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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 387 141 126
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.30% 8.74% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.13% 9.87% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 90 94
10th Percentile £351 £311 £388
25th Percentile £403 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £675 £688 £746
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 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 £48.12
% change year-on-year +59.05% -47.73% -29.76%

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 2,947 1,429 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.07% 88.54% 80.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 899 1,085
10th Percentile £313 £209 £266
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £677 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 99 93
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.78 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.38%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +9 115 £475 - 15
Birmingham +10 102 £475 -9.52% 18
Warwickshire -3 69 £525 -6.67% 7
Coventry -3 40 £475 +18.75% 1
Wolverhampton +4 15 - - 3
Staffordshire +1 6 £550 +59.42% 9
Worcestershire -3 5 £638 - 5
Herefordshire -3 3 £375 -
Solihull -24 3 £419 -14.97% 3
Dudley - 3 £400 -
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 51 (13.18%) SAS
2 24 (6.20%) Confluence
3 22 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.55%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.78%) Apache
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.29%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.13%) Teamcenter
2 14 (3.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.78%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 110 (28.42%) Azure
2 98 (25.32%) AWS
3 23 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.62%) GCP
5 14 (3.62%) Serverless
6 12 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.10%) GitHub
6 12 (3.10%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.84%) PaaS
8 10 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.33%) Azure Storage
10 8 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.07%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.55%) dbt
11 6 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.36%) DNS
2 7 (1.81%) SAN
3 5 (1.29%) DHCP
3 5 (1.29%) Network Security
3 5 (1.29%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.29%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.03%) NAS
5 3 (0.78%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.78%) DMZ
5 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.52%) WAAS
7 1 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) Modbus
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.38%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.27%) Oracle Reports
3 24 (6.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 23 (5.94%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 18 (4.65%) Power BI
7 17 (4.39%) Base SAS
8 14 (3.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.10%) Ingres
9 12 (3.10%) Metadata
9 12 (3.10%) Oracle Database
9 12 (3.10%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.07%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.29%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.03%) Pentaho
15 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (14.21%) JIRA
2 37 (9.56%) Git
3 32 (8.27%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.72%) Postman
5 14 (3.62%) GitLab
6 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.81%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.55%) Selenium
9 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.78%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.52%) Hudson
12 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.26%) Gatling
12 1 (0.26%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.26%) MSI
12 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 94 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.71%) Finance
3 55 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.62%) Banking
6 14 (3.62%) Police
7 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.58%) Retail
8 9 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.07%) Local Government
10 6 (1.55%) Legal
10 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Billing
11 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (14.73%) Senior
2 56 (14.47%) Architect
3 49 (12.66%) Data Engineer
4 38 (9.82%) Analyst
5 29 (7.49%) Project Manager
6 28 (7.24%) Developer
7 25 (6.46%) Data Architect
8 21 (5.43%) Accountant
8 21 (5.43%) Systems Accountant
9 20 (5.17%) Lead
10 19 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (4.91%) Tester
11 18 (4.65%) QA Tester
12 17 (4.39%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.13%) SAS Architect
14 12 (3.10%) Test Analyst
15 11 (2.84%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (2.58%) Release Manager
16 10 (2.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.58%) REST
2 7 (1.81%) ADO
2 7 (1.81%) COM
2 7 (1.81%) Middleware
2 7 (1.81%) ODBC
2 7 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.29%) PySpark
4 4 (1.03%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.03%) SOAP
5 3 (0.78%) JMS
5 3 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.52%) .NET
6 2 (0.52%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.26%) CSS
7 1 (0.26%) HTML
7 1 (0.26%) JDBC
7 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.13%) Low-Code
5 13 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
12 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.78%) Clustering
13 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.43%) Windows
2 12 (3.10%) Unix
3 11 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.29%) Linux
6 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.78%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) HPUX
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.65%) Data Migration
2 92 (23.77%) Agile
3 81 (20.93%) ETL
4 75 (19.38%) Validation
5 63 (16.28%) Analytics
5 63 (16.28%) DevOps
6 61 (15.76%) CI/CD
7 59 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (14.47%) Data Modelling
9 55 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (13.95%) Test Automation
11 42 (10.85%) User Acceptance Testing
12 40 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (8.79%) Integration Testing
16 33 (8.53%) Scenario Testing
17 31 (8.01%) Decision-Making
17 31 (8.01%) System Testing
18 30 (7.75%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.41%) SQL
2 38 (9.82%) Python
3 12 (3.10%) Java
3 12 (3.10%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.84%) VB
5 10 (2.58%) VB6
6 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.81%) C
8 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (0.78%) Perl
10 3 (0.78%) REXX
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) Bicep
11 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.52%) ProC
11 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 117 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 105 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.46%) ISTQB
4 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.81%) Degree
5 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.29%) CCNP
7 4 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.03%) SAS Certification
8 3 (0.78%) CISSP
8 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.52%) ACCA
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.52%) CCAB
9 2 (0.52%) CIMA
9 2 (0.52%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.66%) Data Quality
2 40 (10.34%) QA
3 6 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) Basel III
4 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) PMO
5 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.10%) vSphere
4 7 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.55%) Docker
5 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.29%) Ceph
7 3 (0.78%) Firmware
7 3 (0.78%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.26%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.10%) Terraform
3 8 (2.07%) Grafana
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.29%) SCCM
6 4 (1.03%) Ansible
6 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.52%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.26%) Control-M
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (20.93%) Oracle
2 56 (14.47%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.94%) Databricks
4 22 (5.68%) SAP
5 19 (4.91%) VMware
6 18 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.36%) Denodo
8 9 (2.33%) Actian
8 9 (2.33%) Talend
9 8 (2.07%) Cisco
9 8 (2.07%) Informatica
9 8 (2.07%) Splunk
10 7 (1.81%) OutSystems
10 7 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.55%) F5
12 4 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.03%) Pure Storage
12 4 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.03%) Sage