Data Migration Contracts in the North of England

Data Migration
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data 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 74 86 138
Rank change year-on-year +12 +52 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 98 106 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.97% 2.22% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.59% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 65 59
10th Percentile £350 £450 £398
25th Percentile £395 £500 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the North of England

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the North of England

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the North of England

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the North of England

Data Migration
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 within the North of England 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
North West +7 53 £537 +2.29% 39
Yorkshire +11 42 £395 -22.93% 30
North East -2 3 £613 +22.50% 4
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (12.24%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (6.12%) SAP PP
4 4 (4.08%) SAP SD
5 2 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.02%) SAP HR
6 1 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.20%) AWS
2 7 (7.14%) Azure
3 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.02%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (1.02%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (1.02%) GCP
5 1 (1.02%) Kong
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.02%) Miro
5 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Firewall
1 1 (1.02%) SSL
1 1 (1.02%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) Oracle Database
1 11 (11.22%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.10%) Power BI
3 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.06%) Tableau
5 2 (2.04%) Metadata
5 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.02%) DTS
6 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.02%) GIS
6 1 (1.02%) MSDE
6 1 (1.02%) MySQL
6 1 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 6 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) ERwin
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.02%) Flyway
4 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.57%) Finance
3 23 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (8.16%) Banking
5 8 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.16%) French Language
6 6 (6.12%) Legal
6 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
8 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.02%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Local Government
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Consultant
2 12 (12.24%) Data Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) Architect
3 11 (11.22%) Migration Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Backup Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Commvault Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Data Migration Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Migration Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Project Manager
9 5 (5.10%) SAP PP Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) SAP QM Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Senior
9 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.08%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Migration Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) XML
2 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.04%) FpML
2 2 (2.04%) JSON
2 2 (2.04%) Kafka
2 2 (2.04%) Pandas
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.02%) boto
3 1 (1.02%) REST
3 1 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (11.22%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.18%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.08%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.04%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.02%) Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.02%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.02%) IBM XIV
8 1 (1.02%) IoT
8 1 (1.02%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
1 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) Migration
2 27 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (24.49%) ETL
4 21 (21.43%) Change Management
5 17 (17.35%) Data Modelling
6 14 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (14.29%) Use Case
6 14 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (14.29%) Validation
7 12 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (11.22%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (10.20%) Data Management
9 10 (10.20%) Data Mapping
9 10 (10.20%) Problem Management
10 8 (8.16%) Agile
10 8 (8.16%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (8.16%) Information Architecture
10 8 (8.16%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (8.16%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.73%) SQL
2 12 (12.24%) PL/SQL
3 9 (9.18%) Python
4 4 (4.08%) Bash
4 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.04%) C++
5 2 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) CIPD
5 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.02%) PMP
5 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.04%) GDPR
2 2 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.12%) Ansible
4 4 (4.08%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.08%) Terraform
5 2 (2.04%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (1.02%) logstash
6 1 (1.02%) SCSM
Vendors
1 27 (27.55%) SAP
2 26 (26.53%) Oracle
3 10 (10.20%) Commvault
4 9 (9.18%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.08%) BMC
6 2 (2.04%) Sparx
7 1 (1.02%) Ariba
7 1 (1.02%) Databricks
7 1 (1.02%) EMC
7 1 (1.02%) Google
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Remedy
7 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.02%) VMware