Service Migration Contracts

Service Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Migration 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 501 563 655
Rank change year-on-year +62 +92 +155
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 19 19 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 36
10th Percentile £438 £330 £369
25th Percentile £447 £492 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +36.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £531
90th Percentile £790 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £459 £474
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.16% -13.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Migration 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%

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Migration over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Migration 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 +58 18 £455 -30.00% 8
London +41 13 £460 -29.23% 2
Work from Home +42 8 £525 -4.55% 2
UK excluding London +61 5 £450 -1.96% 5
South West +49 4 £446 -28.64% 3
North of England +18 2 £625 +13.64% 1
North West - 2 £625 - 1

Service Migration
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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (21.05%) IaaS
2 4 (21.05%) PaaS
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 5 (26.32%) French Language
2 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Military
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Service Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Designer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Service Designer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Private Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Migration
2 10 (52.63%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Project Management
3 5 (26.32%) Service Management
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) ITSM
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Operational Stability
6 2 (10.53%) Service Design
7 1 (5.26%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.26%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.26%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft