Data Migration Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 52 75
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 68 43 40
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.42% 3.24% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.59% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 32
10th Percentile £347 £370 £400
25th Percentile £391 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £591
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -13.74% +27.84%
75th Percentile £581 £612 £639
90th Percentile £625 £713 £700
England median daily rate £533 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.36% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,378 1,197 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.57% 90.27% 84.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 786 1,074
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £396 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £700 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 54 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.43
25th Percentile £16.18 £14.70 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%
75th Percentile £28.13 £27.81 £42.31
90th Percentile £57.10 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Birmingham -28 21 £510 +0.74% 13
Shropshire -37 17 £350 -26.62% 5
Warwickshire -9 12 £550 -29.03% 1
Staffordshire 0 5 £550 +51.72% 1
Coventry -23 2 £413 -28.26%
Wolverhampton - 2 - -
Dudley - 1 £400 - 1
Kingswinford - 1 £775 -
Worcestershire - 1 £650 - 2
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.18%) AWS
2 10 (14.71%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.47%) Intacct
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.47%) OCI
7 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (19.12%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (10.29%) Power BI
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.41%) Ingres
6 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.47%) Metadata
8 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) JIRA
2 13 (19.12%) Zephyr
3 11 (16.18%) Git
3 11 (16.18%) Postman
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Hudson
General
1 28 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (33.82%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Police
5 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.47%) Advertising
7 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Law
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Local Government
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Project Manager
2 10 (14.71%) QA Tester
2 10 (14.71%) Tester
3 7 (10.29%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Consultant
4 5 (7.35%) Data Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Lead
5 4 (5.88%) Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Accountant
6 3 (4.41%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Systems Accountant
6 3 (4.41%) Test Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Data Migration Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Middleware
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.94%) ActiveX
2 2 (2.94%) ADO
2 2 (2.94%) COM
2 2 (2.94%) ODBC
2 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.94%) XML
3 1 (1.47%) JDBC
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) JSP
3 1 (1.47%) MACH
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Servlets
3 1 (1.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (13.24%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Migration
2 27 (39.71%) Agile
3 21 (30.88%) ETL
4 16 (23.53%) Integration Testing
4 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (22.06%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
6 13 (19.12%) Test Scripting
7 12 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
7 12 (17.65%) System Testing
8 11 (16.18%) End-to-End Testing
8 11 (16.18%) ERP
8 11 (16.18%) Test Management
8 11 (16.18%) Validation
9 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (14.71%) Data Modelling
10 9 (13.24%) Customer Requirements
11 8 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
11 8 (11.76%) Project Management
12 6 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.35%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.94%) Bash
4 2 (2.94%) VB
4 2 (2.94%) VB6
5 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.24%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.41%) ACCA
4 3 (4.41%) CIMA
5 2 (2.94%) PMP
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
1 2 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Ansible
1 2 (2.94%) Argo
1 2 (2.94%) Grafana
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Terraform
1 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Oracle
2 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) Sage
4 5 (7.35%) Databricks
5 4 (5.88%) Talend
6 3 (4.41%) SAP
7 2 (2.94%) Actian
7 2 (2.94%) Pure Storage
7 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 2 (2.94%) VMware
8 1 (1.47%) Aareon
8 1 (1.47%) Civica
8 1 (1.47%) IFS
8 1 (1.47%) Xero