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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 109 56 57
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.25% 2.87% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.19% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 42 43
10th Percentile £373 £376 £450
25th Percentile £413 £441 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +1.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £560 £683 £600
90th Percentile £585 £700 £643
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.95 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.80 - -
England median hourly rate £40.78 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -32.04% -20.00% +233.33%

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 2,793 1,754 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.32% 90.04% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 1,147 1,450
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £396 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £553 £588
90th Percentile £675 £661 £676
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 265
10th Percentile £17.10 £13.88 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.40 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +80.92% +15.20% -24.60%
75th Percentile £74.26 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.80 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -18 54 £500 -9.09% 14
Lancashire +13 27 £425 - 3
Cheshire -19 20 £425 -17.79% 4
Cumbria - 3 - -
Merseyside -16 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 1 (0.92%) Confluence
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (31.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.75%) SAP ERP
2 3 (2.75%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.92%) Odoo
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.68%) Azure
2 13 (11.93%) AWS
3 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.59%) SaaS
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.75%) OCI
7 3 (2.75%) Serverless
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.83%) GitHub
8 2 (1.83%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.50%) Metadata
4 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.67%) Power BI
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.83%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.83%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Claude Code
1 3 (2.75%) Git
2 2 (1.83%) GitLab
2 2 (1.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) Hudson
3 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (49.54%) Finance
2 34 (31.19%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.67%) Advertising
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Billing
7 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Legal
8 2 (1.83%) Military
8 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.92%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Consultant
2 20 (18.35%) Project Manager
3 17 (15.60%) Analyst
4 15 (13.76%) SAP Consultant
5 14 (12.84%) Finance Manager
6 13 (11.93%) Finance Project Manager
6 13 (11.93%) Transformation Consultant
7 12 (11.01%) Lead
7 12 (11.01%) Senior
8 8 (7.34%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.42%) Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Migration Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
10 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Data Consultant
11 5 (4.59%) Data Migration Analyst
11 5 (4.59%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) Spring
1 6 (5.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.59%) React
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.75%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) YAML
4 2 (1.83%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.83%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (1.83%) REST
5 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.92%) Middleware
5 1 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Clustering
6 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) AIX
3 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) Migration
2 49 (44.95%) Validation
3 39 (35.78%) ERP
4 37 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (27.52%) Workshop Facilitation
6 29 (26.61%) Change Management
6 29 (26.61%) Project Management
7 26 (23.85%) Business Transformation
8 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
8 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (13.76%) ETL
10 14 (12.84%) SAP Implementation
10 14 (12.84%) Use Case
10 14 (12.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (11.93%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.01%) Data Governance
12 12 (11.01%) DevOps
13 11 (10.09%) Agile
14 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.51%) SQL
2 6 (5.50%) Java
2 6 (5.50%) Python
3 3 (2.75%) C#
3 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.92%) Bash
4 1 (0.92%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.83%) Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.92%) OCP
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) Data Quality
2 12 (11.01%) GDPR
3 4 (3.67%) PERC
4 3 (2.75%) PMO
5 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.83%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Terraform
2 3 (2.75%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.92%) Argo
4 1 (0.92%) Grafana
4 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (40.37%) SAP
2 14 (12.84%) Sage
3 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.50%) Databricks
4 6 (5.50%) Google
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle
5 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.67%) Pega
6 4 (3.67%) Tealium
6 4 (3.67%) TikTok
7 3 (2.75%) Guidewire
7 3 (2.75%) LabWare
8 2 (1.83%) Infor
8 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.92%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.92%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.92%) IFS
9 1 (0.92%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) Splunk