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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 248 136 132
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.06% 8.77% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.80% 9.96% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 102 105
10th Percentile £313 £325 £380
25th Percentile £413 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £670 £700 £750
England median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.85 -
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.24 -
90th Percentile £38.60 - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £20.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.79% -49.06% -38.46%

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 2,102 1,365 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.24% 88.06% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 844 1,030
10th Percentile £290 £211 £263
25th Percentile £405 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +6.72% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 50 100
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.21 £16.38 £17.44
Median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +38.97%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.10 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 January 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
Birmingham -1 83 £475 -8.43% 10
Shropshire -10 58 £515 -8.28% 4
Warwickshire +9 49 £575 -8.00% 9
Coventry -4 16 £325 -39.53% 4
Staffordshire +2 12 £400 - 2
Herefordshire -15 6 £375 - 2
Solihull -3 5 £347 -29.14% 3
Wolverhampton +5 3 - -
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
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 35 (14.11%) SAS
2 16 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.44%) Confluence
4 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.61%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Maximo
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.56%) Azure
2 46 (18.55%) AWS
3 20 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.84%) GCP
5 10 (4.03%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.63%) GitHub
7 8 (3.23%) PaaS
8 7 (2.82%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.82%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.42%) dbt
9 6 (2.42%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.21%) Intacct
12 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.23%) DNS
2 7 (2.82%) SSL
3 6 (2.42%) BIG-IP
3 6 (2.42%) Firewall
3 6 (2.42%) HTTP
3 6 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.02%) DMZ
4 5 (2.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (2.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.02%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.81%) LAN
5 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) SMS
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 23 (9.27%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.03%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 7 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (2.42%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.02%) Power BI
7 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.61%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.81%) Ingres
9 2 (0.81%) Metadata
9 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.45%) JIRA
2 8 (3.23%) GitLab
3 5 (2.02%) Fiddler
3 5 (2.02%) Git
4 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.81%) Gatling
5 2 (0.81%) JUnit
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) Mockito
5 2 (0.81%) Selenium
5 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.40%) GoCD
6 1 (0.40%) Hudson
6 1 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.40%) MSI
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 83 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.18%) Finance
3 34 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.84%) Police
7 8 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.23%) Law
8 7 (2.82%) Banking
9 6 (2.42%) Legal
10 5 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.02%) Local Government
10 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Billing
11 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.81%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 34 (13.71%) Analyst
2 24 (9.68%) Architect
3 22 (8.87%) Business Analyst
4 21 (8.47%) Release Manager
5 19 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 19 (7.66%) Splunk Engineer
6 17 (6.85%) Senior
7 16 (6.45%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.65%) Site Engineer
9 12 (4.84%) Consultant
9 12 (4.84%) Lead
10 11 (4.44%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.03%) Engagement Manager
12 8 (3.23%) Accountant
12 8 (3.23%) Migration Analyst
12 8 (3.23%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.23%) Systems Accountant
13 7 (2.82%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.87%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.42%) Middleware
4 5 (2.02%) SailPoint
4 5 (2.02%) SAML
4 5 (2.02%) Spring
5 4 (1.61%) .NET
5 4 (1.61%) Playwright
5 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.21%) HTML
6 3 (1.21%) JDBC
6 3 (1.21%) JSON
6 3 (1.21%) OAuth
6 3 (1.21%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.21%) OpenID
6 3 (1.21%) React
7 2 (0.81%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.81%) JPA
7 2 (0.81%) REST
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.87%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (7.26%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.42%) PKI
6 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.40%) CMDB
9 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.40%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.40%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.26%) Windows
2 17 (6.85%) Linux
3 14 (5.65%) Unix
4 10 (4.03%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (21.77%) DevOps
3 52 (20.97%) Data Migration
4 49 (19.76%) Validation
5 46 (18.55%) CI/CD
6 42 (16.94%) Agile
6 42 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (15.32%) Analytics
8 37 (14.92%) Change Management
9 32 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 29 (11.69%) Data Modelling
11 28 (11.29%) Containerisation
11 28 (11.29%) Data Integration
12 25 (10.08%) Configuration Management
12 25 (10.08%) Project Management
12 25 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (9.68%) ERP
14 22 (8.87%) Observability
14 22 (8.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (8.06%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.48%) Python
1 26 (10.48%) SQL
2 19 (7.66%) Bash
3 10 (4.03%) Java
4 5 (2.02%) Bicep
4 5 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.40%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) VB
7 1 (0.40%) VB6
7 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.47%) Degree
4 16 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.82%) IIBA
6 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.61%) CISM
7 4 (1.61%) CISSP
8 3 (1.21%) ACCA
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.21%) CIMA
8 3 (1.21%) PMP
9 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.81%) CCNP
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) CCSA
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.24%) QA
2 10 (4.03%) GDPR
3 8 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.21%) PMO
5 3 (1.21%) WCAG
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (10.89%) Docker
2 17 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) vSphere
5 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (15.73%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.48%) Kibana
3 25 (10.08%) Ansible
4 14 (5.65%) Puppet
5 8 (3.23%) Terraform
6 7 (2.82%) logstash
6 7 (2.82%) SCCM
7 5 (2.02%) Grafana
8 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.21%) SCOM
10 2 (0.81%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.40%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.40%) Argo
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 40 (16.13%) Oracle
3 26 (10.48%) Splunk
4 15 (6.05%) SAP
5 11 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.82%) VMware
7 6 (2.42%) F5
7 6 (2.42%) NetApp
7 6 (2.42%) Workday
8 5 (2.02%) Blue Coat
8 5 (2.02%) Cisco
8 5 (2.02%) McAfee
9 4 (1.61%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.61%) Databricks
9 4 (1.61%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.61%) Okta
9 4 (1.61%) Sage
10 3 (1.21%) Cognos
11 2 (0.81%) Adobe
11 2 (0.81%) Red Hat