Migration Engineer Contracts in the North West

Migration Engineer
England > North West

The median Migration Engineer daily rate in the North West is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 +21 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Engineer 14 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 0.15% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.15% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile £375 £258 £230
25th Percentile £500 £334 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £475 £301
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% +58.07% +41.41%
75th Percentile £668 £503 £465
90th Percentile £703 £513 £564
England median daily rate £500 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +5.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Migration Engineer in the North West

Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Migration Engineer in the North West

Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Engineer in the North West

Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Migration Engineer in the North West

Migration Engineer
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 Migration Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +27 13 £633 +84.00%
Merseyside - 1 £250 -
Migration Engineer
England

Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (71.43%) Data Migration
3 10 (71.43%) SQL
4 9 (64.29%) Oracle
4 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
4 9 (64.29%) ETL
4 9 (64.29%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (64.29%) Validation
4 9 (64.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (64.29%) Data Mapping
4 9 (64.29%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
6 7 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (35.71%) Azure
9 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (21.43%) Windows
9 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
9 3 (21.43%) Agile
9 3 (21.43%) DevOps
10 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
10 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction

Migration Engineer Skill Set
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Appium
1 1 (7.14%) Flyway
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Aviation
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Chai
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
3 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (71.43%) Data Migration
4 9 (64.29%) Data Mapping
4 9 (64.29%) ETL
4 9 (64.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (64.29%) Validation
5 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
6 7 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
8 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
8 2 (14.29%) E-Discovery
9 1 (7.14%) API Testing
9 1 (7.14%) BDD
9 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
9 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
9 1 (7.14%) Database Migration
9 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft