Service Migration Contracts with Work from Home Options

Service Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Service Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 427 603
Rank change year-on-year +97 +176 -132
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 7 40 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.16% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.17% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile £320 £411 £404
25th Percentile £413 £417 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -22.45% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £694
90th Percentile £653 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% +30.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Service Migration 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Service Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Service Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service Migration trend for jobs with a WFH option

Service Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Service Migration.

Service Migration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Migration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Service Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Service Migration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Migration
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Online Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
1 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Genesys
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft