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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 328 126 104
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.71% 9.25% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 10.46% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 89 85
10th Percentile £345 £400 £381
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £650
90th Percentile £661 £690 £840
England median daily rate £513 £534 £530
% change year-on-year -3.94% +0.66% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £20.87 £16.85 -
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.24 -
90th Percentile £30.87 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% -49.70% -20.95%

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 2,565 1,205 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.74% 88.47% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 804 1,064
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £650 £685 £729
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.03
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £28.18 £40.38
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.90 £57.00
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +4 94 £475 -2.76% 14
Birmingham +1 91 £475 -7.32% 25
Warwickshire -6 50 £575 -8.00% 5
Coventry +3 38 £488 -17.20% 6
Staffordshire -2 9 £400 - 3
Herefordshire -4 7 £375 - 1
Solihull -9 5 £347 -24.67% 2
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 2
Wolverhampton - 3 - - 1
Dudley - 3 £400 -
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 43 (13.11%) SAS
2 27 (8.23%) Confluence
3 15 (4.57%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.30%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.52%) Notepad++
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.35%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.30%) Maximo
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.73%) AWS
2 63 (19.21%) Azure
3 20 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.66%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.66%) GCP
7 11 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.35%) GitHub
8 9 (2.74%) PaaS
9 7 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.83%) dbt
10 6 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.83%) Serverless
11 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.22%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) DNS
2 5 (1.52%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.52%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.22%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.22%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) SSL
4 2 (0.61%) WAAS
5 1 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.30%) Firewall
5 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.30%) NAS
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) SMS
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (7.62%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 24 (7.32%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (4.57%) Power BI
5 11 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.35%) Metadata
6 9 (2.74%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.91%) Ingres
10 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (14.94%) JIRA
2 24 (7.32%) Git
2 24 (7.32%) Zephyr
3 22 (6.71%) Postman
4 10 (3.05%) GitLab
5 8 (2.44%) Selenium
6 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.61%) JUnit
9 2 (0.61%) Maven
9 2 (0.61%) Mockito
9 2 (0.61%) MSI
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.30%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.30%) Hudson
10 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 108 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.29%) Finance
3 42 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.96%) Police
7 9 (2.74%) Local Government
8 8 (2.44%) Banking
8 8 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.83%) Legal
9 6 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Retail
11 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Law
13 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.30%) Billing
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (15.24%) Analyst
2 42 (12.80%) Architect
3 33 (10.06%) Senior
4 24 (7.32%) Business Analyst
4 24 (7.32%) Project Manager
5 22 (6.71%) Data Engineer
6 20 (6.10%) Release Manager
7 17 (5.18%) Developer
8 12 (3.66%) Test Analyst
8 12 (3.66%) Tester
9 11 (3.35%) Consultant
9 11 (3.35%) Data Analyst
9 11 (3.35%) QA Tester
9 11 (3.35%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.05%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.05%) Splunk Engineer
10 10 (3.05%) Technical Architect
11 9 (2.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (3.05%) Middleware
2 9 (2.74%) REST
3 7 (2.13%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.22%) .NET
4 4 (1.22%) SAML
4 4 (1.22%) Spring
5 3 (0.91%) HTML
5 3 (0.91%) JDBC
5 3 (0.91%) JSON
5 3 (0.91%) OAuth
5 3 (0.91%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.91%) OpenID
5 3 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (0.91%) Playwright
5 3 (0.91%) React
5 3 (0.91%) SOAP
5 3 (0.91%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.61%) GraalVM
6 2 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.93%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.44%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.22%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.22%) PKI
9 3 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.91%) Clustering
9 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.91%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.18%) Unix
2 14 (4.27%) Windows
3 10 (3.05%) Linux
4 9 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.91%) AIX
7 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.30%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.91%) Agile
2 78 (23.78%) Data Migration
3 62 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 61 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 61 (18.60%) DevOps
5 55 (16.77%) ETL
6 54 (16.46%) Validation
7 52 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.63%) Analytics
9 41 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 36 (10.98%) Test Automation
10 36 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
11 33 (10.06%) Data Integration
12 30 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (8.84%) Change Management
14 27 (8.23%) Integration Testing
15 25 (7.62%) End-to-End Testing
15 25 (7.62%) Scenario Testing
16 24 (7.32%) System Testing
17 23 (7.01%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.38%) SQL
2 29 (8.84%) Python
3 15 (4.57%) Java
4 14 (4.27%) Bash
5 9 (2.74%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.91%) Bicep
8 3 (0.91%) Perl
8 3 (0.91%) REXX
8 3 (0.91%) VB
9 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.61%) VB6
9 2 (0.61%) VBScript
10 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.30%) C
10 1 (0.30%) C#
10 1 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.57%) Degree
4 14 (4.27%) ISTQB
5 10 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.13%) IIBA
7 5 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.52%) CISM
7 5 (1.52%) CISSP
7 5 (1.52%) PMP
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.22%) CCNP
8 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CBAP
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.76%) QA
2 21 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.57%) GDPR
4 5 (1.52%) PMO
5 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) WCAG
6 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (5.49%) Docker
2 16 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.83%) vSphere
5 4 (1.22%) Ceph
6 3 (0.91%) Firmware
6 3 (0.91%) PowerHA
6 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.30%) KVM
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.30%) NFS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.57%) Ansible
3 13 (3.96%) Kibana
4 11 (3.35%) Terraform
5 8 (2.44%) Grafana
5 8 (2.44%) Puppet
6 6 (1.83%) SCCM
7 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.22%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.61%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Control-M
10 1 (0.30%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.30%) SCOM
10 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (20.43%) Oracle
2 47 (14.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.49%) Splunk
5 17 (5.18%) SAP
6 14 (4.27%) Databricks
7 9 (2.74%) Talend
8 8 (2.44%) VMware
9 7 (2.13%) OutSystems
10 6 (1.83%) Cisco
10 6 (1.83%) Informatica
10 6 (1.83%) Workday
11 5 (1.52%) Denodo
11 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.22%) F5
12 4 (1.22%) IBM
12 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.22%) Pure Storage
12 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.22%) Sage