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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Migration 340 126 107
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.84% 9.15% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.03% 10.31% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 81 86
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £440 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £678
90th Percentile £675 £656 £850
England median daily rate £515 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% +1.62% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £19.34 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £19.82 £16.88 -
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £19.62 -
90th Percentile £39.45 £19.99 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £26.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.33% -32.88% -42.24%

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 2,609 1,222 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.20% 88.74% 83.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 796 1,057
10th Percentile £313 £193 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £654 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 57 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.78 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.05% -19.42% +18.42%
75th Percentile £67.84 £24.22 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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
Birmingham +4 102 £475 -7.32% 20
Shropshire +4 89 £464 -3.33% 7
Warwickshire -5 54 £575 - 12
Coventry +5 39 £475 +2.70% 3
Staffordshire -1 9 £431 +7.81%
Wolverhampton - 7 - - 3
Solihull -10 5 £347 -24.67%
Worcestershire - 4 £638 -
Herefordshire - 3 £375 -
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 36 (10.59%) SAS
2 32 (9.41%) Confluence
3 13 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.24%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.59%) Apache
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.47%) Notepad++
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (4.71%) Teamcenter
2 11 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 72 (21.18%) AWS
2 66 (19.41%) Azure
3 24 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 12 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.24%) GCP
7 9 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.65%) GitHub
8 8 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.35%) PaaS
8 8 (2.35%) Serverless
9 6 (1.76%) dbt
9 6 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.76%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.18%) IaaS
12 3 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.06%) DNS
2 5 (1.47%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.47%) SAN
2 5 (1.47%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.18%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.59%) Firewall
4 2 (0.59%) NAS
4 2 (0.59%) SSL
4 2 (0.59%) WAAS
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) Modbus
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) SMS
5 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (7.06%) Oracle Reports
3 19 (5.59%) Power BI
4 16 (4.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 12 (3.53%) Metadata
6 9 (2.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 8 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.35%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (2.06%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.18%) Pentaho
10 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.88%) Ingres
11 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (16.47%) JIRA
2 25 (7.35%) Zephyr
3 22 (6.47%) Git
3 22 (6.47%) Postman
4 10 (2.94%) GitLab
5 6 (1.76%) Selenium
6 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.59%) Hudson
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.29%) GoCD
10 1 (0.29%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.29%) MSI
10 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 102 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.41%) Finance
3 44 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.41%) Police
6 12 (3.53%) Banking
7 9 (2.65%) Local Government
8 8 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.76%) Retail
10 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (0.88%) Law
11 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 51 (15.00%) Analyst
2 41 (12.06%) Architect
2 41 (12.06%) Senior
3 29 (8.53%) Data Engineer
4 28 (8.24%) Project Manager
5 25 (7.35%) Developer
6 24 (7.06%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.71%) Senior Developer
8 13 (3.82%) Tester
9 12 (3.53%) Accountant
9 12 (3.53%) Data Architect
9 12 (3.53%) QA Tester
9 12 (3.53%) Systems Accountant
9 12 (3.53%) Test Analyst
10 11 (3.24%) Consultant
10 11 (3.24%) Release Manager
10 11 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (2.94%) Data Analyst
11 10 (2.94%) Lead
11 10 (2.94%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.94%) REST
2 9 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.65%) Middleware
3 6 (1.76%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.18%) .NET
4 4 (1.18%) SOAP
5 3 (0.88%) JMS
5 3 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (0.88%) SAML
6 2 (0.59%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.59%) ADO
6 2 (0.59%) COM
6 2 (0.59%) ODBC
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.59%) PySpark
7 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.29%) ISPF
7 1 (0.29%) Node.js
7 1 (0.29%) OpenID
7 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.12%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.18%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.18%) PKI
9 4 (1.18%) SCADA
10 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.88%) Clustering
10 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.00%) Unix
2 14 (4.12%) Windows
3 11 (3.24%) Linux
4 6 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.88%) AIX
8 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.18%) Data Migration
2 88 (25.88%) Agile
3 66 (19.41%) DevOps
4 62 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (17.94%) ETL
6 57 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (15.88%) CI/CD
8 53 (15.59%) Validation
9 50 (14.71%) Analytics
10 48 (14.12%) Data Modelling
11 39 (11.47%) Test Automation
12 35 (10.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 28 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (7.94%) Change Management
14 27 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (7.94%) Integration Testing
15 26 (7.65%) Data Integration
16 25 (7.35%) End-to-End Testing
16 25 (7.35%) Scenario Testing
16 25 (7.35%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.94%) SQL
2 33 (9.71%) Python
3 14 (4.12%) Bash
4 10 (2.94%) Java
5 9 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.35%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.88%) Bicep
8 3 (0.88%) Perl
8 3 (0.88%) REXX
8 3 (0.88%) VB
9 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.59%) VB6
10 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) C#
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 88 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 80 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.41%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.82%) Degree
5 9 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.06%) CISSP
6 7 (2.06%) IIBA
7 6 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.47%) CCNP
8 5 (1.47%) CISM
8 5 (1.47%) PMP
9 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.82%) QA
2 25 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.12%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.59%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.71%) Docker
2 13 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.06%) vSphere
5 5 (1.47%) Ceph
6 3 (0.88%) Firmware
6 3 (0.88%) PowerHA
6 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.59%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.29%) KVM
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.41%) Ansible
3 13 (3.82%) Terraform
4 8 (2.35%) Grafana
4 8 (2.35%) Kibana
4 8 (2.35%) Puppet
5 5 (1.47%) SCCM
6 4 (1.18%) Argo
6 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.59%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.29%) Control-M
8 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (17.65%) Oracle
2 50 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 19 (5.59%) SAP
5 16 (4.71%) Splunk
6 15 (4.41%) Databricks
7 9 (2.65%) Denodo
7 9 (2.65%) VMware
8 8 (2.35%) Cisco
8 8 (2.35%) Informatica
8 8 (2.35%) Talend
9 7 (2.06%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.18%) F5
11 4 (1.18%) IBM
11 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.18%) Sage