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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 400 188 151
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.31% 10.31% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.33% 11.61% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 125 109
10th Percentile £364 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £625
90th Percentile £711 £725 £728
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.34 - -
Median hourly rate £21.17 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% - -
75th Percentile £30.69 - -
90th Percentile £44.53 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 3,000 1,619 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.84% 88.76% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 1,034 995
10th Percentile £313 £246 £252
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £674 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 106 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -6.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £68.27 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 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 +9 134 £515 +1.73% 22
Birmingham +4 106 £500 -6.10% 75
Warwickshire 0 63 £500 -13.04% 23
Coventry -17 22 £413 +32.00% 14
Staffordshire +1 21 £738 +63.89% 6
Wolverhampton +6 18 - - 3
Worcestershire +11 9 £450 - 18
Dudley - 4 £375 - 1
Solihull -22 2 £475 -9.52% 3
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 - 2
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 58 (14.50%) SAS
2 26 (6.50%) Confluence
3 19 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.50%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.50%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.25%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (4.50%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (4.00%) Teamcenter
3 11 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.00%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.00%) Azure
2 104 (26.00%) AWS
3 26 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.50%) GCP
6 12 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.50%) OCI
8 10 (2.50%) PaaS
9 9 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (2.25%) Serverless
10 8 (2.00%) GitHub
10 8 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.00%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.75%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.75%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.50%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.00%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.25%) DNS
2 10 (2.50%) DHCP
2 10 (2.50%) Network Security
3 7 (1.75%) DMZ
3 7 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (1.75%) SAN
4 5 (1.25%) Firewall
4 5 (1.25%) PuTTY
4 5 (1.25%) WinSCP
5 4 (1.00%) NAS
5 4 (1.00%) VSAN
6 3 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.75%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.75%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.50%) TACACS
7 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (20.50%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (9.25%) Data Lake
3 29 (7.25%) Oracle Reports
4 23 (5.75%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 22 (5.50%) Power BI
6 20 (5.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 19 (4.75%) Base SAS
8 18 (4.50%) Metadata
9 16 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.75%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.75%) Oracle Database
11 11 (2.75%) Pentaho
11 11 (2.75%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.25%) Ingres
13 8 (2.00%) MySQL
14 7 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.50%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
17 4 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 58 (14.50%) JIRA
2 35 (8.75%) Git
3 27 (6.75%) Zephyr
4 23 (5.75%) Postman
5 17 (4.25%) GitLab
6 8 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.75%) Selenium
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.75%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.50%) Hudson
12 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.25%) JUnit
12 1 (0.25%) Maven
12 1 (0.25%) Mockito
General
1 100 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 62 (15.50%) Finance
4 40 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (3.25%) Police
7 11 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.50%) Banking
8 10 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Legal
9 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.50%) Retail
11 3 (0.75%) Billing
11 3 (0.75%) Local Government
11 3 (0.75%) Military
11 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (17.00%) Architect
2 57 (14.25%) Senior
3 55 (13.75%) Data Engineer
4 33 (8.25%) Lead
5 31 (7.75%) Analyst
5 31 (7.75%) Data Architect
6 28 (7.00%) Developer
7 20 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (4.75%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.50%) Accountant
9 18 (4.50%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.50%) Systems Accountant
10 17 (4.25%) SAS Architect
11 13 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.25%) Tester
12 12 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.00%) Test Analyst
13 11 (2.75%) QA Tester
13 11 (2.75%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (4.00%) REST
3 15 (3.75%) Terraform
4 10 (2.50%) SOAP
5 6 (1.50%) PySpark
6 5 (1.25%) ADO
6 5 (1.25%) COM
6 5 (1.25%) ODBC
7 4 (1.00%) .NET
7 4 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.75%) JMS
8 3 (0.75%) JSON
8 3 (0.75%) Playwright
9 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.50%) Middleware
9 2 (0.50%) OAuth
9 2 (0.50%) OpenID
9 2 (0.50%) SAP Core Interface
9 2 (0.50%) YAML
10 1 (0.25%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.75%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 28 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.25%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.00%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.00%) Autonomous Agent
9 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.00%) SCADA
12 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.50%) Windows
2 15 (3.75%) Unix
3 13 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.50%) Linux
5 5 (1.25%) AIX
6 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) Solaris
7 2 (0.50%) SUSE
7 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.50%) Data Migration
2 99 (24.75%) Agile
3 85 (21.25%) ETL
4 78 (19.50%) Validation
5 72 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (17.50%) DevOps
7 67 (16.75%) CI/CD
8 62 (15.50%) Analytics
9 60 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (14.50%) Test Automation
11 56 (14.00%) Data Modelling
12 46 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (10.75%) Lakehouse
14 42 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 41 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
17 35 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (8.75%) Data Integration
18 33 (8.25%) Integration Testing
19 32 (8.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.00%) SQL
2 37 (9.25%) Python
3 23 (5.75%) Java
4 16 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 9 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 8 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.00%) VB
6 8 (2.00%) VB6
7 7 (1.75%) C
7 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.75%) Bash
8 3 (0.75%) C#
8 3 (0.75%) Perl
8 3 (0.75%) REXX
8 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.50%) Bicep
9 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.50%) ProC
10 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 133 (33.25%) Security Cleared
2 120 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.00%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.25%) Degree
6 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.00%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.75%) ACCA
9 3 (0.75%) CCAB
9 3 (0.75%) CIMA
9 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) CISSP
10 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 40 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.75%) Basel III
3 3 (0.75%) GDPR
4 2 (0.50%) PMO
4 2 (0.50%) WCAG
5 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.75%) vSphere
3 14 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.00%) Docker
6 6 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.25%) Ceph
7 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.75%) Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.25%) NFS
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Grafana
3 5 (1.25%) Ansible
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.50%) Control-M
5 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (23.25%) Oracle
2 58 (14.50%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.00%) VMware
4 20 (5.00%) Denodo
5 19 (4.75%) Databricks
6 18 (4.50%) SAP
7 9 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.25%) Informatica
7 9 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.00%) IBM
8 8 (2.00%) Talend
9 7 (1.75%) Actian
9 7 (1.75%) Cisco
9 7 (1.75%) F5
10 6 (1.50%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.25%) Commvault
11 5 (1.25%) Google
11 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.25%) Veeam