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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 386 140 126
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.39% 8.72% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.25% 9.83% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 90 96
10th Percentile £350 £311 £375
25th Percentile £404 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £506 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -3.11% +2.80%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £632
90th Percentile £675 £676 £744
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 £40.00 £25.15 £43.12
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.67% -36.36%

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 2,914 1,424 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.96% 88.72% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 900 1,101
10th Percentile £313 £210 £263
25th Percentile £405 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £674 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 98 108
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.91 £13.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.36 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% +22.95% -24.75%
75th Percentile £59.63 £33.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +12 115 £475 - 13
Birmingham +8 103 £475 -7.32% 32
Warwickshire -3 67 £538 -6.52% 12
Coventry -4 41 £450 +12.50% 1
Wolverhampton +3 14 - - 5
Staffordshire +1 6 £550 +59.42% 11
Worcestershire -2 5 £638 - 5
Herefordshire -3 3 £375 -
Solihull -22 3 £419 -14.97% 2
Dudley - 3 £400 -
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 51 (13.21%) SAS
2 24 (6.22%) Confluence
3 22 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.55%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.78%) Apache
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.30%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.15%) Teamcenter
2 13 (3.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.98%) Azure
2 98 (25.39%) AWS
3 21 (5.44%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.63%) GCP
5 14 (3.63%) Serverless
6 12 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.11%) GitHub
6 12 (3.11%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.85%) PaaS
8 10 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.59%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.33%) Azure Storage
10 8 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.07%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.55%) dbt
11 6 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.37%) DNS
2 7 (1.81%) SAN
3 5 (1.30%) DHCP
3 5 (1.30%) Network Security
3 5 (1.30%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.30%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.04%) NAS
5 3 (0.78%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.78%) DMZ
5 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.52%) WAAS
7 1 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) Modbus
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.43%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.29%) Oracle Reports
3 24 (6.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 23 (5.96%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 18 (4.66%) Power BI
7 17 (4.40%) Base SAS
8 14 (3.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.11%) Ingres
9 12 (3.11%) Metadata
9 12 (3.11%) Oracle Database
9 12 (3.11%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.59%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.07%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.30%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.04%) Pentaho
15 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (14.25%) JIRA
2 37 (9.59%) Git
3 32 (8.29%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.74%) Postman
5 14 (3.63%) GitLab
6 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.81%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.55%) Selenium
9 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.78%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.52%) Hudson
12 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.26%) Gatling
12 1 (0.26%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.26%) MSI
12 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 95 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.50%) Finance
3 56 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.63%) Banking
7 13 (3.37%) Police
8 10 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.59%) Retail
9 9 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.33%) Local Government
10 6 (1.55%) Legal
10 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) Billing
13 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Marketing
14 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (14.77%) Architect
1 57 (14.77%) Senior
2 49 (12.69%) Data Engineer
3 36 (9.33%) Analyst
4 29 (7.51%) Project Manager
5 28 (7.25%) Developer
6 25 (6.48%) Data Architect
7 21 (5.44%) Accountant
7 21 (5.44%) Systems Accountant
8 20 (5.18%) Lead
9 19 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (4.92%) Tester
10 18 (4.66%) QA Tester
11 17 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.15%) SAS Architect
13 12 (3.11%) Test Analyst
14 11 (2.85%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (2.59%) Release Manager
16 9 (2.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.59%) REST
2 7 (1.81%) ADO
2 7 (1.81%) COM
2 7 (1.81%) Middleware
2 7 (1.81%) ODBC
2 7 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.30%) PySpark
4 4 (1.04%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.04%) SOAP
5 3 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.78%) JMS
5 3 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.52%) .NET
6 2 (0.52%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.26%) CSS
7 1 (0.26%) JDBC
7 1 (0.26%) JSP
7 1 (0.26%) LDAP
7 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.25%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.15%) Low-Code
4 14 (3.63%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 4 (1.04%) SCADA
13 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.78%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.44%) Windows
2 13 (3.37%) Unix
3 11 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.55%) Linux
4 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.78%) AIX
7 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) HPUX
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.20%) Data Migration
2 92 (23.83%) Agile
3 81 (20.98%) ETL
4 72 (18.65%) Validation
5 64 (16.58%) DevOps
6 63 (16.32%) Analytics
7 61 (15.80%) CI/CD
8 58 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (13.99%) Test Automation
11 53 (13.73%) Data Modelling
12 40 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (8.81%) Integration Testing
14 34 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (8.03%) Decision-Making
15 31 (8.03%) Scenario Testing
15 31 (8.03%) System Testing
16 30 (7.77%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.47%) SQL
2 39 (10.10%) Python
3 12 (3.11%) Java
3 12 (3.11%) PL/SQL
4 11 (2.85%) VB
5 10 (2.59%) VB6
6 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.81%) C
8 6 (1.55%) Bash
8 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.78%) Perl
9 3 (0.78%) REXX
9 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.52%) Bicep
10 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.52%) ProC
10 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 116 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 105 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.48%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.07%) Degree
5 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.30%) CCNP
7 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.04%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.78%) CISSP
9 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.52%) ACCA
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.52%) CCAB
10 2 (0.52%) CIMA
10 2 (0.52%) PMP
11 1 (0.26%) CISM
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.18%) Data Quality
2 39 (10.10%) QA
3 5 (1.30%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) Basel III
4 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) PMO
5 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.11%) vSphere
4 7 (1.81%) Docker
4 7 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.30%) Ceph
7 3 (0.78%) Firmware
7 3 (0.78%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.26%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.11%) Terraform
3 8 (2.07%) Grafana
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.30%) Ansible
5 5 (1.30%) SCCM
6 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.52%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.26%) Control-M
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (20.98%) Oracle
2 54 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.96%) Databricks
4 22 (5.70%) SAP
5 19 (4.92%) VMware
6 18 (4.66%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.37%) Denodo
8 9 (2.33%) Actian
8 9 (2.33%) Splunk
8 9 (2.33%) Talend
9 8 (2.07%) Cisco
9 8 (2.07%) Informatica
10 7 (1.81%) OutSystems
11 6 (1.55%) F5
12 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.04%) Pure Storage
13 4 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.04%) Sage