Migration Engineer Contracts

Migration Engineer
UK

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 552 682
Rank change year-on-year +101 +130 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 124 130 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 101 96
10th Percentile £80 £221 £150
25th Percentile £266 £290 £301
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 £400 £298
% change year-on-year -46.88% +34.45% -21.71%
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% +19.79%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +167.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +100 117 £450 +12.50% 4
UK excluding London +61 61 £213 -46.88% 1
London +92 55 £475 +7.95% 3
Work from Home +88 38 £526 +13.75% 1
South West +22 20 £80 -64.84%
East of England +13 16 £80 -80.61%
North of England +36 15 £563 -9.27%
Yorkshire - 11 £575 -
South East +12 9 £475 +57.02% 1
North West +23 4 £475 -23.39%
Midlands +12 1 - -
West Midlands +9 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Migration
2 59 (47.58%) Data Migration
3 37 (29.84%) Micro Focus
4 29 (23.39%) Azure
5 25 (20.16%) Active Directory
5 25 (20.16%) DevSecOps
6 24 (19.35%) Windows
7 22 (17.74%) Social Skills
8 21 (16.94%) SQL
9 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.52%) SC Cleared
10 18 (14.52%) Security Cleared
11 16 (12.90%) Data Centre
11 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
12 15 (12.10%) Finance
12 15 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
13 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (10.48%) Windows Server
15 11 (8.87%) VMware
15 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
16 10 (8.06%) Linux
16 10 (8.06%) SQL Server
16 10 (8.06%) Aerospace
16 10 (8.06%) Agile
16 10 (8.06%) Entra ID
17 9 (7.26%) Big Data
17 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
17 9 (7.26%) Windows Server 2016
18 8 (6.45%) Windows 10

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 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.84%) IIS
2 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) MIS ActiveH
1 4 (3.23%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.61%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.81%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.39%) Azure
2 15 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (8.06%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.84%) AWS
5 4 (3.23%) GCP
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.61%) GitHub
6 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.61%) Serverless
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.81%) IaaS
7 1 (0.81%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.81%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Firewall
2 5 (4.03%) SAN
3 3 (2.42%) WAN
4 2 (1.61%) DNS
4 2 (1.61%) LAN
4 2 (1.61%) MPLS
4 2 (1.61%) SGSN
4 2 (1.61%) VLAN
4 2 (1.61%) VPN
4 2 (1.61%) Wireless
5 1 (0.81%) BGP
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.81%) DHCP
5 1 (0.81%) DWDM
5 1 (0.81%) OSPF
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.26%) Big Data
2 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.03%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.61%) Metadata
6 2 (1.61%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) MySQL
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 3 (2.42%) Git
3 2 (1.61%) GitLab
3 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) AppScan
4 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.81%) Pylint
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
4 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.10%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Aviation
7 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Law
8 2 (1.61%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) German Language
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.61%) Playwright
1 2 (1.61%) React
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.81%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.81%) HTML
2 1 (0.81%) JSON
2 1 (0.81%) Kafka
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.81%) Next.js
2 1 (0.81%) Node.js
2 1 (0.81%) PySpark
2 1 (0.81%) pytest
2 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.81%) Spring
2 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.81%) WCF
2 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
2 1 (0.81%) WinForms
2 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.23%) Clustering
2 4 (3.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 3 (2.42%) Blackberry
3 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.81%) EMC VNX
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.81%) NHS
5 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.81%) Replication
5 1 (0.81%) Solar Panel
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.35%) Windows
2 13 (10.48%) Windows Server
3 10 (8.06%) Linux
4 9 (7.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.45%) VMS
5 8 (6.45%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.42%) CentOS
8 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.61%) Android
9 2 (1.61%) Rocky
9 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.81%) AIX
10 1 (0.81%) Solaris
10 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) Migration
2 59 (47.58%) Data Migration
3 25 (20.16%) DevSecOps
4 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (8.06%) Agile
7 8 (6.45%) Data Modelling
8 7 (5.65%) DevOps
8 7 (5.65%) ETL
8 7 (5.65%) Project Delivery
9 6 (4.84%) Analytics
9 6 (4.84%) Data Management
9 6 (4.84%) Database Migration
10 5 (4.03%) Business Analytics
10 5 (4.03%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.03%) CI/CD
10 5 (4.03%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (4.03%) Information Exploitation
10 5 (4.03%) Information Management
10 5 (4.03%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.94%) SQL
2 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.84%) Python
4 3 (2.42%) Java
5 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.81%) Bash
6 1 (0.81%) Bicep
6 1 (0.81%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (14.52%) SC Cleared
1 18 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.84%) Degree
4 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.61%) CCNA
5 2 (1.61%) CCNP
5 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.81%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (20.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.23%) Docker
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.81%) SRDF
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.23%) PowerCLI
2 4 (3.23%) VxRail
3 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.61%) SCCM
4 2 (1.61%) Terraform
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) EMC TimeFinder
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Graylog
5 1 (0.81%) Nagios
5 1 (0.81%) Nessus
5 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.81%) Puppet
5 1 (0.81%) SELinux
5 1 (0.81%) WebInspect
5 1 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 37 (29.84%) Micro Focus
2 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.87%) VMware
4 6 (4.84%) Cisco
5 5 (4.03%) Dell
5 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.23%) NEC
6 4 (3.23%) Twitter
7 3 (2.42%) Splunk
8 2 (1.61%) Apple
8 2 (1.61%) Citrix
8 2 (1.61%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.61%) Isilon
8 2 (1.61%) Northgate
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle
9 1 (0.81%) Juniper
9 1 (0.81%) Novell
9 1 (0.81%) Sage
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) SAP