Data Migration Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Migration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 181 103 60
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.66% 3.76% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.22% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 74 48
10th Percentile £350 £407 £356
25th Percentile £400 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £581
90th Percentile £675 £838 £656
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £20.57 - -
25th Percentile £21.06 - -
Median hourly rate £22.90 - -
75th Percentile £24.93 - -
90th Percentile £26.11 - -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £62.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -52.06% -2.34% -24.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,057 2,440 2,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.93% 88.95% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 1,576 1,410
10th Percentile £306 £250 £250
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £668 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 199 67
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.97 £14.68
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.78 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.41 £21.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% -5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £32.82 £26.51 £37.34
90th Percentile £53.75 £40.46 £53.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the Midlands

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Migration

Data Migration
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 Data Migration within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +15 134 £450 -18.18% 49
East Midlands -7 42 £550 - 21
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 20 (11.05%) Confluence
2 5 (2.76%) SAS
2 5 (2.76%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Mendix
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (7.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.31%) Teamcenter
3 4 (2.21%) ResourceLink
4 3 (1.66%) iTrent
4 3 (1.66%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.66%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.66%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.10%) Lorenzo
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.55%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.78%) AWS
2 30 (16.57%) Azure
3 14 (7.73%) OCI
4 10 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (3.87%) GitHub
5 7 (3.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.76%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.66%) Intacct
9 3 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (16.02%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (7.73%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (3.31%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.76%) Ingres
9 4 (2.21%) DataStage
9 4 (2.21%) Power Query
10 3 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.66%) Power BI
11 2 (1.10%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.10%) Pentaho
12 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.55%) Big Data
12 1 (0.55%) Metadata
12 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 45 (24.86%) JIRA
2 28 (15.47%) Git
2 28 (15.47%) Zephyr
3 24 (13.26%) Postman
4 8 (4.42%) GitLab
4 8 (4.42%) Selenium
5 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.66%) Gatling
8 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.10%) JUnit
8 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.10%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.55%) Hudson
General
1 72 (39.78%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.76%) Finance
3 33 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.02%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.42%) Police
7 6 (3.31%) General Ledger
7 6 (3.31%) Local Government
7 6 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.76%) Legal
9 4 (2.21%) Billing
9 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Automotive
10 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (14.36%) Analyst
2 25 (13.81%) Data Engineer
3 17 (9.39%) Lead
3 17 (9.39%) Senior
4 16 (8.84%) Test Analyst
5 15 (8.29%) Consultant
6 13 (7.18%) Tester
7 12 (6.63%) Accountant
7 12 (6.63%) Developer
7 12 (6.63%) QA Tester
7 12 (6.63%) Systems Accountant
8 7 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Data Migration Lead
9 6 (3.31%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Data Migration Specialist
10 5 (2.76%) Migration Specialist
10 5 (2.76%) Test Engineer
11 4 (2.21%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.42%) REST
3 6 (3.31%) SOAP
4 5 (2.76%) ADO
4 5 (2.76%) COM
4 5 (2.76%) ODBC
4 5 (2.76%) React
5 4 (2.21%) .NET
5 4 (2.21%) JSON
5 4 (2.21%) Playwright
5 4 (2.21%) XML
6 3 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.10%) Terraform
7 2 (1.10%) WireMock
8 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.55%) EDI
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.55%) PySpark
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.52%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.31%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.21%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.66%) SCADA
9 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.10%) CMDB
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
10 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.55%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.55%) AIX
3 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) Migration
2 78 (43.09%) Validation
3 62 (34.25%) ETL
4 59 (32.60%) User Acceptance Testing
5 57 (31.49%) Agile
6 46 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (19.89%) ERP
8 35 (19.34%) Test Automation
9 33 (18.23%) Integration Testing
10 32 (17.68%) Scenario Testing
10 32 (17.68%) System Testing
11 31 (17.13%) Data Modelling
12 30 (16.57%) Test Scripting
13 28 (15.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 28 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (14.92%) Data Governance
14 27 (14.92%) Test Management
15 23 (12.71%) Manual Testing
16 22 (12.15%) Customer Requirements
16 22 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.70%) SQL
2 19 (10.50%) Python
3 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.76%) VB
4 5 (2.76%) VB6
5 4 (2.21%) C#
6 3 (1.66%) ABAP
6 3 (1.66%) C
6 3 (1.66%) Java
6 3 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.55%) Ada
7 1 (0.55%) Bash
7 1 (0.55%) Bicep
7 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.26%) ISTQB
4 13 (7.18%) ACCA
4 13 (7.18%) CIMA
5 7 (3.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.76%) Degree
7 4 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.66%) CCAB
8 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.66%) PMP
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.34%) QA
2 28 (15.47%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.18%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (2.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.10%) SCCM
3 1 (0.55%) Ansible
3 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 76 (41.99%) Oracle
2 36 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.71%) SAP
4 8 (4.42%) Talend
5 7 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.31%) SYSPRO
7 5 (2.76%) Actian
7 5 (2.76%) Denodo
7 5 (2.76%) Workday
8 4 (2.21%) Cognos
8 4 (2.21%) IBM
8 4 (2.21%) Netezza
8 4 (2.21%) Sage
9 3 (1.66%) Databricks
10 2 (1.10%) Concur
10 2 (1.10%) MEDITECH
10 2 (1.10%) Xero
11 1 (0.55%) IFS
11 1 (0.55%) Meraki
11 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow