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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 62 46 57
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.25% 2.45% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 2.95% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 38 39
10th Percentile £400 £354 £322
25th Percentile £459 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £641 £573 £603
90th Percentile £730 £651 £746
England median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +2.33%

All Process and 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 1,724 1,558 1,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.26% 83.00% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 982 1,174
10th Percentile £263 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 39 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.05 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -14.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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
Birmingham -15 20 £575 +2.40% 16
Warwickshire +8 11 £550 +37.50% 4
Coventry -1 8 £505 +1.00% 4
Shropshire -24 6 £438 -22.84% 4
Solihull - 5 £600 - 3
Staffordshire +5 3 £450 +24.14% 2
Worcestershire -13 3 - - 4
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Walsall - 1 - -
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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (12.90%) SAP PM
2 4 (6.45%) SAP HR
3 3 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (6.45%) AWS
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.84%) Collibra
5 3 (4.84%) Intacct
5 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) Network Security
1 2 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) DataStage
2 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.84%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.84%) GIS
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) QlikView
4 2 (3.23%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
General
1 25 (40.32%) Finance
2 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.06%) Legal
7 4 (6.45%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Police
9 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Project Manager
2 11 (17.74%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Technical Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Salesforce Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Developer
6 4 (6.45%) ETL Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Oracle Project Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.84%) Accountant
7 3 (4.84%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) Project Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Systems Accountant
8 2 (3.23%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (8.06%) GraphQL
3 4 (6.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (6.45%) SAP PI
3 4 (6.45%) Visualforce
4 3 (4.84%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) .NET
5 1 (1.61%) OLE
5 1 (1.61%) PySpark
5 1 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.29%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.45%) SCADA
5 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.84%) IoT
6 2 (3.23%) CMDB
6 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
1 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Migration
2 19 (30.65%) ERP
3 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.81%) Agile
5 15 (24.19%) ETL
6 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (17.74%) Data Governance
8 10 (16.13%) Change Management
8 10 (16.13%) Project Delivery
8 10 (16.13%) Scrum
8 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (16.13%) Validation
9 8 (12.90%) Project Management
10 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
11 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
11 6 (9.68%) Use Case
11 6 (9.68%) User Stories
12 5 (8.06%) Cutover Planning
12 5 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) SQL
2 5 (8.06%) Apex Code
3 3 (4.84%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (4.84%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) ACCA
3 3 (4.84%) CIMA
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) SAP
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.35%) Oracle
4 7 (11.29%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.45%) Databricks
5 4 (6.45%) IBM
5 4 (6.45%) Sage
6 3 (4.84%) Informatica
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco
7 2 (3.23%) Google
7 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.23%) Workday
8 1 (1.61%) Ariba
8 1 (1.61%) Xero