Migration Specialist Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Migration Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Migration Specialist daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 324 468
Rank change year-on-year +33 +144 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Specialist 13 21 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.14% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 7
10th Percentile £331 £463 £283
25th Percentile £409 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.94% -8.11%
75th Percentile £573 £571 £481
90th Percentile £618 £669 £513
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Migration Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Migration Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Migration Specialist trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Migration Specialist.

Migration Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Migration Specialist over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Migration Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Migration Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Migration Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) vSphere
4 3 (23.08%) Law
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
6 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (7.69%) Business Case
6 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.69%) Database Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Data Design
6 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (7.69%) BigQuery

Migration Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) RStudio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Law
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Application Discovery
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (7.69%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Information Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) vSphere
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) XenApp
2 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Citrix
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.69%) SAP