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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 562 646
Rank change year-on-year +65 +84 +155
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 26 17 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.040% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.046% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 29
10th Percentile £439 £422 £398
25th Percentile £448 £525 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £575
90th Percentile £773 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £505 £498
% change year-on-year -11.60% +1.41% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.18 - -
Median hourly rate £52.67 - -
75th Percentile £69.25 - -
90th Percentile £78.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.67 - -

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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Migration over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 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 +64 24 £455 -30.00% 9
UK excluding London +51 12 £446 -11.60% 6
London +48 12 £530 -18.46% 2
South West +48 10 £442 -29.28% 5
Work from Home +41 10 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England +22 3 £625 +13.64% 1
North West - 3 £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 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) IaaS
2 4 (15.38%) PaaS
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
General
1 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (19.23%) French Language
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Military
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Designer
1 6 (23.08%) Service Designer
2 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Service Transition Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Transition Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Jinja
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 4 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Blackberry
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Migration
2 10 (38.46%) ITIL
3 9 (34.62%) Service Management
4 7 (26.92%) ITSM
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (23.08%) Service Design
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Project Management
7 4 (15.38%) Change Management
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) Build Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Operational Stability
9 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 1 (3.85%) Data Migration
10 1 (3.85%) Data Protection
10 1 (3.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft