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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 71 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 49 50 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.24% 2.11% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.53% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 33
10th Percentile £328 £406 £363
25th Percentile £368 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £544 £600 £606
90th Percentile £638 £613 £675
England median daily rate £529 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
England median hourly rate £51.50 £80.00 £92.22
% change year-on-year -35.63% -13.25% +46.96%

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 1,947 1,976 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.82% 83.38% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,148 1,662
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £677 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 107 163
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.34 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +57.30%
75th Percentile £51.63 £57.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.90 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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
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 17 September 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 -8 27 £450 -7.12% 8
Manchester -18 15 £475 -5.00% 10
Lancashire 0 4 £450 -25.00% 7
Merseyside +2 2 £600 - 1
Cumbria +3 1 £600 +9.09%
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.04%) SAS
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.08%) SAP HR
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (2.04%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.04%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) SaaS
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Serverless
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.04%) OCI
5 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) DB2
4 1 (2.04%) IMS/DB
4 1 (2.04%) Looker
4 1 (2.04%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (10.20%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) LSMW
General
1 20 (40.82%) Finance
2 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.45%) Legal
4 9 (18.37%) Banking
5 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.12%) Local Government
9 2 (4.08%) Retail
10 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (2.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (16.33%) Lead
2 7 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Consultant
4 4 (8.16%) Data Migration Expert
4 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Data Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) DBA
6 2 (4.08%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Service Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) HTML
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.04%) Pandas
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Robotics
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Housing Association
5 1 (2.04%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Migration
2 10 (20.41%) ETL
2 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.41%) Project Management
3 9 (18.37%) Validation
4 7 (14.29%) Data Design
4 7 (14.29%) Data Management
4 7 (14.29%) DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.24%) Project Governance
6 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.16%) Agile
7 4 (8.16%) Business Analysis
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.16%) Task Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Apex Code
3 4 (8.16%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.12%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) Bicep
5 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.04%) JCL
6 1 (2.04%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) ACCA
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.04%) CIPD
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Certification
1 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) PMO
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Ansible
1 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) SCSM
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) SAP
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.04%) EXASOL
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.04%) Remedy
5 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.04%) Syncsort
5 1 (2.04%) VMware