Migration Contracts in the Midlands

Migration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Migration 186 199 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.10% 6.72% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 8.36% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 141 220
10th Percentile £350 £356 £250
25th Percentile £413 £416 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £478
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.90% -2.55%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile - - £27.38
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - £94.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -40.07% +156.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 2,024 2,381 2,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.15% 80.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,591 2,018
10th Percentile £210 £250 £252
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 172 100
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.81 £15.61
Median hourly rate £20.67 £18.50 £26.07
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -29.04% +33.69%
75th Percentile £27.45 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

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 Migration within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +6 137 £500 -4.31% 289
East Midlands -13 41 £500 - 171
Migration
England

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 18 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.23%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) IBM Notes
4 2 (1.08%) JBoss
4 2 (1.08%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.23%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.61%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.08%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.08%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.27%) Azure
2 23 (12.37%) Power Platform
3 21 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (9.68%) AWS
5 16 (8.60%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (5.38%) PowerApps
7 9 (4.84%) SaaS
8 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.30%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.69%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (2.69%) Serverless
11 4 (2.15%) IaaS
11 4 (2.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.61%) Collibra
12 3 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.84%) Firewall
2 8 (4.30%) WAN
3 6 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (2.15%) LAN
4 4 (2.15%) Network Security
4 4 (2.15%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.61%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.08%) BGP
6 2 (1.08%) MPLS
6 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.08%) VoIP
6 2 (1.08%) Wireless
7 1 (0.54%) DHCP
7 1 (0.54%) DNS
7 1 (0.54%) Intranet
7 1 (0.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.53%) Power BI
2 9 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.15%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.61%) GIS
6 3 (1.61%) Tableau
7 2 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.08%) Metadata
7 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.08%) QlikView
7 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.54%) DataStage
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.54%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 19 (10.22%) JIRA
2 3 (1.61%) ScriptRunner
2 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.61%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (1.08%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.08%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.08%) JMeter
3 2 (1.08%) Postman
3 2 (1.08%) Selenium
3 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) JUnit
4 1 (0.54%) Mockito
4 1 (0.54%) NUnit
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.19%) Finance
3 18 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.45%) Law
6 9 (4.84%) Banking
7 6 (3.23%) Legal
8 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.61%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.08%) Automotive
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.74%) Architect
2 24 (12.90%) Analyst
2 24 (12.90%) Project Manager
3 21 (11.29%) Consultant
4 14 (7.53%) Senior
5 11 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.38%) Lead
7 9 (4.84%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.84%) Developer
7 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.23%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Migration Specialist
9 6 (3.23%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) Data Migration Specialist
10 5 (2.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 5 (2.69%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.15%) LDAP
1 4 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (2.15%) Visualforce
2 3 (1.61%) .NET
2 3 (1.61%) CSS
2 3 (1.61%) GraphQL
2 3 (1.61%) Kafka
2 3 (1.61%) React
2 3 (1.61%) SAP PI
3 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.08%) EDI
3 2 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.08%) Entity Framework
3 2 (1.08%) HTML
3 2 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (1.08%) IDoc
3 2 (1.08%) Middleware
3 2 (1.08%) REST
3 2 (1.08%) Spring
3 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (7.53%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.76%) IoT
6 6 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.69%) SCADA
7 5 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.15%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Replication
10 2 (1.08%) CMDB
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.14%) Windows
2 5 (2.69%) Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.61%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) SUSE
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.72%) Data Migration
2 35 (18.82%) Agile
3 24 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (11.29%) Data Governance
5 19 (10.22%) DevOps
6 18 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (9.14%) Validation
8 16 (8.60%) Data Modelling
8 16 (8.60%) ITIL
8 16 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (8.06%) Change Management
10 14 (7.53%) Data Integration
10 14 (7.53%) ETL
11 13 (6.99%) Project Delivery
12 12 (6.45%) CI/CD
12 12 (6.45%) CRM
12 12 (6.45%) Project Management
12 12 (6.45%) Scrum
12 12 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.05%) SQL
2 17 (9.14%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.53%) Python
4 5 (2.69%) C#
4 5 (2.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.15%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.15%) Perl
6 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.61%) Groovy
6 3 (1.61%) Java
6 3 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.61%) R
6 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.08%) Bash
7 2 (1.08%) PHP
7 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.54%) Bicep
8 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) Degree
4 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.61%) CCIE
4 3 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) MBA
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.30%) QA
3 7 (3.76%) GDPR
4 5 (2.69%) PMO
5 2 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) Basel III
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) COBIT
6 1 (0.54%) IFRS
6 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.38%) SCCM
3 5 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.61%) AirWatch
4 3 (1.61%) Ansible
4 3 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.61%) Terraform
5 2 (1.08%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.08%) Grafana
5 2 (1.08%) Kibana
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.54%) CASB
6 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 48 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.53%) Oracle
2 14 (7.53%) SAP
3 13 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.38%) Cisco
5 8 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.69%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.69%) Databricks
7 4 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.15%) Denodo
7 4 (2.15%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.15%) Workday
8 3 (1.61%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.61%) F5
8 3 (1.61%) Informatica
8 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.61%) VMware
9 2 (1.08%) BMC
9 2 (1.08%) Meraki