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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 395 169 136
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.48% 9.74% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.56% 11.03% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 114 96
10th Percentile £363 £313 £358
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -0.63% -0.95%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £632
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.93% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 2,913 1,532 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.63% 88.30% 81.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,803 977 1,036
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 104 55
10th Percentile £13.44 £12.62 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.02 £14.85
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +15.90% -23.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.14 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £54.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +10 131 £512 -0.58% 12
Birmingham +5 99 £495 -5.71% 28
Warwickshire -2 65 £525 -8.70% 5
Coventry -13 27 £488 +7.73%
Wolverhampton +5 19 - - 1
Staffordshire -3 11 £825 +83.33% 6
Worcestershire +4 7 £450 - 5
Dudley - 7 £375 -
Solihull -18 2 £475 -9.52% 2
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 57 (14.43%) SAS
2 29 (7.34%) Confluence
3 20 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.52%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.01%) Apache
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Notepad++
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (4.56%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (4.05%) Teamcenter
3 13 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 120 (30.38%) Azure
2 99 (25.06%) AWS
3 25 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (2.78%) PaaS
5 11 (2.78%) Serverless
6 10 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (2.53%) GCP
7 9 (2.28%) Azure Storage
7 9 (2.28%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Functions
8 8 (2.03%) GitHub
8 8 (2.03%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.52%) OCI
11 5 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (1.01%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.80%) DNS
2 10 (2.53%) SAN
3 9 (2.28%) Network Security
4 7 (1.77%) DHCP
4 7 (1.77%) DMZ
4 7 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 7 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (1.27%) PuTTY
5 5 (1.27%) WinSCP
6 4 (1.01%) NAS
7 3 (0.76%) Firewall
8 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.25%) LAN
9 1 (0.25%) Modbus
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
9 1 (0.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (22.28%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (8.86%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.84%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (6.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 21 (5.32%) Power BI
5 21 (5.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 19 (4.81%) Base SAS
7 16 (4.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 16 (4.05%) Metadata
8 11 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 11 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.28%) Ingres
10 9 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.28%) Pentaho
11 8 (2.03%) MySQL
12 7 (1.77%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.27%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.01%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 59 (14.94%) JIRA
2 35 (8.86%) Git
3 29 (7.34%) Zephyr
4 24 (6.08%) Postman
5 13 (3.29%) GitLab
6 12 (3.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (3.04%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.52%) Selenium
8 5 (1.27%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.76%) Yeoman
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.51%) Hudson
11 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.25%) Gatling
11 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.97%) Finance
3 69 (17.47%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.04%) Banking
6 12 (3.04%) Police
7 10 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.77%) Retail
10 5 (1.27%) Legal
10 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.01%) Billing
11 4 (1.01%) Local Government
12 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Law
13 2 (0.51%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (15.19%) Architect
2 57 (14.43%) Data Engineer
2 57 (14.43%) Senior
3 30 (7.59%) Analyst
4 28 (7.09%) Data Architect
4 28 (7.09%) Developer
5 27 (6.84%) Lead
5 27 (6.84%) Project Manager
6 22 (5.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (4.56%) Accountant
7 18 (4.56%) Senior Developer
7 18 (4.56%) Systems Accountant
8 17 (4.30%) SAS Architect
9 15 (3.80%) Tester
10 13 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.29%) QA Tester
11 12 (3.04%) JIRA Engineer
11 12 (3.04%) Test Analyst
12 11 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.04%) Oracle Fusion
1 12 (3.04%) Terraform
2 8 (2.03%) REST
3 6 (1.52%) PySpark
4 5 (1.27%) ADO
4 5 (1.27%) COM
4 5 (1.27%) ODBC
5 4 (1.01%) SOAP
6 3 (0.76%) .NET
6 3 (0.76%) JMS
6 3 (0.76%) Middleware
6 3 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.25%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.25%) IDoc
8 1 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.25%) Playwright
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Core Interface
8 1 (0.25%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (5.57%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.05%) Low-Code
5 13 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.52%) Autonomous Agent
10 6 (1.52%) Clustering
10 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.01%) SCADA
12 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.56%) Windows
2 15 (3.80%) Unix
3 11 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.52%) AIX
5 5 (1.27%) Linux
6 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (28.86%) Data Migration
2 98 (24.81%) Agile
3 81 (20.51%) ETL
4 73 (18.48%) DevOps
4 73 (18.48%) Validation
5 70 (17.72%) CI/CD
6 63 (15.95%) Analytics
7 62 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (14.18%) Test Automation
9 55 (13.92%) Data Modelling
9 55 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 41 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (9.37%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (8.86%) Data Integration
14 34 (8.61%) Decision-Making
15 33 (8.35%) Integration Testing
15 33 (8.35%) Scenario Testing
16 29 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 71 (17.97%) SQL
2 39 (9.87%) Python
3 20 (5.06%) Java
4 12 (3.04%) PL/SQL
5 8 (2.03%) VB
5 8 (2.03%) VB6
6 7 (1.77%) C
6 7 (1.77%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.52%) Perl
7 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.52%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.01%) Bash
8 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.76%) REXX
10 2 (0.51%) Bicep
10 2 (0.51%) C#
10 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.51%) ProC
11 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 122 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 111 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.33%) ISTQB
4 11 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.52%) Degree
7 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.01%) SAS Certification
8 3 (0.76%) CCNP
8 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.51%) ACCA
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) CCAB
9 2 (0.51%) CIMA
9 2 (0.51%) CISSP
9 2 (0.51%) PMP
9 2 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.41%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.87%) QA
3 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.76%) Basel III
3 3 (0.76%) GDPR
3 3 (0.76%) PMO
4 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
5 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.53%) vSphere
4 7 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.52%) Docker
5 6 (1.52%) Firmware
5 6 (1.52%) PowerHA
6 5 (1.27%) Ceph
6 5 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.52%) Grafana
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (21.52%) Oracle
2 52 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.32%) SAP
4 20 (5.06%) Databricks
4 20 (5.06%) VMware
5 18 (4.56%) Denodo
6 13 (3.29%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.53%) IBM
9 9 (2.28%) Informatica
10 8 (2.03%) F5
11 7 (1.77%) Actian
11 7 (1.77%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.77%) Talend
12 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.52%) SYSPRO
13 5 (1.27%) Cisco
13 5 (1.27%) Commvault
13 5 (1.27%) Splunk
13 5 (1.27%) Veeam