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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 66 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 96 35 45
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.00% 2.47% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 2.78% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 21 35
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £695
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%

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 2,696 1,257 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.20% 88.77% 82.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 808 1,067
10th Percentile £313 £200 £263
25th Percentile £404 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -3.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £625
90th Percentile £675 £664 £743
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 64 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.49 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.19 £40.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -23 34 £358 -20.09% 9
Birmingham -14 22 £550 +4.76% 15
Warwickshire -5 20 £550 +10.00%
Coventry -13 5 £410 +9.33% 1
Staffordshire -3 3 £550 +59.42% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Dudley - 1 £400 -
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 10 (10.42%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) AWS
2 12 (12.50%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.17%) GitHub
4 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.04%) OCI
7 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.42%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (32.29%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (5.21%) Power BI
3 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.13%) Ingres
4 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.08%) Metadata
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.04%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 33 (34.38%) JIRA
2 32 (33.33%) Zephyr
3 26 (27.08%) Postman
4 21 (21.88%) Git
5 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.25%) Selenium
7 5 (5.21%) GitLab
8 3 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.88%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Police
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Billing
8 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Local Government
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 19 (19.79%) Tester
3 18 (18.75%) QA Tester
4 12 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 12 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Senior
8 4 (4.17%) Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Lead
8 4 (4.17%) QA Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Configuration Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.17%) Middleware
3 3 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.08%) ActiveX
4 2 (2.08%) ADO
4 2 (2.08%) COM
4 2 (2.08%) ODBC
5 1 (1.04%) .NET
5 1 (1.04%) Itk
5 1 (1.04%) JDBC
5 1 (1.04%) JSP
5 1 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.04%) REST
5 1 (1.04%) Servlets
5 1 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) SCADA
5 2 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Migration
2 45 (46.88%) Agile
3 41 (42.71%) ETL
4 34 (35.42%) Integration Testing
5 33 (34.38%) Test Automation
6 31 (32.29%) System Testing
7 29 (30.21%) End-to-End Testing
7 29 (30.21%) Scenario Testing
7 29 (30.21%) Test Management
7 29 (30.21%) Test Scripting
8 26 (27.08%) Customer Requirements
9 23 (23.96%) Validation
10 22 (22.92%) Manual Testing
10 22 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (17.71%) Data Modelling
12 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.54%) ERP
14 12 (12.50%) Project Management
15 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.46%) SQL
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 3 (3.13%) Bash
3 3 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) VB
4 2 (2.08%) VB6
5 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.04%) C
5 1 (1.04%) C++
5 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.92%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (1.04%) ACCA
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) CCAB
5 1 (1.04%) CIMA
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) QA
2 7 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
1 3 (3.13%) vSphere
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Ansible
1 3 (3.13%) Argo
1 3 (3.13%) Grafana
1 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.13%) Terraform
1 3 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (44.79%) Oracle
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.29%) Talend
4 6 (6.25%) SAP
5 5 (5.21%) Denodo
5 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.17%) Databricks
6 4 (4.17%) Sage
7 3 (3.13%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
7 3 (3.13%) VMware
8 2 (2.08%) Actian
9 1 (1.04%) Aareon
9 1 (1.04%) Civica
9 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow