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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 83
Rank change year-on-year -19 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 112 59 53
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.74% 3.07% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.50% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 42 39
10th Percentile £317 £419 £410
25th Percentile £358 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -14.04% +23.68%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £648
90th Percentile £638 £673 £700
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +2.56%
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 £41.56 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.74% -25.00% +300.00%

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 3,398 1,686 2,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.04% 87.77% 81.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,154 1,131 1,487
10th Percentile £300 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £360 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £651 £699
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 77 181
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.66 £18.13 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.96% -4.58% +7.22%
75th Percentile £30.38 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.90 £55.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -32 73 £450 -10.00% 16
East Midlands -7 36 £475 -2.81% 11
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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (3.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.89%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.89%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.89%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.96%) Azure
2 13 (11.61%) AWS
3 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.57%) GitHub
7 3 (2.68%) OCI
7 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.79%) SaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.54%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (17.86%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (7.14%) Power BI
4 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.68%) Ingres
7 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.89%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.89%) Metadata
9 1 (0.89%) MySQL
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (20.54%) JIRA
2 20 (17.86%) Zephyr
3 18 (16.07%) Postman
4 13 (11.61%) Git
5 5 (4.46%) Selenium
6 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.79%) Hudson
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.89%) GitLab
General
1 42 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (27.68%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Local Government
5 5 (4.46%) Police
6 4 (3.57%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Billing
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (20.54%) Analyst
2 16 (14.29%) Consultant
3 13 (11.61%) Project Manager
4 12 (10.71%) Lead
4 12 (10.71%) Tester
5 11 (9.82%) QA Tester
6 9 (8.04%) Test Analyst
7 8 (7.14%) Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Cloud Consultant
8 7 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 7 (6.25%) Desktop Support
8 7 (6.25%) Desktop Support Technician
8 7 (6.25%) Desktop Technician
8 7 (6.25%) Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.25%) Support Technician
9 6 (5.36%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Senior
9 6 (5.36%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (5.36%) Middleware
3 3 (2.68%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (2.68%) REST
3 3 (2.68%) XML
4 2 (1.79%) ActiveX
4 2 (1.79%) ADO
4 2 (1.79%) COM
4 2 (1.79%) ODBC
4 2 (1.79%) SOAP
4 2 (1.79%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.89%) .NET
5 1 (0.89%) JDBC
5 1 (0.89%) JSON
5 1 (0.89%) JSP
5 1 (0.89%) RESTful
5 1 (0.89%) Servlets
5 1 (0.89%) Spring
5 1 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 14 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.25%) Smartphone
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 7 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 6 (5.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) Migration
2 40 (35.71%) Agile
3 37 (33.04%) ETL
4 29 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (23.21%) Validation
6 24 (21.43%) Integration Testing
7 23 (20.54%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (17.86%) System Testing
8 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 19 (16.96%) End-to-End Testing
9 19 (16.96%) Scenario Testing
9 19 (16.96%) Test Management
10 18 (16.07%) Data Modelling
10 18 (16.07%) Test Scripting
11 17 (15.18%) ERP
12 16 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (13.39%) Customer Requirements
14 13 (11.61%) Data Cleansing
15 12 (10.71%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.79%) SQL
2 8 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 7 (6.25%) Python
4 5 (4.46%) Java
5 3 (2.68%) Apex Code
5 3 (2.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.79%) VB
6 2 (1.79%) VB6
7 1 (0.89%) C
7 1 (0.89%) C++
7 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.68%) PMP
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (0.89%) ACCA
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CIMA
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) QA
2 12 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 8 (7.14%) GDPR
4 4 (3.57%) PMO
5 2 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.68%) vSphere
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) SCCM
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.68%) Ansible
3 3 (2.68%) Argo
3 3 (2.68%) Grafana
3 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.68%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Oracle
2 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.04%) SAP
4 7 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.25%) Talend
5 6 (5.36%) Databricks
6 5 (4.46%) IFS
7 4 (3.57%) Sage
8 3 (2.68%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.68%) Splunk
8 3 (2.68%) VMware
9 2 (1.79%) Actian
9 2 (1.79%) Ariba
9 2 (1.79%) Denodo
10 1 (0.89%) Aareon
10 1 (0.89%) Civica
10 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.89%) Sybase
10 1 (0.89%) Workday