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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 78 75
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 94 55 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.61% 2.04% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.48% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 46 50
10th Percentile £411 £359 £325
25th Percentile £447 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £647 £620 £658
90th Percentile £1,069 £688 £746
England median daily rate £529 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.82% +1.85%

All Process and 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 2,283 2,214 2,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.64% 82.00% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 1,427 1,746
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £360 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 75 99
10th Percentile £12.87 £12.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -21.82% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.86 £40.97 £51.50
90th Percentile £47.60 £55.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 61 £505 +1.00% 21
East Midlands +16 29 £550 +10.00% 22
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) SAP PM
2 5 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (4.26%) SAP HR
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Azure
2 11 (11.70%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (11.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 8 (8.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (5.32%) AWS
6 4 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (4.26%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.19%) Collibra
7 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.19%) SaaS
8 2 (2.13%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.13%) GCP
8 2 (2.13%) Intacct
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.13%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
1 2 (2.13%) Network Security
1 2 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (5.32%) DataStage
1 5 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (4.26%) Delta Lake
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.19%) GIS
4 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.13%) QlikView
4 2 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.13%) JMeter
2 2 (2.13%) Postman
2 2 (2.13%) Selenium
2 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (29.79%) Finance
2 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Marketing
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.32%) Legal
7 4 (4.26%) Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Law
8 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Police
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.21%) Architect
2 15 (15.96%) Project Manager
3 12 (12.77%) Salesforce Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Analyst
5 9 (9.57%) Lead
6 7 (7.45%) Administrator
6 7 (7.45%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Migration Specialist
7 6 (6.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Data Manager
8 5 (5.32%) Data Migration Specialist
8 5 (5.32%) Senior
9 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) ETL Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Product Owner
10 3 (3.19%) Data Migration Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Data Migration Project Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 11 (11.70%) Visualforce
2 9 (9.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (8.51%) Middleware
4 7 (7.45%) REST
4 7 (7.45%) SOAP
5 5 (5.32%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.26%) SAP PI
7 3 (3.19%) Kafka
8 2 (2.13%) .NET
8 2 (2.13%) XML
9 1 (1.06%) OLE
9 1 (1.06%) PySpark
9 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 13 (13.83%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) SCADA
5 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.19%) IoT
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) CMDB
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
1 2 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Migration
2 26 (27.66%) Agile
3 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (24.47%) Data Governance
5 22 (23.40%) ERP
6 19 (20.21%) ETL
7 18 (19.15%) Data Modelling
8 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (15.96%) Validation
9 12 (12.77%) Change Management
9 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
9 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (11.70%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (10.64%) Scrum
12 9 (9.57%) Data Management
12 9 (9.57%) Project Delivery
12 9 (9.57%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (8.51%) Architecture Roadmap
13 8 (8.51%) Data Flow Diagram
13 8 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) SQL
2 12 (12.77%) Apex Code
3 3 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (3.19%) Python
4 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.06%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.06%) PHP
5 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.06%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.32%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.19%) PMP
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 14 (14.89%) GDPR
3 8 (8.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (7.45%) QA
5 2 (2.13%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
1 18 (19.15%) Oracle
2 17 (18.09%) Salesforce
3 15 (15.96%) SAP
4 5 (5.32%) Databricks
5 4 (4.26%) IBM
5 4 (4.26%) Workday
6 3 (3.19%) Informatica
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) Google
7 2 (2.13%) Lotus
7 2 (2.13%) Nintex
7 2 (2.13%) Sage
8 1 (1.06%) Ariba
8 1 (1.06%) Infor
8 1 (1.06%) Marketo
8 1 (1.06%) Remedy
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow