Migration Contracts in the West Midlands

Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 126 121 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.68% 5.99% 9.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.79% 7.29% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 90 151
10th Percentile £315 £361 £313
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £523 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +3.47% +2.02%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £653 £850 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.00
25th Percentile - - £25.63
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £84.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.46% +150.00%

All Process and 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 1,287 1,659 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 82.13% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 1,106 1,313
10th Percentile £202 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £619
90th Percentile £660 £731 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 118 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.11 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.31 £14.03
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +30.43%
75th Percentile £31.00 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £47.50
England median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.29% +4.17% +40.19%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the West Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 11 June 2025. 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
Warwickshire +2 45 £550 -18.52% 12
Birmingham +9 40 £525 +10.53% 62
Coventry +12 12 £400 -15.79% 10
Shropshire - 10 £449 - 8
Solihull +14 6 £453 -14.82% 8
Staffordshire +6 5 £400 +6.67% 8
Worcestershire -1 1 - - 2
Walsall -1 1 - -
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.59%) IBM Notes
4 2 (1.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.79%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.38%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) Azure
2 24 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 19 (15.08%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (10.32%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.73%) AWS
6 9 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.76%) SaaS
9 5 (3.97%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.38%) Collibra
11 3 (2.38%) GCP
11 3 (2.38%) IaaS
11 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.59%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (4.76%) WAN
3 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.17%) Network Security
4 4 (3.17%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.38%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.38%) LAN
5 3 (2.38%) VPN
6 2 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.59%) MPLS
6 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.59%) VoIP
6 2 (1.59%) Wireless
7 1 (0.79%) DKIM
7 1 (0.79%) DMARC
7 1 (0.79%) Intranet
7 1 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.70%) Power BI
2 7 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.38%) GIS
5 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.59%) Metadata
6 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.59%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.59%) Tableau
7 1 (0.79%) DataStage
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.79%) QlikView
7 1 (0.79%) QualityStage
7 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.38%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (0.79%) GitLab
3 1 (0.79%) NUnit
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.63%) Finance
3 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.73%) Law
6 5 (3.97%) Legal
7 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Analyst
2 19 (15.08%) Architect
3 17 (13.49%) Project Manager
4 13 (10.32%) Senior
5 9 (7.14%) Consultant
6 8 (6.35%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) Lead
7 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Developer
7 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Test Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Applications Architect
10 4 (3.17%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.76%) LDAP
2 3 (2.38%) .NET
2 3 (2.38%) Kafka
2 3 (2.38%) React
3 2 (1.59%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.59%) CSS
3 2 (1.59%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.79%) ADO
4 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.79%) EDI
4 1 (0.79%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.79%) OLE
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.79%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.79%) XML
4 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Data Structures
2 12 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.73%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.56%) IoT
5 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.97%) SCADA
6 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.17%) Blockchain
7 4 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.59%) Replication
9 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.79%) CCTV
10 1 (0.79%) CMDB
10 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
3 3 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.98%) Data Migration
2 28 (22.22%) Agile
3 19 (15.08%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (12.70%) Data Governance
5 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (10.32%) DevOps
6 13 (10.32%) ITIL
6 13 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.52%) Change Management
7 12 (9.52%) Data Integration
8 11 (8.73%) Validation
9 10 (7.94%) Data Modelling
9 10 (7.94%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.14%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.14%) Data Protection
10 9 (7.14%) ETL
10 9 (7.14%) Project Management
10 9 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (7.14%) Waterfall
11 8 (6.35%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.87%) SQL
2 13 (10.32%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.94%) Python
4 5 (3.97%) C#
5 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.38%) Groovy
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.59%) Perl
6 2 (1.59%) PHP
6 2 (1.59%) R
6 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) Java
7 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.59%) CCIE
3 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.59%) Degree
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) MCSE
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
2 5 (3.97%) PMO
3 4 (3.17%) QA
4 2 (1.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.79%) COBIT
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.76%) SCCM
3 5 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.38%) Terraform
5 2 (1.59%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.59%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.59%) Grafana
5 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.79%) CASB
6 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 13 (10.32%) Oracle
4 10 (7.94%) SAP
5 8 (6.35%) Cisco
6 6 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.76%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.17%) Databricks
7 4 (3.17%) Denodo
8 3 (2.38%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.38%) F5
8 3 (2.38%) Informatica
8 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.59%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.59%) Google
9 2 (1.59%) OpenText
9 2 (1.59%) Remedy
9 2 (1.59%) VMware