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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 417 194 150
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.64% 10.64% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.73% 11.92% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 128 107
10th Percentile £363 £300 £348
25th Percentile £425 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -0.29% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £625
90th Percentile £709 £725 £730
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £20.07 - -
25th Percentile £21.17 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% - -
75th Percentile £38.38 - -
90th Percentile £47.60 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 3,038 1,628 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.81% 89.25% 82.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 1,041 976
10th Percentile £315 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 109 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £28.09 £23.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -4.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +6 136 £515 +3.00% 20
Birmingham +4 113 £500 -7.41% 75
Warwickshire 0 63 £500 -13.04% 20
Staffordshire +2 24 £713 +58.33% 6
Coventry -14 24 £413 +15.79% 16
Wolverhampton +6 18 - - 4
Worcestershire +10 9 £450 - 17
Dudley - 4 £375 -
Solihull -19 2 £475 -9.52% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £425 -
Herefordshire -2 1 - - 5
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 56 (13.43%) SAS
2 28 (6.71%) Confluence
3 17 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.44%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.48%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.20%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (4.32%) Unit4 Business World
2 16 (3.84%) Teamcenter
3 14 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.96%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 119 (28.54%) Azure
2 103 (24.70%) AWS
3 26 (6.24%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (3.36%) GCP
6 13 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.88%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.40%) OCI
9 9 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (2.16%) GitHub
9 9 (2.16%) OpenShift
9 9 (2.16%) PaaS
10 8 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.92%) Serverless
11 7 (1.68%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.68%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.44%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.32%) DNS
2 11 (2.64%) DHCP
2 11 (2.64%) Network Security
3 7 (1.68%) DMZ
3 7 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (1.68%) SAN
4 6 (1.44%) Firewall
5 5 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.20%) PuTTY
5 5 (1.20%) VSAN
5 5 (1.20%) WinSCP
6 4 (0.96%) NAS
6 4 (0.96%) NX-OS
6 4 (0.96%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.72%) BGP
7 3 (0.72%) TACACS
8 2 (0.48%) LAN
8 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (19.66%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (9.11%) Data Lake
3 29 (6.95%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (5.28%) Power BI
5 21 (5.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 19 (4.56%) Base SAS
7 18 (4.32%) Metadata
7 18 (4.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 16 (3.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.12%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.64%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.64%) Pentaho
10 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.16%) Ingres
13 8 (1.92%) MySQL
14 7 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.44%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.96%) DataStage
16 4 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 60 (14.39%) JIRA
2 36 (8.63%) Git
3 27 (6.47%) Zephyr
4 23 (5.52%) Postman
5 17 (4.08%) GitLab
6 8 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.68%) Selenium
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.72%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.48%) Hudson
12 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.24%) JUnit
12 1 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 103 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 65 (15.59%) Finance
4 41 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (2.88%) Police
7 11 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.40%) Banking
9 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.92%) Retail
10 7 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.68%) Legal
11 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.72%) Billing
12 3 (0.72%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.72%) Local Government
12 3 (0.72%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Military
12 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (17.27%) Architect
2 59 (14.15%) Senior
3 55 (13.19%) Data Engineer
4 34 (8.15%) Analyst
4 34 (8.15%) Lead
5 31 (7.43%) Data Architect
6 29 (6.95%) Developer
7 23 (5.52%) Project Manager
8 20 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (4.56%) Accountant
9 19 (4.56%) Systems Accountant
10 18 (4.32%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.08%) SAS Architect
12 13 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.12%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.12%) Tester
13 12 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.88%) Test Analyst
14 11 (2.64%) QA Tester
15 10 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.52%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (4.80%) REST
3 17 (4.08%) Terraform
4 12 (2.88%) SOAP
5 6 (1.44%) PySpark
6 5 (1.20%) .NET
6 5 (1.20%) ADO
6 5 (1.20%) COM
6 5 (1.20%) ODBC
6 5 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.96%) JSON
8 3 (0.72%) JMS
8 3 (0.72%) Playwright
8 3 (0.72%) YAML
9 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.48%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.48%) React
9 2 (0.48%) SAP Core Interface
9 2 (0.48%) SAPUI5
9 2 (0.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.19%) Data Structures
2 29 (6.95%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (6.24%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.12%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.64%) Low-Code
9 10 (2.40%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.92%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.96%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.91%) Windows
2 17 (4.08%) Unix
3 14 (3.36%) Linux
3 14 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.68%) AIX
5 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.96%) Solaris
6 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.48%) SUSE
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) HPUX
8 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (29.50%) Data Migration
2 100 (23.98%) Agile
3 86 (20.62%) ETL
4 82 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (18.94%) Validation
6 68 (16.31%) DevOps
7 67 (16.07%) CI/CD
8 64 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (14.39%) Analytics
10 58 (13.91%) Data Modelling
11 57 (13.67%) Test Automation
12 49 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (10.31%) Lakehouse
13 43 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 42 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 41 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (8.15%) Integration Testing
18 33 (7.91%) Data Integration
19 32 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (17.27%) SQL
2 38 (9.11%) Python
3 23 (5.52%) Java
4 16 (3.84%) PL/SQL
5 11 (2.64%) Shell Script
6 8 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.92%) VB
6 8 (1.92%) VB6
7 7 (1.68%) C
7 7 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.96%) C#
9 3 (0.72%) Perl
9 3 (0.72%) REXX
9 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.48%) Bash
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.48%) ProC
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 134 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 121 (29.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.76%) ISTQB
4 15 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.16%) Degree
6 8 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.96%) ACCA
8 4 (0.96%) CIMA
8 4 (0.96%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.72%) CCAB
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) CCNP
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CISSP
10 2 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.47%) Data Quality
2 40 (9.59%) QA
3 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.72%) Basel III
5 2 (0.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) PMO
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (3.84%) vSphere
3 15 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.92%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.68%) Docker
6 7 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.20%) Ceph
7 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.72%) Firmware
8 3 (0.72%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.24%) NFS
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.92%) Ansible
3 5 (1.20%) Grafana
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.48%) Check_MK
5 2 (0.48%) Control-M
5 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.48%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.24%) vMotion
Vendors
1 92 (22.06%) Oracle
2 59 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.67%) VMware
4 22 (5.28%) SAP
5 20 (4.80%) Databricks
5 20 (4.80%) Denodo
6 10 (2.40%) IBM
6 10 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.16%) Cisco
7 9 (2.16%) Informatica
8 8 (1.92%) Talend
9 7 (1.68%) Actian
9 7 (1.68%) F5
10 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.44%) SYSPRO
11 5 (1.20%) Commvault
11 5 (1.20%) Google
11 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.20%) Veeam