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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 29 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 176 81 143
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.62% 6.33% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% 7.38% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 57 109
10th Percentile £370 £296 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £587
90th Percentile £675 £703 £675
England median daily rate £515 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% -1.59% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £18.12 £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 £22.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% -67.15% +24.55%

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 1,643 1,097 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.83% 85.77% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 644 1,044
10th Percentile £238 £235 £300
25th Percentile £380 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £679 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 36 24
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.55 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%
75th Percentile £25.49 £35.00 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.88 £40.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +5 78 £519 -7.61% 84
South Yorkshire +4 78 £468 -14.91% 40
North Yorkshire +12 16 £451 +28.79% 12
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 15 (8.52%) Confluence
2 4 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.70%) Cloudability
3 3 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.89%) Azure
2 31 (17.61%) AWS
3 27 (15.34%) OpenShift
4 15 (8.52%) GCP
4 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.11%) GitHub
7 7 (3.98%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.27%) OCI
10 4 (2.27%) Serverless
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.70%) PaaS
12 2 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) Firewall
2 9 (5.11%) DNS
3 7 (3.98%) NAS
3 7 (3.98%) SAN
4 4 (2.27%) DHCP
4 4 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (2.27%) iSCSI
4 4 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.27%) WAN
5 3 (1.70%) LAN
5 3 (1.70%) NGFW
5 3 (1.70%) SSL
5 3 (1.70%) VoIP
6 2 (1.14%) Broadband
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.14%) Network Security
6 2 (1.14%) SMS
6 2 (1.14%) VSAN
6 2 (1.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Power BI
2 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.70%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.14%) Metadata
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.14%) Tableau
5 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Power Query
5 1 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.23%) JIRA
2 17 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.55%) Git
4 6 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.84%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Mocha
6 1 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.00%) Finance
3 21 (11.93%) Banking
4 19 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.84%) Legal
7 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.70%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.70%) Local Government
8 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (15.34%) Analyst
2 21 (11.93%) Business Analyst
3 20 (11.36%) Architect
4 13 (7.39%) Project Manager
5 12 (6.82%) Lead
6 10 (5.68%) Senior
7 9 (5.11%) Developer
8 7 (3.98%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (3.98%) Technical Business Analyst
9 6 (3.41%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.84%) Consultant
10 5 (2.84%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) SAP Architect
11 4 (2.27%) IT Engineer
11 4 (2.27%) Migration Manager
11 4 (2.27%) Migration Specialist
11 4 (2.27%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (2.27%) Platform Architect
11 4 (2.27%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.98%) Middleware
2 5 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.27%) Jest
3 4 (2.27%) Node.js
3 4 (2.27%) React
4 3 (1.70%) .NET
4 3 (1.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.70%) Express.js
4 3 (1.70%) LDAP
4 3 (1.70%) OAuth
4 3 (1.70%) REST
4 3 (1.70%) SAML
5 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.14%) OpenID
5 2 (1.14%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.14%) Spring
5 2 (1.14%) Web Services
5 2 (1.14%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.41%) PKI
5 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.27%) Replication
6 3 (1.70%) CMDB
6 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.70%) iPhone
6 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.70%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.09%) Windows
2 9 (5.11%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.55%) Linux
4 7 (3.98%) VMS
5 4 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.70%) Android
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.57%) CentOS
8 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.59%) Agile
1 38 (21.59%) Data Migration
1 38 (21.59%) DevOps
2 32 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 32 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (14.77%) Containerisation
5 23 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (11.93%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (10.80%) Roadmaps
8 17 (9.66%) Workflow
9 16 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (8.52%) Change Management
10 15 (8.52%) Decision-Making
11 14 (7.95%) Project Management
12 13 (7.39%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (7.39%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (6.82%) Data Modelling
13 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.66%) PowerShell
1 17 (9.66%) Python
2 11 (6.25%) Bash
3 9 (5.11%) SQL
4 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.70%) C#
6 2 (1.14%) Delphi
6 2 (1.14%) Java
6 2 (1.14%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) Bicep
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.57%) Ruby
7 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (9.66%) SC Cleared
1 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.39%) Degree
3 7 (3.98%) CISM
3 7 (3.98%) CISSP
4 4 (2.27%) OCP
4 4 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.27%) PMP
5 3 (1.70%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) CCIE
7 1 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 4 (2.27%) GDPR
3 3 (1.70%) PMO
4 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.14%) COBIT
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.55%) Docker
3 8 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.41%) VMware NSX
4 6 (3.41%) vSphere
5 4 (2.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.57%) Ceph
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) QEMU
6 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (19.89%) Ansible
2 26 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.64%) Terraform
4 5 (2.84%) Grafana
4 5 (2.84%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.70%) vRealize
6 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.14%) Argo
6 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.57%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) SCOM
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.93%) SAP
3 14 (7.95%) VMware
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle
5 8 (4.55%) F5
6 6 (3.41%) Dell
6 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.41%) Sonatype
7 5 (2.84%) Cisco
7 5 (2.84%) IBM
7 5 (2.84%) NetApp
7 5 (2.84%) Pure Storage
8 4 (2.27%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.27%) Databricks
8 4 (2.27%) EMC
8 4 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.70%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.14%) HP
10 2 (1.14%) Sage
10 2 (1.14%) Xero