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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 398 149 127
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.53% 9.19% 6.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.42% 10.45% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 95 95
10th Percentile £356 £305 £394
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.85% +0.34%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £634
90th Percentile £685 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 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 £65.25
% change year-on-year +59.05% -61.46% -4.74%

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 2,965 1,426 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.92% 87.97% 81.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 895 1,074
10th Percentile £313 £211 £275
25th Percentile £405 £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 £673 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 102 77
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.41
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.71 £14.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +23.46% -24.87%
75th Percentile £58.06 £34.71 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +9 121 £478 +0.53% 20
Birmingham +7 100 £475 -5.00% 22
Warwickshire -2 71 £525 -8.70% 15
Coventry -4 41 £475 +4.97% 6
Wolverhampton +4 18 - - 3
Staffordshire -3 8 £850 +88.89% 10
Worcestershire 0 7 £638 - 4
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Solihull -22 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 (13.32%) SAS
2 27 (6.78%) Confluence
3 22 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.51%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.01%) Apache
5 4 (1.01%) 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%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.26%) Notepad++
3 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (4.27%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (4.02%) Teamcenter
3 12 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.75%) 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 Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 115 (28.89%) Azure
2 102 (25.63%) AWS
3 25 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 20 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.52%) Serverless
6 13 (3.27%) GCP
7 12 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.02%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.76%) GitHub
8 11 (2.76%) PaaS
9 10 (2.51%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.26%) Azure Storage
10 9 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.26%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.01%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.01%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.76%) OCI
13 6 (1.51%) dbt
13 6 (1.51%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) DNS
2 9 (2.26%) SAN
3 6 (1.51%) DHCP
4 5 (1.26%) Network Security
4 5 (1.26%) PuTTY
4 5 (1.26%) WinSCP
5 4 (1.01%) NAS
6 3 (0.75%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.75%) DMZ
6 3 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.75%) Firewall
7 2 (0.50%) 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 78 (19.60%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.04%) Oracle Reports
3 27 (6.78%) Data Lake
4 24 (6.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 20 (5.03%) Power BI
5 20 (5.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 17 (4.27%) Base SAS
7 14 (3.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.52%) Metadata
8 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.02%) Oracle Database
10 11 (2.76%) Ingres
11 10 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.51%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.51%) Pentaho
15 5 (1.26%) SAS Data Integration Studio
16 4 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (14.57%) JIRA
2 36 (9.05%) Git
3 32 (8.04%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.53%) Postman
5 14 (3.52%) GitLab
6 8 (2.01%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.51%) Selenium
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%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.25%) MSI
11 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.85%) Finance
3 61 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (4.02%) Police
6 14 (3.52%) Banking
7 12 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.51%) Retail
9 6 (1.51%) Legal
9 6 (1.51%) Local Government
9 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.01%) Billing
10 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.75%) Law
12 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Military
12 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 60 (15.08%) Architect
2 58 (14.57%) Senior
3 55 (13.82%) Data Engineer
4 36 (9.05%) Analyst
5 28 (7.04%) Developer
5 28 (7.04%) Project Manager
6 27 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 23 (5.78%) Lead
8 22 (5.53%) Accountant
8 22 (5.53%) Systems Accountant
9 21 (5.28%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (4.77%) Tester
11 18 (4.52%) QA Tester
11 18 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.02%) SAS Architect
13 12 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Test Analyst
14 11 (2.76%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.51%) Release Manager
16 9 (2.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.51%) REST
2 9 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.76%) Middleware
4 6 (1.51%) ADO
4 6 (1.51%) COM
4 6 (1.51%) ODBC
5 5 (1.26%) PySpark
6 4 (1.01%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.01%) SOAP
7 3 (0.75%) .NET
7 3 (0.75%) JMS
7 3 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.25%) ActiveX
9 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.25%) Playwright
9 1 (0.25%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (5.28%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.02%) Low-Code
5 14 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.02%) Data Centre
7 12 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.26%) Clustering
11 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.01%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.01%) SCADA
13 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.03%) Windows
2 14 (3.52%) Unix
3 11 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.26%) AIX
4 5 (1.26%) Linux
4 5 (1.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) HPUX
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.89%) Data Migration
2 98 (24.62%) Agile
3 84 (21.11%) ETL
4 78 (19.60%) Validation
5 67 (16.83%) DevOps
6 66 (16.58%) Analytics
7 65 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 61 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (15.08%) Data Modelling
10 58 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (14.07%) Test Automation
12 44 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
13 40 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
14 38 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (8.54%) Scenario Testing
17 33 (8.29%) Decision-Making
17 33 (8.29%) Integration Testing
18 31 (7.79%) System Testing
19 30 (7.54%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.60%) SQL
2 42 (10.55%) Python
3 17 (4.27%) Java
4 12 (3.02%) PL/SQL
5 10 (2.51%) VB
6 9 (2.26%) VB6
7 7 (1.76%) C
7 7 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.26%) Bash
9 5 (1.26%) Perl
10 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.75%) REXX
11 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.50%) Bicep
12 2 (0.50%) C#
12 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.50%) ProC
13 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 121 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.14%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.28%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.01%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.51%) Degree
6 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.26%) CCNP
7 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.01%) SAS Certification
8 3 (0.75%) CISSP
8 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.50%) ACCA
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.50%) CCAB
9 2 (0.50%) CIMA
9 2 (0.50%) PMP
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.07%) Data Quality
2 40 (10.05%) QA
3 7 (1.76%) GDPR
4 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.75%) Basel III
4 3 (0.75%) PMO
5 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.02%) vSphere
4 7 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.51%) Docker
5 6 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.26%) Ceph
6 5 (1.26%) Firmware
6 5 (1.26%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.75%) 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 26 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.27%) Terraform
3 8 (2.01%) Grafana
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.01%) Ansible
5 4 (1.01%) SCCM
5 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.75%) Argo
7 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
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 85 (21.36%) Oracle
2 58 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.03%) Databricks
4 23 (5.78%) SAP
5 18 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.52%) VMware
6 15 (3.77%) Denodo
7 9 (2.26%) Actian
7 9 (2.26%) Talend
8 8 (2.01%) Informatica
9 7 (1.76%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.76%) Cisco
9 7 (1.76%) OutSystems
9 7 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.76%) Splunk
10 6 (1.51%) F5
11 5 (1.26%) IBM
12 4 (1.01%) Commvault
12 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.01%) Sage
79 Migration jobs in the West Midlands