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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 57 75
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 111 55 36
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.23% 3.19% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.61% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 35 29
10th Percentile £358 £370 £350
25th Percentile £388 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £627
90th Percentile £725 £688 £658
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% -13.25%

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 2,914 1,524 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.76% 88.35% 81.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,800 973 1,031
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £408 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £670 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 104 55
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.02 £14.85
Median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +15.90% -23.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.14 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.23 £50.00 £54.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -19 31 £360 -10.00% 3
Birmingham -7 26 £500 - 9
Warwickshire 0 21 £500 -4.76% 2
Staffordshire -5 8 £850 +88.89% 5
Coventry -23 8 £413 -18.32%
Worcestershire +2 6 £450 - 2
Dudley - 4 £375 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
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 7 (6.31%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.23%) Azure
2 25 (22.52%) AWS
3 11 (9.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (5.41%) GitHub
5 5 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (4.50%) OCI
6 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.60%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.53%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (20.72%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (9.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.50%) Ingres
7 4 (3.60%) DataStage
8 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.80%) Power BI
9 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.90%) Metadata
9 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.90%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) JIRA
2 25 (22.52%) Zephyr
3 22 (19.82%) Git
4 21 (18.92%) Postman
5 6 (5.41%) Selenium
6 5 (4.50%) GitLab
6 5 (4.50%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.50%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (4.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.80%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Gatling
8 1 (0.90%) Hudson
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 23 (20.72%) Finance
4 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Police
6 4 (3.60%) Local Government
7 3 (2.70%) Billing
7 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.80%) Military
9 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.90%) Law
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.41%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) Tester
5 11 (9.91%) QA Tester
6 10 (9.01%) Test Analyst
7 9 (8.11%) Lead
7 9 (8.11%) Project Manager
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Consultant
11 4 (3.60%) Oracle Project Manager
12 3 (2.70%) Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Configuration Analyst
12 3 (2.70%) Coordinator
12 3 (2.70%) Project Coordinator
12 3 (2.70%) QA Analyst
12 3 (2.70%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.50%) ADO
2 5 (4.50%) COM
2 5 (4.50%) ODBC
3 3 (2.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.90%) Itk
5 1 (0.90%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.90%) Middleware
5 1 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.90%) Playwright
5 1 (0.90%) PySpark
5 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.50%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.70%) SCADA
6 2 (1.80%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) AIX
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) Migration
2 45 (40.54%) ETL
3 40 (36.04%) Validation
4 36 (32.43%) Agile
5 27 (24.32%) Integration Testing
6 26 (23.42%) Scenario Testing
6 26 (23.42%) Test Automation
6 26 (23.42%) User Acceptance Testing
7 24 (21.62%) Data Modelling
7 24 (21.62%) End-to-End Testing
7 24 (21.62%) System Testing
8 23 (20.72%) Test Management
8 23 (20.72%) Test Scripting
9 20 (18.02%) Customer Requirements
9 20 (18.02%) ERP
9 20 (18.02%) Manual Testing
10 18 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (15.32%) Analytics
12 15 (13.51%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) SQL
2 13 (11.71%) Python
3 5 (4.50%) VB
3 5 (4.50%) VB6
4 4 (3.60%) C
5 2 (1.80%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) Ada
6 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
6 1 (0.90%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.12%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.80%) ACCA
5 2 (1.80%) CCAB
5 2 (1.80%) CIMA
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.23%) QA
2 15 (13.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) PMO
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Ansible
1 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Argo
2 1 (0.90%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (40.54%) Oracle
2 19 (17.12%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
3 6 (5.41%) SYSPRO
4 5 (4.50%) Actian
4 5 (4.50%) Denodo
5 4 (3.60%) Cognos
5 4 (3.60%) IBM
5 4 (3.60%) Netezza
5 4 (3.60%) Talend
6 3 (2.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.90%) IFS
7 1 (0.90%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.90%) Sage
7 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.90%) VMware