Migration Contracts in the West Midlands

Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 137 129 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.87% 6.26% 9.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.99% 7.72% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 96 154
10th Percentile £319 £363 £297
25th Percentile £403 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £600
90th Percentile £638 £756 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.00
25th Percentile - - £25.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £84.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -40.07% +156.73%

All Process and 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 1,371 1,671 1,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 81.08% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,116 1,360
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £673 £728 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +44.93%
75th Percentile £32.82 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the West Midlands

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 5 July 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
Warwickshire +1 47 £550 -15.38% 28
Birmingham +4 41 £525 +7.69% 108
Coventry +8 15 £400 -15.79% 36
Shropshire - 10 £449 - 37
Solihull +14 8 £493 -7.29% 2
Staffordshire +7 6 £400 - 53
Walsall 0 2 - - 1
Herefordshire - 2 - - 5
Worcestershire -5 1 - - 12
Migration
England

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 17 (12.41%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.38%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.73%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) SAP PM
2 4 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.19%) SAP HR
4 2 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.73%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.73%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.01%) Azure
2 21 (15.33%) Power Platform
3 19 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.03%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.57%) AWS
6 8 (5.84%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (4.38%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.38%) SaaS
9 5 (3.65%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.19%) Collibra
11 3 (2.19%) IaaS
11 3 (2.19%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (2.19%) Serverless
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Firewall
1 7 (5.11%) WAN
2 5 (3.65%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.92%) LAN
3 4 (2.92%) Network Security
3 4 (2.92%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.19%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (2.19%) VPN
5 2 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.46%) MPLS
5 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.46%) VoIP
5 2 (1.46%) Wireless
6 1 (0.73%) DHCP
6 1 (0.73%) DNS
6 1 (0.73%) Intranet
6 1 (0.73%) SNMP
6 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) Power BI
2 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.19%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.19%) GIS
7 2 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.46%) Metadata
7 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.46%) QlikView
7 2 (1.46%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (1.46%) Tableau
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) DataStage
8 1 (0.73%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (0.73%) NUnit
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.71%) Finance
3 15 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.76%) Law
6 6 (4.38%) Legal
7 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.46%) Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Advertising
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (15.33%) Analyst
1 21 (15.33%) Project Manager
2 20 (14.60%) Architect
3 13 (9.49%) Senior
4 9 (6.57%) Consultant
5 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.11%) Data Analyst
6 7 (5.11%) Lead
7 6 (4.38%) Data Manager
7 6 (4.38%) Developer
7 6 (4.38%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 5 (3.65%) Test Analyst
9 4 (2.92%) IT Manager
9 4 (2.92%) Migration Specialist
9 4 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) LDAP
2 3 (2.19%) .NET
2 3 (2.19%) GraphQL
2 3 (2.19%) Kafka
2 3 (2.19%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (2.19%) React
2 3 (2.19%) SAP PI
2 3 (2.19%) Visualforce
3 2 (1.46%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.46%) CSS
3 2 (1.46%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.73%) EDI
4 1 (0.73%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.73%) OLE
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.73%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Data Structures
1 12 (8.76%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.11%) IoT
4 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.65%) SCADA
6 4 (2.92%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.92%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.19%) Replication
8 2 (1.46%) CMDB
8 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Windows
2 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 3 (2.19%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.73%) SUSE
4 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.93%) Data Migration
2 32 (23.36%) Agile
3 18 (13.14%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (12.41%) Data Governance
5 16 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (10.95%) Change Management
7 14 (10.22%) ITIL
7 14 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.49%) Data Modelling
8 13 (9.49%) DevOps
8 13 (9.49%) Validation
9 12 (8.76%) ETL
9 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (8.03%) Scrum
11 10 (7.30%) Data Integration
11 10 (7.30%) Project Management
11 10 (7.30%) Roadmaps
12 9 (6.57%) Data Protection
12 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.87%) SQL
2 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.30%) Python
4 4 (2.92%) C#
5 3 (2.19%) Apex Code
5 3 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.19%) Groovy
5 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.19%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.46%) Perl
6 2 (1.46%) PHP
6 2 (1.46%) R
6 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) Bash
7 1 (0.73%) Bicep
7 1 (0.73%) Java
7 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.46%) CCIE
4 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) MCSE
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) GDPR
3 5 (3.65%) PMO
4 4 (2.92%) QA
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.73%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (10.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.19%) Docker
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.38%) SCCM
3 3 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.19%) Terraform
4 2 (1.46%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.73%) CASB
5 1 (0.73%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 33 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.49%) SAP
2 13 (9.49%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.30%) Oracle
4 8 (5.84%) Cisco
5 6 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.65%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.92%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.92%) Databricks
7 4 (2.92%) Denodo
8 3 (2.19%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.19%) F5
8 3 (2.19%) Informatica
8 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 3 (2.19%) Workday
9 2 (1.46%) Lotus
9 2 (1.46%) OpenText
9 2 (1.46%) Remedy