Data Migration Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 109 49 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.74% 2.23% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.52% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 39 36
10th Percentile £388 £306 £406
25th Percentile £413 £359 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -7.69% -10.96%
75th Percentile £638 £499 £556
90th Percentile £666 £605 £613
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £29.96 - -
25th Percentile £34.98 - £63.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £76.00 - £69.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £62.50 £65.25
% change year-on-year -52.06% -4.21% -23.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,297 1,946 2,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.80% 88.45% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,868 1,286 1,101
10th Percentile £300 £264 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -4.60%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 142 110
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.88 £16.48
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £28.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £41.41
Median % change year-on-year +86.10% -39.28% +21.80%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £73.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the North West

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the North West

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Manchester +14 70 £525 +23.53% 36
Cheshire -14 14 £538 +19.44% 6
Lancashire -14 14 £625 +38.89% 6
Merseyside -8 4 £408 -32.08% 4
Cumbria -26 1 - - 5
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) Mendix
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (11.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.59%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.75%) SAP ERP
3 3 (2.75%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.92%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.92%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.92%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.92%) Sonata
4 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.18%) AWS
2 13 (11.93%) Azure
3 11 (10.09%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (9.17%) OCI
5 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.42%) Power Automate
5 7 (6.42%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.50%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.83%) SaaS
9 2 (1.83%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle Database
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle Exadata
1 10 (9.17%) RDBMS
1 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.34%) Power BI
3 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) Metadata
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.83%) Power Query
6 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.92%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Git
1 10 (9.17%) GitLab
2 8 (7.34%) JIRA
3 3 (2.75%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.83%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.92%) Toad
General
1 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.94%) Finance
3 15 (13.76%) Manufacturing
4 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.17%) Retail
6 7 (6.42%) Banking
6 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.67%) Automotive
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Military
9 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.83%) Billing
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (17.43%) Analyst
2 17 (15.60%) Consultant
3 13 (11.93%) Senior
4 10 (9.17%) Project Manager
5 9 (8.26%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.26%) Data Consultant
5 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (8.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Migration Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Data Migration Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.09%) Terraform
2 10 (9.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 7 (6.42%) Spring
3 7 (6.42%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.75%) Kafka
5 2 (1.83%) EDI
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.83%) React
6 1 (0.92%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.92%) Middleware
6 1 (0.92%) Node.js
6 1 (0.92%) PySpark
6 1 (0.92%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.17%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.34%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.67%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.75%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.83%) AS400
7 2 (1.83%) Clustering
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) iSeries
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) AIX
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) Migration
2 37 (33.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (28.44%) Validation
4 28 (25.69%) ERP
5 25 (22.94%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
7 16 (14.68%) Agile
7 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.76%) Data Governance
8 15 (13.76%) Data Modelling
9 13 (11.93%) DevOps
9 13 (11.93%) ETL
9 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (11.01%) AI
10 12 (11.01%) Data Cleansing
10 12 (11.01%) System Integration Testing
11 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.17%) Data Mapping
11 10 (9.17%) Logistics
11 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.27%) SQL
2 9 (8.26%) Java
3 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.67%) Python
5 1 (0.92%) C#
5 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Degree
4 1 (0.92%) ACCA
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) CIMA
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.26%) GDPR
3 5 (4.59%) PMO
4 2 (1.83%) QA
4 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.92%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Ansible
1 10 (9.17%) Data Guard
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (27.52%) SAP
2 17 (15.60%) Oracle
3 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.17%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.50%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.75%) Ariba
6 3 (2.75%) DocuSign
6 3 (2.75%) Google
6 3 (2.75%) Infor
7 2 (1.83%) IBM
7 2 (1.83%) IFS
7 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.83%) OpenText
7 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.92%) EXASOL
8 1 (0.92%) Laserfiche
8 1 (0.92%) Okta
8 1 (0.92%) Splunk
8 1 (0.92%) Workday