Migration Manager Contracts

Migration Manager
UK

The median Migration Manager daily rate in the UK is £545, 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 459 504 585
Rank change year-on-year +45 +81 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Manager 60 96 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 66 96
10th Percentile £413 £450 £419
25th Percentile £483 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +1.10% +8.33%
75th Percentile £654 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £700 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
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 Manager 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 +35 50 £533 -8.47% 5
London +14 28 £545 -16.15% 5
Work from Home +41 25 £540 -8.24% 2
UK excluding London +40 24 £575 +9.52% 1
North of England +34 11 £525 -25.00%
North West +16 7 £367 -47.57%
South East +37 4 £500 -17.18% 1
Midlands +25 4 £700 +21.74%
Yorkshire +16 4 £538 -
Scotland +12 4 £713 -
West Midlands +16 2 - -
South West +41 1 £625 +42.05%
East Midlands +10 1 £700 -

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

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

1 60 (100.00%) Migration
2 32 (53.33%) Finance
3 22 (36.67%) Project Management
3 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
4 15 (25.00%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Azure
5 13 (21.67%) Data Migration
5 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
8 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 8 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 8 (13.33%) Waterfall
10 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (11.67%) Banking
10 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.00%) DevOps
11 6 (10.00%) Scrum
11 6 (10.00%) PMP
11 6 (10.00%) AWS
11 6 (10.00%) QA
12 5 (8.33%) Test Strategy
12 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
12 5 (8.33%) Financial Institution
12 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
12 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
13 4 (6.67%) Change Management
13 4 (6.67%) ERP
13 4 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (6.67%) ETL

Migration Manager 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (3.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.00%) AWS
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (1.67%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) JIRA
1 1 (1.67%) MSI
General
1 32 (53.33%) Finance
2 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Front Office
6 2 (3.33%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) German Language
7 1 (1.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.67%) Derivative
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Migration
2 22 (36.67%) Project Management
3 15 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (21.67%) Data Migration
4 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 8 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 8 (13.33%) Waterfall
7 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.00%) DevOps
8 6 (10.00%) Scrum
9 5 (8.33%) Test Strategy
10 4 (6.67%) Change Management
10 4 (6.67%) ERP
10 4 (6.67%) ETL
10 4 (6.67%) ITIL
11 3 (5.00%) Asset Management
11 3 (5.00%) Kanban
11 3 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) PMP
2 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle
2 3 (5.00%) SAP
2 3 (5.00%) VMware
3 2 (3.33%) Fujitsu
3 2 (3.33%) Workday
4 1 (1.67%) AlgoSec
4 1 (1.67%) Facebook
4 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.67%) IFS
4 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.67%) Remedy
4 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds