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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 84 88
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 74 42 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.59% 2.06% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.29% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 41
10th Percentile £317 £404 £463
25th Percentile £413 £446 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £500 £665 £600
90th Percentile £575 £700 £645
England median daily rate £540 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.95 - -
Median hourly rate £39.23 - -
75th Percentile £69.40 - -
90th Percentile £71.85 - -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £77.50
% change year-on-year +30.81% -40.32% +189.72%

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 2,437 1,837 2,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.24% 89.96% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,135 1,602
10th Percentile £213 £291 £306
25th Percentile £362 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £659 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 115 265
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.14 £11.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £22.85 £14.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +41.16% -39.84%
75th Percentile £63.63 £59.08 £45.88
90th Percentile £75.79 £79.35 £56.82
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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
Lancashire +8 28 £500 +17.65% 8
Manchester -17 27 £471 -10.29% 18
Cheshire -20 12 £425 -34.24% 2
Cumbria - 3 - -
Merseyside -18 2 - - 1
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 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Moodle
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (33.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.46%) Azure
2 4 (5.41%) AWS
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.05%) OCI
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.35%) GCP
5 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.35%) SaaS
5 1 (1.35%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.70%) Metadata
1 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.35%) Power BI
2 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (43.24%) Finance
2 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Billing
6 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Project Manager
2 16 (21.62%) Consultant
3 12 (16.22%) Finance Manager
3 12 (16.22%) Finance Project Manager
3 12 (16.22%) SAP Consultant
3 12 (16.22%) Transformation Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) Senior
6 6 (8.11%) Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Administrator
8 4 (5.41%) Data Migration Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Migration Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Data Entry Administrator
9 3 (4.05%) Data Migration Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Migration Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) .NET
1 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
1 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (2.70%) React
1 2 (2.70%) REST
1 2 (2.70%) RESTful
1 2 (2.70%) YAML
2 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.35%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.05%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) FMCG
5 1 (1.35%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.35%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
1 2 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.35%) AIX
2 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Migration
2 38 (51.35%) Validation
3 34 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (41.89%) Change Management
5 29 (39.19%) ERP
5 29 (39.19%) Project Management
6 27 (36.49%) Workshop Facilitation
7 24 (32.43%) Business Transformation
8 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (16.22%) SAP Implementation
9 12 (16.22%) Use Case
9 12 (16.22%) Visualisation
10 8 (10.81%) Agile
10 8 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (9.46%) ETL
12 6 (8.11%) Data Integration
12 6 (8.11%) Microservices
12 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (6.76%) Roadmaps
14 4 (5.41%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.76%) SQL
2 4 (5.41%) Python
3 2 (2.70%) C#
3 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) Bash
4 1 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) PMO
4 1 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) SAP
2 13 (17.57%) Sage
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.41%) Oracle
4 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.05%) Guidewire
5 3 (4.05%) LabWare
6 2 (2.70%) Databricks
7 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco
7 1 (1.35%) Citrix
7 1 (1.35%) IFS
7 1 (1.35%) Pega
7 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Siebel
7 1 (1.35%) Siemens
7 1 (1.35%) Tealium
7 1 (1.35%) TikTok
7 1 (1.35%) VMware