Migration Contracts in the West Midlands

Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 125 106 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.28% 5.46% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.51% 6.50% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 175
10th Percentile £400 £363 £335
25th Percentile £444 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £616 £659 £588
90th Percentile £685 £843 £694
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £16.85 - £16.33
25th Percentile £17.00 - £18.17
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £20.24 - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.12 £65.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -33.67% +142.99%

All Process and 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 1,189 1,632 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 84.08% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,080 1,452
10th Percentile £200 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the West Midlands

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 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 April 2025. 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 +18 53 £513 +6.49% 44
Warwickshire -1 36 £625 -10.71% 16
Staffordshire +7 10 £400 +6.67% 23
Coventry +9 7 £589 +17.75% 6
Shropshire - 7 £480 -
West Bromwich - 2 £550 -
Solihull +16 1 £460 +5.14% 2
Walsall -1 1 - - 2
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.00%) Confluence
4 2 (1.60%) IBM Notes
4 2 (1.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) InfoPath
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.20%) Azure
2 22 (17.60%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (17.60%) Power Platform
3 16 (12.80%) AWS
4 14 (11.20%) PowerApps
5 12 (9.60%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.80%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.60%) SaaS
9 6 (4.80%) ShareGate
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.00%) IaaS
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.20%) GCP
11 4 (3.20%) Serverless
12 3 (2.40%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.40%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.40%) PaaS
13 2 (1.60%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.80%) VPN
2 1 (0.80%) WAN
2 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) Power BI
2 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.80%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.20%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.60%) EDRMS
6 2 (1.60%) Metadata
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.80%) DataStage
7 1 (0.80%) DB2
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.80%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.80%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.40%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (1.60%) ERwin
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.40%) Finance
3 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Banking
4 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.60%) Law
6 6 (4.80%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.60%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.60%) Local Government
9 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Architect
2 21 (16.80%) Senior
3 17 (13.60%) Analyst
4 14 (11.20%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.60%) Project Manager
6 11 (8.80%) Consultant
7 9 (7.20%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.40%) Lead
9 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
10 6 (4.80%) Test Analyst
11 5 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Programme Manager
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Manager
11 5 (4.00%) Support Officer
12 4 (3.20%) ICT Officer
12 4 (3.20%) ICT Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) LDAP
2 5 (4.00%) CSS
3 4 (3.20%) .NET
3 4 (3.20%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.20%) ASP.NET
3 4 (3.20%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (3.20%) Entity Framework
3 4 (3.20%) HTML
3 4 (3.20%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (3.20%) Middleware
4 3 (2.40%) React
4 3 (2.40%) XML
5 2 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.60%) FpML
5 2 (1.60%) JSON
6 1 (0.80%) ADO
6 1 (0.80%) EDI
6 1 (0.80%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.40%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.20%) Blockchain
3 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.20%) IoT
3 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.60%) PMI
5 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.80%) CMDB
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.60%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) Unix
3 3 (2.40%) Linux
4 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Data Migration
2 23 (18.40%) Agile
3 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (12.80%) Data Integration
5 15 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (11.20%) Data Governance
7 13 (10.40%) DevOps
8 12 (9.60%) ERP
9 11 (8.80%) Project Management
10 10 (8.00%) Cloud Security
10 10 (8.00%) Decision-Making
10 10 (8.00%) ETL
10 10 (8.00%) Roadmaps
11 9 (7.20%) CRM
11 9 (7.20%) ITIL
12 8 (6.40%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (6.40%) Interface Catalogue
12 8 (6.40%) Validation
13 7 (5.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.20%) SQL
2 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.40%) C#
4 7 (5.60%) Python
5 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) Groovy
6 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.60%) Perl
7 2 (1.60%) PHP
7 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) Degree
3 4 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.60%) CCSP
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CISSP
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) MCSE
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) PMO
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.00%) SCCM
3 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.40%) CASB
5 2 (1.60%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.60%) Grafana
5 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.60%) Terraform
6 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) Oracle
3 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.80%) CyberArk
4 6 (4.80%) SAP
5 5 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.20%) Denodo
7 3 (2.40%) BMC
7 3 (2.40%) Informatica
8 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.60%) Epicor
8 2 (1.60%) Lotus
8 2 (1.60%) Sparx
8 2 (1.60%) Talend
8 2 (1.60%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.80%) AVEVA
9 1 (0.80%) Databricks
9 1 (0.80%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.80%) Workday