Migration Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Migration
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Migration 14 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.61% 8.67% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 9.24% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 8
10th Percentile £419 £303 £320
25th Percentile £428 £418 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £443
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +20.51% -11.50%
75th Percentile £584 £642 £586
90th Percentile £600 £650 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £600 £443
% change year-on-year -8.33% +35.59% -11.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 275 184 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.46% 93.88% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 89 101
10th Percentile £170 £305 £250
25th Percentile £359 £358 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £596 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 7
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.31 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -16.67% +14.71%
75th Percentile £53.19 £19.94 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £16.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% -14.47% +11.76%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Migration job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Migration

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Migration

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Keycloak
2 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 2 (14.29%) Jest
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) GitOps
4 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Secrets Management
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) API Development
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bash
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Istio
3 4 (28.57%) Argo
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) SAP