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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 71 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 120 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.24% 2.60% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.95% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 44 40
10th Percentile £395 £337 £412
25th Percentile £413 £384 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £628
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £17.15 - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - £63.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £76.00 - £69.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +158.06%

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 3,078 1,931 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.03% 87.93% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,815 1,249 1,286
10th Percentile £292 £270 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 124 203
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.35% -4.17% -1.77%
75th Percentile £75.25 £56.19 £51.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.67
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +1 72 £500 -9.09% 14
Lancashire +15 24 £625 +47.06% 5
Cheshire -19 14 £413 -13.05% 3
Merseyside -13 4 £516 - 4
Cumbria -5 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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (24.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.50%) SAP ERP
2 3 (2.50%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.67%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.83%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Odoo
4 1 (0.83%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.83%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.83%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.83%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.83%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.17%) AWS
2 17 (14.17%) Azure
3 12 (10.00%) OCI
4 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.00%) SaaS
7 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.50%) GitHub
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.50%) Serverless
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle Database
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle Exadata
2 11 (9.17%) RDBMS
2 11 (9.17%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.83%) Power BI
5 6 (5.00%) Metadata
6 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
1 11 (9.17%) GitLab
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.67%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.83%) Hudson
5 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (43.33%) Finance
2 36 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.83%) Retail
7 4 (3.33%) Advertising
7 4 (3.33%) Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Marketing
8 3 (2.50%) Military
9 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.67%) Legal
9 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (17.50%) Analyst
2 20 (16.67%) Senior
3 16 (13.33%) Consultant
4 15 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 11 (9.17%) Lead
6 10 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
7 9 (7.50%) Business Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Data Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Finance Manager
8 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Finance Project Manager
9 7 (5.83%) Migration Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Transformation Consultant
10 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 7 (5.83%) Spring
2 7 (5.83%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.17%) React
4 3 (2.50%) .NET
4 3 (2.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.50%) RESTful
4 3 (2.50%) YAML
5 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.67%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.67%) REST
6 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.83%) EDI
6 1 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.83%) Kafka
6 1 (0.83%) Middleware
6 1 (0.83%) Node.js
6 1 (0.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (9.17%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.67%) AS400
6 2 (1.67%) Clustering
6 2 (1.67%) iSeries
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.00%) Linux
2 11 (9.17%) AIX
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) Migration
2 40 (33.33%) Validation
3 31 (25.83%) ERP
4 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.67%) Project Management
8 19 (15.83%) ETL
9 18 (15.00%) Change Management
10 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (12.50%) Agile
12 15 (12.50%) Data Governance
12 15 (12.50%) DevOps
13 14 (11.67%) Business Transformation
14 13 (10.83%) AI
14 13 (10.83%) Data Modelling
15 11 (9.17%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.00%) SQL
2 7 (5.83%) Java
3 6 (5.00%) Python
4 4 (3.33%) C#
5 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.67%) Degree
4 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.83%) OCP
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.17%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.67%) GDPR
3 4 (3.33%) PERC
4 3 (2.50%) PMO
4 3 (2.50%) QA
5 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.67%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (9.17%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (14.17%) Terraform
2 12 (10.00%) Ansible
3 11 (9.17%) Data Guard
3 11 (9.17%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Argo
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (32.50%) SAP
2 15 (12.50%) Oracle
3 10 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.67%) Sage
4 8 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.00%) Databricks
5 6 (5.00%) Google
6 4 (3.33%) Pega
6 4 (3.33%) Tealium
6 4 (3.33%) TikTok
7 3 (2.50%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.50%) Ariba
7 3 (2.50%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.67%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Infor
8 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.67%) OpenText
9 1 (0.83%) Laserfiche
9 1 (0.83%) Siebel
9 1 (0.83%) VMware