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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 377 126 120
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.64% 8.65% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.75% 9.76% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 83 89
10th Percentile £350 £315 £360
25th Percentile £402 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +2.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £708 £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% -38.46%

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 2,742 1,291 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.66% 88.61% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 818 1,108
10th Percentile £313 £203 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.75% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £625
90th Percentile £677 £663 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 72 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.19 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +10 117 £475 +5.79% 11
Birmingham +6 98 £475 -9.52% 24
Warwickshire -2 67 £550 - 16
Coventry +2 37 £475 +18.75% 3
Wolverhampton - 10 - - 2
Staffordshire +1 7 £475 +18.75% 5
Worcestershire +4 4 £638 - 3
Solihull -17 3 £265 -41.38%
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 54 (14.32%) SAS
2 32 (8.49%) Confluence
3 22 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.59%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.80%) Apache
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.33%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.24%) Teamcenter
2 11 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.86%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 102 (27.06%) AWS
2 89 (23.61%) Azure
3 20 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (3.45%) GitHub
6 12 (3.18%) GCP
6 12 (3.18%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.18%) PaaS
6 12 (3.18%) Serverless
7 10 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.65%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.12%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.86%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.59%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.59%) dbt
11 6 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.65%) DNS
2 7 (1.86%) SAN
3 5 (1.33%) DHCP
3 5 (1.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.33%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.06%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.06%) NAS
5 3 (0.80%) Firewall
6 2 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.53%) 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 61 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.49%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (7.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.31%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.51%) Power BI
6 14 (3.71%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.18%) Metadata
8 11 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.65%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.39%) Ingres
11 8 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.12%) Base SAS
11 8 (2.12%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (16.18%) JIRA
2 35 (9.28%) Git
3 32 (8.49%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.90%) Postman
5 14 (3.71%) GitLab
6 8 (2.12%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.59%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.27%) Gatling
10 1 (0.27%) Hudson
10 1 (0.27%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.27%) MSI
10 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 103 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.63%) Finance
3 60 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 44 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.98%) Banking
6 15 (3.98%) Police
7 12 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.39%) Local Government
9 8 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.12%) Retail
10 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (0.80%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.80%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.53%) Billing
13 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (14.32%) Architect
2 50 (13.26%) Senior
3 49 (13.00%) Analyst
4 34 (9.02%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.43%) Project Manager
6 27 (7.16%) Developer
7 22 (5.84%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.04%) Tester
9 18 (4.77%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.51%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.98%) Accountant
12 15 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (3.98%) Systems Accountant
12 15 (3.98%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.71%) Release Manager
14 12 (3.18%) Lead
14 12 (3.18%) Test Analyst
15 10 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (2.39%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.65%) REST
2 8 (2.12%) Middleware
3 7 (1.86%) ADO
3 7 (1.86%) COM
3 7 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.86%) ODBC
4 6 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.06%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.06%) SOAP
6 3 (0.80%) JMS
6 3 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.53%) .NET
7 2 (0.53%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.53%) PySpark
8 1 (0.27%) CSS
8 1 (0.27%) HTML
8 1 (0.27%) JDBC
8 1 (0.27%) JSP
8 1 (0.27%) LDAP
8 1 (0.27%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.96%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 12 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.06%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.06%) SCADA
11 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.80%) Clustering
11 3 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.84%) Windows
2 17 (4.51%) Unix
3 11 (2.92%) Linux
3 11 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.80%) AIX
7 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) HPUX
8 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (27.32%) Data Migration
2 99 (26.26%) Agile
3 70 (18.57%) ETL
4 69 (18.30%) DevOps
4 69 (18.30%) Validation
5 64 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 62 (16.45%) CI/CD
7 59 (15.65%) Analytics
8 57 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 48 (12.73%) Data Modelling
11 43 (11.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 39 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 35 (9.28%) Integration Testing
14 32 (8.49%) Data Integration
14 32 (8.49%) End-to-End Testing
14 32 (8.49%) Scenario Testing
14 32 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (8.22%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.16%) SQL
2 36 (9.55%) Python
3 10 (2.65%) Bash
3 10 (2.65%) Java
3 10 (2.65%) PL/SQL
4 9 (2.39%) VB
5 8 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.12%) VB6
6 6 (1.59%) C
6 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.80%) Bicep
7 3 (0.80%) Perl
7 3 (0.80%) REXX
8 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.27%) C++
9 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 119 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 108 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.84%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.18%) Degree
5 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.86%) IIBA
7 6 (1.59%) CCNP
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.06%) PMP
8 4 (1.06%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.80%) CISSP
9 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.53%) ACCA
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.53%) CCAB
10 2 (0.53%) CIMA
10 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.34%) QA
2 33 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.80%) Basel III
5 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.80%) PMO
6 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.18%) Docker
3 12 (3.18%) vSphere
4 7 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.33%) Ceph
7 3 (0.80%) Firmware
7 3 (0.80%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.53%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.27%) KVM
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.27%) NFS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.18%) Terraform
3 9 (2.39%) Ansible
4 8 (2.12%) Grafana
5 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.33%) Kibana
6 5 (1.33%) Puppet
6 5 (1.33%) SCCM
7 4 (1.06%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.80%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (22.28%) Oracle
2 55 (14.59%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.57%) Databricks
4 19 (5.04%) SAP
4 19 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.98%) VMware
6 13 (3.45%) Denodo
6 13 (3.45%) Splunk
7 9 (2.39%) Cisco
7 9 (2.39%) Talend
8 8 (2.12%) Informatica
9 7 (1.86%) Actian
9 7 (1.86%) OutSystems
10 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.06%) F5
11 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.06%) Pure Storage
11 4 (1.06%) Sage