Data Migration Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Migration Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Migration Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 - 161
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.053% - 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £563
75th Percentile - - £619
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £463 £563
% change year-on-year +2.70% -17.78% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.56 - £80.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 6,934 3,696 3,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.47% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 2,417 2,190
10th Percentile £313 £250 £275
25th Percentile £406 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 218 241
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.17
25th Percentile £24.90 £17.30 £17.44
Median hourly rate £42.00 £22.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.12% -30.94% +31.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.28 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.30 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Migration Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Migration Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Data Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Data Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
North West - 3 £500 - 1
North East - 1 - - 3
Data Migration Engineer
England

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Data Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Commvault

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Server Migrations
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Commvault
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam