Migration Specialist Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Migration Specialist
England > Midlands

The median Migration Specialist daily rate in the Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Migration Specialist 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.047% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £403 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% - -
75th Percentile £569 £519 -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 3,109 1,948 2,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 91.93% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,969 1,217 1,695
10th Percentile £213 £200 £200
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £575
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 81 196
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.95 £11.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.84
Median hourly rate £21.52 £23.82 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +25.37% +7.83%
75th Percentile £27.00 £30.68 £29.25
90th Percentile £34.75 £41.97 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%

Migration Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Migration Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Migration Specialist job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Specialist job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Migration Specialist job vacancies in the Midlands

Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration Specialist in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration Specialist in the Midlands

Migration Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Specialist job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Migration Specialist job vacancies in the Midlands

Migration Specialist
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 Migration Specialist within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 February 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 -39 4 £625 +21.95% 1
East Midlands - 2 £415 -
Migration Specialist
England

Migration Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Migration Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Migration Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) Kibana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) logstash
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Case Management
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation

Migration Specialist Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Police
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Information Management
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Records Management
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) logstash
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos