Server Migrations Contracts

Server Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Server Migrations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Migrations over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 644 730
Rank change year-on-year +61 +86 -111
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 15 75 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 60 100
10th Percentile £306 £396 £381
25th Percentile £372 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £583
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -18.45% +13.66%
75th Percentile £536 £547 £630
90th Percentile £599 £620 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £519
% change year-on-year -5.56% -13.25% -4.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Migrations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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

Server Migrations
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 27 April 2024.

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

Server Migrations
Top 11 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 27 April 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 +75 14 £425 -10.53% 12
Work from Home +91 7 £500 +5.26% 5
London +86 7 £400 -32.20% 2
UK excluding London +26 6 £425 -5.56% 10
North of England +28 2 £400 -21.95% 4
South East +20 2 £394 -14.18%
West Midlands +16 1 £575 +35.29% 3
East of England +16 1 £425 +13.33%
Yorkshire +16 1 £400 -21.95% 4
North West +15 1 - -
Midlands 0 1 £575 +27.78% 5

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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) IDMS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Maven
1 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Database Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Functional Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) VSAM
2 1 (6.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
1 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) Security Hardening
4 1 (6.67%) Server Management
4 1 (6.67%) Server Patching
4 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (13.33%) WSUS
3 1 (6.67%) Nessus
3 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys