Migration Contracts in Cheshire

Migration
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 15 38 32
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing Migration 49 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.91% 3.97% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.24% 4.71% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 24
10th Percentile £364 £290 £337
25th Percentile £397 £305 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £398 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% -16.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £638 £405 £680
90th Percentile £700 £491 £715
North West median daily rate £516 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.25% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £20.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% -77.14% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Cheshire

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Cheshire

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Cheshire

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Cheshire

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 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
Knutsford +7 17 £447 +11.75% 5
Warrington 0 9 £400 +3.23% 16
Macclesfield +19 7 £700 - 4
Chester -2 5 £588 - 15
Crewe - 4 £625 -
Wilmslow - 1 £618 - 1
Migration
North West

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 5 (10.20%) JBoss
1 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.16%) CICS
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (2.04%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.04%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) OpenShift
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
1 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) DB2
3 2 (4.08%) Easytrieve
3 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.04%) DTS
4 1 (2.04%) GIS
4 1 (2.04%) MSDE
4 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) JIRA
2 9 (18.37%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.20%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (10.20%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (10.20%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.08%) Selenium
5 2 (4.08%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.04%) MSI
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Banking
4 9 (18.37%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Legal
6 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.12%) General Ledger
7 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.04%) Marketing
9 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Architect
2 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Administrator
3 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.12%) Associate Director
4 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) Consultant
4 3 (6.12%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (6.12%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Architect
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Data Migration Expert
5 2 (4.08%) Designer
5 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (4.08%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Security Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Senior
5 2 (4.08%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.16%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) J2EE
4 2 (4.08%) JSON
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) REST
4 2 (4.08%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) .NET
5 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.04%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (8.16%) Mainframe
1 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.16%) VSAM
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.12%) Unix
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.08%) zOS
6 1 (2.04%) Android
6 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Data Migration
2 13 (26.53%) Agile
2 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (20.41%) DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 7 (14.29%) ETL
5 7 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 7 (14.29%) Microservices
5 7 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 6 (12.24%) Analytics
6 6 (12.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) Build Automation
7 5 (10.20%) Code Quality
7 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (10.20%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (10.20%) Data Design
7 5 (10.20%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 7 (14.29%) Java
2 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.20%) Perl
3 5 (10.20%) SQL
4 4 (8.16%) Bash
4 4 (8.16%) COBOL
4 4 (8.16%) JCL
5 2 (4.08%) REXX
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.04%) VB
6 1 (2.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.04%) MCP
3 1 (2.04%) MCSA
3 1 (2.04%) MCSE
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.29%) Docker
3 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.37%) Progress Chef
3 6 (12.24%) Ansible
4 5 (10.20%) Kibana
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.12%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.08%) Terraform
7 1 (2.04%) Grafana
7 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) SAP
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) AppDynamics
4 5 (10.20%) Splunk
5 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
6 2 (4.08%) Ab Initio
6 2 (4.08%) AlgoSec
6 2 (4.08%) Informatica
6 2 (4.08%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.04%) Apple
7 1 (2.04%) Ariba
7 1 (2.04%) Logitech
7 1 (2.04%) McAfee
7 1 (2.04%) Symantec