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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 394 198 153
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.10% 10.50% 8.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.11% 11.69% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 128 110
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £424 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £603 £625
90th Percentile £712 £725 £726
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £20.44 - -
25th Percentile £22.09 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% - -
75th Percentile £25.50 - -
90th Percentile - £43.09 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £34.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -27.10% -49.64%

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 3,006 1,694 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.68% 89.87% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,078 993
10th Percentile £315 £255 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 113 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%
75th Percentile £45.00 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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
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 9 October 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 +3 126 £515 +3.00% 40
Birmingham +7 100 £500 -4.76% 75
Warwickshire -3 63 £500 -13.04% 16
Staffordshire +4 24 £713 +117.56% 7
Coventry -17 24 £413 +15.79% 15
Wolverhampton +5 18 - - 4
Worcestershire +13 9 £450 - 14
Dudley - 4 £375 -
Herefordshire +3 3 - - 2
Solihull -21 2 £475 -9.52% 5
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 43 (10.91%) SAS
2 30 (7.61%) Confluence
3 10 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.52%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.02%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.51%) OpenROAD
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (4.57%) Unit4 Business World
2 17 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.28%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.02%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.25%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.41%) Azure
2 90 (22.84%) AWS
3 24 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (3.81%) GCP
6 14 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.79%) GitHub
7 11 (2.79%) OCI
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.03%) Serverless
9 7 (1.78%) Azure Storage
9 7 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (1.78%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.52%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.52%) PaaS
11 5 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.82%) DNS
2 12 (3.05%) Network Security
3 11 (2.79%) DHCP
4 8 (2.03%) DMZ
4 8 (2.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 8 (2.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (1.52%) Firewall
5 6 (1.52%) SAN
6 5 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.27%) VSAN
7 4 (1.02%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.02%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.76%) BGP
8 3 (0.76%) NAS
8 3 (0.76%) TACACS
9 2 (0.51%) LAN
9 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.51%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (19.54%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (9.64%) Data Lake
3 29 (7.36%) Oracle Reports
4 20 (5.08%) Power BI
5 19 (4.82%) Base SAS
6 16 (4.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 14 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.05%) Metadata
9 12 (3.05%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 11 (2.79%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.79%) Pentaho
11 9 (2.28%) Ingres
11 9 (2.28%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.03%) MySQL
13 7 (1.78%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 4 (1.02%) DataStage
16 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (15.48%) JIRA
2 38 (9.64%) Git
3 28 (7.11%) Zephyr
4 24 (6.09%) Postman
5 15 (3.81%) GitLab
6 9 (2.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.28%) Selenium
7 5 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.76%) Gatling
9 3 (0.76%) JUnit
9 3 (0.76%) Yeoman
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.51%) Hudson
10 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.25%) Mockito
General
1 103 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.01%) Finance
2 67 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 44 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.05%) Police
6 11 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.03%) Retail
9 7 (1.78%) Banking
9 7 (1.78%) Legal
10 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.27%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Billing
13 3 (0.76%) Local Government
13 3 (0.76%) Military
13 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (18.02%) Architect
2 47 (11.93%) Data Engineer
2 47 (11.93%) Senior
3 33 (8.38%) Analyst
3 33 (8.38%) Lead
4 31 (7.87%) Data Architect
5 23 (5.84%) Accountant
5 23 (5.84%) Developer
5 23 (5.84%) Systems Accountant
6 22 (5.58%) Project Manager
7 17 (4.31%) SAS Architect
8 16 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (3.30%) Test Analyst
9 13 (3.30%) Tester
10 12 (3.05%) QA Tester
10 12 (3.05%) Technical Architect
11 11 (2.79%) Consultant
11 11 (2.79%) Senior Developer
11 11 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (5.08%) REST
3 16 (4.06%) Terraform
4 14 (3.55%) SOAP
5 7 (1.78%) JSON
6 6 (1.52%) OpenAPI
6 6 (1.52%) React
6 6 (1.52%) Swagger
7 5 (1.27%) .NET
7 5 (1.27%) ADO
7 5 (1.27%) COM
7 5 (1.27%) ODBC
7 5 (1.27%) Playwright
7 5 (1.27%) PySpark
7 5 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.76%) Gherkin
8 3 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.76%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.76%) YAML
9 2 (0.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.61%) Data Structures
2 27 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.30%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.03%) Autonomous Agent
10 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.27%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) SCADA
13 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.12%) Windows
2 13 (3.30%) Linux
2 13 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.79%) Unix
4 7 (1.78%) AIX
5 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.02%) Solaris
6 3 (0.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) SUSE
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.49%) Data Migration
2 96 (24.37%) Agile
3 86 (21.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (20.30%) ETL
5 76 (19.29%) Validation
6 64 (16.24%) CI/CD
7 63 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (14.97%) DevOps
8 59 (14.97%) Test Automation
9 56 (14.21%) Data Modelling
10 48 (12.18%) Analytics
11 45 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
11 45 (11.42%) User Acceptance Testing
12 41 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (9.64%) Lakehouse
14 37 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (8.88%) Integration Testing
16 34 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (8.38%) Scenario Testing
18 32 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.51%) SQL
2 39 (9.90%) Python
3 23 (5.84%) Java
4 11 (2.79%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.54%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.03%) VB
6 8 (2.03%) VB6
7 7 (1.78%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.52%) C
9 5 (1.27%) C#
9 5 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.76%) Bicep
10 3 (0.76%) Perl
10 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.51%) Bash
11 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.51%) ProC
11 2 (0.51%) REXX
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 114 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.35%) ISTQB
4 18 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.03%) ACCA
5 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.03%) CIMA
5 8 (2.03%) Degree
6 6 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.02%) SAS Certification
8 3 (0.76%) CCAB
8 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) CCNP
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CISSP
9 2 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.25%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 42 (10.66%) QA
3 7 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.02%) WCAG
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) Basel III
6 2 (0.51%) GDPR
6 2 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (4.06%) vSphere
3 14 (3.55%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.03%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.52%) Docker
7 5 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.76%) Ceph
8 3 (0.76%) Firmware
8 3 (0.76%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.03%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) Grafana
3 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 82 (20.81%) Oracle
2 57 (14.47%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.12%) VMware
4 26 (6.60%) SAP
5 20 (5.08%) Databricks
6 17 (4.31%) Denodo
7 10 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.54%) IBM
8 8 (2.03%) Cisco
8 8 (2.03%) F5
9 7 (1.78%) Actian
9 7 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.78%) Talend
10 6 (1.52%) Google
10 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.52%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.27%) Commvault
11 5 (1.27%) Veeam
12 4 (1.02%) Informatica
12 4 (1.02%) Netezza