Migration Engineer Contracts

Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 566 696
Rank change year-on-year +108 +130 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 127 131 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 101 93
10th Percentile £80 £221 £168
25th Percentile £266 £290 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £570 £530 £538
90th Percentile £615 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £213 £413 £298
% change year-on-year -48.48% +38.66% -25.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 1
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -39.13% +16.16%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £57.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +102 120 £450 +12.50% 4
UK excluding London +51 61 £213 -48.48% 2
London +81 58 £475 +11.76% 2
Work from Home +92 41 £540 +16.72% 2
South West +18 20 £80 -64.84%
East of England +13 16 £80 -80.61%
North of England +27 14 £563 +7.66% 1
Yorkshire +24 11 £575 +35.29%
South East +18 10 £475 +57.02%
North West +15 3 £344 -44.56% 1
West Midlands +13 1 - -
Midlands +6 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Migration Engineer 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 job ads featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (100.00%) Migration
2 61 (48.03%) Data Migration
3 37 (29.13%) Micro Focus
4 28 (22.05%) Azure
5 25 (19.69%) Active Directory
5 25 (19.69%) DevSecOps
6 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
6 24 (18.90%) Windows
7 22 (17.32%) SQL
8 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
9 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
10 16 (12.60%) Data Centre
10 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
11 15 (11.81%) Finance
11 15 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (11.02%) PowerShell
13 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
14 11 (8.66%) VMware
14 11 (8.66%) Linux
14 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Exchange
15 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
15 10 (7.87%) Aerospace
15 10 (7.87%) Agile
15 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
16 9 (7.09%) Big Data
16 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
16 9 (7.09%) Windows Server 2016
17 8 (6.30%) Public Sector

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 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.72%) IIS
2 6 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (3.15%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.57%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.79%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.05%) Azure
2 15 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.94%) AWS
5 3 (2.36%) GCP
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.57%) GitHub
6 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.57%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.79%) IaaS
7 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.79%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) Firewall
2 5 (3.94%) SAN
3 3 (2.36%) WAN
4 2 (1.57%) LAN
4 2 (1.57%) MPLS
4 2 (1.57%) SGSN
4 2 (1.57%) Wireless
5 1 (0.79%) BGP
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) DWDM
5 1 (0.79%) OSPF
5 1 (0.79%) VLAN
5 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.09%) Big Data
2 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.94%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.57%) Metadata
6 2 (1.57%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.79%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
2 3 (2.36%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) AppScan
4 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.79%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.79%) Pylint
4 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) Subversion
4 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.81%) Finance
3 10 (7.87%) Aerospace
4 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Aviation
7 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Law
8 2 (1.57%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Banking
9 1 (0.79%) German Language
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) Playwright
1 2 (1.57%) React
2 1 (0.79%) .NET
2 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.79%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.79%) HTML
2 1 (0.79%) JSON
2 1 (0.79%) Kafka
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.79%) Next.js
2 1 (0.79%) Node.js
2 1 (0.79%) PySpark
2 1 (0.79%) pytest
2 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.79%) Spring
2 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.79%) WCF
2 1 (0.79%) WebSockets
2 1 (0.79%) WinForms
2 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.60%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.15%) Clustering
2 4 (3.15%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 3 (2.36%) Blackberry
3 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) EMC VNX
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.90%) Windows
2 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.66%) Linux
4 9 (7.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.30%) VMS
5 8 (6.30%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.15%) CentOS
7 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.57%) Android
8 2 (1.57%) Rocky
8 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.79%) AIX
9 1 (0.79%) Solaris
9 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) Migration
2 61 (48.03%) Data Migration
3 25 (19.69%) DevSecOps
4 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (7.87%) Agile
7 8 (6.30%) Data Modelling
8 7 (5.51%) Analytics
8 7 (5.51%) Data Management
8 7 (5.51%) Database Migration
8 7 (5.51%) DevOps
8 7 (5.51%) ETL
8 7 (5.51%) Project Delivery
9 5 (3.94%) Business Analytics
9 5 (3.94%) CI/CD
9 5 (3.94%) Containerisation
9 5 (3.94%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (3.94%) Information Exploitation
9 5 (3.94%) Information Management
9 5 (3.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.32%) SQL
2 14 (11.02%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.72%) Python
4 3 (2.36%) Java
5 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) Bicep
6 1 (0.79%) C#
6 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
1 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (5.51%) Degree
3 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.57%) CCNA
4 2 (1.57%) CCNP
4 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.79%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (19.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.15%) Docker
3 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) SRDF
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.15%) PowerCLI
3 4 (3.15%) VxRail
4 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.57%) SCCM
5 2 (1.57%) SELinux
5 2 (1.57%) Terraform
5 2 (1.57%) yum
6 1 (0.79%) Ansible
6 1 (0.79%) EMC TimeFinder
6 1 (0.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.79%) Graylog
6 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.79%) Nagios
6 1 (0.79%) Nessus
6 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) Puppet
6 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 37 (29.13%) Micro Focus
2 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.66%) VMware
4 6 (4.72%) Cisco
5 5 (3.94%) Dell
5 5 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.15%) NEC
6 4 (3.15%) Twitter
7 3 (2.36%) Oracle
7 3 (2.36%) Splunk
8 2 (1.57%) Apple
8 2 (1.57%) Citrix
8 2 (1.57%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.57%) Isilon
8 2 (1.57%) Northgate
9 1 (0.79%) Aruba
9 1 (0.79%) Brocade
9 1 (0.79%) EqualLogic
9 1 (0.79%) Infor
9 1 (0.79%) WatchGuard