Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 963 1225
Rank change year-on-year +102 +262 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 29 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.014% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.015% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 17
10th Percentile - - £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 -
90th Percentile £127,185 £89,250 £56,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% -19.09% -12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Migration Engineer in the UK

Migration Engineer
Top 10 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 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 25 £40,000 -11.11% 7
UK excluding London -22 16 £40,000 -10.11% 6
Work from Home +82 14 £62,500 +19.05% 4
London +115 10 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Midlands -5 8 - - 1
East Midlands - 8 - - 1
North of England +54 5 £40,000 -23.81%
North West +8 5 £40,000 -17.10%
South East +3 2 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £35,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 29 (100.00%) Migration
2 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 13 (44.83%) Data Migration
4 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
5 8 (27.59%) SQL
6 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
6 6 (20.69%) ETL
6 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (17.24%) Local Government
7 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
7 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
7 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
8 4 (13.79%) Data Management
8 4 (13.79%) Alteryx
9 3 (10.34%) Analytics
9 3 (10.34%) AWS
9 3 (10.34%) Micro Focus
10 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
10 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
10 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
10 2 (6.90%) Python
10 2 (6.90%) Degree
10 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
10 2 (6.90%) NEC
10 2 (6.90%) Relational Database

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 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (6.90%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (17.24%) Local Government
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Migration
2 13 (44.83%) Data Migration
3 6 (20.69%) ETL
4 4 (13.79%) Data Management
5 3 (10.34%) Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Business Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
6 2 (6.90%) Data Privacy
6 2 (6.90%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (6.90%) DataOps
6 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.90%) High Availability
6 2 (6.90%) Housing Management
6 2 (6.90%) Information Exploitation
6 2 (6.90%) Information Management
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Alteryx
3 3 (10.34%) Micro Focus
4 2 (6.90%) NEC
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) VMware