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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 61 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -22 +40
Permanent jobs citing Migration 20 13 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.45% 1.89% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.02% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 57
10th Percentile £58,737 £24,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £26,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £33,226 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +116.40% -36.71% +31.25%
75th Percentile £102,563 £79,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,746 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.43% +19.58% -11.11%

All Process & 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 1,055 643 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 76.28% 93.46% 87.30%
Number of salaries quoted 713 290 1,071
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £28,407
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,050 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 5 March 2026.

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 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -11 17 £70,000 -6.67% 9
Durham -2 3 £73,801 +158.95% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (15.00%) dbt
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Pulumi
4 3 (15.00%) Sentry
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.00%) Boomi
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
1 4 (20.00%) Tableau
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Redis
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Games
2 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Head of IT
4 4 (20.00%) Head of IT Security
4 4 (20.00%) Head of Security
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Principal Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Service Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) Django
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (35.00%) Observability
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 5 (25.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Service Management
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (20.00%) Application Security
6 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) PHP
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (20.00%) PMP
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Anaplan
1 4 (20.00%) Genesys
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (20.00%) Verint
2 3 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft