Data Migration Contracts in the Midlands

Data Migration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 80 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 49 58 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.38% 2.08% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.56% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 56
10th Percentile £350 £353 £358
25th Percentile £419 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £553 £632 £600
90th Percentile £675 £698 £738
England median daily rate £529 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.82% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +233.33% -22.62%

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 1,818 2,267 2,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.42% 81.46% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,531 1,990
10th Percentile £205 £231 £260
25th Percentile £358 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 173 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -15.56% +28.13%
75th Percentile £26.93 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the Midlands

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the Midlands

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the Midlands

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 31 May 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 +4 35 £450 -10.00% 50
East Midlands +7 11 £458 -13.68% 18
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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) IBM Notes
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (8.16%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.12%) Collibra
5 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.08%) BrowserStack
6 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.08%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
1 2 (4.08%) Network Security
1 2 (4.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
2 4 (8.16%) Delta Lake
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.12%) GIS
3 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.08%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) DataStage
5 1 (2.04%) DB2
5 1 (2.04%) Metadata
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.04%) QualityStage
5 1 (2.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.08%) JMeter
2 2 (4.08%) Postman
2 2 (4.08%) Selenium
2 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Retail
4 3 (6.12%) Law
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Consultant
4 6 (12.24%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Data Migration Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Data Migration Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Data Migration Project Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Migration Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Migration Project Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Middleware
2 3 (6.12%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) ADO
4 1 (2.04%) CSS
4 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.04%) OLE
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.04%) React
4 1 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (2.04%) SOAP
4 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 7 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) SCADA
3 3 (6.12%) IoT
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Migration
2 17 (34.69%) Data Governance
3 13 (26.53%) Data Integration
4 12 (24.49%) ETL
5 11 (22.45%) Agile
5 11 (22.45%) Validation
6 9 (18.37%) Data Modelling
7 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.29%) DevOps
9 6 (12.24%) Data Mapping
9 6 (12.24%) Data Validation
10 5 (10.20%) Analytics
10 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (10.20%) Change Management
10 5 (10.20%) Data Architecture
10 5 (10.20%) Data Transformation
10 5 (10.20%) ITIL
10 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 4 (8.16%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 4 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) MBA
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.24%) GDPR
3 5 (10.20%) QA
4 2 (4.08%) PMO
5 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.37%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Databricks
4 5 (10.20%) Salesforce
4 5 (10.20%) SAP
5 4 (8.16%) Denodo
6 3 (6.12%) Informatica
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco
7 2 (4.08%) Google
7 2 (4.08%) Lotus
7 2 (4.08%) Nintex
7 2 (4.08%) Talend
8 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
8 1 (2.04%) IBM
8 1 (2.04%) Infor
8 1 (2.04%) Marketo
8 1 (2.04%) Remedy
8 1 (2.04%) Workday