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

 6 months to
21 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 386 134 127
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.70% 9.12% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 10.28% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 87 93
10th Percentile £350 £320 £363
25th Percentile £405 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £597 £638
90th Percentile £713 £638 £825
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 2,799 1,304 1,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.82% 88.77% 81.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,840 824 1,102
10th Percentile £313 £201 £271
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -3.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £737
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 79 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.22 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.34% +7.64% -4.70%
75th Percentile £61.00 £32.82 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +8 123 £475 +5.56% 6
Birmingham +6 98 £475 -9.52% 24
Warwickshire -2 70 £550 - 11
Coventry +2 37 £475 +18.75% 2
Wolverhampton - 11 - - 5
Staffordshire -2 7 £475 +18.75% 4
Worcestershire +1 4 £638 - 1
Herefordshire -4 3 £375 -
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Solihull -22 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 62 (16.06%) SAS
2 32 (8.29%) Confluence
3 22 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.55%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.78%) Apache
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.30%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.15%) Teamcenter
2 11 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.07%) Unit4 Business World
4 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 104 (26.94%) AWS
2 95 (24.61%) Azure
3 20 (5.18%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.63%) GCP
6 13 (3.37%) GitHub
6 13 (3.37%) Serverless
7 12 (3.11%) PaaS
8 11 (2.85%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.07%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.07%) Azure Storage
12 7 (1.81%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.55%) dbt
13 6 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.85%) DNS
2 7 (1.81%) SAN
3 5 (1.30%) DHCP
3 5 (1.30%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.30%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.04%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.04%) NAS
5 3 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.52%) 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 (18.13%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.29%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (7.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.40%) Power BI
6 16 (4.15%) Base SAS
6 16 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.63%) Oracle Database
8 13 (3.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.11%) Metadata
10 11 (2.85%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.59%) Ingres
11 10 (2.59%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.07%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.30%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.04%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (15.80%) JIRA
2 36 (9.33%) Git
3 32 (8.29%) Zephyr
4 26 (6.74%) Postman
5 14 (3.63%) GitLab
6 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.81%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.55%) Selenium
9 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.26%) Gatling
10 1 (0.26%) Hudson
10 1 (0.26%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.26%) MSI
10 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 101 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.69%) Finance
3 62 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 44 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.89%) Police
7 14 (3.63%) Banking
7 14 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.33%) Local Government
9 8 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.07%) Retail
10 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.52%) Billing
13 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (16.06%) Architect
2 53 (13.73%) Senior
3 48 (12.44%) Analyst
4 36 (9.33%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.25%) Developer
6 27 (6.99%) Project Manager
7 24 (6.22%) Data Architect
8 21 (5.44%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.92%) Tester
10 18 (4.66%) QA Tester
11 17 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.15%) Accountant
12 16 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.15%) Systems Accountant
12 16 (4.15%) Technical Architect
13 15 (3.89%) SAS Architect
14 14 (3.63%) Lead
14 14 (3.63%) Release Manager
15 12 (3.11%) Test Analyst
16 10 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.59%) REST
2 8 (2.07%) Middleware
3 7 (1.81%) ADO
3 7 (1.81%) COM
3 7 (1.81%) ODBC
4 6 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.04%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.04%) SOAP
6 3 (0.78%) JMS
6 3 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.52%) .NET
7 2 (0.52%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.52%) PySpark
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 30 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
2 29 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.37%) Low-Code
4 12 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.04%) SCADA
10 3 (0.78%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.78%) Clustering
10 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.70%) Windows
2 16 (4.15%) Unix
3 11 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.59%) Linux
5 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.78%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) 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
1 103 (26.68%) Data Migration
2 100 (25.91%) Agile
3 71 (18.39%) DevOps
3 71 (18.39%) ETL
4 68 (17.62%) Validation
5 64 (16.58%) CI/CD
6 63 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 60 (15.54%) Analytics
8 58 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 48 (12.44%) Data Modelling
11 42 (10.88%) User Acceptance Testing
12 39 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 35 (9.07%) Integration Testing
14 34 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (8.29%) Data Integration
15 32 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (8.29%) End-to-End Testing
15 32 (8.29%) Integration Patterns
16 31 (8.03%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.43%) SQL
2 36 (9.33%) Python
3 11 (2.85%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.59%) Java
5 9 (2.33%) Bash
5 9 (2.33%) VB
6 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.07%) VB6
7 7 (1.81%) C
8 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.04%) Bicep
10 3 (0.78%) Perl
10 3 (0.78%) REXX
11 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.52%) ProC
11 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 125 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 114 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.70%) ISTQB
4 11 (2.85%) Degree
5 8 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.81%) IIBA
7 6 (1.55%) CCNP
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.04%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.78%) CISSP
9 3 (0.78%) PMP
9 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.52%) ACCA
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.52%) CCAB
10 2 (0.52%) CIMA
11 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.10%) Data Quality
1 39 (10.10%) QA
2 12 (3.11%) GDPR
3 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) Basel III
4 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) PMO
5 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.11%) vSphere
4 11 (2.85%) Docker
5 7 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.30%) Ceph
8 3 (0.78%) Firmware
8 3 (0.78%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.26%) NFS
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.37%) Terraform
3 8 (2.07%) Ansible
3 8 (2.07%) Grafana
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.30%) SCCM
6 4 (1.04%) Kibana
6 4 (1.04%) Puppet
6 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.52%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.26%) Control-M
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (22.02%) Oracle
2 55 (14.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.70%) Databricks
4 20 (5.18%) SAP
5 19 (4.92%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.15%) VMware
7 13 (3.37%) Denodo
8 12 (3.11%) Splunk
9 9 (2.33%) Cisco
9 9 (2.33%) Talend
10 8 (2.07%) Informatica
11 7 (1.81%) Actian
11 7 (1.81%) OutSystems
12 5 (1.30%) F5
12 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.04%) Pure Storage
13 4 (1.04%) Sage
55 Migration jobs in the West Midlands