Migration Contracts in Lancashire

Migration
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Migration 17 7 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.67% 3.29% 12.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 4.67% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 19
10th Percentile £174 £540 £394
25th Percentile £394 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +19.90% +56.38%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £644
90th Percentile £690 - £688
North West median daily rate £469 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% -2.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £81.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -64.62% +16.07% +221.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 150 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 89.80% 70.42% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 129
10th Percentile £363 £217 £350
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £634
90th Percentile £671 £742 £688
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 55
10th Percentile £18.87 - £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £16.06 £29.30
Median hourly rate £44.09 £35.36 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.69% -23.43% +59.24%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.58 £49.76
90th Percentile £71.32 £48.59 £69.34
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.80% +46.36%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Lancashire

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Lancashire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Lancashire

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Migration

Migration
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Blackpool +4 8 £450 -30.77%
Preston - 6 £555 - 2
Lytham St Annes - 1 £551 - 1
Migration
North West

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Internet
1 2 (11.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 2 (11.76%) IMS/DB
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DBA
2 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Desktop Migration Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) ERP Architect
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) MVS
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
1 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) High Availability
3 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Runbook
3 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (11.76%) Workflow
3 2 (11.76%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Groovy
2 2 (11.76%) JCL
2 2 (11.76%) PL/1
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) CA Endevor
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) Syncsort
2 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.88%) SAP