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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 80 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 92 43 60
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.91% 2.23% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.47% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 46
10th Percentile £357 £413 £469
25th Percentile £413 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +2.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £543 £668 £600
90th Percentile £594 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.95 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.85 - -
90th Percentile £78.56 - -
England median hourly rate £41.56 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.74% -25.00% +300.00%

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 2,648 1,744 2,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.64% 90.46% 86.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 1,131 1,549
10th Percentile £263 £300 £307
25th Percentile £375 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £665 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 109 243
10th Percentile £20.50 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.14% +51.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.15 £52.61
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -11 38 £475 -13.64% 18
Lancashire +12 30 £425 - 6
Cheshire -12 18 £413 -33.12% 3
Cumbria - 3 - - 1
Merseyside -14 2 - - 6
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 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.09%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (34.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.09%) Odoo
3 1 (1.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.04%) Azure
2 6 (6.52%) AWS
2 6 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (4.35%) SaaS
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.26%) OCI
4 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.17%) GitHub
5 2 (2.17%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.09%) GCP
6 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) Metadata
3 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.26%) Power BI
6 2 (2.17%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Hudson
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 44 (47.83%) Finance
2 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Marketing
6 4 (4.35%) Advertising
6 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.26%) Billing
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Military
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Project Manager
2 17 (18.48%) Consultant
3 14 (15.22%) Finance Manager
4 13 (14.13%) Finance Project Manager
4 13 (14.13%) SAP Consultant
4 13 (14.13%) Transformation Consultant
5 12 (13.04%) Analyst
5 12 (13.04%) Senior
6 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 8 (8.70%) Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Data Analyst
8 6 (6.52%) Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Data Migration Manager
9 5 (5.43%) Migration Manager
10 4 (4.35%) Administrator
10 4 (4.35%) Data Migration Analyst
10 4 (4.35%) Migration Analyst
10 4 (4.35%) SAP Manager
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) .NET
1 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
1 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (3.26%) React
1 3 (3.26%) RESTful
1 3 (3.26%) YAML
2 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.17%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.09%) PySpark
3 1 (1.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) FMCG
7 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) AIX
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) Migration
2 43 (46.74%) Validation
3 37 (40.22%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (38.04%) ERP
5 33 (35.87%) Change Management
6 31 (33.70%) Project Management
7 30 (32.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 26 (28.26%) Business Transformation
9 22 (23.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (15.22%) SAP Implementation
11 13 (14.13%) ETL
11 13 (14.13%) Use Case
11 13 (14.13%) Visualisation
12 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
13 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (8.70%) Analytics
14 8 (8.70%) Data Governance
14 8 (8.70%) Data Modelling
15 7 (7.61%) Data Protection
15 7 (7.61%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.13%) SQL
2 8 (8.70%) Python
3 3 (3.26%) C#
3 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (1.09%) Korn
5 1 (1.09%) Perl
5 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.09%) OCP
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) PERC
4 3 (3.26%) PMO
5 2 (2.17%) QA
5 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
1 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.09%) Argo
3 1 (1.09%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (42.39%) SAP
2 14 (15.22%) Sage
3 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle
5 4 (4.35%) Databricks
5 4 (4.35%) Google
5 4 (4.35%) Pega
5 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.35%) Tealium
5 4 (4.35%) TikTok
6 3 (3.26%) Guidewire
6 3 (3.26%) LabWare
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.17%) VMware
8 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.09%) Cisco
8 1 (1.09%) Citrix
8 1 (1.09%) PTC
8 1 (1.09%) Siebel
8 1 (1.09%) Siemens