Migration Contract Job Trends in the North West

Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 372 182 200
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 9.38% 8.27% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 9.34% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 133 125
10th Percentile £341 £317 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £563
90th Percentile £683 £698 £625
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 3
10th Percentile £16.01 - £67.10
25th Percentile £29.96 - £72.88
Median hourly rate £63.58 £25.15 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.80% -70.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £75.25 £69.66 £95.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £89.75 £100.70
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £34.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -27.10% -49.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 3,284 1,949 2,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.80% 88.55% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,853 1,287 1,107
10th Percentile £300 £261 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £656
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 143 111
10th Percentile £14.33 £13.91 £16.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -37.64% +18.60%
75th Percentile £72.71 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £73.56
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Migration job vacancy trend in the North West

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the North West

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in the North West

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 Migration within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 October 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 +14 202 £538 +7.50% 161
Cheshire -1 72 £475 +5.56% 25
Lancashire -5 32 £613 +36.11% 18
Cumbria -4 27 £522 +35.52% 9
Merseyside -7 19 £538 -2.27% 14
Migration
England

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 23 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.96%) Confluence
4 5 (1.34%) SAS
5 4 (1.08%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (6.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.61%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.81%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI-AP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 84 (22.58%) Azure
2 77 (20.70%) AWS
3 28 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 27 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.99%) SaaS
6 19 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (5.11%) Entra ID
7 13 (3.49%) OCI
8 12 (3.23%) GCP
8 12 (3.23%) Google Workspace
9 11 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.69%) dbt
10 10 (2.69%) Serverless
11 9 (2.42%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.15%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.88%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.11%) Network Security
2 18 (4.84%) DNS
3 13 (3.49%) Firewall
4 11 (2.96%) WAN
5 9 (2.42%) VPN
6 8 (2.15%) DMZ
6 8 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 8 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (1.88%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.61%) BGP
9 5 (1.34%) DWDM
9 5 (1.34%) IOS XR
9 5 (1.34%) MPLS
9 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.81%) DKIM
10 3 (0.81%) DMARC
10 3 (0.81%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.81%) Internet
11 2 (0.54%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.65%) Power BI
2 18 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 17 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.49%) Oracle Exadata
5 13 (3.49%) RDBMS
5 13 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.88%) Looker
7 7 (1.88%) Metadata
7 7 (1.88%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.08%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (5.38%) Git
2 18 (4.84%) JIRA
3 16 (4.30%) GitLab
4 4 (1.08%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.81%) JUnit
5 3 (0.81%) Mockito
5 3 (0.81%) Toad
6 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.54%) Maven
6 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 100 (26.88%) Finance
3 44 (11.83%) Banking
4 31 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.72%) Retail
7 18 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.30%) Legal
9 9 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.88%) Law
10 7 (1.88%) Military
11 6 (1.61%) Billing
11 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.34%) Automotive
13 4 (1.08%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.81%) Marketing
15 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 43 (11.56%) Senior
2 39 (10.48%) Architect
3 34 (9.14%) Analyst
4 27 (7.26%) Lead
5 24 (6.45%) Consultant
6 23 (6.18%) Unix Engineer
7 22 (5.91%) Project Manager
8 21 (5.65%) Network Engineer
9 18 (4.84%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.03%) Business Analyst
11 15 (4.03%) Developer
12 14 (3.76%) Migration Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (3.23%) Administrator
14 12 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Data Architect
14 12 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.02%) Terraform
2 19 (5.11%) Spring
2 19 (5.11%) Spring Boot
3 13 (3.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 9 (2.42%) Kafka
5 6 (1.61%) REST
6 5 (1.34%) OAuth
7 4 (1.08%) Jakarta EE
8 3 (0.81%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.81%) Middleware
8 3 (0.81%) Node.js
8 3 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.81%) PySpark
8 3 (0.81%) React
8 3 (0.81%) RESTful
8 3 (0.81%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.81%) Spring MVC
8 3 (0.81%) Spring Security
9 2 (0.54%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.87%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.49%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.96%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.42%) Clustering
9 9 (2.42%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.34%) Replication
12 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.08%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.72%) Unix
2 24 (6.45%) Solaris
3 23 (6.18%) Windows
4 20 (5.38%) Linux
5 15 (4.03%) AIX
6 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.81%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.54%) HPUX
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (29.03%) Data Migration
2 94 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (14.25%) Agile
4 51 (13.71%) CI/CD
4 51 (13.71%) Validation
5 45 (12.10%) DevOps
5 45 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (10.22%) ERP
7 37 (9.95%) Project Delivery
8 36 (9.68%) Data Modelling
9 34 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (8.87%) Analytics
10 33 (8.87%) User Acceptance Testing
11 30 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (7.80%) High Availability
13 27 (7.26%) AI
14 26 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (6.72%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.56%) Python
1 43 (11.56%) SQL
2 23 (6.18%) Java
3 18 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.15%) Bicep
5 7 (1.88%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.08%) Bash
7 2 (0.54%) C#
7 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 88 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 69 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.42%) CISSP
4 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.88%) Degree
5 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.61%) CCNP
5 6 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.08%) CCIE
7 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.81%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.81%) CCIE Security
7 3 (0.81%) CCSP
7 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.54%) CCNA
8 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.54%) GIAC
8 2 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.49%) GDPR
3 10 (2.69%) NIST
4 8 (2.15%) QA
5 6 (1.61%) PMO
6 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.03%) Oracle RAC
4 14 (3.76%) Docker
5 12 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.34%) Firmware
7 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.38%) Ansible
2 15 (4.03%) Data Guard
2 15 (4.03%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (3.76%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (1.34%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.08%) CASB
8 3 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.81%) SCCM
9 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.54%) Grafana
9 2 (0.54%) Nagios
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 50 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 49 (13.17%) Oracle
3 48 (12.90%) SAP
4 19 (5.11%) Cisco
5 18 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.84%) VMware
6 16 (4.30%) Google
7 12 (3.23%) Zscaler
8 11 (2.96%) Databricks
9 10 (2.69%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.42%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.42%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.15%) Arista
11 8 (2.15%) F5
11 8 (2.15%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.15%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.88%) Remedy
13 6 (1.61%) Citrix
13 6 (1.61%) Splunk