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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 71 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 38 40 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.83% 2.05% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.44% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 41
10th Percentile £351 £363 £406
25th Percentile £442 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +13.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £706 £700 £738
England median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% -
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 £63.75 £75.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +275.00% -

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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 May 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 May 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 +20 20 £500 - 13
Warwickshire -2 6 £713 +1.79% 3
Shropshire - 6 £450 -
Coventry +9 2 £475 -5.00% 2
Staffordshire +1 2 £345 -13.75% 7
Walsall - 1 - - 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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) IBM Notes
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (10.53%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) DataStage
3 1 (2.63%) DB2
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) QualityStage
3 1 (2.63%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) ERwin
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Data Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Data Migration Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Migration Manager
6 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) XML
2 2 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (5.26%) FpML
2 2 (5.26%) JSON
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) ADO
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Unix
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Migration
2 12 (31.58%) Data Integration
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Data Governance
3 10 (26.32%) ETL
4 8 (21.05%) ERP
5 7 (18.42%) Data Mapping
6 6 (15.79%) Validation
7 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.53%) Data Management
8 4 (10.53%) Data Transformation
8 4 (10.53%) DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Software Testing
9 3 (7.89%) CI/CD
9 3 (7.89%) Data Extraction
9 3 (7.89%) ETL Development
9 3 (7.89%) Project Management
9 3 (7.89%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.26%) CCSP
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) CISSP
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) CASB
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Denodo
4 3 (7.89%) Informatica
5 2 (5.26%) Epicor
5 2 (5.26%) Lotus
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) Sparx
5 2 (5.26%) Talend
5 2 (5.26%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.63%) BMC
6 1 (2.63%) Databricks
6 1 (2.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Infor
6 1 (2.63%) Remedy
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Workday