Data Migration Contracts in Cheshire

Data Migration
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 56 53
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 20 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.45% 0.40% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 0.47% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 7
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £463 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.25%
75th Percentile £700 - £680
90th Percentile - - £701
North West median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Data 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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Cheshire

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in Cheshire

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Cheshire

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in Cheshire

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Macclesfield +21 7 £700 - 2
Knutsford - 7 £475 - 3
Crewe - 1 £700 -
Wilmslow - 1 £618 -
Data Migration
North West

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) DTS
4 1 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) MSDE
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Legal
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Associate Director
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Expert
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Information Architecture
3 5 (25.00%) Data Design
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Data Management
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) VMware