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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 405 150 132
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.72% 9.11% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.65% 10.32% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 96 97
10th Percentile £358 £306 £389
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.66%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £630
90th Percentile £713 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.03% -4.52%
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% -1.46%

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 2,967 1,454 1,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.85% 88.34% 81.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 915 1,055
10th Percentile £313 £216 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £663 £738
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 104 68
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £12.35
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.76 £14.09
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.59% +20.41% -32.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.16 £37.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +12 128 £487 +2.42% 24
Birmingham +7 99 £495 -3.41% 19
Warwickshire -1 68 £525 -8.70% 7
Coventry -7 38 £475 +4.97% 4
Wolverhampton +4 19 - -
Staffordshire -1 10 £850 +88.89% 9
Worcestershire +3 9 £450 - 3
Dudley - 4 £400 - 2
Solihull -23 2 £575 +16.75% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Herefordshire -6 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 53 (13.09%) SAS
2 31 (7.65%) Confluence
3 19 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.48%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.99%) Apache
5 4 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.49%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.49%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.23%) Notepad++
3 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (4.44%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (3.95%) Teamcenter
3 12 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 121 (29.88%) Azure
2 100 (24.69%) AWS
3 26 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.46%) GCP
6 13 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.96%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.72%) GitHub
8 11 (2.72%) PaaS
8 11 (2.72%) Serverless
9 10 (2.47%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.22%) Azure Storage
10 9 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.98%) Azure Functions
11 8 (1.98%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.98%) OCI
12 7 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.46%) DNS
2 10 (2.47%) SAN
3 6 (1.48%) DHCP
3 6 (1.48%) Network Security
4 5 (1.23%) PuTTY
4 5 (1.23%) WinSCP
5 4 (0.99%) DMZ
5 4 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.99%) NAS
6 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.74%) Firewall
7 2 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.25%) LAN
8 1 (0.25%) Modbus
8 1 (0.25%) VPN
8 1 (0.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (7.90%) Oracle Reports
3 29 (7.16%) Data Lake
4 23 (5.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 21 (5.19%) Power BI
6 20 (4.94%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 18 (4.44%) Base SAS
8 15 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.96%) Metadata
9 12 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.72%) Oracle Database
11 10 (2.47%) Ingres
12 9 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (1.73%) MySQL
13 7 (1.73%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.73%) Pentaho
14 6 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.23%) SAS Data Integration Studio
16 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (15.56%) JIRA
2 35 (8.64%) Git
3 32 (7.90%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.42%) Postman
5 14 (3.46%) GitLab
6 11 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.98%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.48%) Selenium
8 6 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.74%) Yeoman
10 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.49%) Hudson
11 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.25%) Gatling
11 1 (0.25%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.25%) MSI
11 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 99 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.49%) Finance
3 64 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.21%) Banking
6 13 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.96%) Police
8 10 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.47%) Retail
9 7 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.48%) Legal
11 5 (1.23%) Local Government
12 4 (0.99%) Billing
12 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Military
15 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 63 (15.56%) Architect
2 58 (14.32%) Senior
3 55 (13.58%) Data Engineer
4 34 (8.40%) Analyst
5 28 (6.91%) Data Architect
5 28 (6.91%) Developer
5 28 (6.91%) Project Manager
6 25 (6.17%) Lead
7 21 (5.19%) Accountant
7 21 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (5.19%) Systems Accountant
8 19 (4.69%) Tester
9 18 (4.44%) QA Tester
9 18 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.95%) SAS Architect
11 12 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (2.96%) Business Analyst
11 12 (2.96%) Test Analyst
12 11 (2.72%) JIRA Engineer
12 11 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.47%) REST
3 6 (1.48%) ADO
3 6 (1.48%) COM
3 6 (1.48%) ODBC
4 5 (1.23%) Middleware
4 5 (1.23%) PySpark
5 4 (0.99%) SOAP
6 3 (0.74%) .NET
6 3 (0.74%) JMS
6 3 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.74%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.25%) Itk
8 1 (0.25%) JSON
8 1 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.25%) Node.js
8 1 (0.25%) Playwright
8 1 (0.25%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.16%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (5.43%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.20%) Low-Code
5 14 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.48%) Clustering
12 5 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
13 4 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.99%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.99%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.99%) SCADA
13 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.94%) Windows
2 15 (3.70%) Unix
3 11 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.48%) AIX
5 5 (1.23%) Linux
5 5 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (29.63%) Data Migration
2 105 (25.93%) Agile
3 80 (19.75%) ETL
4 73 (18.02%) DevOps
4 73 (18.02%) Validation
5 70 (17.28%) CI/CD
6 65 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 59 (14.57%) Analytics
8 56 (13.83%) Data Modelling
8 56 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (13.83%) Test Automation
9 42 (10.37%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 39 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (8.64%) Integration Testing
12 35 (8.64%) Scenario Testing
13 34 (8.40%) Decision-Making
14 32 (7.90%) Data Integration
15 31 (7.65%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (17.53%) SQL
2 41 (10.12%) Python
3 19 (4.69%) Java
4 12 (2.96%) PL/SQL
5 10 (2.47%) VB
6 9 (2.22%) VB6
7 7 (1.73%) C
7 7 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.48%) Perl
8 6 (1.48%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.23%) Bash
10 3 (0.74%) REXX
10 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Bicep
11 2 (0.49%) C#
11 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.49%) ProC
12 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 124 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 112 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.42%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.48%) Degree
7 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.23%) CCNP
8 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.99%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.74%) CISSP
9 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.49%) ACCA
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) CCAB
10 2 (0.49%) CIMA
10 2 (0.49%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.60%) Data Quality
2 42 (10.37%) QA
3 7 (1.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.74%) Basel III
4 3 (0.74%) PMO
5 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.96%) vSphere
4 7 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.48%) Docker
5 6 (1.48%) Firmware
5 6 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.48%) PowerHA
5 6 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.23%) Ceph
7 3 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.21%) Terraform
3 8 (1.98%) Grafana
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.99%) Ansible
5 4 (0.99%) SCCM
5 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.74%) Argo
6 3 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (0.49%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 88 (21.73%) Oracle
2 57 (14.07%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.93%) Databricks
3 24 (5.93%) SAP
4 19 (4.69%) VMware
5 18 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.95%) Denodo
7 11 (2.72%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.22%) Talend
9 8 (1.98%) Actian
9 8 (1.98%) Informatica
10 7 (1.73%) Cisco
10 7 (1.73%) F5
10 7 (1.73%) IBM
10 7 (1.73%) OutSystems
10 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.73%) Splunk
11 5 (1.23%) Commvault
11 5 (1.23%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.23%) Veeam