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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Migration 392 143 124
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.43% 8.84% 6.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 10.01% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 91 92
10th Percentile £356 £313 £391
25th Percentile £405 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.85% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £628
90th Percentile £675 £688 £736
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 £58.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -57.01% -13.65%

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 2,945 1,429 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.86% 88.37% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 896 1,075
10th Percentile £313 £208 £275
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 99 85
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.18
25th Percentile £21.02 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.24% -24.87%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +8 114 £474 -0.21% 22
Birmingham +9 102 £475 -9.52% 18
Warwickshire -3 70 £525 -6.67% 9
Coventry -4 40 £475 +4.97% 3
Wolverhampton +4 17 - - 3
Staffordshire 0 8 £850 +146.38% 10
Worcestershire +1 7 £638 - 5
Herefordshire -3 3 £375 -
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Solihull -22 2 £575 +16.75% 3
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 (13.01%) SAS
2 24 (6.12%) Confluence
3 22 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.53%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.02%) Apache
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) OpenROAD
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 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.08%) Teamcenter
1 16 (4.08%) Unit4 Business World
2 12 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.77%) 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
1 112 (28.57%) Azure
2 99 (25.26%) AWS
3 23 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.57%) GCP
5 14 (3.57%) Serverless
6 12 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.06%) GitHub
6 12 (3.06%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.81%) PaaS
8 10 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.30%) Azure Storage
9 9 (2.30%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.79%) OCI
12 6 (1.53%) dbt
12 6 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.57%) DNS
2 9 (2.30%) SAN
3 6 (1.53%) DHCP
4 5 (1.28%) Network Security
4 5 (1.28%) PuTTY
4 5 (1.28%) WinSCP
5 4 (1.02%) NAS
6 3 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.77%) DMZ
6 3 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.77%) Firewall
7 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.26%) LAN
8 1 (0.26%) Modbus
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
8 1 (0.26%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.13%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.16%) Oracle Reports
3 24 (6.12%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 18 (4.59%) Power BI
6 17 (4.34%) Base SAS
7 14 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.32%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.06%) Metadata
9 12 (3.06%) Oracle Database
10 11 (2.81%) Ingres
11 9 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (1.79%) RDBMS
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 55 (14.03%) 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
7 7 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.53%) Selenium
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.77%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.51%) 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 93 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.17%) Finance
3 57 (14.54%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.83%) Police
7 14 (3.57%) Banking
8 10 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.55%) Retail
9 9 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.53%) Legal
10 6 (1.53%) Local Government
10 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Billing
11 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.77%) Law
13 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Military
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 57 (14.54%) Senior
2 55 (14.03%) Architect
3 53 (13.52%) Data Engineer
4 37 (9.44%) Analyst
5 28 (7.14%) Developer
5 28 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 25 (6.38%) Data Architect
7 23 (5.87%) Lead
8 21 (5.36%) Accountant
8 21 (5.36%) Systems Accountant
9 20 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (4.85%) Tester
11 18 (4.59%) QA Tester
12 17 (4.34%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.08%) SAS Architect
14 12 (3.06%) Test Analyst
15 11 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (2.55%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.55%) Release Manager
17 9 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.55%) REST
2 9 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.79%) Middleware
4 6 (1.53%) ADO
4 6 (1.53%) COM
4 6 (1.53%) ODBC
5 5 (1.28%) PySpark
6 4 (1.02%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.02%) SOAP
7 3 (0.77%) JMS
7 3 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.51%) .NET
8 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.26%) CSS
9 1 (0.26%) HTML
9 1 (0.26%) JDBC
9 1 (0.26%) JSP
9 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (4.85%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.08%) Low-Code
5 14 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.28%) Clustering
12 5 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
13 4 (1.02%) SCADA
14 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.77%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.36%) Windows
2 14 (3.57%) Unix
3 12 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.28%) AIX
4 5 (1.28%) Linux
4 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) HPUX
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.32%) Data Migration
2 91 (23.21%) Agile
3 81 (20.66%) ETL
4 74 (18.88%) Validation
5 63 (16.07%) Analytics
5 63 (16.07%) DevOps
6 61 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 60 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 55 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (13.78%) Test Automation
11 41 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
12 39 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
13 36 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (8.42%) Integration Testing
15 33 (8.42%) Scenario Testing
16 31 (7.91%) Decision-Making
16 31 (7.91%) System Testing
17 30 (7.65%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.90%) SQL
2 41 (10.46%) Python
3 12 (3.06%) Java
3 12 (3.06%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.55%) VB
5 9 (2.30%) VB6
6 7 (1.79%) C
6 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.28%) Bash
8 5 (1.28%) Perl
9 3 (0.77%) REXX
9 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) Bicep
10 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.51%) ProC
10 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 118 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 105 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.38%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.53%) Degree
6 5 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.28%) CCNP
7 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.02%) SAS Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CISSP
8 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.51%) ACCA
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) CCAB
9 2 (0.51%) CIMA
9 2 (0.51%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.95%) QA
3 7 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.77%) Basel III
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) PMO
5 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.51%) 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 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.32%) vSphere
4 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.53%) Docker
5 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.28%) Ceph
6 5 (1.28%) Firmware
6 5 (1.28%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.26%) NFS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.32%) Terraform
3 8 (2.04%) Grafana
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.02%) Ansible
5 4 (1.02%) SCCM
5 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.77%) Argo
7 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.26%) Control-M
8 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (20.92%) Oracle
2 57 (14.54%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.12%) Databricks
4 23 (5.87%) SAP
5 19 (4.85%) VMware
6 18 (4.59%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.32%) Denodo
8 9 (2.30%) Actian
8 9 (2.30%) Talend
9 8 (2.04%) Cisco
9 8 (2.04%) Informatica
9 8 (2.04%) Splunk
10 7 (1.79%) OutSystems
10 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.53%) F5
12 5 (1.28%) IBM
13 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.02%) Commvault
13 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.02%) Sage