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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 118 59 37
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.37% 3.25% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.69% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 39 30
10th Percentile £357 £390 £350
25th Percentile £388 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +9.19% -17.78%
75th Percentile £528 £634 £620
90th Percentile £725 £730 £654
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% -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 2,978 1,599 1,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.16% 88.20% 81.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 1,025 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £250 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £626
90th Percentile £675 £666 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 103 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.14
25th Percentile £17.64 £16.07 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £22.05
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +10.41% -19.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.63
90th Percentile £69.14 £50.00 £55.03
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -21 33 £364 -9.00% 3
Birmingham -6 27 £500 -9.09% 25
Warwickshire +2 21 £500 -4.76% 5
Staffordshire -2 14 £850 +88.89% 3
Coventry -20 8 £413 -18.32%
Worcestershire +7 6 £450 - 6
Dudley - 3 £375 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
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 (8.47%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.54%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.54%) ResourceLink
1 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.88%) Azure
2 25 (21.19%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.08%) GitHub
4 6 (5.08%) OCI
5 5 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (4.24%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.85%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (22.88%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (10.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.63%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.63%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.24%) Ingres
7 4 (3.39%) DataStage
8 3 (2.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.54%) Power Query
9 2 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.69%) Power BI
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.85%) Metadata
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 32 (27.12%) JIRA
2 27 (22.88%) Zephyr
3 23 (19.49%) Postman
4 22 (18.64%) Git
5 6 (5.08%) Selenium
6 5 (4.24%) GitLab
6 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.24%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (4.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.69%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.85%) Gatling
8 1 (0.85%) Hudson
General
1 34 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.19%) Public Sector
3 23 (19.49%) Finance
4 19 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Police
6 4 (3.39%) Legal
7 3 (2.54%) Billing
7 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Local Government
7 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.69%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.69%) Military
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.19%) Data Engineer
2 19 (16.10%) Analyst
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 13 (11.02%) Tester
5 12 (10.17%) Lead
5 12 (10.17%) Test Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) QA Tester
7 7 (5.93%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Oracle Project Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Configuration Analyst
11 3 (2.54%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Project Coordinator
11 3 (2.54%) QA Analyst
11 3 (2.54%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.24%) ADO
2 5 (4.24%) COM
2 5 (4.24%) ODBC
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 3 (2.54%) .NET
3 3 (2.54%) SOAP
3 3 (2.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.85%) Itk
4 1 (0.85%) JSON
4 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.85%) Middleware
4 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.85%) Playwright
4 1 (0.85%) PySpark
4 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (11.02%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.24%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.54%) SCADA
6 2 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) AIX
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) Migration
2 50 (42.37%) ETL
3 44 (37.29%) Validation
4 38 (32.20%) Agile
5 30 (25.42%) Integration Testing
6 29 (24.58%) Scenario Testing
7 28 (23.73%) Test Automation
8 26 (22.03%) End-to-End Testing
8 26 (22.03%) System Testing
8 26 (22.03%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (21.19%) Test Management
9 25 (21.19%) Test Scripting
10 24 (20.34%) Data Modelling
11 22 (18.64%) Customer Requirements
12 20 (16.95%) ERP
12 20 (16.95%) Manual Testing
13 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (13.56%) Analytics
14 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) SQL
2 13 (11.02%) Python
3 5 (4.24%) VB
3 5 (4.24%) VB6
4 4 (3.39%) C
4 4 (3.39%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.69%) Bash
5 2 (1.69%) C#
5 2 (1.69%) Java
6 1 (0.85%) Ada
6 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.85%) Bicep
6 1 (0.85%) C++
6 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 33 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.10%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.54%) ACCA
4 3 (2.54%) CCAB
4 3 (2.54%) CIMA
4 3 (2.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (26.27%) QA
2 18 (15.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Ansible
1 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Argo
2 1 (0.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (44.07%) Oracle
2 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.08%) SAP
3 6 (5.08%) SYSPRO
3 6 (5.08%) Talend
4 5 (4.24%) Actian
4 5 (4.24%) Denodo
5 4 (3.39%) Cognos
5 4 (3.39%) IBM
5 4 (3.39%) Netezza
6 3 (2.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) IFS
7 1 (0.85%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Sage
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk
7 1 (0.85%) VMware