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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 400 167 136
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.64% 9.75% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.74% 11.05% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 113 95
10th Percentile £358 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £634
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 2,911 1,511 1,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.75% 88.26% 81.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,815 963 1,047
10th Percentile £313 £235 £263
25th Percentile £406 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £730
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 103 58
10th Percentile £13.41 £12.62 £13.13
25th Percentile £18.34 £14.91 £14.78
Median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.29 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £50.00 £55.38
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +11 135 £500 -2.91% 13
Birmingham +5 98 £495 -5.71% 28
Warwickshire -2 65 £525 -8.70% 5
Coventry -12 28 £488 +7.73%
Wolverhampton +5 19 - - 1
Staffordshire -2 11 £825 +83.33% 5
Worcestershire +4 7 £450 - 4
Dudley - 7 £375 -
Solihull -19 2 £475 -9.52% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 - 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 57 (14.25%) SAS
2 31 (7.75%) Confluence
3 20 (5.00%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Notepad++
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (4.50%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (4.00%) Teamcenter
3 13 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
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 General Ledger
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
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
1 120 (30.00%) Azure
2 102 (25.50%) AWS
3 25 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (2.75%) PaaS
5 11 (2.75%) Serverless
6 10 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (2.50%) GCP
7 9 (2.25%) Azure Storage
7 9 (2.25%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.00%) Azure Functions
8 8 (2.00%) GitHub
8 8 (2.00%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.75%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.50%) OCI
11 5 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (1.00%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.50%) DNS
2 10 (2.50%) SAN
3 8 (2.00%) Network Security
4 7 (1.75%) DHCP
5 6 (1.50%) DMZ
5 6 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (1.25%) PuTTY
6 5 (1.25%) WinSCP
7 4 (1.00%) NAS
8 3 (0.75%) Firewall
9 2 (0.50%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.25%) LAN
10 1 (0.25%) Modbus
10 1 (0.25%) VPN
10 1 (0.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (23.25%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (8.75%) Data Lake
3 31 (7.75%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (6.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 21 (5.25%) Power BI
5 21 (5.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 19 (4.75%) Base SAS
7 16 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 16 (4.00%) Metadata
8 11 (2.75%) Oracle Database
8 11 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.25%) Ingres
10 9 (2.25%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.25%) Pentaho
11 8 (2.00%) MySQL
12 7 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.25%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 65 (16.25%) JIRA
2 38 (9.50%) Git
3 34 (8.50%) Zephyr
4 29 (7.25%) Postman
5 13 (3.25%) GitLab
6 12 (3.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.50%) Selenium
8 5 (1.25%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.75%) Yeoman
10 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.50%) Hudson
11 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.25%) Gatling
11 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.00%) Finance
3 69 (17.25%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.00%) Banking
6 12 (3.00%) Police
7 10 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.25%) Legal
10 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.00%) Billing
11 4 (1.00%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 60 (15.00%) Architect
2 57 (14.25%) Data Engineer
2 57 (14.25%) Senior
3 31 (7.75%) Analyst
4 28 (7.00%) Data Architect
4 28 (7.00%) Developer
5 27 (6.75%) Lead
5 27 (6.75%) Project Manager
6 22 (5.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (4.75%) Tester
8 18 (4.50%) Accountant
8 18 (4.50%) Senior Developer
8 18 (4.50%) Systems Accountant
9 17 (4.25%) QA Tester
9 17 (4.25%) SAS Architect
10 13 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.25%) Test Analyst
11 12 (3.00%) JIRA Engineer
12 11 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 12 (3.00%) Terraform
2 8 (2.00%) REST
3 6 (1.50%) PySpark
4 5 (1.25%) ADO
4 5 (1.25%) COM
4 5 (1.25%) ODBC
5 4 (1.00%) SOAP
6 3 (0.75%) .NET
6 3 (0.75%) JMS
6 3 (0.75%) Middleware
6 3 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.25%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.25%) IDoc
8 1 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.25%) Playwright
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Core Interface
8 1 (0.25%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (5.50%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 12 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
9 6 (1.50%) Clustering
9 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) SCADA
11 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.50%) Windows
2 15 (3.75%) Unix
3 11 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.50%) AIX
5 5 (1.25%) Linux
6 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.75%) Data Migration
2 104 (26.00%) Agile
3 86 (21.50%) ETL
4 73 (18.25%) DevOps
4 73 (18.25%) Validation
5 70 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 63 (15.75%) Analytics
7 62 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (15.25%) Test Automation
9 56 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (13.75%) Data Modelling
11 43 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 41 (10.25%) Technical Leadership
13 37 (9.25%) Integration Testing
13 37 (9.25%) Scenario Testing
13 37 (9.25%) User Acceptance Testing
14 35 (8.75%) Data Integration
15 34 (8.50%) Decision-Making
16 33 (8.25%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.50%) SQL
2 39 (9.75%) Python
3 20 (5.00%) Java
4 12 (3.00%) PL/SQL
5 8 (2.00%) VB
5 8 (2.00%) VB6
6 7 (1.75%) C
6 7 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.50%) Perl
7 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.00%) Bash
8 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.75%) REXX
10 2 (0.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) C#
10 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.50%) ProC
11 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 127 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 116 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.00%) ISTQB
4 11 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.50%) Degree
7 4 (1.00%) CCNP
7 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.00%) SAS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) ACCA
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.50%) CCAB
8 2 (0.50%) CIMA
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) PMP
8 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 43 (10.75%) QA
3 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.75%) Basel III
3 3 (0.75%) GDPR
3 3 (0.75%) PMO
4 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
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
5 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.50%) vSphere
4 7 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.50%) Docker
5 6 (1.50%) Firmware
5 6 (1.50%) PowerHA
6 5 (1.25%) Ceph
6 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Grafana
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (22.50%) Oracle
2 52 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.25%) SAP
4 20 (5.00%) Databricks
5 19 (4.75%) VMware
6 18 (4.50%) Denodo
7 13 (3.25%) Atlassian
8 12 (3.00%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.50%) IBM
10 9 (2.25%) Informatica
10 9 (2.25%) Talend
11 8 (2.00%) F5
12 7 (1.75%) Actian
12 7 (1.75%) OutSystems
13 6 (1.50%) Cisco
13 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.50%) SYSPRO
14 5 (1.25%) Commvault
14 5 (1.25%) Splunk
14 5 (1.25%) Veeam