Server Migrations Contracts

Server Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Server Migrations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Migrations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 567 644
Rank change year-on-year +66 +77 +91
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 19 15 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.034% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.040% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 59
10th Percentile £348 £306 £393
25th Percentile £400 £372 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -13.16% -17.39%
75th Percentile £566 £536 £556
90th Percentile £636 £599 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Migrations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Server Migrations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Migrations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations.

Daily rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Migrations over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Migrations in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations.

Hourly rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Migrations within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +60 17 £406 -4.41% 12
UK excluding London +69 12 £400 -5.88% 10
South East +53 9 £400 +1.59% 1
Work from Home +39 5 £488 -2.50% 4
London +33 2 £444 +10.94% 4
North of England +19 2 £350 -12.50%
North East - 2 £350 -
South West - 1 £575 - 4

Server Migrations
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 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Nutanix
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) DHCP
2 4 (21.05%) FTP
2 4 (21.05%) SMTP
2 4 (21.05%) tcpdump
2 4 (21.05%) Telnet
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) NGFW
3 2 (10.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Server Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Nutanix Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) DBA
4 2 (10.53%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Support
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) LDAP
2 2 (10.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.26%) VMS
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Migration
2 8 (42.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (10.53%) Application Security
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) RBAC
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.53%) Server Management
5 2 (10.53%) SIEM
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CISM
3 2 (10.53%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) NFS
1 4 (21.05%) Samba
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) yum
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) SCCM
3 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) VMware
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.79%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.26%) IBM
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (5.26%) Tenable
6 1 (5.26%) Zscaler