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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 61 67
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 125 66 44
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.47% 3.56% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.98% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 44 37
10th Percentile £358 £400 £358
25th Percentile £387 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £516 £641 £600
90th Percentile £725 £743 £643
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 £38.36 £60.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year -36.08% -9.77% -25.65%

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 3,058 1,657 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.97% 89.33% 82.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 1,057 985
10th Percentile £317 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £678 £725
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 110 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £27.30 £23.03 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -4.78% -12.07%
75th Percentile £51.25 £33.16 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 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 2 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 -16 35 £368 -15.89% 4
Birmingham -11 25 £500 -13.04% 37
Warwickshire -4 19 £488 -11.36% 4
Staffordshire 0 18 £800 +150.00%
Coventry -22 10 £413 -18.32% 8
Worcestershire +7 6 £450 - 10
Dudley - 3 £375 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Herefordshire - 2 - - 3
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 11 (8.80%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) ResourceLink
2 3 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.60%) AWS
1 27 (21.60%) Azure
2 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (6.40%) OCI
4 5 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.00%) GitHub
4 5 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.60%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (24.80%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.20%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.80%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.00%) Ingres
7 4 (3.20%) DataStage
7 4 (3.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (3.20%) Power Query
8 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.60%) Power BI
9 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.80%) Metadata
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.80%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 37 (29.60%) JIRA
2 29 (23.20%) Zephyr
3 25 (20.00%) Postman
4 24 (19.20%) Git
5 6 (4.80%) Selenium
6 5 (4.00%) GitLab
6 5 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.20%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.60%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.80%) Gatling
9 1 (0.80%) Hudson
General
1 40 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Finance
2 24 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Police
5 5 (4.00%) Legal
6 4 (3.20%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.40%) Local Government
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Billing
8 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.60%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Marketing
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (18.40%) Data Engineer
2 19 (15.20%) Analyst
3 16 (12.80%) Lead
4 15 (12.00%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Tester
5 13 (10.40%) QA Tester
6 12 (9.60%) Test Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Data Migration Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Consultant
12 3 (2.40%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.40%) Implementation Manager
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Project Manager
12 3 (2.40%) Project Coordinator
12 3 (2.40%) QA Test Analyst
12 3 (2.40%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (6.40%) REST
3 6 (4.80%) SOAP
4 5 (4.00%) ADO
4 5 (4.00%) COM
4 5 (4.00%) ODBC
5 4 (3.20%) .NET
6 2 (1.60%) Playwright
6 2 (1.60%) Terraform
7 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.80%) Itk
7 1 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.80%) Middleware
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.80%) PySpark
7 1 (0.80%) React
7 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Data Structures
2 11 (8.80%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.40%) SCADA
6 2 (1.60%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) AIX
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Migration
2 54 (43.20%) ETL
3 45 (36.00%) Agile
3 45 (36.00%) Validation
4 32 (25.60%) Integration Testing
5 31 (24.80%) Scenario Testing
5 31 (24.80%) Test Automation
6 30 (24.00%) System Testing
6 30 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (23.20%) End-to-End Testing
8 27 (21.60%) Test Management
8 27 (21.60%) Test Scripting
9 25 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 24 (19.20%) Customer Requirements
10 24 (19.20%) ERP
11 22 (17.60%) Manual Testing
11 22 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (12.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 46 (36.80%) SQL
2 11 (8.80%) Python
3 5 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (4.00%) VB
3 5 (4.00%) VB6
4 4 (3.20%) C
5 3 (2.40%) C#
6 2 (1.60%) Java
7 1 (0.80%) Ada
7 1 (0.80%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.80%) Bash
7 1 (0.80%) Bicep
7 1 (0.80%) C++
7 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.60%) ISTQB
4 5 (4.00%) ACCA
4 5 (4.00%) CIMA
5 3 (2.40%) CCAB
5 3 (2.40%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.20%) QA
2 20 (16.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Ansible
1 1 (0.80%) Data Guard
1 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 59 (47.20%) Oracle
2 24 (19.20%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.80%) SAP
3 6 (4.80%) SYSPRO
3 6 (4.80%) Talend
4 5 (4.00%) Actian
4 5 (4.00%) Denodo
5 4 (3.20%) Cognos
5 4 (3.20%) IBM
5 4 (3.20%) Netezza
5 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) Databricks
7 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.80%) IFS
7 1 (0.80%) Sage
7 1 (0.80%) Xero