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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 54 135
Rank change year-on-year -86 +81 -1
Permanent jobs citing Migration 183 376 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.34% 3.63% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.48% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 262 143
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -17.76% +15.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,554 £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 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
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 £81,250
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 30 May 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 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -3 115 £61,250 +22.50% 223
Cheshire +10 37 £70,750 +41.50% 143
Merseyside -23 16 £68,750 -1.79% 65
Lancashire -80 14 £51,371 +24.54% 61
Cumbria -81 1 - - 5
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 9 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (11.48%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.64%) Shopify
4 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.55%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.55%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.55%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.55%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 99 (54.10%) Azure
2 94 (51.37%) AWS
3 14 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.46%) GCP
4 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.92%) Cloud Composer
6 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.83%) OCI
6 7 (3.83%) SaaS
7 6 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.64%) IaaS
8 3 (1.64%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.64%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.09%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) Firewall
2 5 (2.73%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.73%) WAN
3 4 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (2.19%) DNS
3 4 (2.19%) LAN
3 4 (2.19%) Wireless
4 3 (1.64%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.09%) Intranet
5 2 (1.09%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (46.45%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.65%) Power BI
3 10 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.92%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.37%) MySQL
6 6 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.28%) Tableau
7 5 (2.73%) Metadata
8 3 (1.64%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.64%) SQL CLR
8 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.09%) EDRMS
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 74 (40.44%) JIRA
2 70 (38.25%) Bitbucket
2 70 (38.25%) Cucumber
2 70 (38.25%) GitLab
2 70 (38.25%) Maven
2 70 (38.25%) Selenium
2 70 (38.25%) SonarQube
2 70 (38.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (3.83%) Git
4 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 120 (65.57%) Finance
2 79 (43.17%) Banking
3 74 (40.44%) Retail
4 72 (39.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (38.25%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (38.25%) Investment Banking
6 46 (25.14%) Social Skills
7 28 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (7.10%) Law
10 6 (3.28%) Marketing
11 5 (2.73%) Legal
12 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.64%) Back Office
13 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.55%) Electronics
15 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (38.80%) Software Engineer
2 28 (15.30%) Consultant
3 18 (9.84%) NetSuite Consultant
4 15 (8.20%) Functional Consultant
4 15 (8.20%) Senior
5 14 (7.65%) Developer
6 11 (6.01%) Analyst
7 10 (5.46%) Architect
7 10 (5.46%) Lead
8 8 (4.37%) Administrator
9 6 (3.28%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.28%) Network Consultant
9 6 (3.28%) Team Leader
9 6 (3.28%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (2.73%) Oracle Architect
10 5 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.19%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.19%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (40.98%) HTML
2 72 (39.34%) CSS
2 72 (39.34%) React
2 72 (39.34%) RESTful
3 71 (38.80%) Kafka
3 71 (38.80%) REST
4 70 (38.25%) CSS3
4 70 (38.25%) HTML5
4 70 (38.25%) Jest
4 70 (38.25%) JPA
4 70 (38.25%) Redux
4 70 (38.25%) Sass
4 70 (38.25%) Spring
4 70 (38.25%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.19%) SOAP
6 3 (1.64%) Restlet
6 3 (1.64%) XML
7 2 (1.09%) .NET
7 2 (1.09%) NestJS
7 2 (1.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (43.72%) Product Ownership
2 70 (38.25%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.64%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.64%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.46%) Linux
2 5 (2.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.64%) CentOS
3 3 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.64%) Agile
2 86 (46.99%) DevOps
3 81 (44.26%) Mentoring
4 79 (43.17%) Software Engineering
5 77 (42.08%) CI/CD
6 74 (40.44%) Containerisation
7 72 (39.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 71 (38.80%) Front End Development
8 71 (38.80%) SDLC
8 71 (38.80%) Test Automation
8 71 (38.80%) User Experience
9 70 (38.25%) Microservices
9 70 (38.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 70 (38.25%) Responsive Web Design
9 70 (38.25%) Strategic Thinking
10 68 (37.16%) Data Migration
11 45 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (15.85%) ERP
13 25 (13.66%) CRM
14 21 (11.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (57.92%) SQL
2 76 (41.53%) Java
2 76 (41.53%) JavaScript
3 73 (39.89%) TypeScript
4 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.83%) Python
6 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.19%) Bash
8 3 (1.64%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) Bicep
9 2 (1.09%) 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 (6.56%) Degree
2 7 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.28%) CCNP
4 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.73%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.19%) CCIE
5 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.19%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.64%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (1.64%) MCSE
6 3 (1.64%) RHCE
7 2 (1.09%) CCSA
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) MCITP
8 1 (0.55%) MCSA
8 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (40.44%) Accessibility
2 72 (39.34%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.28%) ISO 9001
5 5 (2.73%) GDPR
6 4 (2.19%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.64%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.09%) 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 (42.62%) Docker
2 8 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.64%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.64%) Postfix
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.55%) NFS
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.09%) 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
Vendors
1 70 (38.25%) Solace
2 25 (13.66%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.37%) Google
3 8 (4.37%) VMware
4 7 (3.83%) Oracle
5 6 (3.28%) Cisco
6 5 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.73%) SAP
7 3 (1.64%) Databricks
7 3 (1.64%) Okta
7 3 (1.64%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.09%) Meraki
8 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.55%) Aruba
9 1 (0.55%) Facebook
9 1 (0.55%) HubSpot