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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 89 123
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 104 95 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.13% 2.02% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.38% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 62 65
10th Percentile £315 £450 £390
25th Percentile £388 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £637 £687
England median daily rate £529 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -3.82% +2.80% +1.90%

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 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 56 £531 +1.14% 253
Yorkshire +29 46 £438 -15.25% 218
North East -3 2 £575 -2.13% 59
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (5.77%) SAP PP
4 4 (3.85%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.96%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.96%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.96%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.65%) AWS
2 6 (5.77%) Azure
3 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.88%) SaaS
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.96%) GCP
6 1 (0.96%) Miro
6 1 (0.96%) OCI
6 1 (0.96%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) Firewall
2 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.96%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle Database
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (8.65%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.85%) Power BI
6 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.88%) Tableau
7 2 (1.92%) Metadata
7 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.96%) DTS
8 1 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.96%) Looker
8 1 (0.96%) MySQL
8 1 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Git
1 8 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) Postman
3 1 (0.96%) DBeaver
3 1 (0.96%) Flyway
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.96%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 27 (25.96%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.69%) French Language
5 8 (7.69%) Legal
6 7 (6.73%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.81%) Banking
8 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.96%) Automotive
10 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.96%) Law
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (12.50%) Consultant
2 12 (11.54%) Analyst
2 12 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 11 (10.58%) Architect
3 11 (10.58%) Migration Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (8.65%) Backup Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Commvault Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (6.73%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.73%) Migration Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Data Migration Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Senior
9 5 (4.81%) Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.81%) SAP PP Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) SAP QM Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) Kafka
1 2 (1.92%) Pandas
1 2 (1.92%) XML
2 1 (0.96%) .NET
2 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.96%) boto
2 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.85%) NHS
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.88%) Robotics
7 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.96%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.96%) Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.96%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.96%) IBM XIV
8 1 (0.96%) IoT
8 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) AIX
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Solaris
2 1 (0.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.96%) Unix
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) Migration
2 29 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (25.00%) ETL
4 21 (20.19%) Change Management
5 17 (16.35%) Data Management
6 15 (14.42%) Data Modelling
6 15 (14.42%) Validation
7 14 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (13.46%) Use Case
7 14 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
9 12 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (11.54%) Problem Management
10 11 (10.58%) Data Mapping
11 10 (9.62%) Data Governance
12 9 (8.65%) Agile
12 9 (8.65%) ERP
12 9 (8.65%) Information Architecture
12 9 (8.65%) Project Management
13 8 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.58%) SQL
2 12 (11.54%) PL/SQL
3 9 (8.65%) Python
4 4 (3.85%) Bash
4 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.92%) C++
5 2 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (0.96%) ABAP
6 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (0.96%) ACCA
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.96%) CIPD
5 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.96%) PMP
5 1 (0.96%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Docker
1 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (7.69%) Ansible
3 6 (5.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.88%) Terraform
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) Grafana
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.96%) SCCM
7 1 (0.96%) SCSM
Vendors
1 30 (28.85%) SAP
2 28 (26.92%) Oracle
3 10 (9.62%) Commvault
4 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.96%) Ariba
7 1 (0.96%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) EMC
7 1 (0.96%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) Remedy
7 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.96%) Veritas