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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 397 141 128
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.59% 8.96% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.52% 10.09% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 88 95
10th Percentile £350 £309 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £634
90th Percentile £713 £645 £745
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 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 £37.11 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.53% -37.13% -40.30%

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 2,937 1,397 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.75% 88.75% 80.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 880 1,118
10th Percentile £313 £206 £263
25th Percentile £405 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 95 109
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.91 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.07% +18.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £59.63 £32.82 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +11 115 £474 +5.57% 7
Birmingham +8 104 £475 -9.52% 28
Warwickshire 0 76 £550 - 5
Coventry -2 42 £450 +12.50% 1
Wolverhampton +3 14 - - 5
Staffordshire -1 6 £550 +37.50% 9
Worcestershire -1 4 £638 - 3
Herefordshire -2 3 £375 -
Solihull -16 3 £419 -14.97% 2
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
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 (13.35%) SAS
2 25 (6.30%) Confluence
3 22 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.51%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.76%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.26%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.03%) Teamcenter
2 13 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (3.02%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.94%) Azure
2 99 (24.94%) AWS
3 18 (4.53%) Power Platform
4 17 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.53%) GCP
5 14 (3.53%) Serverless
6 12 (3.02%) GitHub
6 12 (3.02%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.77%) PaaS
8 10 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.52%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.27%) Azure Storage
9 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.02%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.51%) dbt
11 6 (1.51%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) DNS
2 7 (1.76%) SAN
3 5 (1.26%) DHCP
3 5 (1.26%) Network Security
3 5 (1.26%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.26%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.01%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.01%) NAS
5 3 (0.76%) DMZ
5 3 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.76%) Firewall
6 2 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.50%) WAAS
7 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) Modbus
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (18.39%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.06%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (6.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 21 (5.29%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 17 (4.28%) Base SAS
6 17 (4.28%) Power BI
7 14 (3.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.27%) Oracle Database
9 12 (3.02%) Metadata
10 11 (2.77%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.52%) Ingres
11 10 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.02%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.26%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.01%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.01%) Pentaho
16 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (13.60%) JIRA
2 37 (9.32%) Git
3 32 (8.06%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.55%) Postman
5 14 (3.53%) GitLab
6 8 (2.02%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.76%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.51%) Selenium
9 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.50%) Hudson
12 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.25%) Gatling
12 1 (0.25%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.25%) MSI
12 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.16%) Finance
3 62 (15.62%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.53%) Police
6 14 (3.53%) Banking
7 11 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.52%) Retail
9 9 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.27%) Local Government
10 7 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.51%) Legal
12 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.76%) Law
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (15.62%) Architect
2 56 (14.11%) Senior
3 46 (11.59%) Data Engineer
4 37 (9.32%) Analyst
5 31 (7.81%) Project Manager
6 28 (7.05%) Developer
7 25 (6.30%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.04%) Accountant
8 20 (5.04%) Lead
8 20 (5.04%) Systems Accountant
9 19 (4.79%) Tester
10 18 (4.53%) QA Tester
10 18 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.28%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.03%) SAS Architect
13 15 (3.78%) Technical Architect
14 12 (3.02%) Test Analyst
15 11 (2.77%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.77%) Release Manager
16 10 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.52%) REST
2 8 (2.02%) Middleware
3 7 (1.76%) ADO
3 7 (1.76%) COM
3 7 (1.76%) ODBC
3 7 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.26%) PySpark
5 4 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.01%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.01%) SOAP
6 3 (0.76%) JMS
6 3 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.50%) .NET
7 2 (0.50%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.25%) CSS
8 1 (0.25%) HTML
8 1 (0.25%) LDAP
8 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.27%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.27%) Low-Code
3 13 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.01%) SCADA
11 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.76%) Clustering
11 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.29%) Windows
2 14 (3.53%) Unix
3 11 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.76%) Linux
5 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.76%) AIX
8 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) HPUX
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (26.95%) Data Migration
2 93 (23.43%) Agile
3 78 (19.65%) ETL
4 74 (18.64%) Validation
5 64 (16.12%) DevOps
6 63 (15.87%) Analytics
6 63 (15.87%) CI/CD
7 60 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (13.60%) Test Automation
10 52 (13.10%) Data Modelling
11 38 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
12 36 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 36 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (8.82%) Integration Testing
14 31 (7.81%) Data Integration
14 31 (7.81%) Decision-Making
14 31 (7.81%) Scenario Testing
14 31 (7.81%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.90%) SQL
2 39 (9.82%) Python
3 12 (3.02%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.52%) Java
5 9 (2.27%) VB
6 8 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.02%) VB6
7 7 (1.76%) Bash
7 7 (1.76%) C
8 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.76%) Bicep
9 3 (0.76%) Perl
9 3 (0.76%) REXX
10 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.50%) ProC
10 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 120 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 109 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.54%) ISTQB
4 9 (2.27%) Degree
5 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.51%) CCNP
7 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.01%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.76%) CISSP
10 3 (0.76%) PMP
10 3 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.50%) ACCA
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.50%) CCAB
11 2 (0.50%) CIMA
12 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.82%) QA
3 6 (1.51%) GDPR
4 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) Basel III
4 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) PMO
5 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.02%) vSphere
4 9 (2.27%) Docker
5 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.26%) Ceph
8 3 (0.76%) Firmware
8 3 (0.76%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.25%) NFS
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.27%) Terraform
3 8 (2.02%) Grafana
4 6 (1.51%) Ansible
4 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.26%) SCCM
6 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.76%) Argo
8 2 (0.50%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) Control-M
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 83 (20.91%) Oracle
2 54 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.79%) Databricks
3 23 (5.79%) SAP
4 19 (4.79%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.79%) VMware
5 13 (3.27%) Denodo
6 10 (2.52%) Splunk
7 9 (2.27%) Cisco
7 9 (2.27%) Talend
8 8 (2.02%) Informatica
9 7 (1.76%) Actian
9 7 (1.76%) F5
9 7 (1.76%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.01%) Sage