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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 214 74 132
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.57% 7.87% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.84% 8.90% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 54 89
10th Percentile £366 £263 £374
25th Percentile £417 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -10.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £591
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £36.12 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.30% -45.00% -38.46%

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 1,808 831 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.33% 88.40% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 505 996
10th Percentile £304 £232 £263
25th Percentile £403 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 49
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.09
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £15.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +80.56% +43.27%
75th Percentile £52.38 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £58.00 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 12 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Yorkshire

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 12 February 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
South Yorkshire +2 118 £482 -8.19% 24
West Yorkshire +1 81 £525 -4.55% 26
North Yorkshire +2 9 £700 +69.70% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 22 (10.28%) Confluence
2 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.40%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.87%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.87%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.40%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.93%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.77%) OpenShift
2 39 (18.22%) Azure
3 34 (15.89%) AWS
4 25 (11.68%) GitHub
5 23 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.94%) GCP
7 15 (7.01%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.14%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.80%) OCI
9 6 (2.80%) SaaS
10 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.87%) Serverless
12 3 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.40%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.01%) DNS
2 13 (6.07%) NAS
2 13 (6.07%) SAN
3 10 (4.67%) Firewall
4 6 (2.80%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (2.80%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.80%) Network Security
4 6 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.80%) WAN
5 5 (2.34%) Kerberos
5 5 (2.34%) LAN
6 4 (1.87%) DHCP
7 3 (1.40%) SSL
7 3 (1.40%) VLAN
7 3 (1.40%) VoIP
8 2 (0.93%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.93%) DWDM
8 2 (0.93%) SMTP
8 2 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.01%) Power BI
2 5 (2.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) Power Query
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.68%) JIRA
3 16 (7.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (2.34%) Git
5 2 (0.93%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 77 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 54 (25.23%) Finance
3 38 (17.76%) Banking
4 16 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.34%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Legal
8 4 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (17.29%) Analyst
2 34 (15.89%) Architect
3 32 (14.95%) Business Analyst
4 22 (10.28%) Project Manager
5 18 (8.41%) Consultant
6 15 (7.01%) Senior
7 13 (6.07%) Lead
7 13 (6.07%) Technical Business Analyst
8 12 (5.61%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.80%) IT Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.80%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.34%) Developer
11 5 (2.34%) Migration Consultant
11 5 (2.34%) Migration Manager
11 5 (2.34%) Migration Project Manager
11 5 (2.34%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.21%) YAML
2 8 (3.74%) REST
3 7 (3.27%) LDAP
3 7 (3.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.80%) .NET
4 6 (2.80%) OAuth
5 5 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.34%) SAML
6 4 (1.87%) Middleware
6 4 (1.87%) OpenID
7 3 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.93%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.93%) Spring
8 2 (0.93%) Web Services
8 2 (0.93%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.47%) Jest
9 1 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.21%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.21%) Replication
6 6 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.80%) PKI
7 5 (2.34%) SCORM
8 4 (1.87%) CMDB
8 4 (1.87%) NHS
8 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.40%) iPhone
9 3 (1.40%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.40%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.54%) Linux
2 13 (6.07%) Windows
3 8 (3.74%) VMS
4 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.40%) Android
7 2 (0.93%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.47%) CentOS
8 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (29.44%) DevOps
2 55 (25.70%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.36%) Agile
5 35 (16.36%) Containerisation
5 35 (16.36%) Data Migration
6 27 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
7 26 (12.15%) Data Protection
7 26 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (10.28%) Change Management
9 21 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (9.35%) High Availability
11 19 (8.88%) Roadmaps
11 19 (8.88%) Software Delivery
11 19 (8.88%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
12 18 (8.41%) Decision-Making
12 18 (8.41%) Process Improvement
13 17 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.95%) Python
2 14 (6.54%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.07%) Bash
4 7 (3.27%) SQL
5 5 (2.34%) Java
6 3 (1.40%) C#
6 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.93%) Delphi
7 2 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Korn
8 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.81%) Degree
2 11 (5.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.74%) CISM
3 8 (3.74%) CISSP
4 7 (3.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.80%) OCP
5 6 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.34%) PMP
7 3 (1.40%) CCNP
7 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.40%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CCNA
8 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.93%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.93%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) GDPR
2 11 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.27%) QA
5 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (6.54%) vSphere
2 13 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.14%) NFS
3 11 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.21%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.21%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.74%) Docker
6 3 (1.40%) KVM
7 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.47%) Ceph
8 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.47%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 61 (28.50%) Ansible
2 41 (19.16%) Kubernetes
3 35 (16.36%) Terraform
4 9 (4.21%) Grafana
4 9 (4.21%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.74%) Argo
6 4 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.47%) Podman
8 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.28%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.88%) VMware
4 16 (7.48%) SAP
5 14 (6.54%) Sonatype
6 13 (6.07%) Pure Storage
7 12 (5.61%) NetApp
8 11 (5.14%) Splunk
9 9 (4.21%) Oracle
10 7 (3.27%) Cisco
11 6 (2.80%) EMC
11 6 (2.80%) IBM
12 5 (2.34%) Dell
12 5 (2.34%) Google
12 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.87%) ESRI
13 4 (1.87%) F5
14 3 (1.40%) Isilon
15 2 (0.93%) Infoblox
15 2 (0.93%) SevOne