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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 359 122 114
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.24% 8.71% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.39% 9.79% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 80 91
10th Percentile £350 £324 £363
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £644
90th Percentile £690 £657 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £19.34 - -
25th Percentile £19.82 - -
Median hourly rate £23.83 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £39.45 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 2,681 1,246 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.94% 82.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,745 807 1,074
10th Percentile £313 £200 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £746
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 64 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £23.00 £13.49 £14.22
Median hourly rate £34.38 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.90% -2.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.19 £40.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +7 110 £470 +4.68% 12
Birmingham +7 94 £475 -9.52% 33
Warwickshire -6 61 £550 +4.76% 12
Coventry +2 37 £475 +18.75% 4
Staffordshire +1 9 £431 +7.81% 4
Wolverhampton - 8 - - 4
Solihull -15 4 £268 -35.81% 1
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 4
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Herefordshire - 3 £375 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
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 52 (14.48%) SAS
2 32 (8.91%) Confluence
3 19 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.84%) Apache
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.39%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.46%) Teamcenter
2 11 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 91 (25.35%) AWS
2 82 (22.84%) Azure
3 23 (6.41%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (3.34%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.06%) GCP
6 11 (3.06%) PaaS
7 10 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.51%) Serverless
8 9 (2.51%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.23%) GitHub
10 7 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.67%) dbt
12 5 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.39%) IaaS
13 4 (1.11%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.51%) DNS
2 7 (1.95%) SAN
3 5 (1.39%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.39%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.11%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.11%) DHCP
4 4 (1.11%) NAS
5 3 (0.84%) Firewall
6 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.56%) WAAS
7 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.28%) Modbus
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.16%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (8.64%) Oracle Reports
3 26 (7.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 19 (5.29%) Power BI
5 17 (4.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 12 (3.34%) Metadata
6 12 (3.34%) Oracle Database
7 9 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.95%) Base SAS
9 7 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.67%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.11%) Pentaho
12 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (16.99%) JIRA
2 32 (8.91%) Zephyr
3 27 (7.52%) Git
4 26 (7.24%) Postman
5 14 (3.90%) GitLab
6 8 (2.23%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.67%) Selenium
8 4 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.56%) Hudson
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.28%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.28%) MSI
11 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 105 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.66%) Finance
3 50 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 41 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.18%) Police
7 14 (3.90%) Banking
8 12 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.51%) Local Government
10 7 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.67%) Retail
12 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.11%) Legal
14 3 (0.84%) Law
15 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Billing
15 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (14.76%) Architect
2 49 (13.65%) Analyst
3 41 (11.42%) Senior
4 31 (8.64%) Data Engineer
5 27 (7.52%) Project Manager
6 26 (7.24%) Developer
7 22 (6.13%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.29%) Tester
9 18 (5.01%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.74%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.46%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.90%) Release Manager
12 14 (3.90%) Technical Architect
13 13 (3.62%) Accountant
13 13 (3.62%) Systems Accountant
14 12 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (3.34%) Test Analyst
15 11 (3.06%) Lead
16 10 (2.79%) Data Analyst
17 9 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.79%) REST
2 8 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.23%) Middleware
3 4 (1.11%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.11%) SOAP
4 3 (0.84%) .NET
4 3 (0.84%) JMS
4 3 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.56%) ActiveX
5 2 (0.56%) ADO
5 2 (0.56%) COM
5 2 (0.56%) ODBC
5 2 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.28%) CSS
6 1 (0.28%) HTML
6 1 (0.28%) JDBC
6 1 (0.28%) JSP
6 1 (0.28%) Servlets
6 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.08%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (7.80%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.62%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.11%) SCADA
12 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.84%) Clustering
12 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.57%) Windows
2 18 (5.01%) Unix
3 12 (3.34%) Linux
4 10 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.84%) AIX
8 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) HPUX
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (26.74%) Data Migration
2 91 (25.35%) Agile
3 69 (19.22%) ETL
4 67 (18.66%) DevOps
5 63 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (16.99%) Validation
7 58 (16.16%) CI/CD
8 56 (15.60%) Analytics
8 56 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (13.37%) Data Modelling
9 48 (13.37%) Test Automation
10 36 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (9.75%) User Acceptance Testing
12 34 (9.47%) Integration Testing
13 32 (8.91%) Data Integration
14 31 (8.64%) End-to-End Testing
14 31 (8.64%) Scenario Testing
14 31 (8.64%) System Testing
15 30 (8.36%) Test Scripting
16 29 (8.08%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.66%) SQL
2 34 (9.47%) Python
3 11 (3.06%) Bash
4 10 (2.79%) Java
5 9 (2.51%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.84%) Bicep
8 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.84%) Perl
8 3 (0.84%) REXX
8 3 (0.84%) VB
9 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.56%) VB6
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) C#
10 1 (0.28%) C++
10 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (31.20%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.13%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.62%) Degree
5 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.95%) IIBA
7 6 (1.67%) CCNP
8 4 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.11%) PMP
9 3 (0.84%) CISSP
9 3 (0.84%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.47%) QA
2 31 (8.64%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.34%) GDPR
4 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.84%) PMO
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) WCAG
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.62%) Active Directory
1 13 (3.62%) Docker
1 13 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.06%) vSphere
3 7 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.39%) Ceph
4 5 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.84%) Firmware
5 3 (0.84%) PowerHA
5 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.56%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.28%) NFS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.06%) Terraform
3 10 (2.79%) Ansible
4 8 (2.23%) Grafana
5 6 (1.67%) Kibana
5 6 (1.67%) Puppet
6 5 (1.39%) SCCM
7 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.84%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.56%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.28%) Control-M
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 74 (20.61%) Oracle
2 52 (14.48%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.29%) Databricks
3 19 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.01%) SAP
5 14 (3.90%) Splunk
5 14 (3.90%) VMware
6 13 (3.62%) Denodo
7 9 (2.51%) Cisco
7 9 (2.51%) Talend
8 8 (2.23%) Informatica
9 7 (1.95%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.11%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.11%) F5
11 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.11%) Pure Storage
11 4 (1.11%) Sage
12 3 (0.84%) Pega