Migration Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Migration
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 231 166 116
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.03% 10.96% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 11.98% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 81 85
10th Percentile £375 £375 £393
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -6.82%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.11% -2.94% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £17.52 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.09 £48.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -52.10% -
75th Percentile £24.29 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -2.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,420 1,386 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.09% 91.55% 83.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 867 768
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £621 £655
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 64 51
10th Percentile £14.45 £16.73 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.47 £12.35
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £28.13 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £72.63 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Migration job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Yorkshire

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Migration

Migration
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
West Yorkshire -8 103 £490 -6.67% 26
South Yorkshire -5 95 £514 +20.94% 15
North Yorkshire -3 30 £460 +41.21% 7
East Yorkshire - 2 £295 - 4
Migration
England

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 10 (4.33%) Confluence
1 10 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.30%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.38%) Azure
2 31 (13.42%) AWS
3 29 (12.55%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.93%) GCP
6 15 (6.49%) GitHub
7 11 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.90%) SaaS
9 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.46%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.03%) Akamai
11 6 (2.60%) OCI
12 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
14 3 (1.30%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.79%) DNS
2 16 (6.93%) SAN
3 12 (5.19%) Network Security
4 8 (3.46%) NAS
5 6 (2.60%) Firewall
5 6 (2.60%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.60%) VPN
6 4 (1.73%) VSAN
6 4 (1.73%) WAN
7 3 (1.30%) BGP
8 2 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.87%) LAN
8 2 (0.87%) MPLS
8 2 (0.87%) OSPF
8 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.43%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.79%) Power BI
2 14 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.63%) Metadata
4 12 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.30%) DTS
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.30%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.87%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.87%) Tableau
9 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.43%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 22 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.49%) JIRA
3 14 (6.06%) Git
4 6 (2.60%) Flyway
4 6 (2.60%) GitLab
5 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.87%) git-flow
5 2 (0.87%) JUnit
5 2 (0.87%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.87%) Mockito
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Hudson
6 1 (0.43%) LSMW
General
1 66 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.08%) Finance
3 32 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.85%) Banking
4 15 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.90%) Legal
6 6 (2.60%) Law
6 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Retail
7 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.73%) Military
8 2 (0.87%) Back Office
8 2 (0.87%) Front Office
8 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.45%) Architect
2 23 (9.96%) Lead
3 22 (9.52%) Senior
4 17 (7.36%) Developer
5 16 (6.93%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.06%) Consultant
7 13 (5.63%) Analyst
7 13 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) Java Architect
9 11 (4.76%) Administrator
10 10 (4.33%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.33%) GCP Architect
10 10 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Kubernetes Architect
10 10 (4.33%) Migration Architect
11 8 (3.46%) DBA
12 7 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.03%) Product Owner
12 7 (3.03%) Security Specialist
12 7 (3.03%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.46%) .NET
2 7 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (2.60%) Middleware
4 4 (1.73%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.73%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.73%) AWS CDK
4 4 (1.73%) OAuth
4 4 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.30%) JWT
5 3 (1.30%) REST
5 3 (1.30%) Spring
5 3 (1.30%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.30%) Web Services
6 2 (0.87%) Drools
6 2 (0.87%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.87%) Jasypt
6 2 (0.87%) JPA
6 2 (0.87%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.87%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.87%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.63%) Replication
4 12 (5.19%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.46%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.73%) EMC VNX
11 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.73%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.09%) Linux
2 12 (5.19%) Windows
3 10 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.03%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (2.60%) VMS
6 5 (2.16%) CoreOS
6 5 (2.16%) Unix
7 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.87%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 51 (22.08%) CI/CD
3 38 (16.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (15.58%) DevOps
6 33 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 29 (12.55%) Validation
8 28 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (12.12%) ETL
9 25 (10.82%) Agile
10 24 (10.39%) Data Modelling
11 22 (9.52%) Analytics
11 22 (9.52%) Data Protection
11 22 (9.52%) High Availability
12 20 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (8.23%) Change Management
13 19 (8.23%) Data Analysis
13 19 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (7.79%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.72%) SQL
2 30 (12.99%) Python
3 22 (9.52%) Java
4 15 (6.49%) Bash
5 10 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.46%) C#
7 4 (1.73%) Bicep
7 4 (1.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.87%) DCL
9 2 (0.87%) Korn
9 2 (0.87%) PromQL
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.19%) Degree
4 9 (3.90%) OCP
4 9 (3.90%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.73%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.73%) PMP
7 4 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.30%) NCDA
8 3 (1.30%) NCIE
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) RHCA
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) MBA
10 1 (0.43%) PgMP
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) PMO
3 3 (1.30%) QA
4 2 (0.87%) MiFID
4 2 (0.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (11.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.79%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (6.93%) vSphere
4 9 (3.90%) VMware NSX
5 7 (3.03%) Ceph
5 7 (3.03%) Docker
5 7 (3.03%) NFS
6 5 (2.16%) KVM
6 5 (2.16%) SRDF
7 4 (1.73%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.43%) ACF2
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 39 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.42%) Terraform
3 29 (12.55%) Ansible
4 14 (6.06%) Grafana
5 13 (5.63%) vCenter Server
6 12 (5.19%) Argo
7 9 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.03%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.73%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.73%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.30%) Foglight
10 3 (1.30%) Puppet
10 3 (1.30%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.87%) Consul
11 2 (0.87%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.87%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 41 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.12%) VMware
3 22 (9.52%) Oracle
4 16 (6.93%) Databricks
4 16 (6.93%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.06%) Cisco
5 14 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.63%) Pure Storage
6 13 (5.63%) SAP
7 8 (3.46%) Dell
7 8 (3.46%) NetApp
8 6 (2.60%) Brocade
8 6 (2.60%) Google
8 6 (2.60%) Splunk
9 5 (2.16%) EMC
10 4 (1.73%) 3PAR
10 4 (1.73%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.73%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.73%) HP
10 4 (1.73%) Veeam