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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 212 162 175
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.92% 8.60% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 10.29% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 121 124
10th Percentile £309 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +9.47% -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £607
90th Percentile £688 £725 £739
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £21.46 £17.32 -
25th Percentile £23.97 £17.81 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.54% - -
75th Percentile - £19.93 -
90th Percentile - £20.12 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +4.79% -64.18% +25.59%

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 1,918 1,574 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.75% 83.55% 84.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 988 1,099
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +4.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £716 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 45 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +16.00% +41.08%
75th Percentile £30.82 £35.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
Birmingham -6 63 £500 -4.76% 40
Warwickshire +2 45 £575 -4.17% 15
Shropshire -8 42 £517 -8.86% 5
Coventry -8 17 £453 -9.50% 6
Staffordshire +7 9 £313 -29.58% 9
Herefordshire -5 8 - - 2
Solihull -1 5 £563 +40.63%
Worcestershire -18 4 - - 7
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Wolverhampton +2 2 - - 4
Walsall +3 1 - - 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 20 (9.43%) SAS
2 18 (8.49%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.89%) Confluence
5 4 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.94%) FileNet
7 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.89%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.89%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.64%) Azure
2 32 (15.09%) AWS
3 21 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.72%) PaaS
4 10 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.77%) GCP
5 8 (3.77%) GitHub
6 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.83%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.89%) SaaS
9 3 (1.42%) Intacct
9 3 (1.42%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.72%) Firewall
2 8 (3.77%) BIG-IP
2 8 (3.77%) DNS
3 6 (2.83%) HTTP
3 6 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.36%) DMZ
4 5 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.36%) SSL
4 5 (2.36%) WAN
4 5 (2.36%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.89%) LAN
5 4 (1.89%) Network Security
5 4 (1.89%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.42%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.94%) DHCP
7 2 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) Intranet
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.96%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 16 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 7 (3.30%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.36%) DataStage
6 5 (2.36%) Power BI
7 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.89%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.42%) Metadata
8 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.94%) MySQL
9 2 (0.94%) QlikView
9 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.02%) JIRA
2 9 (4.25%) GitLab
3 5 (2.36%) Fiddler
4 4 (1.89%) Git
4 4 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.94%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.94%) Gatling
5 2 (0.94%) JUnit
5 2 (0.94%) Maven
5 2 (0.94%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.47%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.47%) MSI
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.70%) Finance
3 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.66%) Law
6 11 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.72%) Legal
8 6 (2.83%) Banking
9 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Billing
11 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.94%) Automotive
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.47%) Police
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (10.38%) Architect
2 21 (9.91%) Project Manager
3 20 (9.43%) Analyst
4 15 (7.08%) Release Manager
5 14 (6.60%) Senior
6 12 (5.66%) Lead
7 11 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.19%) Splunk Engineer
8 10 (4.72%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.25%) Engagement Manager
9 9 (4.25%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.30%) Consultant
10 7 (3.30%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.30%) SAP Manager
10 7 (3.30%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Developer
11 6 (2.83%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.08%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.36%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.36%) SAP PI
3 5 (2.36%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.89%) Playwright
4 4 (1.89%) Spring
4 4 (1.89%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.42%) .NET
5 3 (1.42%) HTML
5 3 (1.42%) JSON
5 3 (1.42%) OAuth
5 3 (1.42%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.42%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.94%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.94%) JPA
6 2 (0.94%) React
6 2 (0.94%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.94%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.83%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.36%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.42%) PKI
8 2 (0.94%) CMDB
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.47%) SCADA
9 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.32%) Windows
2 12 (5.66%) Linux
3 10 (4.72%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.30%) Unix
4 7 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.94%) VMS
7 1 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Solaris
7 1 (0.47%) SUSE
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.19%) Data Migration
2 36 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (16.04%) Agile
4 33 (15.57%) CI/CD
4 33 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.09%) DevOps
6 30 (14.15%) Validation
7 28 (13.21%) Change Management
8 24 (11.32%) Project Management
9 23 (10.85%) Data Integration
10 22 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (9.91%) Analytics
11 21 (9.91%) Data Modelling
12 19 (8.96%) Configuration Management
12 19 (8.96%) ERP
13 18 (8.49%) Containerisation
14 17 (8.02%) Workflow
15 16 (7.55%) Project Delivery
15 16 (7.55%) Scrum
16 14 (6.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.96%) Python
2 17 (8.02%) SQL
3 13 (6.13%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.19%) Java
5 10 (4.72%) Bash
6 5 (2.36%) Apex Code
7 4 (1.89%) Bicep
8 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) ABAP
9 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.55%) Degree
4 8 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.42%) ACCA
7 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.42%) CIMA
8 2 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) CCSA
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) QA
2 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.36%) PMO
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.49%) Docker
3 4 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.42%) vSphere
5 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.96%) Kibana
3 17 (8.02%) Ansible
4 8 (3.77%) SCCM
5 7 (3.30%) logstash
6 6 (2.83%) Puppet
7 5 (2.36%) Terraform
8 4 (1.89%) Grafana
8 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.94%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.94%) SCOM
9 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.57%) Oracle
3 21 (9.91%) SAP
4 18 (8.49%) Splunk
5 13 (6.13%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.77%) F5
6 8 (3.77%) IBM
7 7 (3.30%) Workday
8 6 (2.83%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.83%) Cisco
8 6 (2.83%) NetApp
8 6 (2.83%) VMware
9 5 (2.36%) Adobe
9 5 (2.36%) Blue Coat
9 5 (2.36%) McAfee
9 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.89%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.89%) Sage
10 4 (1.89%) SolarWinds