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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 146 85 147
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.08% 6.19% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 7.30% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 58 116
10th Percentile £304 £317 £394
25th Percentile £406 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £577 £573 £587
90th Percentile £684 £670 £681
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £19.06 £15.95 -
25th Percentile - £21.41 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% - -
75th Percentile - £45.26 -
90th Percentile - £51.86 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -49.25% +29.59%

All Process and 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 1,619 1,165 1,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 84.79% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 671 1,075
10th Percentile £252 £260 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.63 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £28.39
90th Percentile £78.63 £38.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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
West Yorkshire -4 71 £525 -4.55% 57
South Yorkshire +5 56 £450 -14.29% 5
North Yorkshire +12 15 £451 +28.79% 10
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 12 (8.22%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) HCL Domino
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.68%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.12%) AWS
1 25 (17.12%) Azure
2 11 (7.53%) GCP
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.79%) GitHub
4 7 (4.79%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.11%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.74%) OCI
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.05%) Serverless
9 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.37%) Datadog
9 2 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.96%) Firewall
2 9 (6.16%) DNS
3 6 (4.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.74%) DHCP
4 4 (2.74%) WAN
5 3 (2.05%) LAN
5 3 (2.05%) NAS
5 3 (2.05%) NGFW
5 3 (2.05%) SAN
5 3 (2.05%) VoIP
6 2 (1.37%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.37%) Broadband
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.37%) Network Security
6 2 (1.37%) SMS
6 2 (1.37%) VSAN
6 2 (1.37%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.79%) Power BI
2 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.05%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.37%) Metadata
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.37%) Tableau
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Power Query
5 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.27%) JIRA
3 9 (6.16%) Git
4 4 (2.74%) GitLab
4 4 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.05%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) Log4j
General
1 53 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.60%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.70%) Banking
4 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.42%) Legal
6 4 (2.74%) Local Government
7 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (16.44%) Analyst
2 16 (10.96%) Architect
3 15 (10.27%) Business Analyst
4 7 (4.79%) Data Analyst
4 7 (4.79%) Developer
4 7 (4.79%) Lead
4 7 (4.79%) Migration Specialist
4 7 (4.79%) Project Manager
5 6 (4.11%) Senior
5 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (3.42%) Administrator
6 5 (3.42%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (3.42%) SAP Architect
6 5 (3.42%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (2.74%) IT Engineer
7 4 (2.74%) Migration Manager
7 4 (2.74%) Scrum Master
7 4 (2.74%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.74%) Middleware
3 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.05%) Express.js
3 3 (2.05%) Jest
3 3 (2.05%) Node.js
3 3 (2.05%) React
4 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.37%) LDAP
4 2 (1.37%) OAuth
4 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.37%) SAML
4 2 (1.37%) Web Services
5 1 (0.68%) JDBC
5 1 (0.68%) JMS
5 1 (0.68%) JNDI
5 1 (0.68%) Kafka
5 1 (0.68%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.68%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.68%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.79%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.79%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.11%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.74%) NHS
6 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.05%) CMDB
7 3 (2.05%) iPhone
7 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.37%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.01%) Windows
2 12 (8.22%) Linux
3 8 (5.48%) Windows 10
3 8 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.05%) Android
6 2 (1.37%) Unix
6 2 (1.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) AIX
7 1 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.68%) Solaris
7 1 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.03%) Data Migration
2 32 (21.92%) Agile
3 29 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (16.44%) DevOps
6 22 (15.07%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (14.38%) CI/CD
8 18 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (11.64%) Workflow
10 15 (10.27%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.90%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.53%) Workflow Management
13 10 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (6.85%) Decision-Making
13 10 (6.85%) ITIL
13 10 (6.85%) Scrum
14 9 (6.16%) ETL
14 9 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (6.16%) Test Strategy
14 9 (6.16%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.01%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.33%) Python
3 12 (8.22%) SQL
4 9 (6.16%) Bash
5 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.11%) Degree
4 3 (2.05%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CCIE
6 1 (0.68%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (0.68%) CCNP
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISM
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) PMP
6 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.79%) QA
3 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.37%) COBIT
4 2 (1.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.11%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.11%) vSphere
4 5 (3.42%) Docker
5 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.68%) Ceph
7 1 (0.68%) KVM
7 1 (0.68%) QEMU
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.68%) XenApp
7 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (17.12%) Ansible
2 14 (9.59%) Terraform
3 9 (6.16%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.42%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.74%) Puppet
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.05%) vRealize
7 2 (1.37%) Argo
7 2 (1.37%) Grafana
7 2 (1.37%) SCOM
7 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Podman
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.64%) SAP
3 16 (10.96%) VMware
4 8 (5.48%) F5
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle
4 8 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco
5 5 (3.42%) Databricks
6 4 (2.74%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.74%) Sonatype
7 3 (2.05%) CloudEndure
7 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.37%) Dell
8 2 (1.37%) HP
8 2 (1.37%) NetScout
8 2 (1.37%) Sage
8 2 (1.37%) Xero