Server Migrations Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 299 338 430
Rank change year-on-year +39 +92 +143
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 5 7 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.046% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.052% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 37
10th Percentile £478 £325 £400
25th Percentile £481 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £494 £519 £520
90th Percentile £498 £673 £605
UK median daily rate £444 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +7.58% -13.16% -17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Migrations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Migrations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Migrations trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Server Migrations
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Server Migrations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Migrations
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
1 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (40.00%) Telnet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
1 2 (40.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable