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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 255 130 127
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.89% 8.90% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.61% 10.03% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 98 101
10th Percentile £313 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £663 £700 £750
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.85 -
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.24 -
90th Percentile £38.60 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.30% -45.00% -40.74%

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 2,197 1,296 1,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.19% 88.77% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 809 1,037
10th Percentile £290 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 51 110
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.74 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.24 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -12.00% +29.94%
75th Percentile £26.98 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £33.20 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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
Birmingham -4 81 £475 -9.52% 19
Shropshire -5 53 £500 -10.95% 7
Warwickshire +6 50 £575 -8.00% 7
Coventry 0 25 £363 -32.56% 8
Staffordshire +2 12 £400 - 1
Herefordshire -13 7 £375 - 2
Solihull -1 6 £347 -29.21% 3
Wolverhampton +3 3 - - 1
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Worcestershire -15 1 £650 +62.50% 2
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 25 (9.80%) SAS
2 16 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.31%) Confluence
4 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.39%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.57%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 47 (18.43%) Azure
2 42 (16.47%) AWS
3 17 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.27%) GCP
5 12 (4.71%) GitHub
5 12 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.35%) dbt
9 6 (2.35%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.18%) Intacct
11 3 (1.18%) PaaS
11 3 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) DNS
2 7 (2.75%) BIG-IP
2 7 (2.75%) SSL
3 6 (2.35%) HTTP
3 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.96%) DMZ
4 5 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (1.96%) Firewall
4 5 (1.96%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) SAN
6 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.39%) SMS
6 1 (0.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.02%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (6.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 7 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.75%) Power BI
3 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.18%) Ingres
5 3 (1.18%) Metadata
5 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) MySQL
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.45%) JIRA
2 6 (2.35%) Git
2 6 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.96%) Fiddler
3 5 (1.96%) GitLab
4 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.78%) Gatling
5 2 (0.78%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.78%) JUnit
5 2 (0.78%) Maven
5 2 (0.78%) Mockito
5 2 (0.78%) MSI
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.39%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.39%) GoCD
6 1 (0.39%) Hudson
6 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.49%) Finance
3 34 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.71%) Police
7 9 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.14%) Banking
8 8 (3.14%) Local Government
9 7 (2.75%) Law
10 5 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.96%) Legal
10 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Billing
11 3 (1.18%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 38 (14.90%) Analyst
2 28 (10.98%) Architect
3 24 (9.41%) Business Analyst
4 19 (7.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (7.45%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (6.27%) Senior
6 15 (5.88%) Release Manager
7 14 (5.49%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.49%) Site Engineer
8 13 (5.10%) Engagement Manager
9 12 (4.71%) Consultant
9 12 (4.71%) Lead
10 11 (4.31%) Accountant
10 11 (4.31%) Systems Accountant
11 10 (3.92%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.53%) SAP Manager
13 8 (3.14%) Data Analyst
13 8 (3.14%) Migration Analyst
13 8 (3.14%) Project Accountant
13 8 (3.14%) SAP Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.75%) Middleware
3 5 (1.96%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.96%) SAML
3 5 (1.96%) Spring
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.57%) Playwright
4 4 (1.57%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.18%) .NET
5 3 (1.18%) HTML
5 3 (1.18%) JDBC
5 3 (1.18%) JSON
5 3 (1.18%) OAuth
5 3 (1.18%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.18%) OpenID
5 3 (1.18%) React
5 3 (1.18%) REST
6 2 (0.78%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.78%) ODBC
6 2 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.63%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.24%) Onboarding
3 20 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.35%) PKI
6 5 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.39%) CMDB
10 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) HP Storage
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.45%) Windows
2 17 (6.67%) Linux
3 14 (5.49%) Unix
4 12 (4.71%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 57 (22.35%) Data Migration
3 51 (20.00%) DevOps
4 50 (19.61%) Agile
5 47 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (17.65%) Validation
7 43 (16.86%) CI/CD
8 42 (16.47%) Change Management
9 40 (15.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 32 (12.55%) Data Modelling
11 29 (11.37%) Project Management
12 28 (10.98%) Analytics
13 26 (10.20%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.80%) ERP
15 22 (8.63%) Observability
15 22 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (8.24%) Knowledge Transfer
17 20 (7.84%) Data Ingestion
17 20 (7.84%) Data Integration
17 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.16%) Python
2 28 (10.98%) SQL
3 21 (8.24%) Bash
4 11 (4.31%) Java
5 7 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.96%) Bicep
7 3 (1.18%) VB
8 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.78%) VB6
8 2 (0.78%) VBScript
9 1 (0.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 52 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.24%) Degree
4 16 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.75%) IIBA
6 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.96%) CISM
7 5 (1.96%) CISSP
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.18%) ACCA
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) CCNP
9 3 (1.18%) CIMA
9 3 (1.18%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.39%) CCSA
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.06%) QA
2 13 (5.10%) GDPR
3 11 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 3 (1.18%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (9.02%) Docker
2 17 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.75%) vSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.39%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) KVM
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.98%) Ansible
3 26 (10.20%) Kibana
4 14 (5.49%) Puppet
5 10 (3.92%) Terraform
6 9 (3.53%) SCCM
7 7 (2.75%) Grafana
7 7 (2.75%) logstash
8 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.18%) Argo
10 3 (1.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
12 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.98%) Oracle
2 28 (10.98%) Splunk
3 17 (6.67%) SAP
4 16 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.92%) VMware
6 7 (2.75%) F5
7 6 (2.35%) Cisco
7 6 (2.35%) NetApp
7 6 (2.35%) Workday
8 5 (1.96%) Blue Coat
8 5 (1.96%) Databricks
8 5 (1.96%) McAfee
9 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.57%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.57%) Okta
9 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.57%) Sage
10 3 (1.18%) Cognos
11 2 (0.78%) Citrix