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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 233 166 131
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.16% 11.29% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.62% 12.27% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 85 97
10th Percentile £400 £374 £368
25th Percentile £425 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £626
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 1
10th Percentile - £16.89 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £25.07 £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% -0.37%

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 2,423 1,353 1,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.81% 92.04% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 849 809
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £407
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 £675 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 50
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.58 -
25th Percentile £16.82 £18.39 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £21.88
90th Percentile £43.96 £34.04 £35.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 £500 -4.76% 29
South Yorkshire -8 100 £514 +14.60% 12
North Yorkshire -3 30 £460 +2.22% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 £295 - 3
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 11 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.43%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.29%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.75%) Azure
2 40 (17.17%) OpenShift
3 31 (13.30%) AWS
4 21 (9.01%) GitHub
5 17 (7.30%) GCP
6 16 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (3.43%) SaaS
8 8 (3.43%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.00%) Akamai
10 5 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.44%) DNS
2 18 (7.73%) SAN
3 13 (5.58%) Network Security
4 8 (3.43%) NAS
5 6 (2.58%) Firewall
5 6 (2.58%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.58%) VPN
6 4 (1.72%) WAN
7 3 (1.29%) BGP
8 2 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.86%) LAN
8 2 (0.86%) MPLS
8 2 (0.86%) OSPF
8 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.86%) VSAN
9 1 (0.43%) Broadband
9 1 (0.43%) DHCP
9 1 (0.43%) DWDM
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.01%) Power BI
1 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.86%) Metadata
4 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.29%) DTS
6 3 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.86%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.86%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.43%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 28 (12.02%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.01%) JIRA
3 12 (5.15%) Git
4 6 (2.58%) Flyway
4 6 (2.58%) GitLab
5 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.86%) git-flow
5 2 (0.86%) JUnit
5 2 (0.86%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.86%) Mockito
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Hudson
6 1 (0.43%) LSMW
General
1 73 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.60%) Finance
3 34 (14.59%) Banking
4 28 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.86%) Legal
7 6 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.15%) Retail
9 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.72%) Law
9 4 (1.72%) Military
10 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (18.88%) Architect
2 25 (10.73%) Lead
3 17 (7.30%) Senior
4 16 (6.87%) Developer
5 15 (6.44%) Analyst
6 14 (6.01%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.58%) Consultant
8 12 (5.15%) Administrator
8 12 (5.15%) Java Architect
9 10 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.29%) GCP Architect
9 10 (4.29%) Kubernetes Architect
9 10 (4.29%) Migration Architect
10 9 (3.86%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.43%) DBA
11 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.00%) Product Owner
12 7 (3.00%) Security Specialist
12 7 (3.00%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.72%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (3.86%) .NET
3 6 (2.58%) Middleware
4 4 (1.72%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.72%) AWS CDK
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.29%) OAuth
5 3 (1.29%) REST
5 3 (1.29%) Spring
5 3 (1.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.29%) Web Services
6 2 (0.86%) Drools
6 2 (0.86%) JPA
6 2 (0.86%) JWT
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (0.86%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.86%) Spring Security
6 2 (0.86%) Swagger
6 2 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.58%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.58%) Replication
5 11 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (3.43%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (2.15%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.72%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.72%) NHS
9 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.87%) Linux
2 12 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (5.15%) Windows
3 9 (3.86%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (3.43%) VMS
5 7 (3.00%) CoreOS
6 5 (2.15%) Unix
7 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.86%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.90%) Data Migration
2 52 (22.32%) CI/CD
3 41 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (17.17%) DevOps
5 35 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (14.16%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (14.16%) Performance Tuning
7 32 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (11.59%) Agile
9 26 (11.16%) High Availability
10 25 (10.73%) ETL
10 25 (10.73%) Validation
11 24 (10.30%) Change Management
11 24 (10.30%) Data Protection
12 23 (9.87%) Containerisation
13 21 (9.01%) Data Modelling
13 21 (9.01%) RBAC
14 19 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.15%) Data Analysis
15 18 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.59%) Python
2 31 (13.30%) SQL
3 23 (9.87%) Java
4 18 (7.73%) Bash
5 10 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.43%) C#
7 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.72%) Bicep
8 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.86%) DCL
10 2 (0.86%) PromQL
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.58%) Degree
4 11 (4.72%) OCP
4 11 (4.72%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.72%) PMP
8 3 (1.29%) NCDA
8 3 (1.29%) NCIE
9 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.86%) RHCA
10 1 (0.43%) CEH
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) MBA
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
10 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (0.86%) GDPR
3 2 (0.86%) PMO
3 2 (0.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) MiFID
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (10.73%) vSphere
3 22 (9.44%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (5.58%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.86%) NFS
6 7 (3.00%) Ceph
6 7 (3.00%) Docker
7 6 (2.58%) KVM
8 5 (2.15%) SRDF
8 5 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
9 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
10 3 (1.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.43%) ACF2
12 1 (0.43%) Firmware
12 1 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 47 (20.17%) Kubernetes
2 36 (15.45%) Ansible
3 34 (14.59%) Terraform
4 18 (7.73%) Argo
4 18 (7.73%) Grafana
4 18 (7.73%) vCenter Server
5 9 (3.86%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.86%) SnapMirror
6 4 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.72%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.29%) Foglight
7 3 (1.29%) Puppet
7 3 (1.29%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.86%) Consul
8 2 (0.86%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.86%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.86%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 38 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.02%) VMware
3 20 (8.58%) Red Hat
4 19 (8.15%) Oracle
4 19 (8.15%) Pure Storage
5 18 (7.73%) ServiceNow
6 15 (6.44%) SAP
7 14 (6.01%) Cisco
8 13 (5.58%) Databricks
9 10 (4.29%) NetApp
9 10 (4.29%) Splunk
10 8 (3.43%) Dell
11 7 (3.00%) Google
12 6 (2.58%) Brocade
13 5 (2.15%) EMC
14 4 (1.72%) 3PAR
14 4 (1.72%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.72%) HP
14 4 (1.72%) Veeam
15 3 (1.29%) Salesforce