Migration Contracts in Manchester

Migration
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 16 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 89 103 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.61% 6.79% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.72% 7.80% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 74 117
10th Percentile £366 £408 £363
25th Percentile £450 £471 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £590
90th Percentile £666 £684 £650
North West median daily rate £516 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.25% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £16.08 £89.20 -
25th Percentile £16.11 £91.00 -
Median hourly rate £16.19 £98.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -83.48% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £16.23 £103.00 -
90th Percentile £16.24 £103.60 -
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
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Manchester

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Manchester

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Manchester

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Manchester

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Manchester 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
Altrincham - 1 £525 - 3
Stockport - 1 - - 13
Migration
North West

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (1.12%) Elite 3E
5 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (1.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.61%) Azure
2 11 (12.36%) AWS
3 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.37%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (3.37%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.12%) GCP
7 1 (1.12%) SaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) Slack
7 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) DHCP
1 2 (2.25%) DNS
1 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.25%) WAN
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) MPLS
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.24%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.74%) Power BI
4 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.37%) Tableau
6 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.12%) MySQL
7 1 (1.12%) Power Query
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Liquibase
2 10 (11.24%) Gradle
2 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.24%) JUnit
2 10 (11.24%) Mockito
3 5 (5.62%) GitLab
4 4 (4.49%) JIRA
5 1 (1.12%) Appium
5 1 (1.12%) Flyway
5 1 (1.12%) Postman
5 1 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.47%) Public Sector
3 17 (19.10%) Finance
4 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.24%) Electronics
5 10 (11.24%) Marketing
5 10 (11.24%) Telecoms
6 9 (10.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (6.74%) Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (16.85%) Architect
2 13 (14.61%) Migration Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.99%) Data Migration Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Lead
8 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Migration Manager
8 5 (5.62%) React Developer
8 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) Kafka
2 10 (11.24%) OpenAPI
2 10 (11.24%) React
2 10 (11.24%) Spring
2 10 (11.24%) Spring Boot
2 10 (11.24%) Swagger
3 4 (4.49%) OAuth
3 4 (4.49%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.37%) REST
5 1 (1.12%) Ajax
5 1 (1.12%) Chai
5 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.12%) SAML
5 1 (1.12%) SOAP
5 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.99%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.25%) EMV
4 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.12%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.12%) IoT
5 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Windows
2 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.37%) Linux
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) HPUX
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Data Migration
2 20 (22.47%) Agile
3 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (17.98%) DevOps
5 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (15.73%) ETL
7 12 (13.48%) Microservices
7 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.48%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (12.36%) Data Modelling
8 11 (12.36%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (12.36%) Validation
9 10 (11.24%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.24%) Containerisation
9 10 (11.24%) Data Mapping
9 10 (11.24%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (11.24%) Programme Management
9 10 (11.24%) TDD
10 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) SQL
2 12 (13.48%) Java
3 10 (11.24%) PL/SQL
3 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.12%) Groovy
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) SC Cleared
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.12%) CIPD
3 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.12%) Degree
3 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.12%) PMP
3 1 (1.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) PSD2
3 2 (2.25%) SEPA
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) SCSM
3 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) SAP
3 10 (11.24%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.37%) VMware
6 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.25%) Citrix
6 2 (2.25%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.25%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.12%) BMC
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) EMC
7 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.12%) Meraki
7 1 (1.12%) Remedy
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk
7 1 (1.12%) Sun