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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 214 155 111
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.52% 10.21% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.01% 11.25% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 78 79
10th Percentile £375 £375 £398
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.25% -5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.08% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 1
10th Percentile - £18.14 -
25th Percentile - £25.12 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -52.10% -
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £64.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -60.70% -8.57%

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 2,375 1,378 1,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.45% 90.78% 83.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 878 758
10th Percentile £344 £262 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £585
90th Percentile £669 £625 £663
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 56 47
10th Percentile £13.55 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £22.20 £22.14 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +45.95% -24.15%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £26.88
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £42.75
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -4 100 £500 -6.98% 40
South Yorkshire -12 80 £519 +22.12% 18
North Yorkshire -3 29 £458 +40.45% 4
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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 10 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.21%) Confluence
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.27%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.40%) Maximo
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.83%) Azure
2 30 (14.02%) AWS
3 23 (10.75%) Power Platform
4 22 (10.28%) OpenShift
5 12 (5.61%) GitHub
6 11 (5.14%) GCP
7 9 (4.21%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.27%) SaaS
10 6 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.80%) OCI
11 5 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.87%) Akamai
12 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.40%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.07%) DNS
2 10 (4.67%) Network Security
3 9 (4.21%) SAN
4 7 (3.27%) Firewall
4 7 (3.27%) NAS
4 7 (3.27%) VPN
5 4 (1.87%) VSAN
5 4 (1.87%) WAN
6 3 (1.40%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.93%) BGP
7 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.93%) LAN
7 2 (0.93%) MPLS
7 2 (0.93%) OSPF
7 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.47%) DWDM
8 1 (0.47%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.47%) Internet
8 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.88%) Power BI
2 14 (6.54%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.07%) Metadata
4 4 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.40%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.93%) Db2
6 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.93%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.93%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.93%) Tableau
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (7.48%) JIRA
2 14 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.61%) Git
4 4 (1.87%) Flyway
4 4 (1.87%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) git-flow
5 2 (0.93%) JUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.93%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.47%) Hudson
6 1 (0.47%) LSMW
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.30%) Finance
3 30 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.75%) Banking
5 14 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.67%) Retail
7 7 (3.27%) Legal
8 5 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.34%) Law
8 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.87%) Military
10 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.93%) Back Office
11 2 (0.93%) Front Office
11 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (15.89%) Architect
2 25 (11.68%) Senior
3 18 (8.41%) Analyst
3 18 (8.41%) Lead
3 18 (8.41%) Project Manager
4 17 (7.94%) Developer
5 14 (6.54%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.07%) Consultant
7 12 (5.61%) Java Architect
8 11 (5.14%) Administrator
9 10 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.67%) GCP Architect
9 10 (4.67%) Kubernetes Architect
9 10 (4.67%) Migration Architect
10 8 (3.74%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Product Owner
11 7 (3.27%) SharePoint Administrator
12 6 (2.80%) Migration Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.15%) Terraform
2 9 (4.21%) .NET
3 7 (3.27%) Middleware
4 6 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.34%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.34%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.87%) OAuth
7 3 (1.40%) JWT
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.40%) REST
7 3 (1.40%) Spring
7 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.40%) Web Services
8 2 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.93%) Loki
8 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.93%) PySpark
8 2 (0.93%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.07%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.07%) Replication
4 11 (5.14%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.21%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.80%) NHS
10 5 (2.34%) EMC VMAX
10 5 (2.34%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.87%) CMDB
11 4 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.87%) EMC VNX
11 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.01%) Linux
2 6 (2.80%) Windows
3 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.87%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.40%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.93%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.93%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.97%) Data Migration
2 41 (19.16%) CI/CD
2 41 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (15.89%) Validation
4 32 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (13.08%) ETL
7 27 (12.62%) DevOps
8 26 (12.15%) Agile
9 23 (10.75%) Analytics
9 23 (10.75%) Data Modelling
10 22 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (9.81%) Data Analysis
11 21 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (8.88%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (8.41%) Change Management
13 18 (8.41%) High Availability
14 17 (7.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.82%) SQL
2 24 (11.21%) Python
3 22 (10.28%) Java
4 12 (5.61%) Bash
5 9 (4.21%) C#
6 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.87%) Bicep
7 4 (1.87%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.93%) DCL
9 2 (0.93%) Korn
9 2 (0.93%) PromQL
9 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.67%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.34%) OCP
5 5 (2.34%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.87%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.87%) PMP
7 3 (1.40%) NCDA
7 3 (1.40%) NCIE
7 3 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.93%) RHCA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.47%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.47%) MBA
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.87%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) PMO
3 3 (1.40%) SLA
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) MiFID
5 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (5.14%) vSphere
4 7 (3.27%) Ceph
4 7 (3.27%) Docker
4 7 (3.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.87%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.87%) NFS
5 4 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (1.40%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.40%) KVM
6 3 (1.40%) SRDF
7 2 (0.93%) ACF2
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.93%) RACF
Systems Management
1 35 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.88%) Ansible
3 13 (6.07%) Grafana
4 11 (5.14%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.67%) Argo
6 9 (4.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.87%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (1.87%) SnapMirror
8 3 (1.40%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.40%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.40%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.93%) Consul
9 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.93%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.47%) Autotask
10 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.47%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.81%) Oracle
3 20 (9.35%) VMware
4 16 (7.48%) SAP
5 15 (7.01%) Databricks
6 13 (6.07%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.14%) Cisco
8 10 (4.67%) Pure Storage
8 10 (4.67%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.80%) Brocade
10 5 (2.34%) Dell
10 5 (2.34%) EMC
10 5 (2.34%) NetApp
11 4 (1.87%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.87%) Splunk
11 4 (1.87%) Veeam
12 3 (1.40%) Google
12 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.93%) Informatica