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

 6 months to
6 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 394 137 127
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.62% 8.86% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.58% 9.99% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 86 94
10th Percentile £350 £319 £363
25th Percentile £405 £403 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £629
90th Percentile £714 £638 £746
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 £36.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -37.13% -40.30%

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 2,902 1,372 1,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.60% 88.75% 81.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,898 867 1,117
10th Percentile £313 £206 £273
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £673 £725
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.84% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 92 111
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.76 £14.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.36 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% +17.09% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.06 £34.16 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -3.62%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +10 114 £473 +5.35% 10
Birmingham +7 104 £475 -9.52% 29
Warwickshire -3 75 £550 - 6
Coventry -4 42 £450 +12.50% 3
Wolverhampton - 13 - - 6
Staffordshire -2 6 £550 +37.50% 2
Worcestershire 0 4 £638 - 2
Herefordshire -4 3 £375 -
Solihull -18 3 £419 -14.97% 2
Dudley - 3 £400 -
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 52 (13.20%) SAS
2 25 (6.35%) Confluence
3 22 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.52%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.76%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.27%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.06%) Teamcenter
2 13 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.79%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.89%) Azure
2 99 (25.13%) AWS
3 18 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.55%) GCP
6 13 (3.30%) Serverless
7 12 (3.05%) GitHub
7 12 (3.05%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.79%) PaaS
9 10 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.54%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.28%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.03%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.03%) Azure Storage
11 8 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.78%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.52%) dbt
13 6 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.30%) DNS
2 7 (1.78%) SAN
3 5 (1.27%) DHCP
3 5 (1.27%) Network Security
3 5 (1.27%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.27%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.02%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.02%) NAS
5 3 (0.76%) DMZ
5 3 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.76%) Firewall
6 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.51%) WAAS
7 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) Modbus
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (18.02%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.12%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (6.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.08%) Data Lake
4 20 (5.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.31%) Power BI
6 16 (4.06%) Base SAS
7 13 (3.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.30%) Oracle Database
8 12 (3.05%) Metadata
9 11 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.54%) Ingres
10 10 (2.54%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.03%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.02%) Pentaho
15 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (13.71%) JIRA
2 36 (9.14%) Git
3 32 (8.12%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.60%) Postman
5 14 (3.55%) GitLab
6 8 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.78%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.52%) Selenium
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.51%) Hudson
12 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.25%) Gatling
12 1 (0.25%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.25%) MSI
12 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.81%) Finance
3 62 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.57%) Police
6 14 (3.55%) Banking
7 11 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.54%) Retail
9 9 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.28%) Local Government
10 7 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.52%) Legal
12 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.76%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (15.48%) Architect
2 55 (13.96%) Senior
3 45 (11.42%) Data Engineer
4 37 (9.39%) Analyst
5 31 (7.87%) Project Manager
6 28 (7.11%) Developer
7 24 (6.09%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.08%) Lead
9 19 (4.82%) Accountant
9 19 (4.82%) Systems Accountant
9 19 (4.82%) Tester
10 18 (4.57%) QA Tester
11 17 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.31%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.81%) SAS Architect
12 15 (3.81%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.05%) Test Analyst
14 11 (2.79%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.79%) Release Manager
15 10 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.54%) REST
2 8 (2.03%) Middleware
3 7 (1.78%) ADO
3 7 (1.78%) COM
3 7 (1.78%) ODBC
3 7 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.27%) PySpark
5 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.02%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.02%) SOAP
6 3 (0.76%) JMS
6 3 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.51%) .NET
7 2 (0.51%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.25%) CSS
8 1 (0.25%) HTML
8 1 (0.25%) JDBC
8 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.12%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.30%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.30%) Low-Code
3 13 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.28%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.02%) SCADA
11 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.76%) Clustering
11 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.33%) Windows
2 14 (3.55%) Unix
3 11 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.78%) Linux
5 6 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.76%) AIX
8 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) HPUX
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.16%) Data Migration
2 93 (23.60%) Agile
3 77 (19.54%) ETL
4 73 (18.53%) Validation
5 64 (16.24%) DevOps
6 63 (15.99%) Analytics
7 62 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 60 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (13.45%) Test Automation
11 51 (12.94%) Data Modelling
12 38 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (8.88%) Integration Testing
15 35 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (7.87%) Data Integration
16 31 (7.87%) End-to-End Testing
16 31 (7.87%) Scenario Testing
16 31 (7.87%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.80%) SQL
2 38 (9.64%) Python
3 12 (3.05%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.54%) Java
5 9 (2.28%) VB
6 8 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.03%) VB6
7 7 (1.78%) Bash
7 7 (1.78%) C
8 6 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.76%) Bicep
9 3 (0.76%) Perl
9 3 (0.76%) REXX
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%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 119 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.58%) ISTQB
4 9 (2.28%) Degree
5 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.52%) CCNP
7 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.02%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.76%) CISSP
10 3 (0.76%) PMP
10 3 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.51%) ACCA
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.51%) CCAB
11 2 (0.51%) CIMA
12 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.93%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.90%) QA
3 6 (1.52%) GDPR
4 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) Basel III
4 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) PMO
5 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.05%) vSphere
4 9 (2.28%) Docker
5 7 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.27%) Ceph
8 3 (0.76%) Firmware
8 3 (0.76%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.51%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.25%) NFS
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.30%) Terraform
3 8 (2.03%) Grafana
4 6 (1.52%) Ansible
4 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.27%) SCCM
6 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.76%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) Control-M
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 83 (21.07%) Oracle
2 54 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.84%) SAP
4 22 (5.58%) Databricks
5 19 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.82%) VMware
6 13 (3.30%) Denodo
7 10 (2.54%) Splunk
8 9 (2.28%) Cisco
8 9 (2.28%) Talend
9 8 (2.03%) Informatica
10 7 (1.78%) Actian
10 7 (1.78%) F5
10 7 (1.78%) OutSystems
11 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.02%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.02%) Sage
63 Migration jobs in the West Midlands