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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 89 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 85 40 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.82% 2.00% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 2.21% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 32 44
10th Percentile £300 £413 £466
25th Percentile £413 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% +21.39%
75th Percentile £540 £667 £605
90th Percentile £575 £700 £668
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.95 - -
Median hourly rate £39.23 - -
75th Percentile £69.40 - -
90th Percentile £71.85 - -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% -28.13% +276.47%

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 2,561 1,811 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.97% 90.32% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,132 1,595
10th Percentile £220 £281 £309
25th Percentile £370 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 113 263
10th Percentile £18.67 £16.60 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.98 £13.62
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +35.44% -37.13%
75th Percentile £67.04 £59.90 £45.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £79.97 £52.61
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -16 32 £473 -14.00% 10
Lancashire +14 30 £500 +17.65% 1
Cheshire -11 16 £425 -34.24% 5
Cumbria - 3 - -
Merseyside -16 2 - - 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 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Moodle
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (34.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.18%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.18%) Odoo
3 1 (1.18%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) Azure
2 4 (4.71%) AWS
2 4 (4.71%) OCI
3 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.35%) GitHub
4 2 (2.35%) SaaS
5 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.18%) Serverless
5 1 (1.18%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) DNS
1 1 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.53%) Metadata
3 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Git
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) Hudson
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 38 (44.71%) Finance
2 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Billing
5 3 (3.53%) Legal
5 3 (3.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.35%) Advertising
6 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.18%) Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) Project Manager
2 17 (20.00%) Consultant
3 13 (15.29%) Finance Manager
3 13 (15.29%) Finance Project Manager
3 13 (15.29%) SAP Consultant
3 13 (15.29%) Transformation Consultant
4 12 (14.12%) Analyst
5 9 (10.59%) Senior
6 8 (9.41%) Lead
7 6 (7.06%) Architect
7 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Administrator
8 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Data Migration Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Migration Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Migration Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) .NET
1 3 (3.53%) .NET Core
1 3 (3.53%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (3.53%) React
1 3 (3.53%) RESTful
1 3 (3.53%) YAML
2 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.35%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.35%) REST
3 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) AIX
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Migration
2 41 (48.24%) Validation
3 38 (44.71%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (38.82%) Change Management
5 32 (37.65%) ERP
6 31 (36.47%) Project Management
7 30 (35.29%) Workshop Facilitation
8 26 (30.59%) Business Transformation
9 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (16.47%) SAP Implementation
11 13 (15.29%) Use Case
11 13 (15.29%) Visualisation
12 11 (12.94%) ETL
13 9 (10.59%) Agile
14 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
15 7 (8.24%) Data Integration
15 7 (8.24%) Microservices
16 6 (7.06%) Data Modelling
16 6 (7.06%) Data Protection
16 6 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.41%) SQL
2 6 (7.06%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) C#
4 2 (2.35%) Bash
4 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.18%) Korn
5 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.18%) OCP
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.71%) QA
3 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.35%) PERC
4 2 (2.35%) PMO
5 1 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Terraform
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Argo
3 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.18%) Grafana
3 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (37.65%) SAP
2 14 (16.47%) Sage
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) Guidewire
6 3 (3.53%) LabWare
7 2 (2.35%) Google
7 2 (2.35%) Pega
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.35%) Tealium
7 2 (2.35%) TikTok
7 2 (2.35%) VMware
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) Citrix
8 1 (1.18%) PTC
8 1 (1.18%) Saba
8 1 (1.18%) Siebel
8 1 (1.18%) Siemens