Migration Manager Contract Job Trends

Migration Manager
UK

The median Migration Manager 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 505 489 484
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Manager 79 55 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 43 88
10th Percentile £420 £463 £450
25th Percentile £468 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £659 £653 £675
90th Percentile £713 £687 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.53 - -
25th Percentile £42.11 - -
Median hourly rate £48.64 - -
75th Percentile £54.61 - -
90th Percentile £57.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.64 - -

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Migration Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Migration Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Migration Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Migration Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Manager over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Manager in the UK

Migration Manager
Top 15 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 Manager 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 -11 68 £573 -0.43% 7
UK excluding London -8 41 £550 -10.20% 4
London -16 29 £575 +4.55% 5
Work from Home +8 28 £550 +7.84% 3
North of England -41 14 £513 -18.00% 1
North West -22 10 £513 -18.00%
South East -17 9 £625 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -28 6 £468 -25.12%
Midlands -37 6 £468 -28.00% 1
Scotland - 6 £619 -
South West -3 5 £600 +4.35%
Yorkshire - 4 £549 - 1
East of England - 2 £650 -
East Midlands -18 1 £468 -33.14% 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Migration Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 78 (98.73%) Migration
2 28 (35.44%) Data Migration
3 27 (34.18%) Project Management
4 23 (29.11%) Agile
4 23 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.99%) JIRA
5 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
6 14 (17.72%) AWS
6 14 (17.72%) Azure
7 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
7 13 (16.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (12.66%) Validation
9 9 (11.39%) ERP
9 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
9 9 (11.39%) SAP
10 8 (10.13%) Confluence
10 8 (10.13%) PMI Certification
10 8 (10.13%) PMP
10 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.13%) Programme Management
10 8 (10.13%) Risk Management
10 8 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
11 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
12 6 (7.59%) QA
12 6 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
12 6 (7.59%) Waterfall
13 5 (6.33%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (6.33%) Data Modelling

Migration Manager 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 8 (10.13%) Confluence
2 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.27%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) AWS
1 14 (17.72%) Azure
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.06%) GCP
4 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.80%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.53%) Apple Pay
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.53%) Google Pay
6 2 (2.53%) IaaS
6 2 (2.53%) OCI
7 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.27%) Boomi
7 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.27%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Power BI
1 3 (3.80%) Tableau
2 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.27%) GIS
2 1 (1.27%) Metadata
2 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.27%) QlikView
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (18.99%) JIRA
General
1 30 (37.97%) Finance
2 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Banking
3 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Retail
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Law
5 2 (2.53%) Local Government
5 2 (2.53%) Military
5 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Automotive
6 1 (1.27%) Billing
6 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.27%) Front Office
6 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.27%) Middleware
2 1 (1.27%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.27%) Spring
2 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.27%) CCTV
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.27%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.27%) FMCG
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) VMS
3 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (98.73%) Migration
2 28 (35.44%) Data Migration
3 27 (34.18%) Project Management
4 23 (29.11%) Agile
4 23 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
5 13 (16.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (12.66%) Validation
7 9 (11.39%) ERP
7 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.13%) Programme Management
8 8 (10.13%) Risk Management
8 8 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.59%) Waterfall
11 5 (6.33%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (6.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (6.33%) System Integration Testing
11 5 (6.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.80%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) Java
2 1 (1.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) PMI Certification
1 8 (10.13%) PMP
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) OCP
3 4 (5.06%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.80%) PgMP
4 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) QA
2 5 (6.33%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (1.27%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.27%) SCCM
1 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) SAP
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Samsung
6 2 (2.53%) Avature
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) Informatica
6 2 (2.53%) Talend
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) FNZ
7 1 (1.27%) HP
7 1 (1.27%) IFS
7 1 (1.27%) Progress
7 1 (1.27%) Remedy
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce