL
15 10 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 10 (11.49%) Terraform
16 9 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
16 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
17 8 (9.20%) Ansible

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 14 (16.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.60%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) Documentum
5 1 (1.15%) Drupal
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.74%) Azure
2 13 (14.94%) AWS
3 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.05%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) IaaS
6 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.60%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.45%) Google Workspace
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.45%) Serverless
7 3 (3.45%) ShareGate
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.30%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) VPN
4 2 (2.30%) BGP
4 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (2.30%) MPLS
4 2 (2.30%) Network Security
4 2 (2.30%) OSPF
4 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.15%) 4G
5 1 (1.15%) 5G
5 1 (1.15%) FCoE
5 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) SDH
5 1 (1.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
4 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) Power BI
4 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.15%) MS Access
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
1 5 (5.75%) GitLab
1 5 (5.75%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Appium
4 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.15%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.15%) Flyway
4 1 (1.15%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.15%) Postman
4 1 (1.15%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.15%) Selenium
4 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Law
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Aviation
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.30%) JSON
3 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.15%) Chai
3 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.15%) Kafka
3 1 (1.15%) Node.js
3 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.15%) ServiceStack
3 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) BYOD
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.15%) IoT
4 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.30%) CentOS
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (97.70%) Migration
2 32 (36.78%) Data Migration
3 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (19.54%) DevOps
5 16 (18.39%) ETL
5 16 (18.39%) Validation
6 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
7 11 (12.64%) Data Mapping
7 11 (12.64%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.20%) Agile
10 7 (8.05%) Change Management
10 7 (8.05%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (8.05%) Time Management
11 6 (6.90%) Database Migration
11 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.90%) Runbook
11 6 (6.90%) Workflow
11 6 (6.90%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.29%) SQL
2 11 (12.64%) Python
3 10 (11.49%) PL/SQL
4 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.90%) Bash
6 3 (3.45%) C#
6 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.30%) Groovy
7 2 (2.30%) Java
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.15%) HNC
8 1 (1.15%) HND
8 1 (1.15%) MCP
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) vSphere
3 4 (4.60%) Docker
4 1 (1.15%) Firmware
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Terraform
2 8 (9.20%) Ansible
3 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.60%) Puppet
5 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (18.39%) Oracle
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco
4 3 (3.45%) F5
4 3 (3.45%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) VMware
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Citrix
5 2 (2.30%) EMC
5 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.30%) Hitachi
5 2 (2.30%) McAfee
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.30%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.30%) Sophos
6 1 (1.15%) Commvault
6 1 (1.15%) Dell
6 1 (1.15%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.15%) Lotus
6 1 (1.15%) Nokia
39 Migration Engineer jobs Nationwide