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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 273 134 115
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.75% 10.08% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 11.16% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 99 92
10th Percentile £313 £325 £377
25th Percentile £400 £436 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £649
90th Percentile £650 £665 £763
England median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -2.37%
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 £24.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.73% -49.47% -26.92%

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 2,368 1,201 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.54% 90.37% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 791 1,071
10th Percentile £303 £204 £263
25th Percentile £402 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £670 £700 £690
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.43
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.50 £27.81 £42.31
90th Percentile £59.50 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 77 £475 -7.32% 25
Shropshire -6 67 £492 -12.38% 9
Warwickshire +2 50 £575 -8.00% 1
Coventry -4 30 £500 -6.98% 6
Staffordshire -2 10 £400 +4.92%
Herefordshire -9 7 £375 -
Solihull -5 5 £347 -29.14% 2
Wolverhampton +2 4 - -
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 3
Dudley -1 3 £400 +122.22% 1
Kingswinford - 1 £775 -
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 (9.52%) SAS
2 20 (7.33%) Confluence
3 14 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) Maximo
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.68%) AWS
2 48 (17.58%) Azure
3 16 (5.86%) GCP
4 15 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.13%) GitHub
5 14 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.66%) OpenShift
8 9 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.20%) dbt
11 5 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.83%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.83%) PaaS
11 5 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.47%) Serverless
13 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.10%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.93%) DNS
2 6 (2.20%) BIG-IP
3 5 (1.83%) SSL
4 3 (1.10%) DMZ
4 3 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.10%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.10%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.73%) Firewall
5 2 (0.73%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Network Security
6 1 (0.37%) SMS
6 1 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) WAAS
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 15 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (3.66%) Power BI
6 7 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.83%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.37%) MySQL
11 1 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (12.45%) JIRA
2 15 (5.49%) Git
3 13 (4.76%) Zephyr
4 11 (4.03%) Postman
5 6 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.83%) GitLab
7 4 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.10%) Fiddler
8 3 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.73%) Gatling
9 2 (0.73%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.73%) JUnit
9 2 (0.73%) Maven
9 2 (0.73%) Mockito
9 2 (0.73%) MSI
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 98 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.08%) Finance
3 32 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (4.40%) Police
5 9 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.30%) Local Government
6 8 (2.93%) Banking
7 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Legal
8 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Retail
9 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 37 (13.55%) Analyst
2 35 (12.82%) Architect
3 23 (8.42%) Business Analyst
4 19 (6.96%) Project Manager
5 18 (6.59%) Senior
6 17 (6.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (6.23%) Splunk Engineer
7 16 (5.86%) Release Manager
8 13 (4.76%) Consultant
8 13 (4.76%) Engagement Manager
9 12 (4.40%) Site Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Accountant
10 11 (4.03%) Lead
10 11 (4.03%) Systems Accountant
10 11 (4.03%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.66%) QA Tester
11 10 (3.66%) SAP Manager
11 10 (3.66%) Tester
12 9 (3.30%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.30%) Middleware
3 8 (2.93%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.83%) REST
4 5 (1.83%) SAML
4 5 (1.83%) 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%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.10%) React
7 2 (0.73%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.73%) ODBC
7 2 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.33%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.47%) PKI
6 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.73%) Clustering
8 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
1 14 (5.13%) Unix
1 14 (5.13%) Windows
2 8 (2.93%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.73%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.18%) Agile
1 66 (24.18%) Data Migration
2 63 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (19.78%) DevOps
4 51 (18.68%) CI/CD
5 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (16.48%) Validation
6 39 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 36 (13.19%) Change Management
7 36 (13.19%) Data Modelling
8 33 (12.09%) ETL
9 31 (11.36%) Project Management
10 29 (10.62%) Analytics
11 24 (8.79%) Containerisation
11 24 (8.79%) ERP
12 23 (8.42%) Data Integration
12 23 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (7.69%) Observability
13 21 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (6.59%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.38%) SQL
2 30 (10.99%) Python
3 18 (6.59%) Bash
4 11 (4.03%) Java
5 6 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.83%) Bicep
7 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.10%) VB
8 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.73%) Perl
8 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.73%) VB6
8 2 (0.73%) VBScript
9 1 (0.37%) C#
9 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.59%) Degree
4 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.30%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.56%) IIBA
7 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.83%) CISM
8 5 (1.83%) CISSP
9 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.47%) PMP
10 3 (1.10%) ACCA
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.10%) CCNP
10 3 (1.10%) CIMA
11 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.26%) QA
2 15 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) PMO
5 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.10%) WCAG
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (7.69%) Docker
2 16 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.83%) vSphere
5 3 (1.10%) Firmware
6 2 (0.73%) PowerHA
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) KVM
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.42%) Ansible
2 23 (8.42%) Kibana
3 12 (4.40%) Puppet
4 10 (3.66%) Terraform
5 7 (2.56%) Grafana
6 6 (2.20%) logstash
7 5 (1.83%) SCCM
8 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.10%) Argo
9 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.73%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.37%) SCOM
11 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.38%) Oracle
3 25 (9.16%) Splunk
4 20 (7.33%) SAP
4 20 (7.33%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.66%) Databricks
6 8 (2.93%) VMware
7 6 (2.20%) Cisco
7 6 (2.20%) F5
7 6 (2.20%) Sage
7 6 (2.20%) Workday
8 4 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.47%) Okta
8 4 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.47%) Talend
9 3 (1.10%) Citrix
9 3 (1.10%) Cognos
9 3 (1.10%) IBM
9 3 (1.10%) McAfee
9 3 (1.10%) NetApp