Data Migration Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Migration
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 93 131
Rank change year-on-year -10 +38 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Migration 16 10 12
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.88% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.76% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 7
10th Percentile - £34,297 £28,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £35,820 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £41,738 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.73% +19.25% -46.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,973 £48,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £74,375 £51,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £41,738 £35,000
% change year-on-year +55.73% +19.25% -41.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Data 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,496 1,311 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.24% 87.52% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 875 659 1,381
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,028 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Migration
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Migration in West Yorkshire

Data Migration
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Leeds -10 12 £62,500 +49.74%
Bradford - 3 £70,000 - 1
Wakefield - 1 £80,000 -
Data Migration
Yorkshire

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (43.75%) Apache
1 7 (43.75%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (43.75%) Serverless
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (18.75%) dbt
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (43.75%) Data Lake
1 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (18.75%) Data Vault
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (6.25%) GIS
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Tech for Good
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Change Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Change Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.25%) GIS Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Migration
2 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (50.00%) Validation
5 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (43.75%) Data Security
5 7 (43.75%) ETL
6 4 (25.00%) Data Management
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Data Management
7 3 (18.75%) Kanban
7 3 (18.75%) Lean Six Sigma
7 3 (18.75%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) ESRI