Data Migration Contracts in the North West

Data Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 79 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 52 57 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.51% 2.05% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 33
10th Percentile £329 £425 £365
25th Percentile £413 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £634 £677
England median daily rate £529 £540 £541
% change year-on-year -2.04% -0.23% +2.12%

All Process and 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 1,840 2,341 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.67% 84.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 1,427 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £304 £313
25th Percentile £378 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 265 150
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.19 £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the North West

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the North West

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the North West

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the North West.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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
Cheshire +11 24 £475 +6.98% 27
Manchester -2 24 £550 +4.76% 72
Lancashire -7 2 £425 -20.93% 30
Merseyside +4 1 - - 19
Cumbria - 1 £600 -
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.92%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.77%) SaaS
3 2 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.92%) OCI
4 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Tableau
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.92%) Looker
4 1 (1.92%) MySQL
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) JIRA
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) Flyway
3 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Legal
5 8 (15.38%) Banking
5 8 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (13.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (11.54%) Manufacturing
8 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Automotive
9 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Local Government
9 1 (1.92%) Marketing
9 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Data Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Data Migration Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Data Migration Expert
5 4 (7.69%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Migration Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Robotics
4 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.92%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Migration
2 20 (38.46%) ETL
3 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (28.85%) Validation
5 14 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
7 10 (19.23%) Data Mapping
8 9 (17.31%) Project Management
9 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (13.46%) Data Design
10 7 (13.46%) Data Management
10 7 (13.46%) Information Architecture
11 6 (11.54%) Data Governance
12 5 (9.62%) DevOps
12 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (9.62%) Task Automation
13 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
13 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
13 4 (7.69%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) SQL
2 10 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) ACCA
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.92%) CIPD
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Ansible
1 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) Grafana
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) SCSM
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) SAP
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) EMC
5 1 (1.92%) EXASOL
5 1 (1.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) Remedy
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.92%) VMware