Server Migrations Contracts

Server Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 639 742
Rank change year-on-year +73 +103 -86
Contract jobs citing Server Migrations 18 58 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 87
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £375 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -7.14% +2.19%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £625
90th Percentile £595 £630 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £469
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.00% -17.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Server Migrations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Migrations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations.

Daily rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Migrations over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Migrations in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Migrations.

Hourly rate trend for Server Migrations in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Migrations 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 +54 17 £469 -3.85% 8
Work from Home +92 9 £500 +5.26% 5
London +68 8 £456 -22.67% 6
UK excluding London +9 8 £438 -2.78% 2
South East +12 3 £394 -14.18% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £550 +29.41%
Midlands +8 2 £550 +29.41%
East of England +5 2 £431 +15.00%
North of England +11 1 £400 -21.95% 1
Yorkshire +11 1 £400 -23.81% 1

Server Migrations
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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) IDMS
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Functional Tester
3 1 (5.56%) NetBackup Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Server Migration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Tester
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) VSAM
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) Solaris
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.56%) Network Design
5 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.56%) Security Hardening
5 1 (5.56%) Server Patching
5 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.11%) WSUS
3 1 (5.56%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys