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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 272 124 117
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.47% 9.30% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.23% 10.37% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 91 95
10th Percentile £313 £356 £381
25th Percentile £400 £440 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £648
90th Percentile £650 £663 £800
England median daily rate £520 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -3.70% +2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.85 -
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.24 -
90th Percentile £38.60 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £26.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% -32.81% -36.00%

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 2,422 1,196 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.33% 89.72% 84.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,614 802 1,103
10th Percentile £304 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 53 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.32 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.29 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.96% -19.42% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.22 £40.25
90th Percentile £60.08 £34.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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
Birmingham -6 75 £475 -5.00% 24
Shropshire -3 62 £490 +0.26% 3
Warwickshire -1 51 £575 -8.00% 9
Coventry -1 33 £505 -12.17% 8
Staffordshire -3 9 £400 +4.92% 2
Herefordshire -10 7 £375 -
Solihull -5 5 £347 -24.67% 2
Wolverhampton 0 4 - -
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 1
Dudley -2 3 £400 - 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 26 (9.56%) SAS
2 20 (7.35%) Confluence
3 14 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (18.01%) Azure
2 48 (17.65%) AWS
3 14 (5.15%) GitHub
3 14 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.78%) GCP
5 12 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.04%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.21%) dbt
9 6 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.21%) Serverless
10 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.84%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.84%) PaaS
10 5 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.10%) IaaS
11 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) DNS
2 5 (1.84%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.10%) SAN
3 3 (1.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) DMZ
5 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SMS
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) WAAS
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (5.51%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.31%) Power BI
6 7 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.84%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.84%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.10%) Ingres
9 3 (1.10%) Metadata
9 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.37%) MySQL
11 1 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (12.87%) JIRA
2 16 (5.88%) Git
3 13 (4.78%) Zephyr
4 11 (4.04%) Postman
5 7 (2.57%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.84%) GitLab
7 4 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.74%) Gatling
9 2 (0.74%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.74%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Mockito
9 2 (0.74%) MSI
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.74%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) GoCD
General
1 97 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.79%) Finance
3 34 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.41%) Police
6 11 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.31%) Local Government
8 7 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.21%) Banking
9 6 (2.21%) Legal
10 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (13.24%) Analyst
1 36 (13.24%) Architect
2 23 (8.46%) Business Analyst
3 21 (7.72%) Project Manager
4 16 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 16 (5.88%) Senior
5 13 (4.78%) Consultant
5 13 (4.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (4.78%) Splunk Engineer
6 12 (4.41%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.04%) Accountant
7 11 (4.04%) Systems Accountant
8 10 (3.68%) QA Tester
8 10 (3.68%) Site Engineer
8 10 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.68%) Technical Architect
8 10 (3.68%) Tester
9 9 (3.31%) Engagement Manager
9 9 (3.31%) Lead
10 8 (2.94%) Project Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.31%) Middleware
3 8 (2.94%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.84%) REST
4 5 (1.84%) SAML
4 5 (1.84%) Spring
5 4 (1.47%) Playwright
5 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.10%) .NET
6 3 (1.10%) HTML
6 3 (1.10%) JDBC
6 3 (1.10%) JSON
6 3 (1.10%) OAuth
6 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.10%) OpenID
6 3 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.10%) React
7 2 (0.74%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.74%) ODBC
7 2 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.84%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.47%) PKI
7 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.10%) Clustering
8 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.10%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.37%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.78%) Unix
1 13 (4.78%) Windows
2 12 (4.41%) Linux
3 8 (2.94%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (23.90%) Data Migration
2 63 (23.16%) Agile
3 60 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (18.38%) DevOps
5 49 (18.01%) CI/CD
6 47 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.54%) Validation
8 35 (12.87%) Data Modelling
8 35 (12.87%) User Acceptance Testing
9 34 (12.50%) ETL
10 29 (10.66%) Analytics
10 29 (10.66%) Change Management
11 25 (9.19%) Project Management
12 24 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.46%) Containerisation
13 23 (8.46%) Data Integration
14 20 (7.35%) ERP
15 19 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (6.99%) Test Automation
16 18 (6.62%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.18%) SQL
2 29 (10.66%) Python
3 16 (5.88%) Bash
4 11 (4.04%) Java
5 7 (2.57%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.10%) Bicep
6 3 (1.10%) Perl
6 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.10%) VB
7 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.74%) VB6
7 2 (0.74%) VBScript
8 1 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.51%) Degree
4 12 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.31%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.57%) IIBA
7 6 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.84%) CISM
8 5 (1.84%) CISSP
8 5 (1.84%) PMP
9 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) CCNP
10 3 (1.10%) ACCA
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.10%) CIMA
10 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.19%) QA
2 16 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.51%) GDPR
4 5 (1.84%) PMO
5 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.10%) WCAG
7 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (6.99%) Docker
2 16 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.21%) vSphere
5 4 (1.47%) Firmware
6 3 (1.10%) PowerHA
6 3 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.62%) Ansible
3 17 (6.25%) Kibana
4 10 (3.68%) Puppet
5 9 (3.31%) Grafana
5 9 (3.31%) Terraform
6 5 (1.84%) SCCM
6 5 (1.84%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.47%) Argo
8 3 (1.10%) logstash
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.74%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.37%) SCOM
10 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.07%) Oracle
3 21 (7.72%) Splunk
4 18 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 17 (6.25%) SAP
6 12 (4.41%) Databricks
7 9 (3.31%) VMware
8 7 (2.57%) Cisco
9 5 (1.84%) F5
9 5 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.84%) Sage
9 5 (1.84%) Workday
10 4 (1.47%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.47%) IBM
10 4 (1.47%) Okta
10 4 (1.47%) OutSystems
10 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.47%) Talend
11 3 (1.10%) Citrix
11 3 (1.10%) Cognos