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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 220 162 117
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.69% 10.62% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 11.61% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 80 84
10th Percentile £367 £375 £391
25th Percentile £413 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -6.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £632
England median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 1
10th Percentile - £17.52 -
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.09 £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% -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 2,398 1,395 1,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.79% 91.48% 83.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 883 770
10th Percentile £325 £263 £320
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 £580
90th Percentile £668 £625 £676
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 62 52
10th Percentile £14.55 £16.58 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.39 £12.45
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £29.94 £25.15 £22.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 -9 99 £490 -7.98% 16
South Yorkshire -9 87 £512 +20.47% 13
North Yorkshire -2 31 £459 +40.83% 6
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 10 (4.55%) Confluence
1 10 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.18%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.64%) Azure
2 30 (13.64%) AWS
3 25 (11.36%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.55%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.82%) GCP
6 13 (5.91%) GitHub
7 10 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.18%) SaaS
10 6 (2.73%) Akamai
10 6 (2.73%) OCI
11 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.36%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.27%) SAN
2 15 (6.82%) DNS
3 11 (5.00%) Network Security
4 8 (3.64%) NAS
5 6 (2.73%) Firewall
5 6 (2.73%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.73%) VPN
6 4 (1.82%) VSAN
6 4 (1.82%) WAN
7 2 (0.91%) BGP
7 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.91%) LAN
7 2 (0.91%) MPLS
7 2 (0.91%) OSPF
7 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.45%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Power BI
2 13 (5.91%) Metadata
2 13 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.36%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.91%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.91%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.91%) DTS
7 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.91%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Power Query
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.27%) JIRA
3 13 (5.91%) Git
4 5 (2.27%) Flyway
4 5 (2.27%) GitLab
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) git-flow
5 2 (0.91%) JUnit
5 2 (0.91%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.91%) Mockito
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Hudson
6 1 (0.45%) LSMW
General
1 63 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.18%) Finance
3 31 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.64%) Banking
5 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.64%) Legal
7 7 (3.18%) Retail
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Law
8 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.82%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) Back Office
10 2 (0.91%) Front Office
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (15.91%) Architect
2 22 (10.00%) Senior
3 20 (9.09%) Lead
4 18 (8.18%) Developer
5 17 (7.73%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.82%) Analyst
7 13 (5.91%) Consultant
7 13 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.45%) Administrator
8 12 (5.45%) Java Architect
9 10 (4.55%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.55%) GCP Architect
9 10 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.55%) Kubernetes Architect
9 10 (4.55%) Migration Architect
10 7 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) DBA
10 7 (3.18%) Product Owner
10 7 (3.18%) SharePoint Administrator
11 6 (2.73%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.73%) Terraform
2 9 (4.09%) .NET
3 6 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.27%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.27%) ASP.NET
4 5 (2.27%) Middleware
5 4 (1.82%) OAuth
5 4 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.36%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.36%) JWT
6 3 (1.36%) REST
6 3 (1.36%) Spring
6 3 (1.36%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.36%) Web Services
7 2 (0.91%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.91%) JDBC
7 2 (0.91%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.91%) PySpark
7 2 (0.91%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.91%) Replication
4 12 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (3.64%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.64%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.27%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.27%) NHS
10 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.82%) CMDB
11 4 (1.82%) EMC VNX
11 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.55%) Linux
2 12 (5.45%) Windows
3 10 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.18%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (2.73%) VMS
6 5 (2.27%) CoreOS
6 5 (2.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.91%) OpenVMS
7 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.18%) Data Migration
2 48 (21.82%) CI/CD
3 38 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (15.45%) DevOps
7 32 (14.55%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (14.09%) Validation
9 27 (12.27%) ETL
10 25 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 24 (10.91%) Agile
11 24 (10.91%) Data Modelling
12 22 (10.00%) Analytics
13 21 (9.55%) Data Analysis
14 20 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (9.09%) Data Protection
14 20 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (8.18%) Change Management
16 18 (8.18%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.00%) SQL
2 26 (11.82%) Python
3 22 (10.00%) Java
4 12 (5.45%) Bash
5 9 (4.09%) C#
5 9 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.82%) Bicep
6 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.91%) DCL
8 2 (0.91%) Korn
8 2 (0.91%) PromQL
9 1 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.00%) Degree
4 8 (3.64%) OCP
4 8 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.82%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.82%) PMP
8 3 (1.36%) NCDA
8 3 (1.36%) NCIE
8 3 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.91%) RHCA
10 1 (0.45%) CCNA
10 1 (0.45%) CCNP
10 1 (0.45%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.45%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.45%) MBA
10 1 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.36%) GDPR
3 3 (1.36%) PMO
3 3 (1.36%) QA
4 2 (0.91%) MiFID
4 2 (0.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (7.73%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (5.91%) vSphere
4 7 (3.18%) Ceph
4 7 (3.18%) Docker
4 7 (3.18%) NFS
4 7 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.27%) SRDF
6 4 (1.82%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.36%) KVM
7 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.45%) ACF2
9 1 (0.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 37 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.36%) Ansible
3 13 (5.91%) Grafana
4 10 (4.55%) Argo
4 10 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 9 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.18%) SnapMirror
7 4 (1.82%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.82%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (1.36%) Puppet
8 3 (1.36%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.91%) Consul
9 2 (0.91%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.91%) Foglight
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.91%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 41 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.36%) VMware
3 22 (10.00%) Oracle
4 15 (6.82%) Databricks
4 15 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.36%) Cisco
6 13 (5.91%) Red Hat
7 11 (5.00%) Pure Storage
8 10 (4.55%) SAP
9 8 (3.64%) Dell
9 8 (3.64%) NetApp
10 6 (2.73%) Brocade
10 6 (2.73%) Google
11 5 (2.27%) EMC
11 5 (2.27%) Splunk
12 4 (1.82%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.82%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.82%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.82%) HP
12 4 (1.82%) Veeam