Migration Specialist Contracts

Migration Specialist
UK

The median Migration Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 665 817
Rank change year-on-year +125 +152 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Specialist 45 28 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.048% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.051% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 22
10th Percentile £435 £353 £300
25th Percentile £475 £395 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £517
90th Percentile £650 £763 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +10.54% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.15
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
75th Percentile - - £39.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £38.16

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Migration Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration Specialist in the UK

Migration Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Specialist in the UK

Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Specialist over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Specialist in the UK

Migration Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Specialist in the UK

Migration Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +115 40 £550 +4.76% 7
UK excluding London +83 23 £511 +10.54% 5
Work from Home +138 21 £520 +18.86% 3
London +86 15 £585 +4.93% 2
South East +31 12 £500 - 3
North of England +28 4 £511 +13.61%
Midlands +32 3 £530 +23.98%
North West - 3 £503 -
East Midlands - 3 £530 -
East of England +2 2 £550 - 3
South West - 2 - -
Yorkshire +26 1 £520 +15.56%

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Migration Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Migration
2 35 (77.78%) Data Migration
3 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (17.78%) SQL
5 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
6 7 (15.56%) Oracle
6 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
6 7 (15.56%) Retail
6 7 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) AWS
7 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
7 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database 10g
7 6 (13.33%) Windows
8 5 (11.11%) CRM
8 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
8 5 (11.11%) Information Security
8 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
8 5 (11.11%) Data Extraction
8 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
8 5 (11.11%) Azure
8 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
9 4 (8.89%) ShareGate
9 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
9 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
9 4 (8.89%) ERP

Migration Specialist 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) NEC Housing
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) ShareGate
4 3 (6.67%) dbt
4 3 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) MS Access
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Retail
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) .NET
1 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.22%) WCF
1 1 (2.22%) WinForms
1 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.22%) FMCG
2 1 (2.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Migration
2 35 (77.78%) Data Migration
3 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (11.11%) CRM
4 5 (11.11%) Data Extraction
4 5 (11.11%) Information Security
5 4 (8.89%) ERP
6 3 (6.67%) Business Transformation
6 3 (6.67%) Data Mapping
6 3 (6.67%) ETL
6 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.44%) Customer Service
7 2 (4.44%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (4.44%) Data Design
7 2 (4.44%) Data Matching
7 2 (4.44%) Data Protection
7 2 (4.44%) Quality Management
7 2 (4.44%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) XenApp
2 2 (4.44%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Informatica
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Citrix
4 2 (4.44%) Civica
4 2 (4.44%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (4.44%) NEC
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk