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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 24 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.99% 1.16% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 1.40% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 6
10th Percentile £275 - £463
25th Percentile £463 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £444 £640
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -30.63% +66.67%
75th Percentile £700 - £680
90th Percentile - - £707
North West median daily rate £531 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +1.14% +7.69% -2.50%

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 466 430 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.88% 83.33% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 284 312
10th Percentile £313 £302 £301
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -3.35% +11.11%
75th Percentile £539 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 27
10th Percentile £14.09 £14.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £23.48 £16.73 £22.84
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.83 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +20.01% +0.95% +40.22%
75th Percentile £85.25 £39.44 £35.02
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £35.02
% change year-on-year +23.08% -25.75% +51.88%

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 23 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 23 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
Knutsford -4 9 £475 +6.98% 1
Macclesfield +14 7 £700 - 1
Crewe - 1 £700 - 2
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 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
1 3 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) OCI
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) DTS
4 1 (4.17%) GIS
4 1 (4.17%) MSDE
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (45.83%) Pharmaceutical
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Finance
4 7 (29.17%) Legal
5 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
7 3 (12.50%) Banking
8 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Associate Director
3 3 (12.50%) Data Migration Expert
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Finance Systems Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Robotics
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Migration
2 8 (33.33%) Data Management
2 8 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 7 (29.17%) ETL
4 6 (25.00%) Data Design
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (16.67%) ERP
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Project Governance
8 2 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) SAP
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) VMware