Migration Jobs in the North West

Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 57 119
Rank change year-on-year -82 +62 +5
Permanent jobs citing Migration 182 382 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.33% 3.42% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.27% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 88 268 153
10th Percentile £38,375 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -17.76% +15.81%
75th Percentile £87,938 £68,163 £70,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £82,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,458 8,953 6,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.44% 80.04% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,795 6,526 3,860
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Migration in the North West.

Salary trend for Migration in the North West

Migration
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration in the North West

Migration
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Manchester -1 114 £62,500 +25.00% 95
Cheshire +12 37 £70,750 +41.50% 44
Merseyside -27 15 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Lancashire -78 14 £51,371 +20.87% 10
Cumbria -63 2 £53,750 +26.47% 7
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (9.89%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.75%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.55%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.55%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.55%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 99 (54.40%) Azure
2 95 (52.20%) AWS
3 14 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.49%) GCP
4 10 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.95%) Cloud Composer
6 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.85%) OCI
6 7 (3.85%) SaaS
7 6 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.65%) IaaS
8 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.65%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.10%) AWS IoT
9 2 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
2 5 (2.75%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.75%) WAN
3 4 (2.20%) DNS
4 3 (1.65%) Intranet
4 3 (1.65%) VPN
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.10%) LAN
5 2 (1.10%) Network Security
5 2 (1.10%) Wireless
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (46.70%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.69%) Power BI
3 10 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.95%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.40%) MySQL
6 6 (3.30%) Metadata
6 6 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.30%) Tableau
7 3 (1.65%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.65%) EDRMS
7 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.65%) SQL CLR
7 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.10%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 74 (40.66%) JIRA
2 70 (38.46%) Bitbucket
2 70 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 70 (38.46%) GitLab
2 70 (38.46%) Maven
2 70 (38.46%) Selenium
2 70 (38.46%) SonarQube
2 70 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 118 (64.84%) Finance
2 79 (43.41%) Banking
3 74 (40.66%) Retail
4 72 (39.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (38.46%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (38.46%) Investment Banking
6 43 (23.63%) Social Skills
7 26 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (8.24%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (7.14%) Law
10 6 (3.30%) Legal
10 6 (3.30%) Marketing
11 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.65%) Back Office
12 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (39.01%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.19%) Consultant
3 16 (8.79%) NetSuite Consultant
4 14 (7.69%) Developer
4 14 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
4 14 (7.69%) Senior
5 11 (6.04%) Analyst
6 10 (5.49%) Architect
6 10 (5.49%) Lead
7 8 (4.40%) Administrator
8 6 (3.30%) Data Analyst
8 6 (3.30%) Team Leader
9 5 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.75%) Oracle Architect
9 5 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.75%) Technical Consultant
10 4 (2.20%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.20%) Database Developer
10 4 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (2.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (40.66%) HTML
2 72 (39.56%) CSS
2 72 (39.56%) React
2 72 (39.56%) RESTful
3 71 (39.01%) Kafka
3 71 (39.01%) REST
4 70 (38.46%) CSS3
4 70 (38.46%) HTML5
4 70 (38.46%) Jest
4 70 (38.46%) JPA
4 70 (38.46%) Redux
4 70 (38.46%) Sass
4 70 (38.46%) Spring
4 70 (38.46%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.10%) .NET
6 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.10%) NestJS
6 2 (1.10%) Node.js
6 2 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (43.96%) Product Ownership
2 70 (38.46%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.65%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) IoT
7 2 (1.10%) NHS
7 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.55%) Life Science
8 1 (0.55%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.04%) Linux
2 6 (3.30%) Windows
3 3 (1.65%) CentOS
3 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.95%) Agile
2 87 (47.80%) DevOps
3 81 (44.51%) Mentoring
4 79 (43.41%) Software Engineering
5 77 (42.31%) CI/CD
6 74 (40.66%) Containerisation
7 72 (39.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 71 (39.01%) Front End Development
8 71 (39.01%) SDLC
8 71 (39.01%) Test Automation
8 71 (39.01%) User Experience
9 70 (38.46%) Microservices
9 70 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
9 70 (38.46%) Responsive Web Design
9 70 (38.46%) Strategic Thinking
10 66 (36.26%) Data Migration
11 42 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (14.84%) ERP
13 23 (12.64%) CRM
13 23 (12.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 107 (58.79%) SQL
2 77 (42.31%) Java
3 75 (41.21%) JavaScript
4 73 (40.11%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.40%) Python
5 8 (4.40%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.75%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.20%) Bash
8 3 (1.65%) PHP
9 2 (1.10%) Bicep
9 2 (1.10%) C#
10 1 (0.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.55%) VB
10 1 (0.55%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) VBScript
10 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (6.59%) Degree
2 6 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.75%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.20%) CCNP
4 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.65%) Linux+ Certification
5 3 (1.65%) MCSE
5 3 (1.65%) RHCE
6 2 (1.10%) CCIE
6 2 (1.10%) CCNA
6 2 (1.10%) CCSA
7 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) MCP
7 1 (0.55%) MCSA
7 1 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (40.66%) Accessibility
2 72 (39.56%) QA
3 9 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.30%) ISO 9001
5 5 (2.75%) GDPR
6 4 (2.20%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.65%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.10%) NCSC
9 1 (0.55%) GMP
9 1 (0.55%) NIST
9 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (42.86%) Docker
2 9 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.65%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.65%) Postfix
4 3 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.55%) NFS
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.10%) Terraform
4 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.55%) cPanel
4 1 (0.55%) Istio
4 1 (0.55%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (38.46%) Solace
2 26 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.95%) VMware
4 8 (4.40%) Google
5 7 (3.85%) Oracle
6 5 (2.75%) Cisco
6 5 (2.75%) SAP
7 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.65%) Databricks
8 3 (1.65%) Okta
8 3 (1.65%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.10%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.10%) Meraki
9 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.55%) Aruba
10 1 (0.55%) McAfee
10 1 (0.55%) Symantec
10 1 (0.55%) Veritas