Data Migration Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Migration
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Migration skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.24% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile £923 - -
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 144 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.87% 77.84% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 64 80
10th Percentile £258 £146 £200
25th Percentile £325 £170 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £522
90th Percentile £630 £643 £589
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 17 10
10th Percentile £12.93 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +76.69% +24.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £13.91
90th Percentile - £41.15 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Northern Ireland

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Northern Ireland

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
County Antrim - 3 £650 - 3
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft