Service Migration Contracts

Service Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Migration 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 569 650 807
Rank change year-on-year +81 +157 -120
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 15 47 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.085% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.094% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 21
10th Percentile £263 £406 £413
25th Percentile £436 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% +21.39%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile - £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +1.41% -13.48% +35.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Migration 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% -

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Migration in the UK

Service Migration
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Migration 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 +59 12 £625 +13.64% 1
Work from Home +94 9 £488 -9.30% 3
UK excluding London +15 7 £505 +1.41%
London +63 5 £650 -9.72% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
North of England - 3 £550 -
South East +9 2 £442 -0.13%
South West 0 2 £625 +35.14%

Service Migration
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 (13.33%) Documentum
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JMeter
2 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Billing
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Online Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Performance Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Management
3 3 (20.00%) Network Management
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Security Management
4 2 (13.33%) B2B
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Document Management
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) ActionScript
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Genesys
3 2 (13.33%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) SAP