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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 57 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 0
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 173 102 56
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.47% 3.79% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.29% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 74 45
10th Percentile £350 £411 £359
25th Percentile £399 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £684 £838 £645
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.66 - -
25th Percentile £22.16 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.59 - -
90th Percentile £26.38 - -
England median hourly rate £38.36 £60.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year -36.08% -9.77% -25.65%

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 4,099 2,380 2,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.48% 83.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,341 1,542 1,386
10th Percentile £306 £248 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -6.80% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £657 £700
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 189 68
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.80 £14.03
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £15.44
Median hourly rate £20.62 £21.30 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -7.59% -16.18%
75th Percentile £36.99 £26.51 £43.06
90th Percentile £55.00 £41.02 £55.08
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +5 124 £450 -14.29% 70
East Midlands -5 45 £525 -4.55% 33
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 (9.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.89%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Mendix
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (7.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.05%) Teamcenter
3 4 (2.31%) ResourceLink
4 3 (1.73%) iTrent
4 3 (1.73%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.73%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.73%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.16%) Lorenzo
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.58%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.34%) Azure
2 26 (15.03%) AWS
3 13 (7.51%) OCI
4 10 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.47%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.89%) GitHub
6 5 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (2.89%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.73%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.73%) Intacct
8 3 (1.73%) SaaS
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.23%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (16.76%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (7.51%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.20%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.47%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.89%) Ingres
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (2.31%) DataStage
7 4 (2.31%) Power BI
7 4 (2.31%) Power Query
8 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) Db2
9 1 (0.58%) Metadata
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 40 (23.12%) JIRA
2 27 (15.61%) Zephyr
3 23 (13.29%) Postman
4 22 (12.72%) Git
5 6 (3.47%) Selenium
6 5 (2.89%) GitLab
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (2.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.16%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.58%) Gatling
9 1 (0.58%) Hudson
General
1 69 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.28%) Finance
3 32 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (17.34%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.51%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.62%) Police
7 6 (3.47%) Local Government
7 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.89%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.89%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Billing
9 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Retail
10 2 (1.16%) Automotive
10 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
10 2 (1.16%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (13.29%) Data Engineer
2 22 (12.72%) Analyst
3 18 (10.40%) Senior
4 17 (9.83%) Lead
5 15 (8.67%) Consultant
6 13 (7.51%) Developer
6 13 (7.51%) Tester
7 12 (6.94%) Test Analyst
8 11 (6.36%) QA Tester
9 10 (5.78%) Accountant
9 10 (5.78%) Project Manager
10 9 (5.20%) Systems Accountant
11 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Data Migration Lead
13 5 (2.89%) Administrator
13 5 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
13 5 (2.89%) Data Migration Specialist
13 5 (2.89%) Migration Specialist
13 5 (2.89%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.62%) REST
3 6 (3.47%) SOAP
4 5 (2.89%) ADO
4 5 (2.89%) COM
4 5 (2.89%) ODBC
5 4 (2.31%) .NET
5 4 (2.31%) XML
6 2 (1.16%) Middleware
6 2 (1.16%) Playwright
6 2 (1.16%) Terraform
7 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.58%) EDI
7 1 (0.58%) Itk
7 1 (0.58%) JSON
7 1 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.58%) PySpark
7 1 (0.58%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.67%) Data Structures
2 12 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.78%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.47%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.73%) SCADA
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.16%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.58%) FMCG
8 1 (0.58%) Life Science
8 1 (0.58%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) AIX
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) Migration
2 75 (43.35%) Validation
3 57 (32.95%) ETL
4 53 (30.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 50 (28.90%) Agile
6 43 (24.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 35 (20.23%) ERP
8 32 (18.50%) Integration Testing
9 31 (17.92%) Data Modelling
9 31 (17.92%) Scenario Testing
10 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (16.76%) System Testing
11 29 (16.76%) Test Automation
12 27 (15.61%) End-to-End Testing
12 27 (15.61%) Test Scripting
13 26 (15.03%) Test Management
14 23 (13.29%) Data Governance
15 22 (12.72%) Customer Requirements
16 21 (12.14%) Analytics
16 21 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.79%) SQL
2 12 (6.94%) Python
3 7 (4.05%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.89%) VB
4 5 (2.89%) VB6
5 4 (2.31%) C
6 3 (1.73%) ABAP
6 3 (1.73%) C#
7 2 (1.16%) Java
8 1 (0.58%) Ada
8 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) Bicep
8 1 (0.58%) C++
8 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.56%) ISTQB
4 13 (7.51%) ACCA
4 13 (7.51%) CIMA
5 6 (3.47%) Degree
6 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.73%) CCAB
6 3 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.73%) PMP
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.58%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.08%) QA
2 28 (16.18%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) PMO
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Ansible
1 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
1 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (0.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (42.77%) Oracle
2 34 (19.65%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.14%) SAP
4 9 (5.20%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.47%) SYSPRO
5 6 (3.47%) Talend
6 5 (2.89%) Actian
6 5 (2.89%) Denodo
6 5 (2.89%) Workday
7 4 (2.31%) Cognos
7 4 (2.31%) IBM
7 4 (2.31%) Netezza
7 4 (2.31%) Sage
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
9 2 (1.16%) Concur
9 2 (1.16%) MEDITECH
10 1 (0.58%) Ariba
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.58%) Cerner
10 1 (0.58%) Splunk