Migration Contracts in West Yorkshire

Migration
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 58 89 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.43% 9.13% 9.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.35% 10.50% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 109
10th Percentile £263 £380 £350
25th Percentile £401 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £619 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 511 848 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.91% 86.97% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 497 969
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £544 £585 £619
90th Percentile £600 £661 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.35%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in West Yorkshire

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in West Yorkshire

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in West Yorkshire

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in West Yorkshire

Migration
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Leeds -13 41 £500 - 41
Halifax - 10 £600 -
Wakefield +11 1 £400 +11.50% 8
Bradford +5 1 £495 -2.46% 8
Migration
Yorkshire

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) IaaS
3 2 (3.45%) Azure
3 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.72%) Miro
4 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.72%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.72%) NAS
3 1 (1.72%) SAN
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (1.72%) WAN
3 1 (1.72%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Looker
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.72%) DBeaver
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Firewall Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Architect
2 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Engineering Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Migration Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Applications Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Migration Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Kafka
1 2 (3.45%) REST
1 2 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (1.72%) Ajax
2 1 (1.72%) LDAP
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) SAML
2 1 (1.72%) SOAP
2 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (13.79%) Data Structures
3 7 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.17%) NHS
5 2 (3.45%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.45%) IoT
5 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.72%) Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.72%) HPUX
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Data Migration
2 15 (25.86%) Agile
3 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (15.52%) Network Management
4 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.79%) Microservices
5 8 (13.79%) SOA
6 7 (12.07%) Server Management
7 6 (10.34%) Data Analysis
7 6 (10.34%) ETL
7 6 (10.34%) Security Management
8 5 (8.62%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (8.62%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.90%) Incident Management
9 4 (6.90%) SQL Optimisation
9 4 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (6.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (5.17%) Project Planning
10 3 (5.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) SQL
2 10 (17.24%) PL/SQL
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.34%) Perl
5 4 (6.90%) Groovy
6 2 (3.45%) C++
6 2 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Grafana
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 10 (17.24%) Cisco
3 9 (15.52%) CheckPoint
4 5 (8.62%) SAP
5 4 (6.90%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.17%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) Aruba
7 1 (1.72%) Brio
7 1 (1.72%) Confluent
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.72%) HP
7 1 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) Splunk
7 1 (1.72%) Sun
7 1 (1.72%) Unisys