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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 84 75
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 125 49 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.19% 2.20% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.47% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 39 38
10th Percentile £379 £328 £406
25th Percentile £413 £374 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £556 £600
90th Percentile £660 £690 £633
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - £63.25
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £76.00 - £69.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +42.93%

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 3,241 1,981 2,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.62% 88.75% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,285 1,234
10th Percentile £290 £299 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £671 £679
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 132 157
10th Percentile £16.21 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.58% -25.50% +9.80%
75th Percentile £72.28 £53.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +20 76 £525 +7.69% 23
Cheshire -9 19 £413 -8.22% 7
Lancashire +5 17 £625 +38.89% 11
Merseyside -11 5 £408 - 5
Cumbria -16 2 - -
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 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) Mendix
4 1 (0.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (17.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.00%) SAP MDG
3 4 (3.20%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.80%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.80%) Odoo
6 1 (0.80%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.80%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.80%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.80%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.80%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.80%) Sonata
6 1 (0.80%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.40%) AWS
2 16 (12.80%) Azure
3 12 (9.60%) OCI
4 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (7.20%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.80%) SaaS
6 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.40%) GitHub
7 3 (2.40%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.40%) Serverless
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle Database
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle Exadata
2 11 (8.80%) RDBMS
2 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.40%) Metadata
4 8 (6.40%) Power BI
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.60%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
1 11 (8.80%) GitLab
2 6 (4.80%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.60%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.80%) Hudson
5 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.80%) Toad
General
1 48 (38.40%) Finance
2 42 (33.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Manufacturing
5 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.20%) Retail
6 6 (4.80%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Marketing
7 4 (3.20%) Advertising
8 3 (2.40%) Automotive
8 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Legal
8 3 (2.40%) Military
9 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.60%) Billing
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 21 (16.80%) Analyst
2 17 (13.60%) Consultant
2 17 (13.60%) Senior
3 12 (9.60%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.80%) Lead
5 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.00%) SAP Consultant
6 9 (7.20%) Data Consultant
6 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) Developer
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Cutover Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.00%) Terraform
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 7 (5.60%) Spring
3 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.20%) React
5 2 (1.60%) .NET
5 2 (1.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.60%) EDI
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.60%) RESTful
5 2 (1.60%) YAML
6 1 (0.80%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.80%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.80%) Node.js
6 1 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.80%) PySpark
6 1 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.80%) Public Cloud
3 10 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.40%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.20%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.20%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) AS400
7 2 (1.60%) Clustering
7 2 (1.60%) iSeries
7 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.80%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.60%) Linux
2 11 (8.80%) AIX
3 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Migration
2 34 (27.20%) Validation
3 33 (26.40%) ERP
4 32 (25.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (21.60%) CI/CD
6 21 (16.80%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (14.40%) ETL
7 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (13.60%) Data Governance
8 17 (13.60%) Data Modelling
8 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.00%) Agile
9 15 (12.00%) AI
9 15 (12.00%) DevOps
10 14 (11.20%) Data Cleansing
10 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (9.60%) Project Management
11 12 (9.60%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.00%) SQL
2 7 (5.60%) Java
2 7 (5.60%) Python
3 5 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.40%) C#
4 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.80%) Bash
5 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) Degree
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.80%) ACCA
4 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.80%) CIMA
4 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.80%) OCP
4 1 (0.80%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.20%) Data Quality
2 15 (12.00%) GDPR
3 6 (4.80%) PMO
4 4 (3.20%) PERC
5 3 (2.40%) QA
6 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.60%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (9.60%) Ansible
2 11 (8.80%) Data Guard
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Argo
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (29.60%) SAP
2 17 (13.60%) Oracle
3 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.60%) Databricks
6 6 (4.80%) Google
7 5 (4.00%) Sage
8 4 (3.20%) Pega
8 4 (3.20%) Tealium
8 4 (3.20%) TikTok
9 3 (2.40%) Alteryx
9 3 (2.40%) Ariba
9 3 (2.40%) DocuSign
10 2 (1.60%) IBM
10 2 (1.60%) Infor
10 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.60%) OpenText
10 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.60%) Splunk
11 1 (0.80%) EXASOL