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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 32 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Migration 61 28 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.57% 5.05% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 6.05% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 18
10th Percentile £350 £300 £373
25th Percentile £388 £368 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £409 £660
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -38.07% +55.29%
75th Percentile £500 £444 £680
90th Percentile £629 £475 £731
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.64 - -
25th Percentile £36.36 - -
Median hourly rate £47.58 - £20.00
75th Percentile £58.79 - -
90th Percentile £65.52 - -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% -77.14% +16.18%

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 501 463 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 95.07% 83.57% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 311 290
10th Percentile £313 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £667 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.46 £17.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £36.50 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +24.74% +34.34%
75th Percentile £73.81 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 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 +10 32 £447 +7.71% 13
Warrington -1 7 £450 +50.00% 39
Chester - 7 £600 - 24
Macclesfield +6 3 £700 +40.00% 5
Crewe +2 1 £700 - 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 6 (9.84%) JBoss
2 4 (6.56%) CICS
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.64%) Confluence
4 1 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.64%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.64%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) OpenShift
3 5 (8.20%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) Azure
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.64%) OCI
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (9.84%) RDBMS
1 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) DB2
3 2 (3.28%) Easytrieve
3 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) JIRA
2 14 (22.95%) Git
2 14 (22.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.84%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (9.84%) CA Release Automation
3 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
3 6 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (9.84%) TeamCity
4 5 (8.20%) Cucumber
4 5 (8.20%) GitLab
4 5 (8.20%) JUnit
5 2 (3.28%) Selenium
5 2 (3.28%) SOAtest
6 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) MSI
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Finance
3 15 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (22.95%) Banking
5 7 (11.48%) Legal
5 7 (11.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.28%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Publishing
9 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.75%) Architect
1 9 (14.75%) Developer
2 6 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
3 5 (8.20%) Lead
4 3 (4.92%) Analyst
4 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (4.92%) Consultant
4 3 (4.92%) Data Migration Expert
4 3 (4.92%) Payments Architect
4 3 (4.92%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Architect
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Developer
5 2 (3.28%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (3.28%) Designer
5 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (3.28%) Test Architect
5 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
2 10 (16.39%) REST
3 8 (13.11%) Kafka
4 7 (11.48%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (11.48%) Web Services
5 5 (8.20%) React
5 5 (8.20%) RESTful
5 5 (8.20%) Spring
6 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.92%) CSS
6 3 (4.92%) HTML
6 3 (4.92%) LDAP
6 3 (4.92%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (4.92%) SOAP
7 2 (3.28%) J2EE
7 2 (3.28%) JSON
7 2 (3.28%) XML
8 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (1.64%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
1 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
1 4 (6.56%) VSAM
2 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.92%) Robotics
2 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
3 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.92%) Unix
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.28%) zOS
5 1 (1.64%) Android
5 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Data Migration
2 21 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (27.87%) Agile
4 13 (21.31%) Microservices
5 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (19.67%) DevOps
6 11 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.75%) Analytics
7 9 (14.75%) ETL
7 9 (14.75%) Scrum
8 8 (13.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
10 6 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (9.84%) Build Automation
10 6 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (9.84%) Information Architecture
10 6 (9.84%) Project Management
10 6 (9.84%) SDLC
10 6 (9.84%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) Java
2 15 (24.59%) Python
3 11 (18.03%) SQL
4 6 (9.84%) Perl
5 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
6 4 (6.56%) COBOL
6 4 (6.56%) JCL
7 3 (4.92%) Apex Code
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) REXX
9 1 (1.64%) VB
9 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) MCP
4 1 (1.64%) MCSA
4 1 (1.64%) MCSE
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Docker
3 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.39%) Progress Chef
3 7 (11.48%) Ansible
4 6 (9.84%) Kibana
5 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.92%) Terraform
7 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.64%) Grafana
7 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.64%) SCCM
7 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) SAP
3 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
3 7 (11.48%) Splunk
4 6 (9.84%) AppDynamics
5 4 (6.56%) Cloudera
5 4 (6.56%) VMware
6 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.28%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.28%) AlgoSec
7 2 (3.28%) Informatica
7 2 (3.28%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.64%) Apple
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) Databricks
8 1 (1.64%) Logitech
8 1 (1.64%) McAfee
8 1 (1.64%) Symantec