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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 63 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 87 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.75% 2.52% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.83% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 21 34
10th Percentile £347 £350 £354
25th Percentile £358 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £696
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +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 2,634 1,235 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.14% 89.04% 83.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 808 1,056
10th Percentile £313 £195 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £662 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 58 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.96 £14.03
Median hourly rate £37.52 £18.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.78% -18.58% +7.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £26.13 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -24 27 £358 -20.27% 3
Birmingham -19 20 £530 +11.58% 9
Warwickshire +1 18 £550 -4.35% 2
Staffordshire +1 5 £550 +59.42%
Coventry -15 5 £410 +9.33% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 - 1
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Dudley - 1 £400 -
Worcestershire - 1 £650 -
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 10 (11.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) AWS
2 14 (16.09%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.60%) GitHub
5 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) OCI
8 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (27.59%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (8.05%) Power BI
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.45%) Ingres
6 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.30%) Metadata
8 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) JIRA
2 25 (28.74%) Zephyr
3 22 (25.29%) Postman
4 17 (19.54%) Git
5 6 (6.90%) Selenium
6 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.30%) GitLab
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.15%) Hudson
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Finance
3 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Police
5 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Billing
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Analyst
2 13 (14.94%) Tester
3 12 (13.79%) QA Tester
3 12 (13.79%) Test Analyst
4 10 (11.49%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.05%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) QA Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Configuration Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) Middleware
2 3 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.30%) ActiveX
3 2 (2.30%) ADO
3 2 (2.30%) COM
3 2 (2.30%) ODBC
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) Itk
4 1 (1.15%) JDBC
4 1 (1.15%) JSP
4 1 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) Servlets
4 1 (1.15%) Spring
4 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (12.64%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) SCADA
5 2 (2.30%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Migration
2 38 (43.68%) Agile
3 36 (41.38%) ETL
4 27 (31.03%) Integration Testing
5 26 (29.89%) Test Automation
6 24 (27.59%) System Testing
7 23 (26.44%) End-to-End Testing
7 23 (26.44%) Scenario Testing
7 23 (26.44%) Test Scripting
8 22 (25.29%) Test Management
9 21 (24.14%) Validation
10 20 (22.99%) Customer Requirements
10 20 (22.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (21.84%) Data Modelling
12 16 (18.39%) Manual Testing
12 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (11.49%) ERP
14 10 (11.49%) Project Management
15 9 (10.34%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (8.05%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) Bash
3 3 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.30%) VB
4 2 (2.30%) VB6
5 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.15%) C
5 1 (1.15%) C++
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.30%) PMP
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.14%) QA
2 7 (8.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) PMO
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
1 3 (3.45%) vSphere
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Ansible
1 3 (3.45%) Argo
1 3 (3.45%) Grafana
1 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.45%) Terraform
1 3 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (37.93%) Oracle
2 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Talend
4 6 (6.90%) Databricks
5 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.60%) Sage
6 4 (4.60%) SAP
7 3 (3.45%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.45%) Splunk
7 3 (3.45%) VMware
8 2 (2.30%) Actian
8 2 (2.30%) Denodo
9 1 (1.15%) Aareon
9 1 (1.15%) Civica
9 1 (1.15%) IFS
9 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow