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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 392 135 123
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.77% 9.14% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.86% 10.27% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 88 90
10th Percentile £350 £321 £361
25th Percentile £404 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -1.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £638 £828
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 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 £30.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -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 2,829 1,314 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.95% 88.96% 80.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,864 828 1,093
10th Percentile £313 £200 £264
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 83 119
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.30
25th Percentile £22.42 £14.60 £14.38
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.69 £34.43 £40.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +7 121 £475 +5.56% 5
Birmingham +3 103 £475 -9.52% 23
Warwickshire -2 71 £550 - 9
Coventry 0 39 £475 +18.75% 1
Wolverhampton - 11 - - 4
Staffordshire -2 7 £475 +18.75% 4
Worcestershire +1 4 £638 - 1
Herefordshire -4 3 £375 -
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Solihull -21 2 £263 -46.70%
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 60 (15.31%) SAS
2 30 (7.65%) Confluence
3 22 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.53%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.77%) Apache
6 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.28%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.08%) Teamcenter
2 11 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.04%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 102 (26.02%) AWS
2 97 (24.74%) Azure
3 21 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.57%) GCP
6 13 (3.32%) GitHub
6 13 (3.32%) Serverless
7 12 (3.06%) OpenShift
7 12 (3.06%) PaaS
8 10 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.04%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.79%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.53%) dbt
12 6 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) DNS
2 7 (1.79%) SAN
3 5 (1.28%) DHCP
3 5 (1.28%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.28%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.02%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.02%) NAS
5 3 (0.77%) Firewall
6 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.51%) WAAS
7 1 (0.26%) DMZ
7 1 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 70 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.16%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (7.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 18 (4.59%) Power BI
6 16 (4.08%) Base SAS
6 16 (4.08%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.57%) Oracle Database
8 13 (3.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.06%) Metadata
10 11 (2.81%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.55%) Ingres
11 10 (2.55%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.04%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.28%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.02%) Pentaho
16 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (15.05%) JIRA
2 36 (9.18%) Git
3 32 (8.16%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.63%) Postman
5 14 (3.57%) GitLab
6 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.53%) Selenium
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
11 1 (0.26%) Hudson
11 1 (0.26%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.26%) MSI
11 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 100 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.90%) Finance
3 63 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 41 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.83%) Police
7 14 (3.57%) Banking
8 9 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.30%) Local Government
8 9 (2.30%) Retail
9 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Legal
11 3 (0.77%) Law
11 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.51%) Billing
12 2 (0.51%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (15.82%) Architect
2 53 (13.52%) Senior
3 46 (11.73%) Analyst
4 37 (9.44%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.14%) Developer
5 28 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 24 (6.12%) Data Architect
7 20 (5.10%) Lead
8 19 (4.85%) Business Analyst
8 19 (4.85%) Tester
9 18 (4.59%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.34%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.08%) Accountant
11 16 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (4.08%) Systems Accountant
11 16 (4.08%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.83%) SAS Architect
13 14 (3.57%) Release Manager
14 12 (3.06%) Test Analyst
15 10 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.55%) REST
2 8 (2.04%) Middleware
3 7 (1.79%) ADO
3 7 (1.79%) COM
3 7 (1.79%) ODBC
3 7 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.02%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.02%) SOAP
6 3 (0.77%) JMS
6 3 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.77%) PySpark
7 2 (0.51%) .NET
7 2 (0.51%) ActiveX
8 1 (0.26%) CSS
8 1 (0.26%) HTML
8 1 (0.26%) JDBC
8 1 (0.26%) JSP
8 1 (0.26%) LDAP
8 1 (0.26%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.32%) Low-Code
5 12 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.02%) SCADA
11 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.77%) Clustering
11 3 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.77%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.61%) Windows
2 15 (3.83%) Unix
3 11 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.30%) Linux
5 6 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.77%) AIX
8 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) HPUX
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (26.53%) Data Migration
2 99 (25.26%) Agile
3 72 (18.37%) ETL
4 69 (17.60%) DevOps
4 69 (17.60%) Validation
5 64 (16.33%) CI/CD
5 64 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (15.05%) Analytics
6 59 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (13.52%) Test Automation
8 48 (12.24%) Data Modelling
9 41 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (8.93%) Integration Testing
11 35 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
12 32 (8.16%) Data Integration
12 32 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (8.16%) End-to-End Testing
12 32 (8.16%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (7.91%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.39%) SQL
2 36 (9.18%) Python
3 11 (2.81%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.55%) Java
5 9 (2.30%) VB
6 8 (2.04%) Bash
6 8 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.04%) VB6
7 7 (1.79%) C
8 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.02%) Bicep
10 3 (0.77%) Perl
10 3 (0.77%) REXX
11 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.51%) ProC
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 123 (31.38%) Security Cleared
2 112 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.61%) ISTQB
4 10 (2.55%) Degree
5 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.53%) CCNP
7 5 (1.28%) IIBA
8 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.02%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.77%) CISSP
9 3 (0.77%) PMP
9 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.51%) ACCA
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.51%) CCAB
10 2 (0.51%) CIMA
11 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.97%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.95%) QA
3 10 (2.55%) GDPR
4 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) Basel III
5 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.77%) PMO
6 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.08%) Active Directory
1 16 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.06%) vSphere
3 10 (2.55%) Docker
4 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.28%) Ceph
7 3 (0.77%) Firmware
7 3 (0.77%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.51%) 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 26 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.32%) Terraform
3 8 (2.04%) Grafana
4 7 (1.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.28%) SCCM
7 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.77%) Argo
8 3 (0.77%) Kibana
8 3 (0.77%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 86 (21.94%) Oracle
2 55 (14.03%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.87%) Databricks
4 21 (5.36%) SAP
5 19 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.34%) VMware
7 13 (3.32%) Denodo
8 11 (2.81%) Splunk
9 9 (2.30%) Cisco
9 9 (2.30%) Talend
10 8 (2.04%) Informatica
11 7 (1.79%) Actian
11 7 (1.79%) OutSystems
12 5 (1.28%) F5
12 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.02%) Sage