Migration Job Trends in the North East

Migration
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 -42 +4
Permanent jobs citing Migration 6 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.57% 0.79% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.99% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £68,813 £24,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £69,422 £28,226 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £34,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +117.06% -43.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £102,197 £56,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,500 £64,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 855 1,009 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.66% 79.45% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 590 483 415
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,002 £28,407
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,188 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the North East

Migration
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North East over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration in the North East

Migration
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +7 4 £88,750 +111.31% 8
Durham +6 2 £73,801 +127.42% 2
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Head of IT
1 2 (33.33%) Head of IT Security
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Security
1 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft