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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 119 55 35
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.44% 3.17% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.59% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 35 28
10th Percentile £350 £370 £350
25th Percentile £361 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -9.30%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £628
90th Percentile £673 £688 £661
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% +42.93%

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 2,935 1,532 1,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.80% 88.30% 81.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,823 976 1,037
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £670 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 104 56
10th Percentile £13.44 £12.62 £13.09
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.02 £14.93
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.34 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +11.91% -20.91%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.14 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £53.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 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 23 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 -14 39 £358 -10.50% 3
Birmingham -13 25 £500 - 10
Warwickshire +2 21 £500 -4.76% 1
Staffordshire -6 8 £850 +88.89% 4
Coventry -23 8 £413 -18.32%
Worcestershire +3 6 £450 - 1
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 11 (9.24%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.52%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.37%) AWS
2 28 (23.53%) Azure
3 11 (9.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (5.04%) GitHub
5 5 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.36%) OCI
6 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.36%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.84%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.84%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (36.97%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (26.05%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (8.40%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.56%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.20%) Ingres
5 5 (4.20%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.36%) DataStage
7 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.84%) Metadata
8 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.84%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 36 (30.25%) JIRA
2 34 (28.57%) Zephyr
3 29 (24.37%) Postman
4 27 (22.69%) Git
5 6 (5.04%) Selenium
6 5 (4.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.20%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (4.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.36%) GitLab
8 2 (1.68%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.84%) Gatling
9 1 (0.84%) Hudson
General
1 37 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Finance
2 24 (20.17%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.72%) Police
5 4 (3.36%) Local Government
6 3 (2.52%) Billing
6 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.84%) Advertising
8 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.84%) Law
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Marketing
8 1 (0.84%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Data Engineer
2 19 (15.97%) Analyst
2 19 (15.97%) Tester
3 17 (14.29%) QA Tester
4 14 (11.76%) Senior
5 13 (10.92%) Test Analyst
6 9 (7.56%) Lead
6 9 (7.56%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Developer
9 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Consultant
10 4 (3.36%) Oracle Project Manager
10 4 (3.36%) QA Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (2.52%) Configuration Analyst
11 3 (2.52%) Coordinator
11 3 (2.52%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.20%) ADO
2 5 (4.20%) COM
2 5 (4.20%) ODBC
3 2 (1.68%) .NET
3 2 (1.68%) REST
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.84%) Itk
4 1 (0.84%) JSON
4 1 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.84%) Middleware
4 1 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.84%) Playwright
4 1 (0.84%) PySpark
4 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.40%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.20%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.52%) SCADA
6 2 (1.68%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Migration
2 54 (45.38%) ETL
3 45 (37.82%) Agile
4 40 (33.61%) Validation
5 35 (29.41%) Integration Testing
5 35 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 34 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
7 32 (26.89%) End-to-End Testing
7 32 (26.89%) System Testing
8 31 (26.05%) Test Scripting
9 30 (25.21%) Test Management
10 26 (21.85%) Customer Requirements
10 26 (21.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (20.17%) Data Modelling
12 23 (19.33%) Manual Testing
13 20 (16.81%) ERP
14 18 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (14.29%) Analytics
16 15 (12.61%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.82%) SQL
2 13 (10.92%) Python
3 5 (4.20%) VB
3 5 (4.20%) VB6
4 4 (3.36%) C
5 2 (1.68%) Bash
5 2 (1.68%) Java
6 1 (0.84%) Ada
6 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.84%) Bicep
6 1 (0.84%) C#
6 1 (0.84%) C++
6 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.17%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.68%) ACCA
5 2 (1.68%) CCAB
5 2 (1.68%) CIMA
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.41%) QA
2 15 (12.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
1 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) Argo
2 1 (0.84%) Grafana
2 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (44.54%) Oracle
2 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.88%) Talend
4 6 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.04%) SAP
4 6 (5.04%) SYSPRO
5 5 (4.20%) Actian
5 5 (4.20%) Denodo
6 4 (3.36%) Cognos
6 4 (3.36%) IBM
6 4 (3.36%) Netezza
7 3 (2.52%) Databricks
7 3 (2.52%) Sage
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) IFS
8 1 (0.84%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) Splunk
8 1 (0.84%) VMware