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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 95 86
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 60 35 54
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.21% 1.67% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.88% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 37
10th Percentile £323 £398 £458
25th Percentile £406 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -7.43% +23.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £575 £700 £667
England median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £27.69 - -
25th Percentile £48.30 - -
Median hourly rate £64.57 - -
75th Percentile £70.65 - -
90th Percentile £72.82 - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +43.75% -36.00%

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 2,355 1,859 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.87% 88.61% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 1,108 1,617
10th Percentile £215 £265 £306
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 100 217
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.35 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.03 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -14 24 £460 -3.16% 20
Lancashire - 20 £500 - 9
Cheshire -22 12 £430 -30.36% 2
Cumbria +5 1 - - 2
Merseyside -10 1 £600 +14.29% 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 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Moodle
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.67%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) AWS
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.33%) OCI
3 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.67%) Metadata
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) JIRA
1 1 (1.67%) LSMW
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Billing
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Local Government
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 11 (18.33%) Consultant
3 10 (16.67%) Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (13.33%) Finance Manager
5 8 (13.33%) Finance Project Manager
5 8 (13.33%) Transformation Consultant
6 6 (10.00%) Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Lead
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Data Migration Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Migration Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Administrator
9 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) FMCG
5 1 (1.67%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Migration
2 29 (48.33%) Validation
3 25 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (38.33%) Change Management
5 21 (35.00%) ERP
6 20 (33.33%) Project Management
7 19 (31.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 16 (26.67%) Business Transformation
9 15 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (13.33%) SAP Implementation
10 8 (13.33%) Use Case
10 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Visualisation
11 7 (11.67%) Agile
12 5 (8.33%) Cutover Planning
12 5 (8.33%) ETL
12 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
13 4 (6.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Python
1 4 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.00%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) SAP
2 8 (13.33%) Sage
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.00%) Guidewire
5 3 (5.00%) LabWare
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.67%) IFS
6 1 (1.67%) PTC
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Saba
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Siebel
6 1 (1.67%) Siemens
6 1 (1.67%) VMware