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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Migration 206 157 175
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.94% 8.28% 9.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 9.94% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 119 124
10th Percentile £313 £341 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +7.89% -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £602
90th Percentile £688 £728 £739
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £24.41 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.24 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.26% -32.53% +87.85%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £34.12 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.79% -63.08% +26.58%

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 1,867 1,579 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.11% 83.28% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 992 1,103
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £723
England median daily rate £508 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 45 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £16.02
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.05 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% +5.45% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +27.14%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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 -4 59 £500 -4.76% 41
Warwickshire +4 47 £575 -4.17% 15
Shropshire -9 41 £517 -8.86% 6
Coventry -6 15 £453 -9.50% 6
Staffordshire +9 8 £325 -26.76% 5
Solihull -4 7 £525 +31.25%
Herefordshire - 6 - - 2
Worcestershire -19 4 - - 5
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Wolverhampton +2 2 - - 3
Walsall +3 1 - - 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 20 (9.71%) SAS
2 14 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.94%) Confluence
5 4 (1.94%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.97%) FileNet
7 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.94%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.97%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.49%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.82%) Azure
2 32 (15.53%) AWS
3 20 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.85%) PaaS
6 9 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.37%) GCP
7 7 (3.40%) GitHub
8 6 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.43%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.43%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.94%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.94%) SaaS
11 3 (1.46%) Intacct
11 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.34%) Firewall
2 8 (3.88%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.40%) DNS
3 7 (3.40%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.91%) HTTP
4 6 (2.91%) WAN
5 5 (2.43%) DMZ
5 5 (2.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (2.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (2.43%) LAN
5 5 (2.43%) Network Security
5 5 (2.43%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.43%) SSL
5 5 (2.43%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.97%) DHCP
7 2 (0.97%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 15 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.85%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 7 (3.40%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.91%) Power BI
6 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.43%) DataStage
6 5 (2.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.94%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.46%) Metadata
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.97%) MySQL
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.97%) QlikView
9 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.74%) JIRA
2 8 (3.88%) GitLab
3 5 (2.43%) Fiddler
4 4 (1.94%) Git
4 4 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.97%) JUnit
5 2 (0.97%) Maven
5 2 (0.97%) Mockito
5 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.49%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.49%) Gatling
6 1 (0.49%) NUnit
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.82%) Finance
3 24 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.31%) Law
6 12 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.85%) Legal
8 6 (2.91%) Banking
9 5 (2.43%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Billing
12 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.97%) Automotive
13 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.49%) Police
13 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (10.19%) Analyst
1 21 (10.19%) Architect
2 20 (9.71%) Project Manager
3 15 (7.28%) Release Manager
4 13 (6.31%) Senior
5 11 (5.34%) Lead
6 10 (4.85%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.85%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (4.85%) Splunk Engineer
7 9 (4.37%) Engagement Manager
7 9 (4.37%) Technical Architect
8 7 (3.40%) IT Manager
8 7 (3.40%) SAP Manager
8 7 (3.40%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.91%) Developer
9 6 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.91%) Senior Manager
9 6 (2.91%) Site Engineer
9 6 (2.91%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.43%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.43%) SAP PI
4 4 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.94%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.94%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.46%) .NET
5 3 (1.46%) HTML
5 3 (1.46%) JSON
5 3 (1.46%) OAuth
5 3 (1.46%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.46%) Playwright
5 3 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.46%) Spring
6 2 (0.97%) GraalVM
6 2 (0.97%) JDBC
6 2 (0.97%) JPA
6 2 (0.97%) SAML
6 2 (0.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.77%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.91%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.46%) PKI
9 2 (0.97%) CMDB
9 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.97%) SCADA
10 1 (0.49%) HP Storage
10 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.65%) Windows
2 12 (5.83%) Linux
3 9 (4.37%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.40%) Unix
6 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.97%) VMS
8 1 (0.49%) AIX
8 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.49%) Solaris
8 1 (0.49%) SUSE
8 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.58%) Data Migration
2 34 (16.50%) Agile
3 33 (16.02%) DevOps
3 33 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (15.53%) CI/CD
4 32 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (15.05%) Validation
6 29 (14.08%) Change Management
7 23 (11.17%) Data Integration
7 23 (11.17%) Project Management
8 22 (10.68%) Data Modelling
9 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (9.22%) Configuration Management
10 19 (9.22%) ERP
11 18 (8.74%) Analytics
12 17 (8.25%) Containerisation
13 16 (7.77%) Project Delivery
13 16 (7.77%) Scrum
14 15 (7.28%) User Acceptance Testing
14 15 (7.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.22%) Python
2 13 (6.31%) SQL
3 11 (5.34%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.85%) Bash
4 10 (4.85%) Java
5 5 (2.43%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.94%) Bicep
7 2 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.49%) ABAP
8 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.49%) Perl
8 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.25%) Degree
4 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.46%) ACCA
6 3 (1.46%) CIMA
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.49%) CCIE
8 1 (0.49%) CCNA
8 1 (0.49%) CCNP
8 1 (0.49%) CCSA
8 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.85%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.43%) PMO
3 3 (1.46%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) COBIT
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (8.74%) Docker
2 17 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.46%) vSphere
5 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.25%) Ansible
2 17 (8.25%) Kibana
3 7 (3.40%) SCCM
4 6 (2.91%) logstash
4 6 (2.91%) Puppet
5 5 (2.43%) Terraform
6 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.46%) Grafana
8 2 (0.97%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.97%) SCOM
8 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.53%) Oracle
3 21 (10.19%) SAP
4 16 (7.77%) Splunk
5 13 (6.31%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.88%) Cisco
6 8 (3.88%) F5
6 8 (3.88%) IBM
7 6 (2.91%) CheckPoint
7 6 (2.91%) NetApp
7 6 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.91%) VMware
8 5 (2.43%) Adobe
8 5 (2.43%) Blue Coat
8 5 (2.43%) McAfee
8 5 (2.43%) Workday
9 4 (1.94%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.94%) Sage
9 4 (1.94%) SolarWinds