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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 87 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 110 46 50
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.73% 2.07% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.34% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 37
10th Percentile £388 £305 £406
25th Percentile £419 £358 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £631 £506 £550
90th Percentile £662 £610 £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 £34.98 £62.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -44.03% -2.34% -24.71%

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 3,335 1,969 2,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.84% 88.81% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 1,303 1,100
10th Percentile £300 £257 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 144 111
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.93 £16.85
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -37.64% +15.21%
75th Percentile £72.71 £45.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +10 71 £500 +17.65% 29
Cheshire -5 15 £525 +22.24% 4
Lancashire -15 13 £625 +38.89% 8
Merseyside -12 4 £408 -32.08% 4
Cumbria -26 1 - - 3
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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.91%) Mendix
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (11.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.73%) SAP ERP
3 3 (2.73%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.91%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.91%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.91%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.91%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.91%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.91%) Sonata
4 1 (0.91%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.00%) AWS
2 13 (11.82%) Azure
2 13 (11.82%) Power Platform
3 11 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (9.09%) OCI
5 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.36%) Power Automate
5 7 (6.36%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.73%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
1 10 (9.09%) Power BI
1 10 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 10 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.64%) Metadata
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.82%) Power Query
6 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.91%) Looker
7 1 (0.91%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Git
1 10 (9.09%) GitLab
2 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.82%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.91%) Toad
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 38 (34.55%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 12 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.09%) Retail
6 7 (6.36%) Banking
6 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.64%) Automotive
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Military
9 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.82%) Billing
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
10 1 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.18%) Analyst
2 17 (15.45%) Consultant
3 13 (11.82%) Senior
4 11 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 9 (8.18%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.18%) Data Consultant
5 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (8.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Data Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Lead
8 6 (5.45%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Migration Consultant
10 4 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) Terraform
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 7 (6.36%) Spring
3 7 (6.36%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.73%) EDI
4 3 (2.73%) Kafka
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.82%) React
6 1 (0.91%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.91%) Node.js
6 1 (0.91%) PySpark
6 1 (0.91%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.36%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.82%) AS400
7 2 (1.82%) Clustering
7 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.82%) iSeries
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.91%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.91%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.91%) FMCG
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) AIX
1 10 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Migration
2 38 (34.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (30.00%) Validation
4 29 (26.36%) ERP
5 25 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 16 (14.55%) Agile
7 16 (14.55%) Data Modelling
7 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.64%) Data Governance
9 13 (11.82%) Data Cleansing
9 13 (11.82%) DevOps
9 13 (11.82%) ETL
9 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (10.91%) AI
10 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (10.91%) System Integration Testing
11 11 (10.00%) Data Mapping
12 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.91%) SQL
2 9 (8.18%) Java
3 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.64%) Python
5 1 (0.91%) C#
5 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) Degree
4 1 (0.91%) ACCA
4 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.91%) CIMA
4 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.91%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.18%) GDPR
3 6 (5.45%) PMO
4 2 (1.82%) QA
4 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.91%) NCSC
5 1 (0.91%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Ansible
1 10 (9.09%) Data Guard
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) SAP
2 17 (15.45%) Oracle
3 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.45%) Databricks
6 4 (3.64%) Infor
7 3 (2.73%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.73%) Ariba
7 3 (2.73%) DocuSign
7 3 (2.73%) Google
7 3 (2.73%) IBM
8 2 (1.82%) IFS
8 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.82%) OpenText
8 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.91%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.91%) Laserfiche
9 1 (0.91%) Okta
9 1 (0.91%) Splunk
9 1 (0.91%) Workday