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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 44 73
Rank change year-on-year -37 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 67 52 41
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.47% 3.70% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 4.12% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 43 34
10th Percentile £347 £389 £393
25th Percentile £400 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £591
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.09% +31.22%
75th Percentile £601 £581 £638
90th Percentile £658 £670 £700
England median daily rate £540 £540 £550
% change year-on-year - -1.82% +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 2,315 1,263 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.33% 89.89% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 801 1,039
10th Percentile £300 £210 £273
25th Percentile £402 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.52 £11.81
25th Percentile £16.10 £15.22 £15.83
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.87%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.95 £47.81
90th Percentile £37.45 £41.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -32 19 £568 +8.10% 12
Shropshire -40 17 £350 -37.67% 5
Warwickshire -7 13 £563 -27.42%
Staffordshire +1 5 £550 +51.72%
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Coventry -21 2 £413 -28.26%
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.42%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.94%) Azure
4 6 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.48%) GitHub
6 3 (4.48%) Intacct
6 3 (4.48%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.49%) OCI
8 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (17.91%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (8.96%) Power BI
4 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.48%) Ingres
6 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.49%) Metadata
8 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
2 13 (19.40%) Zephyr
3 11 (16.42%) Git
3 11 (16.42%) Postman
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.49%) GitLab
6 1 (1.49%) Hudson
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 26 (38.81%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.97%) Police
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Advertising
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Law
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Analyst
2 10 (14.93%) QA Tester
2 10 (14.93%) Tester
3 9 (13.43%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.94%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Accountant
8 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Data Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Project Leader
8 3 (4.48%) Systems Accountant
8 3 (4.48%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.48%) Middleware
3 2 (2.99%) ActiveX
3 2 (2.99%) ADO
3 2 (2.99%) COM
3 2 (2.99%) ODBC
3 2 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.99%) XML
4 1 (1.49%) JDBC
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) JSP
4 1 (1.49%) MACH
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) Servlets
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.94%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) CMDB
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Migration
2 26 (38.81%) Agile
3 20 (29.85%) ETL
4 18 (26.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (23.88%) Integration Testing
6 15 (22.39%) ERP
7 13 (19.40%) Test Automation
7 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
7 13 (19.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (17.91%) Scenario Testing
8 12 (17.91%) System Testing
9 11 (16.42%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (16.42%) Test Management
10 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.43%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (13.43%) Validation
11 8 (11.94%) Project Management
12 7 (10.45%) Data Cleansing
12 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
12 7 (10.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) SQL
2 4 (5.97%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Java
3 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.99%) Bash
4 2 (2.99%) VB
4 2 (2.99%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.48%) ACCA
4 3 (4.48%) CIMA
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.39%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
1 2 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Ansible
1 2 (2.99%) Argo
1 2 (2.99%) Grafana
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
1 2 (2.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Oracle
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.94%) Sage
4 4 (5.97%) Databricks
4 4 (5.97%) Talend
5 3 (4.48%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Actian
6 2 (2.99%) Pure Storage
6 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.99%) Splunk
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Aareon
7 1 (1.49%) Civica
7 1 (1.49%) IFS
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.49%) Workday
7 1 (1.49%) Xero