Data Migration Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 73 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 37 40 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.49% 1.95% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.41% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 47
10th Percentile £350 £351 £331
25th Percentile £406 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% +5.39%
75th Percentile £594 £628 £600
90th Percentile £685 £684 £738
England median daily rate £529 £546 £541
% change year-on-year -3.16% +0.92% +2.12%
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 £47.75 £75.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% +141.94% -43.64%

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 1,320 1,663 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.77% 81.04% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 1,106 1,334
10th Percentile £203 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £668 £734 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 117 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £38.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

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 1 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
Birmingham -6 10 £475 -5.00% 58
Warwickshire -3 8 £525 +5.00% 4
Shropshire - 6 £424 - 27
Solihull - 5 £600 - 2
Coventry +1 3 - - 19
Staffordshire +3 2 £345 -13.75% 19
Walsall - 2 - - 1
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (8.11%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (8.11%) Collibra
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
1 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.11%) Delta Lake
2 3 (8.11%) GIS
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.41%) QlikView
3 2 (5.41%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) DataStage
4 1 (2.70%) DB2
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) QualityStage
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.11%) Law
3 2 (5.41%) Legal
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Project Manager
2 9 (24.32%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Data Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Data Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Test Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Data Migration Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Migration Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) OLE
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) React
2 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Structures
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.81%) SCADA
3 3 (8.11%) IoT
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) CMDB
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (37.84%) Data Governance
3 9 (24.32%) Agile
3 9 (24.32%) ETL
3 9 (24.32%) Validation
4 8 (21.62%) Data Integration
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.22%) Change Management
7 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Data Mapping
7 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.51%) ERP
7 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.51%) Scrum
8 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (10.81%) CRM
8 4 (10.81%) ITIL
8 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) SAP
3 4 (10.81%) Databricks
3 4 (10.81%) Denodo
4 3 (8.11%) Informatica
4 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Lotus
5 2 (5.41%) Workday
6 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) Infor
6 1 (2.70%) Remedy
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow