Migration Contracts in the North West

Migration
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 166 215 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.22% 6.89% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 7.59% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 170 234
10th Percentile £350 £362 £260
25th Percentile £425 £417 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £452
Median % change year-on-year - +10.56% +0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £646 £680 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile - £50.00 £58.28
25th Percentile £15.50 - £61.31
Median hourly rate £16.00 £70.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.14% +11.11% +313.11%
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile £100.80 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £68.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -41.61% +156.07% +67.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.18% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the North West

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the North West

Migration
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -2 103 £503 -4.29% 29
Merseyside +16 21 £488 +6.85% 9
Cheshire -5 21 £398 -16.32% 12
Lancashire 0 12 £500 +2.56% 5
Cumbria - 1 £525 -
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.81%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.60%) LiveLink
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.60%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.60%) Shopify
4 1 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.89%) Azure
2 22 (13.25%) AWS
2 22 (13.25%) Dynamics 365
2 22 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.82%) GCP
6 5 (3.01%) GitHub
6 5 (3.01%) SaaS
7 4 (2.41%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.20%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle CX
9 2 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Firewall
2 5 (3.01%) DNS
3 3 (1.81%) DHCP
3 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.20%) Intranet
4 2 (1.20%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) VLAN
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (1.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) Power BI
2 10 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.81%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.81%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.20%) EDRMS
7 2 (1.20%) Metadata
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.60%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (3.61%) JIRA
2 3 (1.81%) GitLab
2 3 (1.81%) LSMW
3 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.60%) Git
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.27%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.65%) Finance
4 13 (7.83%) Marketing
5 10 (6.02%) Retail
6 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.22%) Legal
7 6 (3.61%) Local Government
8 5 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.20%) German Language
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (19.28%) Architect
2 26 (15.66%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (15.06%) Consultant
4 20 (12.05%) Analyst
5 14 (8.43%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 10 (6.02%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.42%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) Senior
8 8 (4.82%) Developer
8 8 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Service Analyst
9 7 (4.22%) Service Desk Analyst
10 6 (3.61%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.01%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.01%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.41%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.41%) Migration Engineer
12 4 (2.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.81%) BAPI
2 2 (1.20%) CSS
2 2 (1.20%) Node.js
2 2 (1.20%) React
2 2 (1.20%) SAML
3 1 (0.60%) .NET
3 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.60%) HTML
3 1 (0.60%) JSON
3 1 (0.60%) Play Framework
3 1 (0.60%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.60%) REST
3 1 (0.60%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) Swagger
3 1 (0.60%) Web Services
3 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.81%) CMDB
4 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.20%) FMCG
5 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.20%) PKI
5 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) EPoS
6 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.86%) Windows
2 5 (3.01%) Linux
3 4 (2.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Debian
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.75%) Data Migration
2 27 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.86%) Agile
4 22 (13.25%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (12.05%) DevOps
6 18 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (10.24%) Customer Experience
8 16 (9.64%) CRM
8 16 (9.64%) Customer Service
9 15 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (7.83%) Project Delivery
10 13 (7.83%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (6.63%) Customer Insight
11 11 (6.63%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (6.63%) Service Design
11 11 (6.63%) System Testing
12 10 (6.02%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.02%) Data Management
12 10 (6.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.05%) SQL
2 11 (6.63%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.02%) Python
4 5 (3.01%) Go
5 2 (1.20%) ABAP
5 2 (1.20%) Java
6 1 (0.60%) Bash
6 1 (0.60%) C#
6 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Degree
1 13 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.20%) CCIE
4 2 (1.20%) CCNP
4 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.81%) NIST
3 3 (1.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.60%) GxP
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (10.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.81%) Docker
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.63%) Terraform
2 4 (2.41%) Ansible
2 4 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.81%) SCCM
4 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) SAP
3 9 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.01%) Google
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle
6 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.81%) Cisco
6 3 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.81%) VMware
7 2 (1.20%) CA
7 2 (1.20%) Ceridian
7 2 (1.20%) Lotus
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) Sophos
7 2 (1.20%) Workday
8 1 (0.60%) ESET
8 1 (0.60%) Novell
8 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.60%) Symantec
8 1 (0.60%) Zscaler