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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 60 72
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 67 42 36
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.25% 3.13% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 3.52% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 32 30
10th Percentile £348 £419 £400
25th Percentile £363 £459 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £511 £591
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -13.53% +18.25%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £638
90th Percentile £606 £686 £700
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% +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 2,506 1,193 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.98% 88.76% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 804 1,063
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.04% -3.92%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £603
90th Percentile £650 £688 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 54 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £27.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £70.47 £34.63 £57.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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
Birmingham -19 21 £500 -2.44% 9
Shropshire -37 18 £354 -25.79% 3
Warwickshire -9 12 £550 -29.03% 4
Staffordshire +3 5 £550 +10.00% 1
Coventry -26 2 £413 -28.26%
Wolverhampton - 2 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £650 - 1
Dudley - 1 £400 -
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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.48%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.49%) OCI
6 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (22.39%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (8.96%) Power BI
4 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.48%) Ingres
6 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.49%) Metadata
8 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (23.88%) JIRA
2 15 (22.39%) Zephyr
3 13 (19.40%) Git
3 13 (19.40%) Postman
4 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.49%) GitLab
7 1 (1.49%) Hudson
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Police
5 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Tester
3 11 (16.42%) QA Tester
4 9 (13.43%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Architect
5 6 (8.96%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
8 3 (4.48%) Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Administrator
9 2 (2.99%) Data Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) Data Migration Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Report Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) Middleware
2 3 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.99%) ActiveX
3 2 (2.99%) ADO
3 2 (2.99%) COM
3 2 (2.99%) ODBC
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.99%) XML
4 1 (1.49%) .NET
4 1 (1.49%) JDBC
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) JSP
4 1 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.49%) MACH
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) Servlets
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (14.93%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (41.79%) Agile
3 23 (34.33%) ETL
4 18 (26.87%) Integration Testing
5 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.90%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (20.90%) System Testing
6 14 (20.90%) Test Scripting
7 13 (19.40%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (19.40%) Test Management
7 13 (19.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (17.91%) Data Modelling
8 12 (17.91%) Validation
9 11 (16.42%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.94%) Manual Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Data Cleansing
11 7 (10.45%) ERP
11 7 (10.45%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) SQL
2 6 (8.96%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) Bash
4 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.99%) VB
5 2 (2.99%) VB6
6 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.99%) PMP
5 1 (1.49%) ACCA
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) CIMA
5 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.37%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) PMO
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
1 3 (4.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Ansible
1 3 (4.48%) Argo
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
1 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Oracle
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) Databricks
4 4 (5.97%) Sage
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.97%) Talend
5 3 (4.48%) Pure Storage
5 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 3 (4.48%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) VMware
6 2 (2.99%) Actian
6 2 (2.99%) Denodo
7 1 (1.49%) Aareon
7 1 (1.49%) Civica
7 1 (1.49%) IFS
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow