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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Migration 358 121 109
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.10% 8.58% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.22% 9.66% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 79 91
10th Percentile £350 £323 £363
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +3.30%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £644
90th Percentile £678 £658 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £19.34 - -
25th Percentile £19.82 - -
Median hourly rate £23.83 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £39.45 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 2,708 1,252 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.79% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,754 813 1,077
10th Percentile £313 £200 £267
25th Percentile £404 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £750
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 63 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.14 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.38 £40.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +6 103 £470 +4.68% 8
Birmingham +8 100 £482 -8.19% 15
Warwickshire -5 60 £550 +4.76% 8
Coventry +3 38 £475 +18.75% 1
Staffordshire +1 9 £431 +7.81% 3
Wolverhampton - 8 - - 4
Solihull -15 4 £268 -35.81%
Worcestershire - 4 £638 - 2
Dudley - 3 £400 -
Herefordshire - 3 £375 -
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 48 (13.41%) SAS
2 33 (9.22%) Confluence
3 16 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.84%) Apache
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.40%) Notepad++
3 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (4.47%) Teamcenter
2 11 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.28%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.46%) AWS
2 74 (20.67%) Azure
3 23 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.03%) OpenShift
5 12 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (3.07%) GCP
7 10 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.51%) GitHub
8 9 (2.51%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.23%) PaaS
9 8 (2.23%) Serverless
10 7 (1.96%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.68%) dbt
12 5 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.40%) IaaS
13 3 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.51%) DNS
2 7 (1.96%) SAN
3 5 (1.40%) PuTTY
3 5 (1.40%) WinSCP
4 4 (1.12%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.12%) DHCP
4 4 (1.12%) NAS
5 3 (0.84%) Firewall
6 2 (0.56%) SSL
6 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.56%) WAAS
7 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.28%) Modbus
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) SMS
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (7.82%) Oracle Reports
3 22 (6.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 19 (5.31%) Power BI
5 13 (3.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 12 (3.35%) Metadata
7 9 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.51%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.96%) Base SAS
9 7 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.12%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.12%) Pentaho
12 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.84%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 61 (17.04%) JIRA
2 29 (8.10%) Zephyr
3 23 (6.42%) Git
3 23 (6.42%) Postman
4 14 (3.91%) GitLab
5 8 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.68%) Selenium
7 4 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.56%) Hudson
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.28%) GoCD
10 1 (0.28%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.28%) MSI
10 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 103 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.72%) Finance
3 46 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 41 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.19%) Police
7 14 (3.91%) Banking
8 11 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.51%) Local Government
10 7 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.68%) Retail
12 4 (1.12%) Legal
13 3 (0.84%) Law
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.56%) Billing
14 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (14.53%) Architect
2 49 (13.69%) Analyst
3 40 (11.17%) Senior
4 29 (8.10%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 26 (7.26%) Developer
7 22 (6.15%) Business Analyst
8 17 (4.75%) Data Architect
8 17 (4.75%) Tester
9 16 (4.47%) QA Tester
9 16 (4.47%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.63%) Accountant
10 13 (3.63%) Systems Accountant
10 13 (3.63%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.35%) Test Analyst
12 11 (3.07%) Lead
12 11 (3.07%) Release Manager
12 11 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.79%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.79%) REST
2 9 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.51%) Middleware
3 4 (1.12%) .NET
3 4 (1.12%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.12%) SOAP
4 3 (0.84%) JMS
4 3 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.56%) ActiveX
5 2 (0.56%) ADO
5 2 (0.56%) COM
5 2 (0.56%) ODBC
5 2 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.28%) CSS
6 1 (0.28%) HTML
6 1 (0.28%) JDBC
6 1 (0.28%) JSP
6 1 (0.28%) Servlets
6 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.10%) Cloud Native
1 29 (8.10%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (3.63%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.23%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.12%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.12%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.12%) PKI
9 4 (1.12%) SCADA
10 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.84%) Clustering
10 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.59%) Windows
2 19 (5.31%) Unix
3 13 (3.63%) Linux
4 10 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.84%) AIX
8 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) HPUX
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (25.98%) Data Migration
2 90 (25.14%) Agile
3 68 (18.99%) DevOps
4 66 (18.44%) ETL
5 65 (18.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (16.48%) Validation
7 58 (16.20%) CI/CD
8 56 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (14.53%) Analytics
10 48 (13.41%) Data Modelling
11 44 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 34 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (8.66%) Integration Testing
15 29 (8.10%) Data Integration
15 29 (8.10%) End-to-End Testing
15 29 (8.10%) Scenario Testing
15 29 (8.10%) System Testing
16 28 (7.82%) Test Scripting
17 27 (7.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (17.60%) SQL
2 35 (9.78%) Python
3 13 (3.63%) Bash
4 11 (3.07%) Java
5 9 (2.51%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.84%) Bicep
8 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.84%) Perl
8 3 (0.84%) REXX
8 3 (0.84%) VB
9 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.56%) VB6
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) C#
10 1 (0.28%) C++
10 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 97 (27.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.31%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.19%) Degree
5 11 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.96%) CISSP
6 7 (1.96%) IIBA
7 6 (1.68%) CCNP
8 5 (1.40%) CISM
8 5 (1.40%) PMP
9 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.84%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.94%) QA
2 30 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.91%) GDPR
4 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.12%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) Basel III
5 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.56%) WCAG
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (4.19%) Docker
2 13 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.07%) vSphere
4 7 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.40%) Ceph
5 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.84%) Firmware
6 3 (0.84%) PowerHA
6 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.56%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.28%) KVM
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.28%) NFS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.91%) Ansible
3 13 (3.63%) Terraform
4 9 (2.51%) Grafana
5 7 (1.96%) Kibana
5 7 (1.96%) Puppet
6 5 (1.40%) SCCM
7 4 (1.12%) Argo
7 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.56%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.28%) Control-M
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 68 (18.99%) Oracle
2 53 (14.80%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.03%) Databricks
4 18 (5.03%) SAP
5 15 (4.19%) Splunk
6 14 (3.91%) VMware
7 11 (3.07%) Denodo
8 9 (2.51%) Cisco
8 9 (2.51%) Talend
9 8 (2.23%) Informatica
10 7 (1.96%) OutSystems
11 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.12%) F5
12 4 (1.12%) IBM
12 4 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.12%) Sage