Migration Contracts in Birmingham

Migration
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 28 21
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 53 39 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.43% 5.23% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.99% 6.31% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 50
10th Percentile £395 £301 £350
25th Percentile £419 £363 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +5.41% -2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £569
90th Percentile £654 £600 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 - £58.75
% change year-on-year - - +193.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 442 618 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.01% 82.84% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 404 517
10th Percentile £163 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £583 £638
90th Percentile £689 £697 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 43 29
10th Percentile - £13.19 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £26.00 £16.29
Median % change year-on-year -43.46% +59.66% -5.54%
75th Percentile £22.08 £47.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.62 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.69% +18.42% +12.93%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Birmingham

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Birmingham

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Birmingham

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Power Platform
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.43%) IaaS
5 5 (9.43%) SaaS
6 4 (7.55%) Power Automate
6 4 (7.55%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 3 (5.66%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.89%) Matillion
9 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.89%) ShareGate
9 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (3.77%) LAN
1 2 (3.77%) MPLS
1 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.77%) Unified Communications
1 2 (3.77%) VoIP
1 2 (3.77%) WAN
1 2 (3.77%) Wireless
2 1 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.66%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.89%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 3 (5.66%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.89%) ERwin
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Legal
4 3 (5.66%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Project Manager
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.66%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Junior
7 3 (5.66%) Junior Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Junior Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Middleware
2 2 (3.77%) LDAP
3 1 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.89%) FpML
3 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) OLE
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) PMI
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Data Migration
2 10 (18.87%) Agile
2 10 (18.87%) ERP
3 9 (16.98%) Data Integration
3 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (15.09%) Data Governance
4 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.09%) Project Management
5 7 (13.21%) Data Protection
6 6 (11.32%) Data Mapping
6 6 (11.32%) DevOps
6 6 (11.32%) ETL
6 6 (11.32%) Validation
6 6 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (9.43%) Business Continuity
7 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.43%) Data Modelling
7 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (7.55%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) SQL
2 3 (5.66%) Groovy
2 3 (5.66%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) C#
3 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.77%) PHP
4 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CCIE
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) PMO
3 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.77%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) SCCM
3 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
2 3 (5.66%) Informatica
2 3 (5.66%) SAP
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco
3 2 (3.77%) Cognos
3 2 (3.77%) Epicor
3 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.77%) Meraki
3 2 (3.77%) VMware
4 1 (1.89%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.89%) Infor
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Sparx
4 1 (1.89%) Workday