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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 272 125 116
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.57% 9.48% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.34% 10.57% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 92 93
10th Percentile £313 £357 £378
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £511 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -9.11% +17.19%
75th Percentile £576 £613 £650
90th Percentile £650 £674 £763
England median daily rate £520 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -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 £23.83 £28.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.13% -39.47% -26.36%

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 2,399 1,183 1,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.44% 89.69% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 785 1,094
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £672 £689 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 53 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.32 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% -21.17% +29.80%
75th Percentile £28.75 £24.18 £40.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £34.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -4 77 £475 -5.00% 24
Shropshire -6 62 £490 +0.26% 1
Warwickshire -3 49 £575 -8.00% 9
Coventry +1 32 £505 -6.05% 6
Staffordshire -3 9 £400 +4.92% 1
Herefordshire -9 7 £375 -
Solihull -5 5 £347 -24.67% 1
Wolverhampton 0 4 - -
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 1
Dudley -2 3 £400 - 1
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 26 (9.56%) SAS
2 20 (7.35%) Confluence
3 14 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.65%) Azure
2 47 (17.28%) AWS
3 14 (5.15%) GitHub
3 14 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.41%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.41%) GCP
5 10 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (3.68%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.21%) dbt
7 6 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.84%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.84%) PaaS
8 5 (1.84%) Serverless
8 5 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.10%) IaaS
9 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 4 (1.47%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.10%) SAN
3 3 (1.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) DMZ
5 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SMS
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) WAAS
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (6.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 15 (5.51%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (3.31%) Power BI
6 7 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.84%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.84%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.10%) Ingres
9 3 (1.10%) Metadata
9 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.37%) MySQL
11 1 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (12.50%) JIRA
2 16 (5.88%) Git
3 13 (4.78%) Zephyr
4 11 (4.04%) Postman
5 6 (2.21%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.84%) GitLab
7 4 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.74%) Gatling
9 2 (0.74%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.74%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Mockito
9 2 (0.74%) MSI
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.74%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) GoCD
General
1 99 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.79%) Finance
3 34 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.41%) Police
6 11 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.31%) Local Government
8 7 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.21%) Banking
9 6 (2.21%) Legal
10 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (13.24%) Analyst
1 36 (13.24%) Architect
2 23 (8.46%) Business Analyst
3 20 (7.35%) Project Manager
4 16 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 16 (5.88%) Senior
4 16 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 16 (5.88%) Splunk Engineer
5 13 (4.78%) Consultant
6 12 (4.41%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.04%) Accountant
7 11 (4.04%) Site Engineer
7 11 (4.04%) Systems Accountant
7 11 (4.04%) Technical Architect
8 10 (3.68%) Lead
8 10 (3.68%) QA Tester
8 10 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.68%) Tester
9 9 (3.31%) Engagement Manager
10 8 (2.94%) Project Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.31%) Middleware
3 8 (2.94%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.84%) REST
4 5 (1.84%) SAML
4 5 (1.84%) Spring
5 4 (1.47%) Playwright
5 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.10%) .NET
6 3 (1.10%) HTML
6 3 (1.10%) JDBC
6 3 (1.10%) JSON
6 3 (1.10%) OAuth
6 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.10%) OpenID
6 3 (1.10%) React
7 2 (0.74%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.74%) ADO
7 2 (0.74%) ODBC
7 2 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.72%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (5.51%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.57%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.47%) PKI
7 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.10%) Clustering
8 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.10%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.15%) Unix
2 13 (4.78%) Linux
2 13 (4.78%) Windows
3 8 (2.94%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.53%) Data Migration
2 61 (22.43%) Agile
3 60 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (18.01%) DevOps
5 48 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 46 (16.91%) Validation
7 45 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.60%) Data Modelling
9 35 (12.87%) User Acceptance Testing
10 34 (12.50%) ETL
11 30 (11.03%) Analytics
11 30 (11.03%) Change Management
12 26 (9.56%) Project Management
13 23 (8.46%) Containerisation
13 23 (8.46%) Data Integration
13 23 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (7.35%) ERP
14 20 (7.35%) Observability
14 20 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.18%) SQL
2 29 (10.66%) Python
3 16 (5.88%) Bash
4 11 (4.04%) Java
5 6 (2.21%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.47%) Bicep
7 3 (1.10%) Perl
7 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.10%) VB
8 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.74%) VB6
8 2 (0.74%) VBScript
9 1 (0.37%) C#
9 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.88%) Degree
4 13 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.31%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.57%) IIBA
7 6 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.84%) CISM
8 5 (1.84%) CISSP
9 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.47%) PMP
10 3 (1.10%) ACCA
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.10%) CCNP
10 3 (1.10%) CIMA
11 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.82%) QA
2 16 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.15%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) PMO
5 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.10%) WCAG
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.35%) Docker
2 16 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.84%) vSphere
5 4 (1.47%) Firmware
6 3 (1.10%) PowerHA
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.72%) Kibana
3 19 (6.99%) Ansible
4 11 (4.04%) Puppet
5 9 (3.31%) Terraform
6 7 (2.57%) Grafana
7 5 (1.84%) logstash
7 5 (1.84%) SCCM
8 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.10%) Argo
9 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.74%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.37%) SCOM
11 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.07%) Oracle
3 23 (8.46%) Splunk
4 17 (6.25%) SAP
4 17 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.41%) Databricks
6 8 (2.94%) VMware
7 6 (2.21%) Cisco
8 5 (1.84%) Sage
8 5 (1.84%) Workday
9 4 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.47%) F5
9 4 (1.47%) IBM
9 4 (1.47%) Okta
9 4 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.47%) Talend
10 3 (1.10%) Citrix
10 3 (1.10%) Cognos
10 3 (1.10%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto