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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 260 90 118
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 11.69% 9.69% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.14% 10.50% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 58 73
10th Percentile £366 £263 £354
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £625 £638 £588
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% +2.44% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £19.37 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.45% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £26.88 £46.23
% change year-on-year -11.35% -41.87% -26.03%

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 1,978 857 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.94% 92.25% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 539 895
10th Percentile £313 £252 £259
25th Percentile £404 £362 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 32 57
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.59 £11.22
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.93 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.36 £21.69 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% +60.67% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £30.10 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £91.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +5 142 £487 -2.60% 15
West Yorkshire -3 101 £500 +1.01% 24
North Yorkshire -1 12 £600 +11.63% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £295 -
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 22 (8.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.54%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.15%) Cloudability
3 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.77%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.77%) OpenShift
2 52 (20.00%) Azure
3 39 (15.00%) AWS
4 35 (13.46%) GitHub
5 26 (10.00%) GCP
6 25 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (6.54%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.46%) SaaS
10 7 (2.69%) Akamai
10 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.54%) OCI
12 4 (1.54%) PaaS
12 4 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.15%) DNS
2 22 (8.46%) SAN
3 15 (5.77%) NAS
4 13 (5.00%) Network Security
5 11 (4.23%) iSCSI
6 10 (3.85%) Firewall
7 7 (2.69%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (2.69%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.69%) WAN
8 5 (1.92%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.92%) LAN
9 4 (1.54%) DHCP
9 4 (1.54%) VLAN
10 3 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.15%) SSL
10 3 (1.15%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (1.15%) VoIP
10 3 (1.15%) VPN
11 2 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.54%) Power BI
2 10 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.15%) DTS
6 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.77%) Metadata
7 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (16.92%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.85%) JIRA
3 17 (6.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (3.08%) Git
5 4 (1.54%) GitLab
6 3 (1.15%) Flyway
7 1 (0.38%) LSMW
7 1 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 91 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.31%) Finance
3 46 (17.69%) Banking
4 20 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.69%) Legal
7 7 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.92%) General Ledger
8 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Law
10 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (16.92%) Architect
2 35 (13.46%) Analyst
3 31 (11.92%) Business Analyst
4 25 (9.62%) Lead
5 20 (7.69%) Consultant
5 20 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 16 (6.15%) Senior
7 14 (5.38%) Technical Business Analyst
8 13 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
9 11 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.69%) Developer
10 7 (2.69%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) Oracle Consultant
10 7 (2.69%) Security Specialist
11 6 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Migration Manager
11 6 (2.31%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (1.92%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (3.46%) YAML
3 8 (3.08%) REST
4 7 (2.69%) .NET
4 7 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.31%) LDAP
6 5 (1.92%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.92%) OAuth
7 4 (1.54%) Middleware
7 4 (1.54%) OpenID
7 4 (1.54%) SAML
8 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.77%) PySpark
8 2 (0.77%) Spring
8 2 (0.77%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.38%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.38%) Jest
9 1 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.62%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.23%) Replication
6 9 (3.46%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.69%) PKI
9 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.92%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.92%) SCORM
11 4 (1.54%) CMDB
11 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.54%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.54%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.54%) NHS
12 3 (1.15%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.46%) Linux
2 20 (7.69%) Windows
3 11 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.23%) VMS
4 7 (2.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.92%) CoreOS
5 5 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.15%) Android
7 2 (0.77%) Unix
8 1 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.38%) DevOps
2 70 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 47 (18.08%) Data Migration
4 44 (16.92%) Containerisation
4 44 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (12.69%) Agile
5 33 (12.69%) Data Protection
6 31 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (11.54%) High Availability
8 28 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (8.85%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.46%) Change Management
11 22 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (7.69%) RBAC
12 20 (7.69%) Risk Management
12 20 (7.69%) Software Delivery
13 19 (7.31%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.08%) Python
2 21 (8.08%) Bash
3 14 (5.38%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.23%) SQL
5 8 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.31%) Java
7 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.15%) C#
10 2 (0.77%) Delphi
10 2 (0.77%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (9.23%) Degree
2 15 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.62%) OCP
3 12 (4.62%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (2.69%) CISM
4 7 (2.69%) CISSP
4 7 (2.69%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.92%) PMP
7 3 (1.15%) CCNP
7 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.77%) CCNA
8 2 (0.77%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.77%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.77%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.38%) CEH
9 1 (0.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.23%) GDPR
2 9 (3.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.46%) QA
3 8 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.77%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (10.00%) vSphere
3 17 (6.54%) VMware NSX
4 15 (5.77%) NFS
4 15 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.85%) Active Directory
6 7 (2.69%) Docker
7 5 (1.92%) KVM
8 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.77%) SRDF
10 1 (0.38%) Ceph
10 1 (0.38%) Firmware
10 1 (0.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 77 (29.62%) Ansible
2 53 (20.38%) Kubernetes
3 45 (17.31%) Terraform
4 18 (6.92%) vCenter Server
5 16 (6.15%) Argo
6 15 (5.77%) Grafana
7 5 (1.92%) SnapMirror
8 4 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.15%) Foglight
9 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.77%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.77%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.77%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) Istio
11 1 (0.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (13.85%) VMware
2 33 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 31 (11.92%) Red Hat
4 24 (9.23%) Pure Storage
5 20 (7.69%) SAP
6 18 (6.92%) Splunk
7 15 (5.77%) NetApp
7 15 (5.77%) Sonatype
8 12 (4.62%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.23%) Cisco
10 10 (3.85%) Oracle
11 9 (3.46%) Google
12 8 (3.08%) Dell
13 6 (2.31%) EMC
13 6 (2.31%) IBM
14 5 (1.92%) Databricks
15 4 (1.54%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.54%) ESRI
15 4 (1.54%) F5
15 4 (1.54%) HP