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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 120 53 34
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.43% 3.14% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.55% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 32 27
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £360 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £629
90th Percentile £705 £688 £665
England median daily rate £530 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.95% -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% +158.06%

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 2,989 1,491 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.50% 88.38% 81.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,913 939 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £231 £283
25th Percentile £406 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £626
90th Percentile £671 £669 £738
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 105 62
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.29 £14.70 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.63% +31.57% -32.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £36.88
90th Percentile £72.34 £50.00 £56.13
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 8 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 8 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 -13 39 £358 -10.50% 6
Birmingham -5 24 £510 -8.31% 15
Warwickshire -1 22 £500 -4.76% 2
Coventry -23 9 £413 -18.32% 1
Staffordshire -1 8 £850 +88.89% 8
Worcestershire +5 7 £450 - 3
Dudley - 3 £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 (9.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.17%) AWS
2 25 (20.83%) Azure
3 9 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (5.00%) GitHub
5 5 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (4.17%) OCI
5 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (28.33%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (7.50%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.17%) Ingres
4 5 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.50%) Power BI
6 2 (1.67%) DataStage
6 2 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 36 (30.00%) JIRA
2 34 (28.33%) Zephyr
3 29 (24.17%) Postman
4 26 (21.67%) Git
5 6 (5.00%) Selenium
6 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.33%) GitLab
8 2 (1.67%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.83%) Gatling
9 1 (0.83%) Hudson
General
1 39 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.67%) Finance
3 22 (18.33%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Police
6 3 (2.50%) Billing
6 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Local Government
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 20 (16.67%) Analyst
2 20 (16.67%) Tester
3 18 (15.00%) QA Tester
4 14 (11.67%) Senior
5 12 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 10 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 9 (7.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Consultant
10 5 (4.17%) Developer
10 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) Architect
11 4 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
11 4 (3.33%) QA Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) QA Test Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Configuration Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.17%) ADO
2 5 (4.17%) COM
2 5 (4.17%) ODBC
3 2 (1.67%) .NET
3 2 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (0.83%) Itk
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.83%) Middleware
4 1 (0.83%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.83%) Playwright
4 1 (0.83%) PySpark
4 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.17%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.50%) SCADA
6 2 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) Migration
2 53 (44.17%) ETL
3 45 (37.50%) Agile
4 41 (34.17%) Validation
5 36 (30.00%) Integration Testing
5 36 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 34 (28.33%) Scenario Testing
7 33 (27.50%) System Testing
8 32 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 31 (25.83%) Test Management
9 31 (25.83%) Test Scripting
10 28 (23.33%) Customer Requirements
11 27 (22.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (21.67%) Data Modelling
13 24 (20.00%) Manual Testing
14 22 (18.33%) ERP
15 19 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (15.00%) Analytics
17 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (13.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.67%) SQL
2 12 (10.00%) Python
3 5 (4.17%) VB
3 5 (4.17%) VB6
4 4 (3.33%) C
5 2 (1.67%) Java
5 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Ada
6 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) C#
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.67%) ACCA
4 2 (1.67%) CCAB
4 2 (1.67%) CIMA
5 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (27.50%) QA
2 16 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
1 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Argo
1 1 (0.83%) Grafana
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
1 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (45.00%) Oracle
2 20 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) SAP
3 7 (5.83%) Talend
4 6 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.00%) SYSPRO
5 5 (4.17%) Actian
5 5 (4.17%) Denodo
5 5 (4.17%) Sage
6 3 (2.50%) Databricks
7 2 (1.67%) Cognos
7 2 (1.67%) IBM
7 2 (1.67%) Netezza
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.83%) IFS
8 1 (0.83%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) Splunk
8 1 (0.83%) VMware