Data Migration Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 71 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 35 44 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.48% 2.27% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.73% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 35 40
10th Percentile £350 £355 £404
25th Percentile £400 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £588 £632 £619
90th Percentile £688 £695 £739
England median daily rate £529 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.82% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +233.33% -22.62%

All Process and 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 1,253 1,610 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 82.95% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,077 1,325
10th Percentile £200 £267 £263
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £31.19 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the West Midlands

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 31 May 2025. 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 -1 10 £525 +5.00% 31
Shropshire - 8 £448 - 3
Warwickshire -6 7 £500 -23.08% 2
Coventry +7 4 £375 -25.00% 6
Staffordshire +3 2 £345 -13.75% 12
Solihull - 2 - -
Walsall - 1 - -
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) IBM Notes
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (8.57%) Collibra
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) OCI
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) Network Security
1 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.57%) Delta Lake
3 3 (8.57%) GIS
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) DataStage
5 1 (2.86%) DB2
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) QualityStage
5 1 (2.86%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Law
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Data Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Migration Manager
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) OLE
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.43%) SCADA
4 3 (8.57%) IoT
4 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Migration
2 15 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 11 (31.43%) Data Integration
4 10 (28.57%) ETL
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.00%) Validation
7 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (14.29%) Change Management
8 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 5 (14.29%) Data Mapping
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 4 (11.43%) ERP
9 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Scrum
9 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
10 3 (8.57%) Asset Management
10 3 (8.57%) ITIL
10 3 (8.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) GDPR
3 3 (8.57%) QA
4 2 (5.71%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (14.29%) SAP
4 4 (11.43%) Denodo
5 3 (8.57%) Informatica
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco
6 2 (5.71%) Google
6 2 (5.71%) Lotus
6 2 (5.71%) Talend
7 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) Infor
7 1 (2.86%) Remedy
7 1 (2.86%) Workday