Service Migration Contract Job Trends in the North West

Service Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Service Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 124 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Service Migration 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.067% 0.050% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £447 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -23.68% -4.49% +22.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Service 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 2,551 1,819 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.92% 90.45% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,620 1,134 1,606
10th Percentile £220 £291 £307
25th Percentile £370 £393 £401
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 £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 114 264
10th Percentile £19.15 £16.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.11 £13.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.88 £23.53
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +35.49% -36.92%
75th Percentile £66.25 £59.98 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.87 £79.66 £52.78
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

Service Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Service Migration job vacancy trend in the North West

Service Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Service 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 Service Migration within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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 -20 2 £363 -19.44% 1
Service Migration
England

Service 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox