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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 217 157 115
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.59% 10.29% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 11.29% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 79 83
10th Percentile £375 £375 £390
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -3.41% -6.82%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £634
England median daily rate £525 £515 £530
% change year-on-year +1.94% -2.83% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 1
10th Percentile - £17.52 -
25th Percentile - £25.09 £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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -3.57%

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 2,389 1,391 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.56% 91.15% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 884 779
10th Percentile £335 £263 £318
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 £575 £550 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £667
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 59 51
10th Percentile £13.91 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £22.20 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £28.13 £25.15 £23.50
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -7 102 £500 -6.98% 24
South Yorkshire -14 83 £514 +20.94% 14
North Yorkshire -4 28 £458 +40.45% 6
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 (4.61%) Confluence
1 10 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.38%) Maximo
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.96%) Azure
2 32 (14.75%) AWS
3 23 (10.60%) OpenShift
4 22 (10.14%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.53%) GCP
5 12 (5.53%) GitHub
6 8 (3.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (3.69%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.23%) SaaS
8 6 (2.76%) OCI
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.84%) Akamai
10 4 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.38%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) DNS
2 12 (5.53%) SAN
3 10 (4.61%) Network Security
4 8 (3.69%) NAS
5 7 (3.23%) Firewall
5 7 (3.23%) VPN
6 4 (1.84%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.84%) VSAN
6 4 (1.84%) WAN
7 2 (0.92%) BGP
7 2 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.92%) LAN
7 2 (0.92%) MPLS
7 2 (0.92%) OSPF
7 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.46%) DWDM
8 1 (0.46%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.46%) Internet
8 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.29%) Power BI
2 14 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.99%) Metadata
4 12 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.92%) Db2
8 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.92%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.92%) DTS
8 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.92%) Tableau
9 1 (0.46%) Parquet
9 1 (0.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (7.37%) JIRA
2 15 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.99%) Git
4 5 (2.30%) Flyway
4 5 (2.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.92%) git-flow
5 2 (0.92%) JUnit
5 2 (0.92%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.92%) Mockito
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.46%) Hudson
6 1 (0.46%) LSMW
6 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.50%) Finance
3 31 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.06%) Banking
5 14 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.15%) Retail
7 8 (3.69%) Legal
8 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.30%) Law
8 5 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.84%) Military
10 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) Back Office
11 2 (0.92%) Front Office
11 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.46%) Automotive
12 1 (0.46%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (15.67%) Architect
2 25 (11.52%) Senior
3 19 (8.76%) Lead
4 18 (8.29%) Developer
4 18 (8.29%) Project Manager
5 17 (7.83%) Analyst
6 14 (6.45%) Consultant
6 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.53%) Java Architect
8 11 (5.07%) Administrator
9 10 (4.61%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.61%) GCP Architect
9 10 (4.61%) Kubernetes Architect
9 10 (4.61%) Migration Architect
10 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.23%) DBA
11 7 (3.23%) Product Owner
11 7 (3.23%) SharePoint Administrator
12 6 (2.76%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.98%) Terraform
2 9 (4.15%) .NET
3 7 (3.23%) Middleware
4 6 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.84%) OAuth
7 3 (1.38%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.38%) JWT
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.38%) REST
7 3 (1.38%) Spring
7 3 (1.38%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.38%) Web Services
8 2 (0.92%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.92%) Loki
8 2 (0.92%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.92%) PySpark
8 2 (0.92%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.45%) Replication
3 13 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.76%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.76%) NHS
8 5 (2.30%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.84%) CMDB
9 4 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.84%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.83%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Windows
3 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.30%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (1.84%) VMS
6 3 (1.38%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.92%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.46%) CentOS
8 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 42 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 40 (18.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (15.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (15.21%) Validation
6 32 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (12.90%) Agile
7 28 (12.90%) DevOps
7 28 (12.90%) ETL
8 23 (10.60%) Data Modelling
8 23 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (10.14%) Analytics
10 21 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (9.68%) Data Analysis
10 21 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (8.76%) Data Protection
11 19 (8.76%) High Availability
12 18 (8.29%) Change Management
12 18 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.59%) SQL
2 25 (11.52%) Python
3 22 (10.14%) Java
4 12 (5.53%) Bash
5 9 (4.15%) C#
6 7 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.84%) Bicep
7 4 (1.84%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.92%) DCL
9 2 (0.92%) Korn
9 2 (0.92%) PromQL
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.46%) Perl
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.07%) Degree
4 7 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.76%) OCP
5 6 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.84%) PMP
8 3 (1.38%) NCDA
8 3 (1.38%) NCIE
8 3 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.92%) RHCA
10 1 (0.46%) CCNA
10 1 (0.46%) CCNP
10 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.46%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.46%) MBA
10 1 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.84%) QA
3 3 (1.38%) PMO
3 3 (1.38%) SLA
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.92%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.91%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (5.07%) vSphere
4 7 (3.23%) Ceph
4 7 (3.23%) Docker
4 7 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.30%) NFS
6 4 (1.84%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.38%) KVM
7 3 (1.38%) SRDF
7 3 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.92%) ACF2
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.92%) RACF
Systems Management
1 35 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.22%) Ansible
3 13 (5.99%) Grafana
4 10 (4.61%) Argo
4 10 (4.61%) vCenter Server
5 9 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.30%) SnapMirror
7 4 (1.84%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (1.84%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.38%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.38%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.92%) Consul
9 2 (0.92%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.92%) Foglight
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.92%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.46%) Autotask
10 1 (0.46%) Control-M
Vendors
1 41 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.68%) Oracle
2 21 (9.68%) VMware
3 15 (6.91%) Databricks
3 15 (6.91%) SAP
4 14 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.53%) Cisco
6 11 (5.07%) Pure Storage
6 11 (5.07%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.76%) Brocade
7 6 (2.76%) Dell
7 6 (2.76%) NetApp
8 5 (2.30%) EMC
9 4 (1.84%) 3PAR
9 4 (1.84%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.84%) Google
9 4 (1.84%) Splunk
9 4 (1.84%) Veeam
10 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.92%) Remedy