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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 77 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 104 60 68
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.45% 2.24% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 2.67% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 50 46
10th Percentile £400 £379 £325
25th Percentile £450 £416 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £618 £657
90th Percentile £838 £738 £716
England median daily rate £538 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.45% +3.04%

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 2,679 2,243 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.91% 83.79% 84.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,400 1,596
10th Percentile £250 £255 £251
25th Percentile £367 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 75 106
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.34
25th Percentile £17.22 £17.00 £17.55
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -11.27% +60.91%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £40.02 £51.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -15 61 £550 -1.03% 31
East Midlands +16 41 £563 +32.35% 19
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 3 (2.88%) Confluence
1 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (6.73%) Oracle Cash Management
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (4.81%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (4.81%) SAP PM
5 4 (3.85%) SAP HR
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (1.92%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (13.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 11 (10.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 10 (9.62%) Azure
5 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.85%) AWS
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.88%) Intacct
7 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.88%) Serverless
7 3 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) DataStage
2 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) MySQL
3 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.92%) Power BI
4 2 (1.92%) QlikView
4 2 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.96%) Metadata
5 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) JIRA
General
1 39 (37.50%) Finance
2 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Marketing
4 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.77%) Legal
7 5 (4.81%) Banking
8 4 (3.85%) Law
8 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.88%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) Police
10 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Architect
2 16 (15.38%) Salesforce Architect
3 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 14 (13.46%) Project Manager
4 12 (11.54%) Lead
5 10 (9.62%) Consultant
6 7 (6.73%) Administrator
6 7 (6.73%) Business Analyst
6 7 (6.73%) Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.77%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) ETL Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Oracle Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Data Consultant
10 3 (2.88%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Finance Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 3 (2.88%) SAP Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (14.42%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (14.42%) Visualforce
3 11 (10.58%) Middleware
4 10 (9.62%) REST
4 10 (9.62%) SOAP
5 5 (4.81%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.85%) SAP PI
7 2 (1.92%) .NET
7 2 (1.92%) XML
8 1 (0.96%) JSON
8 1 (0.96%) MACH
8 1 (0.96%) PySpark
8 1 (0.96%) RESTful
8 1 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) CMDB
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.96%) SCADA
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Windows
1 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) Migration
2 29 (27.88%) ERP
3 27 (25.96%) Agile
3 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.19%) Data Modelling
5 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (15.38%) Change Management
6 16 (15.38%) Data Governance
7 15 (14.42%) Integration Patterns
7 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
8 14 (13.46%) ETL
9 13 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (11.54%) Architecture Roadmap
10 12 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.54%) Project Delivery
11 11 (10.58%) Cutover Planning
11 11 (10.58%) Data Flow Diagram
11 11 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) Apex Code
2 11 (10.58%) SQL
3 3 (2.88%) Java
4 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.92%) X++
5 1 (0.96%) C#
5 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.96%) PHP
5 1 (0.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) ACCA
5 3 (2.88%) CIMA
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.92%) PMP
7 1 (0.96%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.42%) Data Quality
1 15 (14.42%) GDPR
2 12 (11.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (5.77%) QA
4 4 (3.85%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Oracle
2 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 19 (18.27%) Salesforce
4 13 (12.50%) SAP
5 4 (3.85%) IBM
5 4 (3.85%) Sage
5 4 (3.85%) Workday
6 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Ariba
7 1 (0.96%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) Talend
7 1 (0.96%) Xero