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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 64 67
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 128 63 47
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.61% 3.34% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.72% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 41 40
10th Percentile £350 £400 £356
25th Percentile £388 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £655
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £62.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -52.06% -2.34% -24.71%

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 3,006 1,694 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.68% 89.87% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,078 993
10th Percentile £315 £255 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 113 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%
75th Percentile £45.00 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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
Shropshire -13 37 £382 -12.58% 8
Birmingham +6 25 £500 -11.11% 26
Staffordshire +2 18 £800 +77.78%
Warwickshire -8 17 £475 -13.64% 3
Coventry -18 11 £413 -18.32% 8
Worcestershire +11 6 £450 - 5
Herefordshire - 3 - - 2
Dudley - 3 £375 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
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 12 (9.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.69%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) ResourceLink
2 3 (2.34%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.34%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.88%) AWS
2 26 (20.31%) Azure
3 10 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (7.03%) OCI
5 7 (5.47%) GitHub
5 7 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.56%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (28.13%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (22.66%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.03%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.69%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.91%) Ingres
7 5 (3.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (3.13%) DataStage
8 4 (3.13%) Power Query
9 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.56%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.78%) Metadata
11 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.78%) Power BI
11 1 (0.78%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 37 (28.91%) JIRA
2 28 (21.88%) Zephyr
3 26 (20.31%) Git
4 24 (18.75%) Postman
5 8 (6.25%) GitLab
5 8 (6.25%) Selenium
6 5 (3.91%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (3.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.34%) Gatling
9 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.56%) JUnit
9 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.56%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.78%) Hudson
General
1 42 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Finance
2 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 20 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.25%) Police
5 5 (3.91%) General Ledger
5 5 (3.91%) Legal
6 3 (2.34%) Local Government
6 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Billing
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.56%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.97%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.63%) Analyst
3 16 (12.50%) Lead
4 14 (10.94%) Senior
5 13 (10.16%) Test Analyst
5 13 (10.16%) Tester
6 12 (9.38%) QA Tester
7 8 (6.25%) Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Data Migration Lead
10 5 (3.91%) Accountant
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Consultant
10 5 (3.91%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.91%) Systems Accountant
11 4 (3.13%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.34%) C# Developer
12 3 (2.34%) Project Coordinator
12 3 (2.34%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.47%) REST
3 6 (4.69%) SOAP
4 5 (3.91%) ADO
4 5 (3.91%) COM
4 5 (3.91%) ODBC
4 5 (3.91%) React
5 4 (3.13%) .NET
5 4 (3.13%) JSON
5 4 (3.13%) Playwright
6 3 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.56%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.56%) Terraform
7 2 (1.56%) WireMock
8 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.78%) PySpark
8 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Data Structures
2 11 (8.59%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.13%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) SCADA
6 2 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) AIX
2 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) Migration
2 53 (41.41%) ETL
3 47 (36.72%) Agile
4 46 (35.94%) Validation
5 32 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 32 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 31 (24.22%) Integration Testing
7 30 (23.44%) Scenario Testing
7 30 (23.44%) System Testing
8 28 (21.88%) End-to-End Testing
9 27 (21.09%) Test Scripting
10 26 (20.31%) ERP
10 26 (20.31%) Test Management
11 25 (19.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (18.75%) Data Modelling
13 23 (17.97%) Manual Testing
14 22 (17.19%) Customer Requirements
15 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (11.72%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.72%) SQL
2 13 (10.16%) Python
3 5 (3.91%) PL/SQL
3 5 (3.91%) VB
3 5 (3.91%) VB6
4 4 (3.13%) C#
5 3 (2.34%) C
5 3 (2.34%) Java
5 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.78%) Ada
6 1 (0.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) Bicep
6 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.41%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.69%) ACCA
4 6 (4.69%) CIMA
5 4 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.34%) CCAB
6 3 (2.34%) Degree
7 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (26.56%) QA
2 19 (14.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 61 (47.66%) Oracle
2 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) SAP
4 6 (4.69%) SYSPRO
4 6 (4.69%) Talend
5 5 (3.91%) Actian
6 4 (3.13%) Cognos
6 4 (3.13%) IBM
6 4 (3.13%) Netezza
7 3 (2.34%) Denodo
7 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.56%) Databricks
8 2 (1.56%) Xero
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.78%) IFS
9 1 (0.78%) Sage