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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 64 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 162 74 49
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.46% 3.04% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.48% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 46 38
10th Percentile £350 £400 £359
25th Percentile £365 £428 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £597 £622
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.66 - -
25th Percentile £22.17 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.60 - -
90th Percentile £26.38 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +158.06%

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 3,908 2,128 2,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.47% 87.46% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,423 1,368 1,519
10th Percentile £307 £220 £263
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £670 £639 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 172 119
10th Percentile £13.77 £12.62 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.64 £16.08 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.52 £21.35 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.56% +18.58% -34.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £27.45 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +7 119 £450 -10.00% 30
East Midlands +5 40 £525 +16.67% 16
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 16 (9.88%) Confluence
2 5 (3.09%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.70%) Teamcenter
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.85%) iTrent
4 3 (1.85%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.62%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.28%) AWS
2 26 (16.05%) Azure
3 10 (6.17%) OCI
4 9 (5.56%) GitHub
5 7 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.85%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.23%) SaaS
11 1 (0.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.07%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (20.37%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.32%) Ingres
6 7 (4.32%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.47%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (2.47%) Power BI
8 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.23%) Metadata
9 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.62%) DataStage
9 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (24.07%) JIRA
2 32 (19.75%) Zephyr
3 26 (16.05%) Postman
4 25 (15.43%) Git
5 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (3.70%) Selenium
8 5 (3.09%) GitLab
9 2 (1.23%) Hudson
9 2 (1.23%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.62%) Gatling
General
1 56 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.31%) Finance
3 27 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 25 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.56%) Police
7 5 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Local Government
9 3 (1.85%) Billing
9 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.23%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Automotive
11 1 (0.62%) Law
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
11 1 (0.62%) Marketing
11 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (16.67%) Analyst
2 20 (12.35%) Consultant
2 20 (12.35%) Data Engineer
3 19 (11.73%) Tester
4 18 (11.11%) QA Tester
5 15 (9.26%) Senior
6 14 (8.64%) Project Manager
7 13 (8.02%) Developer
7 13 (8.02%) Test Analyst
8 10 (6.17%) Lead
9 8 (4.94%) Cloud Consultant
10 7 (4.32%) Architect
11 6 (3.70%) Administrator
11 6 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.70%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
12 5 (3.09%) Accountant
12 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.70%) ADO
2 6 (3.70%) COM
2 6 (3.70%) ODBC
3 3 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.23%) .NET
4 2 (1.23%) Middleware
4 2 (1.23%) REST
4 2 (1.23%) XML
5 1 (0.62%) ActiveX
5 1 (0.62%) Itk
5 1 (0.62%) JDBC
5 1 (0.62%) JSON
5 1 (0.62%) JSP
5 1 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.62%) Playwright
5 1 (0.62%) PySpark
5 1 (0.62%) Servlets
5 1 (0.62%) Spring
5 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 12 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.70%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.85%) SCADA
7 2 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Windows
1 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Migration
2 67 (41.36%) Validation
3 58 (35.80%) ETL
4 54 (33.33%) Agile
5 49 (30.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 37 (22.84%) Integration Testing
7 34 (20.99%) Scenario Testing
7 34 (20.99%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (19.75%) System Testing
9 32 (19.75%) Test Management
10 31 (19.14%) End-to-End Testing
11 30 (18.52%) Data Modelling
11 30 (18.52%) ERP
11 30 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (17.90%) Test Scripting
13 26 (16.05%) Customer Requirements
14 23 (14.20%) Analytics
15 22 (13.58%) Data Governance
15 22 (13.58%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.19%) SQL
2 15 (9.26%) Python
3 7 (4.32%) PL/SQL
4 6 (3.70%) VB
4 6 (3.70%) VB6
5 4 (2.47%) C
6 3 (1.85%) Bash
6 3 (1.85%) Java
7 1 (0.62%) Ada
7 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.62%) C#
7 1 (0.62%) C++
7 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.58%) ISTQB
4 7 (4.32%) ACCA
4 7 (4.32%) CIMA
5 3 (1.85%) Degree
5 3 (1.85%) PMP
6 2 (1.23%) CCAB
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.37%) QA
2 21 (12.96%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.85%) VMware NSX
1 3 (1.85%) vSphere
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.85%) Ansible
1 3 (1.85%) Argo
1 3 (1.85%) Grafana
1 3 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.85%) Terraform
1 3 (1.85%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (43.83%) Oracle
2 23 (14.20%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.11%) SAP
4 9 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.32%) Actian
5 7 (4.32%) Talend
6 5 (3.09%) Denodo
7 4 (2.47%) Databricks
7 4 (2.47%) Sage
8 3 (1.85%) Ariba
8 3 (1.85%) Pure Storage
8 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.85%) Splunk
8 3 (1.85%) SYSPRO
8 3 (1.85%) VMware
8 3 (1.85%) Workday
9 2 (1.23%) Concur
9 2 (1.23%) IFS
10 1 (0.62%) Aareon
10 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow