Migration Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 412 196 151
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.45% 10.57% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.47% 11.83% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 128 108
10th Percentile £363 £300 £349
25th Percentile £421 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.67% +4.62%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £729
England median daily rate £532 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £20.07 - -
25th Percentile £21.17 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% - -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £45.25
% change year-on-year +59.05% -44.42% -35.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 3,058 1,657 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.97% 89.33% 82.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 1,057 985
10th Percentile £317 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £678 £725
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 110 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £27.30 £23.03 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -4.78% -12.07%
75th Percentile £51.25 £33.16 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Migration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Migration

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 Migration within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 October 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 +4 131 £515 +3.00% 30
Birmingham +4 110 £500 -7.41% 85
Warwickshire -2 64 £500 -13.04% 23
Coventry -18 25 £413 +15.79% 15
Staffordshire +3 24 £713 +117.56% 5
Wolverhampton +6 18 - - 4
Worcestershire +9 9 £450 - 19
Dudley - 4 £375 -
Herefordshire 0 2 - - 5
Solihull -20 2 £475 -9.52% 3
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Migration
England

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 51 (12.38%) SAS
2 28 (6.80%) Confluence
3 12 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.46%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.97%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.49%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.49%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.21%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (4.37%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (3.88%) Teamcenter
3 15 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.97%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.49%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 112 (27.18%) Azure
2 98 (23.79%) AWS
3 26 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.40%) GCP
6 13 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.91%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.43%) OCI
9 9 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (2.18%) GitHub
10 8 (1.94%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.94%) Serverless
11 7 (1.70%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.46%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.46%) PaaS
13 5 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.37%) DNS
2 11 (2.67%) DHCP
2 11 (2.67%) Network Security
3 7 (1.70%) DMZ
3 7 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (1.46%) Firewall
4 6 (1.46%) SAN
5 5 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.21%) PuTTY
5 5 (1.21%) VSAN
5 5 (1.21%) WinSCP
6 4 (0.97%) NX-OS
6 4 (0.97%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.73%) BGP
7 3 (0.73%) NAS
7 3 (0.73%) TACACS
8 2 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (9.22%) Data Lake
3 31 (7.52%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (5.34%) Power BI
5 19 (4.61%) Base SAS
6 18 (4.37%) Metadata
7 17 (4.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 16 (3.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.40%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 13 (3.16%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.67%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.67%) Pentaho
11 11 (2.67%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.18%) Ingres
13 8 (1.94%) MySQL
14 7 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (1.70%) Oracle Database
15 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.97%) DataStage
16 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (15.05%) JIRA
2 38 (9.22%) Git
3 29 (7.04%) Zephyr
4 25 (6.07%) Postman
5 15 (3.64%) GitLab
6 8 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.70%) Selenium
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.73%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.49%) Hudson
12 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.24%) JUnit
12 1 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 101 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.26%) Finance
2 67 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (2.91%) Police
6 11 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.18%) Banking
8 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.94%) Retail
9 7 (1.70%) Legal
9 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.97%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.73%) Billing
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Military
12 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (16.99%) Architect
2 58 (14.08%) Senior
3 55 (13.35%) Data Engineer
4 34 (8.25%) Analyst
5 32 (7.77%) Lead
6 31 (7.52%) Data Architect
7 29 (7.04%) Developer
8 22 (5.34%) Project Manager
9 21 (5.10%) Accountant
9 21 (5.10%) Systems Accountant
10 20 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.13%) SAS Architect
13 15 (3.64%) Tester
14 13 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.16%) QA Tester
14 13 (3.16%) Technical Architect
15 12 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.91%) Test Analyst
16 10 (2.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (4.37%) REST
3 17 (4.13%) Terraform
4 10 (2.43%) SOAP
5 6 (1.46%) PySpark
6 5 (1.21%) .NET
6 5 (1.21%) ADO
6 5 (1.21%) COM
6 5 (1.21%) ODBC
6 5 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.97%) JSON
8 3 (0.73%) Playwright
8 3 (0.73%) YAML
9 2 (0.49%) OAuth
9 2 (0.49%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.49%) OpenID
9 2 (0.49%) React
9 2 (0.49%) SAP Core Interface
9 2 (0.49%) SAPUI5
9 2 (0.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.28%) Data Structures
2 28 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.88%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.67%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.43%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.94%) Autonomous Agent
10 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.01%) Windows
2 17 (4.13%) Unix
3 14 (3.40%) Linux
3 14 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.70%) AIX
5 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.97%) Solaris
6 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.49%) SUSE
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) HPUX
8 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (30.34%) Data Migration
2 100 (24.27%) Agile
3 88 (21.36%) ETL
4 80 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (18.69%) Validation
6 64 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 61 (14.81%) DevOps
8 58 (14.08%) Test Automation
9 57 (13.83%) Data Modelling
10 56 (13.59%) Analytics
11 47 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (10.44%) Lakehouse
12 43 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
13 42 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 40 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (8.74%) Integration Testing
16 35 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (8.25%) Scenario Testing
18 31 (7.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.96%) SQL
2 38 (9.22%) Python
3 23 (5.58%) Java
4 16 (3.88%) PL/SQL
5 11 (2.67%) Shell Script
6 8 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.94%) VB
6 8 (1.94%) VB6
7 7 (1.70%) C
7 7 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.97%) C#
9 3 (0.73%) Perl
9 3 (0.73%) REXX
9 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.49%) Bash
10 2 (0.49%) Bicep
10 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.49%) ProC
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 131 (31.80%) Security Cleared
2 119 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.31%) ISTQB
4 16 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.18%) Degree
6 8 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.46%) ACCA
7 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.46%) CIMA
7 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.97%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.73%) CCAB
9 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) CCNP
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.62%) Data Quality
2 41 (9.95%) QA
3 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.73%) Basel III
5 2 (0.49%) GDPR
5 2 (0.49%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (3.88%) vSphere
3 15 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.94%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.46%) Docker
8 5 (1.21%) Ceph
8 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.73%) Firmware
9 3 (0.73%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.94%) Ansible
3 5 (1.21%) Grafana
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.49%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.49%) Control-M
5 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.24%) vMotion
Vendors
1 88 (21.36%) Oracle
2 58 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.77%) VMware
4 23 (5.58%) SAP
5 20 (4.85%) Databricks
5 20 (4.85%) Denodo
6 10 (2.43%) IBM
6 10 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.18%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.18%) Informatica
8 8 (1.94%) Cisco
8 8 (1.94%) Talend
9 7 (1.70%) Actian
9 7 (1.70%) F5
10 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.46%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.21%) Commvault
11 5 (1.21%) Google
11 5 (1.21%) Veeam
12 4 (0.97%) Cognos