Migration Contracts in the Midlands

Migration
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 167 338 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.12% 9.83% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 11.12% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 245 305
10th Percentile £356 £294 £285
25th Percentile £425 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £646 £575 £575
90th Percentile £771 £694 £648
England median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £16.33 £18.20
25th Percentile - £18.17 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.76% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £60.63 £22.00
90th Percentile - £82.75 £27.70
England median hourly rate £43.12 £65.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -33.67% +150.00% +62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -11 105 £563 +12.50% 40
East Midlands +6 61 £550 +15.79% 31
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.99%) JBoss
3 2 (1.20%) SAS
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (2.40%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.80%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.35%) Azure
2 29 (17.37%) AWS
3 16 (9.58%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.38%) SaaS
5 9 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.80%) GCP
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.20%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) LAN
2 6 (3.59%) WAN
3 5 (2.99%) Firewall
4 3 (1.80%) ADSL
4 3 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.80%) SAN
4 3 (1.80%) VDSL
5 2 (1.20%) Internet
5 2 (1.20%) SSL
5 2 (1.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.60%) DNS
6 1 (0.60%) NAS
6 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.60%) Network Security
6 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) Power BI
2 10 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.79%) RDBMS
4 6 (3.59%) Data Mining
4 6 (3.59%) Tableau
5 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.80%) Big Data
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.20%) EDRMS
8 2 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.20%) Metadata
8 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.60%) OLAP
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (4.79%) JIRA
2 7 (4.19%) Git
3 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (2.99%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) LSMW
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.95%) Finance
3 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Law
4 12 (7.19%) Legal
5 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.40%) Retail
6 4 (2.40%) Social Housing
7 3 (1.80%) Banking
7 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Advertising
8 2 (1.20%) German Language
8 2 (1.20%) Local Government
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (23.95%) Architect
2 23 (13.77%) Project Manager
3 17 (10.18%) Consultant
3 17 (10.18%) Lead
4 14 (8.38%) Data Architect
4 14 (8.38%) Data Migration Lead
4 14 (8.38%) Developer
5 12 (7.19%) IT Manager
6 9 (5.39%) Analyst
7 8 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (4.79%) IT Services Delivery Manager
7 8 (4.79%) IT Services Manager
7 8 (4.79%) Service Delivery Manager
7 8 (4.79%) Service Manager
7 8 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.19%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.19%) ForgeRock Architect
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Architect
9 6 (3.59%) Data Centre Manager
9 6 (3.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.79%) LDAP
1 8 (4.79%) SAML
2 7 (4.19%) OAuth
2 7 (4.19%) OpenID
3 5 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.99%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.80%) .NET
4 3 (1.80%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.80%) HTML
5 2 (1.20%) CSS
5 2 (1.20%) Spring
6 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.60%) Guice
6 1 (0.60%) HTML5
6 1 (0.60%) JSON
6 1 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.60%) SPFx
6 1 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (7.78%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.80%) FMCG
6 3 (1.80%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) e-Health
7 2 (1.20%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.20%) LIMS
7 2 (1.20%) NHS
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) PACS
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Windows
2 10 (5.99%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.19%) Linux
5 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) AIX
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.53%) Data Migration
2 31 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (10.78%) Analytics
3 18 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (10.18%) Project Management
5 14 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (7.78%) Data Modelling
6 13 (7.78%) ERP
7 12 (7.19%) ETL
8 11 (6.59%) Change Management
8 11 (6.59%) Computer Science
8 11 (6.59%) Data Design
8 11 (6.59%) Information Security
8 11 (6.59%) Service Management
9 10 (5.99%) Agile
9 10 (5.99%) Business Analysis
9 10 (5.99%) Data Management
9 10 (5.99%) ITSM
9 10 (5.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.37%) SQL
2 12 (7.19%) Python
3 8 (4.79%) Swift
4 7 (4.19%) Perl
5 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.40%) Java
6 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.60%) Bash
7 1 (0.60%) C
7 1 (0.60%) C#
7 1 (0.60%) C++
7 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) Rust
7 1 (0.60%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (8.38%) Degree
2 12 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CCNP
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.40%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) PMO
4 2 (1.20%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.99%) Docker
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.60%) XenApp
5 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.99%) Kibana
3 5 (2.99%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.40%) Terraform
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.20%) SCCM
6 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.19%) SAP
3 9 (5.39%) Okta
4 8 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (4.19%) ForgeRock
5 7 (4.19%) Workday
6 5 (2.99%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.99%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.99%) Cisco
6 5 (2.99%) Citrix
6 5 (2.99%) PeopleSoft
6 5 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
7 4 (2.40%) Databricks
7 4 (2.40%) iManage
7 4 (2.40%) VMware
8 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.20%) Ariba
9 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.60%) Informatica