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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 269 111 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 11.10% 10.94% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.72% 11.78% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 65 84
10th Percentile £366 £333 £356
25th Percentile £417 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £619
England median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £16.46 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 - -
75th Percentile £24.34 - -
90th Percentile £30.64 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £43.12
% change year-on-year -5.27% -41.67% -35.41%

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 2,115 942 1,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.29% 92.81% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,364 595 870
10th Percentile £313 £251 £263
25th Percentile £406 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £579
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 65
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.53 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.79 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -1 149 £487 -2.60% 6
West Yorkshire +3 108 £500 - 23
North Yorkshire -4 12 £600 +11.63% 7
East Yorkshire - 4 £295 - 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 20 (7.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.49%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (1.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.74%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.74%) OpenShift
2 53 (19.70%) Azure
3 37 (13.75%) AWS
4 35 (13.01%) GitHub
5 24 (8.92%) GCP
6 19 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.95%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.35%) SaaS
9 8 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.60%) Akamai
10 7 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.49%) OCI
12 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.12%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.04%) DNS
1 27 (10.04%) SAN
2 19 (7.06%) NAS
3 13 (4.83%) Network Security
4 12 (4.46%) iSCSI
5 8 (2.97%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (2.97%) Firewall
6 5 (1.86%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.86%) WAN
7 4 (1.49%) VLAN
8 3 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.12%) LAN
8 3 (1.12%) SSL
8 3 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (1.12%) VPN
8 3 (1.12%) VSAN
9 2 (0.74%) DKIM
9 2 (0.74%) DMARC
9 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.95%) Power BI
2 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.12%) DTS
7 3 (1.12%) Metadata
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.37%) Parquet
9 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.67%) JIRA
3 15 (5.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (3.35%) Git
5 4 (1.49%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) Flyway
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.37%) Hudson
8 1 (0.37%) LSMW
8 1 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 89 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.05%) Finance
3 47 (17.47%) Banking
4 20 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.97%) Legal
7 8 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.86%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Military
12 2 (0.74%) Retail
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (16.73%) Architect
2 34 (12.64%) Analyst
3 29 (10.78%) Lead
4 28 (10.41%) Business Analyst
5 23 (8.55%) Consultant
6 22 (8.18%) Senior
7 20 (7.43%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.46%) Technical Business Analyst
9 11 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (3.35%) Developer
10 9 (3.35%) Oracle Consultant
10 9 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (2.97%) Senior Business Analyst
11 8 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.60%) Security Specialist
13 6 (2.23%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.23%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.23%) Product Owner
14 5 (1.86%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (3.35%) YAML
3 8 (2.97%) REST
4 7 (2.60%) .NET
4 7 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.23%) LDAP
6 5 (1.86%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.86%) OAuth
7 4 (1.49%) Middleware
7 4 (1.49%) OpenID
7 4 (1.49%) SAML
8 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.74%) PySpark
8 2 (0.74%) Spring
8 2 (0.74%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
9 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.58%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (5.58%) Replication
4 12 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.09%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.60%) PKI
10 6 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.23%) EMC VMAX
11 5 (1.86%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.86%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.86%) SCORM
12 4 (1.49%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.49%) NHS
13 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.74%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.92%) Linux
2 17 (6.32%) Windows
3 13 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.46%) VMS
5 7 (2.60%) CoreOS
5 7 (2.60%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.86%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.74%) Unix
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.37%) DevOps
2 74 (27.51%) CI/CD
3 57 (21.19%) Data Migration
4 48 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (15.99%) Containerisation
6 40 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (13.38%) Data Protection
8 35 (13.01%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (12.27%) Agile
10 32 (11.90%) High Availability
11 29 (10.78%) RBAC
12 28 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (9.29%) Change Management
13 25 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.55%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (7.81%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (7.81%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.22%) Python
2 21 (7.81%) Bash
3 13 (4.83%) SQL
4 9 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.97%) Java
5 8 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.86%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.12%) C#
8 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Delphi
9 2 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) Go
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (9.29%) Degree
2 18 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.83%) OCP
3 13 (4.83%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.60%) CISM
5 7 (2.60%) CISSP
6 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.23%) PMP
7 5 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.12%) CCNP
8 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.74%) CCNA
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.74%) RHCA
9 2 (0.74%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.46%) GDPR
2 10 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.97%) QA
5 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.12%) PMO
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (10.41%) vSphere
3 23 (8.55%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (6.32%) NFS
4 17 (6.32%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.97%) Ceph
6 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.23%) Docker
7 5 (1.86%) KVM
7 5 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.12%) SRDF
9 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 77 (28.62%) Ansible
2 57 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 48 (17.84%) Terraform
4 20 (7.43%) Argo
4 20 (7.43%) vCenter Server
5 16 (5.95%) Grafana
6 7 (2.60%) SnapMirror
7 5 (1.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.49%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.12%) Foglight
9 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.74%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.74%) Puppet
10 2 (0.74%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (14.87%) VMware
2 35 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.64%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.67%) Pure Storage
5 20 (7.43%) SAP
6 18 (6.69%) NetApp
7 17 (6.32%) Splunk
8 15 (5.58%) Cisco
9 14 (5.20%) Oracle
10 13 (4.83%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.83%) Sonatype
11 10 (3.72%) Dell
12 9 (3.35%) EMC
12 9 (3.35%) Google
13 6 (2.23%) IBM
14 5 (1.86%) Brocade
14 5 (1.86%) Databricks
15 4 (1.49%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.49%) ESRI
15 4 (1.49%) HP