Service Migration Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 296 338 434
Rank change year-on-year +42 +96 +176
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 8 7 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.046% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.052% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £411 £320 £412
25th Percentile £448 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -25.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £653 £743
UK median daily rate £460 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -29.23% +36.84% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Service Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Service Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Service Migration over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 3 (37.50%) French Language
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft