Migration Engineer Jobs

Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 706 852 959
Rank change year-on-year +146 +107 +260
Permanent jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 6 26 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.026% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.028% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 13
10th Percentile £78,250 - -
25th Percentile £86,875 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +132.43% +2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £131,875 £110,389 £56,250
90th Percentile £142,750 £127,185 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year - -10.11% -19.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,912 93,707 92,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 67,086 58,518
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer.

Salary trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 5 £107,500 +168.75% 31
UK excluding London +172 3 - - 26
London +109 3 £107,500 +104.76% 16
Work from Home +108 2 - - 8
South East +101 2 - - 8
Wales - 1 - -

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Migration Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Talend
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Jena
4 2 (33.33%) Triplestore
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Pentaho

Migration Engineer Skill Set
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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) Pentaho
1 2 (33.33%) Triplestore
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Jena
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) SPARQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Dublin Core
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Talend
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco