Migration Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Migration
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 19 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Migration 10 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.10% 5.35% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 6.25% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £275 £277 £248
25th Percentile £325 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £519
90th Percentile - £530 £597
North East median daily rate £650 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +30.00% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Tyne and Wear

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Migration in Tyne and Wear

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Tyne and Wear

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Tyne and Wear

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 10 £600 +37.14% 18
Migration
North East

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) IaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Kong
5 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) ATM
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) EPoS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) boto
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) EPoS
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Server Migrations
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (10.00%) API Management
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle