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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 64 79
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 127 53 57
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.98% 2.77% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.17% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 35 42
10th Percentile £321 £419 £363
25th Percentile £358 £448 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -13.98% +16.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £628 £683 £700
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.52 - -
90th Percentile £22.78 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -37.25% -15.00% +275.00%

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 3,514 1,674 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.33% 87.55% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,202 1,100 1,515
10th Percentile £300 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 86 171
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.64 £13.71
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -2.58% +7.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.03 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £39.61 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -17 86 £450 -10.00% 20
East Midlands -11 38 £500 +7.53% 12
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 15 (11.81%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.94%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.94%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.54%) Azure
2 15 (11.81%) AWS
3 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.51%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.15%) GitHub
7 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.36%) OCI
7 3 (2.36%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.57%) SaaS
8 2 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (18.90%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (6.30%) Power BI
4 7 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.15%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.36%) Ingres
7 3 (2.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.79%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (24.41%) JIRA
2 24 (18.90%) Zephyr
3 22 (17.32%) Postman
4 17 (13.39%) Git
5 6 (4.72%) Selenium
6 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.57%) Hudson
8 2 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.79%) GitLab
General
1 48 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.98%) Finance
3 18 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.72%) Police
6 5 (3.94%) Local Government
7 4 (3.15%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.36%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Marketing
8 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Billing
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (22.05%) Analyst
2 20 (15.75%) Consultant
3 13 (10.24%) Project Manager
3 13 (10.24%) Test Analyst
4 12 (9.45%) Tester
5 11 (8.66%) Lead
5 11 (8.66%) QA Tester
6 9 (7.09%) Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Senior
7 8 (6.30%) Cloud Consultant
8 7 (5.51%) Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Desktop Support
8 7 (5.51%) Desktop Support Technician
8 7 (5.51%) Desktop Technician
8 7 (5.51%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (5.51%) Support Technician
9 6 (4.72%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.72%) Middleware
3 3 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (2.36%) REST
4 2 (1.57%) ActiveX
4 2 (1.57%) ADO
4 2 (1.57%) COM
4 2 (1.57%) ODBC
4 2 (1.57%) SOAP
4 2 (1.57%) Visualforce
4 2 (1.57%) XML
5 1 (0.79%) Itk
5 1 (0.79%) JDBC
5 1 (0.79%) JSP
5 1 (0.79%) MACH
5 1 (0.79%) RESTful
5 1 (0.79%) Servlets
5 1 (0.79%) Spring
5 1 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.60%) Data Structures
1 16 (12.60%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.51%) Smartphone
3 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.94%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.57%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.57%) SCADA
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.30%) Windows
2 7 (5.51%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) Migration
2 47 (37.01%) Agile
3 43 (33.86%) ETL
4 36 (28.35%) Validation
5 32 (25.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (22.05%) Integration Testing
6 28 (22.05%) User Acceptance Testing
7 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
8 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (18.90%) Scenario Testing
9 23 (18.11%) Data Modelling
9 23 (18.11%) End-to-End Testing
9 23 (18.11%) System Testing
9 23 (18.11%) Test Management
10 22 (17.32%) Test Scripting
11 19 (14.96%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (12.60%) ERP
14 15 (11.81%) Manual Testing
15 13 (10.24%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.13%) SQL
2 7 (5.51%) PL/SQL
2 7 (5.51%) Python
3 4 (3.15%) Java
4 3 (2.36%) Apex Code
4 3 (2.36%) Bash
5 2 (1.57%) VB
5 2 (1.57%) VB6
6 1 (0.79%) C
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.02%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.36%) PMP
5 2 (1.57%) ACCA
5 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.57%) CIMA
5 2 (1.57%) Degree
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.32%) QA
2 14 (11.02%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.30%) GDPR
4 3 (2.36%) PMO
5 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.36%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.36%) vSphere
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (6.30%) SCCM
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.36%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) Argo
3 3 (2.36%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.36%) Terraform
3 3 (2.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (33.07%) Oracle
2 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.87%) SAP
4 8 (6.30%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.51%) Databricks
5 7 (5.51%) Talend
6 5 (3.94%) IFS
7 4 (3.15%) Sage
8 3 (2.36%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.36%) Splunk
8 3 (2.36%) VMware
9 2 (1.57%) Actian
9 2 (1.57%) Ariba
9 2 (1.57%) Denodo
10 1 (0.79%) Aareon
10 1 (0.79%) Civica
10 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.79%) Sybase