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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 367 126 118
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.43% 8.84% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.55% 9.97% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 83 89
10th Percentile £350 £330 £360
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £597 £638
90th Percentile £713 £653 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £19.34 - -
25th Percentile £20.30 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £36.59 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 2,709 1,264 1,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.37% 88.64% 82.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 809 1,066
10th Percentile £313 £200 £263
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £744
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 65 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.78 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.00 £40.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +10 114 £475 +5.79% 13
Birmingham +5 96 £475 -9.52% 30
Warwickshire -5 62 £550 - 13
Coventry +4 37 £475 +18.75% 4
Wolverhampton - 9 - - 4
Staffordshire -1 8 £463 +15.63% 4
Worcestershire +1 4 £638 - 2
Solihull -16 4 £268 -40.77%
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Herefordshire - 3 £375 -
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 56 (15.26%) SAS
2 32 (8.72%) Confluence
3 22 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.82%) Apache
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.54%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.36%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.36%) Teamcenter
2 11 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.63%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 94 (25.61%) AWS
2 83 (22.62%) Azure
3 21 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.54%) PaaS
5 12 (3.27%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (3.00%) GCP
7 10 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.72%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.45%) Serverless
9 8 (2.18%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.18%) GitHub
10 7 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.63%) dbt
12 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.36%) IaaS
13 4 (1.09%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.45%) DNS
2 7 (1.91%) SAN
3 5 (1.36%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.36%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.09%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.09%) DHCP
4 4 (1.09%) NAS
5 3 (0.82%) Firewall
6 2 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.54%) WAAS
7 1 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) Modbus
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
7 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.80%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.72%) Oracle Reports
3 30 (8.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.63%) Power BI
6 14 (3.81%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.27%) Metadata
8 9 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.18%) Base SAS
10 7 (1.91%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.63%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.36%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 4 (1.09%) Ingres
13 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.09%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (16.62%) JIRA
2 32 (8.72%) Zephyr
3 27 (7.36%) Git
4 26 (7.08%) Postman
5 14 (3.81%) GitLab
6 8 (2.18%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.63%) Selenium
8 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.27%) Hudson
11 1 (0.27%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.27%) MSI
11 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 104 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.07%) Finance
3 56 (15.26%) Public Sector
4 42 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.09%) Banking
6 15 (4.09%) Police
7 12 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.45%) Local Government
9 8 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.18%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.82%) Law
13 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (14.71%) Architect
2 49 (13.35%) Analyst
3 41 (11.17%) Senior
4 31 (8.45%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.90%) Project Manager
6 27 (7.36%) Developer
7 22 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.18%) Tester
9 18 (4.90%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.63%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.36%) Release Manager
11 16 (4.36%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.09%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.81%) Accountant
13 14 (3.81%) Systems Accountant
14 12 (3.27%) Lead
14 12 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (3.27%) Test Analyst
15 9 (2.45%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.72%) REST
2 8 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.18%) Middleware
3 6 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.09%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.09%) SOAP
5 3 (0.82%) .NET
5 3 (0.82%) JMS
5 3 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.54%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.54%) ADO
6 2 (0.54%) COM
6 2 (0.54%) ODBC
6 2 (0.54%) PySpark
7 1 (0.27%) CSS
7 1 (0.27%) HTML
7 1 (0.27%) JDBC
7 1 (0.27%) JSP
7 1 (0.27%) LDAP
7 1 (0.27%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.63%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.00%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.18%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.09%) SCADA
10 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.82%) Clustering
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.45%) Windows
2 18 (4.90%) Unix
3 12 (3.27%) Linux
4 10 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.63%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.82%) AIX
8 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) HPUX
9 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (26.43%) Data Migration
2 93 (25.34%) Agile
3 70 (19.07%) DevOps
4 67 (18.26%) ETL
5 65 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (17.44%) Validation
7 61 (16.62%) CI/CD
8 59 (16.08%) Analytics
9 58 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (13.08%) Test Automation
11 46 (12.53%) Data Modelling
12 39 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
14 35 (9.54%) Data Integration
14 35 (9.54%) Integration Testing
15 32 (8.72%) Scenario Testing
16 31 (8.45%) End-to-End Testing
16 31 (8.45%) System Testing
17 30 (8.17%) Test Scripting
18 29 (7.90%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.26%) SQL
2 34 (9.26%) Python
3 11 (3.00%) Bash
4 10 (2.72%) Java
5 9 (2.45%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.82%) Bicep
8 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.82%) Perl
8 3 (0.82%) REXX
8 3 (0.82%) VB
9 2 (0.54%) C
9 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.54%) VB6
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) C#
10 1 (0.27%) C++
10 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 116 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.99%) ISTQB
4 14 (3.81%) Degree
5 11 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.91%) IIBA
7 6 (1.63%) CCNP
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.09%) PMP
8 4 (1.09%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.82%) CISSP
9 3 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) CCAB
10 2 (0.54%) CIMA
10 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.26%) QA
2 31 (8.45%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.82%) Basel III
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.54%) Active Directory
1 13 (3.54%) Docker
1 13 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.00%) vSphere
3 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.36%) Ceph
4 5 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.82%) Firmware
5 3 (0.82%) PowerHA
5 3 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.54%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.27%) NFS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.00%) Terraform
3 10 (2.72%) Ansible
4 8 (2.18%) Grafana
5 6 (1.63%) Kibana
5 6 (1.63%) Puppet
6 5 (1.36%) SCCM
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.82%) Argo
9 2 (0.54%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.54%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 80 (21.80%) Oracle
2 53 (14.44%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.18%) SAP
3 19 (5.18%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.90%) Databricks
5 14 (3.81%) Splunk
5 14 (3.81%) VMware
6 13 (3.54%) Denodo
7 9 (2.45%) Cisco
7 9 (2.45%) Talend
8 8 (2.18%) Informatica
9 7 (1.91%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.09%) F5
11 4 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.09%) Pure Storage
11 4 (1.09%) Sage
12 3 (0.82%) Pega