Migration Contracts in the North West

Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Migration 186 172 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.48% 6.33% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 7.42% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 116 172
10th Percentile £350 £322 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £650 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 7
10th Percentile - - £50.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.69% -77.14% +16.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £16.50 -
90th Percentile £82.85 £100.80 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -41.61% +163.46%

All Process and 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 1,766 2,317 2,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.96% 85.25% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,457 1,921
10th Percentile £300 £306 £315
25th Percentile £391 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 262 140
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.34
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.91
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the North West

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +1 87 £475 -5.00% 67
Cheshire +17 56 £463 +15.63% 21
Merseyside -1 17 £550 +12.82% 8
Lancashire +2 13 £570 +14.00% 22
Cumbria +16 12 £425 +17.24% 6
Migration
England

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 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.23%) Confluence
2 6 (3.23%) JBoss
3 4 (2.15%) CICS
4 3 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.38%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.69%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.54%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.05%) AWS
2 24 (12.90%) Azure
3 14 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.76%) OpenShift
4 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.23%) SaaS
6 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.61%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.61%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.08%) IaaS
8 2 (1.08%) Serverless
8 2 (1.08%) ShareGate
9 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.54%) GCP
9 1 (0.54%) OCI
9 1 (0.54%) Slack
9 1 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) DNS
2 6 (3.23%) DHCP
3 4 (2.15%) Firewall
4 3 (1.61%) MPLS
4 3 (1.61%) VPN
5 2 (1.08%) BGP
5 2 (1.08%) Broadband
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.08%) Intranet
5 2 (1.08%) IPv6
5 2 (1.08%) Multicast
5 2 (1.08%) OSPF
5 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
5 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.08%) Wireless
6 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.30%) Siebel EIM
5 7 (3.76%) Power BI
5 7 (3.76%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.61%) Tableau
9 2 (1.08%) DB2
9 2 (1.08%) Easytrieve
9 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.08%) Metadata
9 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.54%) DTS
10 1 (0.54%) GIS
10 1 (0.54%) MSDE
10 1 (0.54%) MySQL
10 1 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.68%) JIRA
3 12 (6.45%) Git
4 11 (5.91%) Liquibase
5 10 (5.38%) Gradle
5 10 (5.38%) JUnit
5 10 (5.38%) Mockito
6 6 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.23%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.69%) GitLab
8 3 (1.61%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.61%) Selenium
9 2 (1.08%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.54%) Flyway
10 1 (0.54%) MSI
10 1 (0.54%) Postman
10 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 52 (27.96%) Finance
3 27 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.90%) Banking
5 17 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.14%) Manufacturing
6 15 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.99%) Legal
8 11 (5.91%) Marketing
8 11 (5.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (5.38%) Electronics
9 10 (5.38%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.15%) Retail
11 3 (1.61%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Aviation
12 2 (1.08%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.08%) Local Government
13 1 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (14.52%) Architect
2 15 (8.06%) Developer
3 14 (7.53%) Analyst
4 13 (6.99%) Business Analyst
4 13 (6.99%) Migration Engineer
4 13 (6.99%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.91%) Data Engineer
5 11 (5.91%) Lead
6 10 (5.38%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.84%) Administrator
8 8 (4.30%) Data Migration Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) Senior
9 7 (3.76%) Siebel Developer
10 6 (3.23%) Consultant
10 6 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.60%) Spring Boot
2 15 (8.06%) Kafka
3 13 (6.99%) Web Services
4 10 (5.38%) OpenAPI
4 10 (5.38%) React
4 10 (5.38%) Spring
4 10 (5.38%) Swagger
5 8 (4.30%) JMS
5 8 (4.30%) SOAP
6 7 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.15%) OAuth
7 4 (2.15%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.15%) REST
8 2 (1.08%) CSS
8 2 (1.08%) HTML
8 2 (1.08%) J2EE
8 2 (1.08%) JSON
8 2 (1.08%) Pandas
8 2 (1.08%) XML
9 1 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.69%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.15%) Mainframe
5 4 (2.15%) VSAM
6 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.61%) Robotics
7 2 (1.08%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.08%) EMV
7 2 (1.08%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Replication
7 2 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.54%) Clustering
8 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.22%) Windows
2 17 (9.14%) Linux
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.61%) Android
6 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.61%) Unix
6 3 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.08%) zOS
8 1 (0.54%) HPUX
8 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.11%) Data Migration
2 41 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.43%) Agile
4 30 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (14.52%) DevOps
6 25 (13.44%) ETL
7 23 (12.37%) Data Modelling
8 21 (11.29%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.75%) Microservices
10 19 (10.22%) Change Management
10 19 (10.22%) Project Management
11 18 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (8.60%) Validation
13 15 (8.06%) Containerisation
13 15 (8.06%) Software Engineering
13 15 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (7.53%) Knowledge Transfer
15 13 (6.99%) Data Management
16 12 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.19%) SQL
2 23 (12.37%) Java
3 18 (9.68%) PL/SQL
4 16 (8.60%) Python
5 10 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.23%) Perl
8 4 (2.15%) Bash
8 4 (2.15%) COBOL
8 4 (2.15%) JCL
9 3 (1.61%) Groovy
10 2 (1.08%) C#
10 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.08%) REXX
11 1 (0.54%) ABAP
11 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.54%) VB
11 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.15%) Degree
4 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.08%) CCIE
4 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.54%) ACCA
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.54%) CIPD
5 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.54%) MCP
5 1 (0.54%) MCSA
5 1 (0.54%) MCSE
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.08%) PSD2
4 2 (1.08%) SEPA
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.54%) NCSC
5 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (9.68%) Active Directory
1 18 (9.68%) Docker
2 7 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.38%) Progress Chef
3 8 (4.30%) Ansible
4 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.23%) Kibana
6 4 (2.15%) Terraform
7 3 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.08%) Nagios
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.54%) Grafana
9 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.54%) SCCM
9 1 (0.54%) SCSM
9 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.52%) SAP
3 26 (13.98%) Oracle
4 10 (5.38%) VMware
5 8 (4.30%) Siebel
5 8 (4.30%) Splunk
6 7 (3.76%) Cisco
6 7 (3.76%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.23%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.23%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.15%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.15%) Cloudera
8 4 (2.15%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.61%) Meraki
10 2 (1.08%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.08%) Citrix
10 2 (1.08%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Informatica
10 2 (1.08%) Nintex