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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 149 82 147
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.24% 6.03% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 7.10% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 56 116
10th Percentile £304 £316 £379
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £587
90th Percentile £685 £675 £681
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £18.89 £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 £23.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -64.62% +25.73%

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 1,625 1,155 1,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.83% 84.93% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 665 1,081
10th Percentile £250 £236 £294
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £664 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 38 25
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.96
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% +15.24%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £41.50 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +1 73 £525 -6.50% 43
South Yorkshire -2 55 £450 -15.29% 13
North Yorkshire +11 17 £451 +28.79% 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 12 (8.05%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.34%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.12%) AWS
1 27 (18.12%) Azure
2 11 (7.38%) GCP
3 8 (5.37%) GitHub
3 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.03%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.68%) OCI
6 4 (2.68%) Serverless
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.34%) Datadog
8 2 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.74%) Firewall
2 9 (6.04%) DNS
3 6 (4.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.68%) DHCP
4 4 (2.68%) WAN
5 3 (2.01%) LAN
5 3 (2.01%) NAS
5 3 (2.01%) NGFW
5 3 (2.01%) SAN
5 3 (2.01%) VoIP
6 2 (1.34%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.34%) Broadband
6 2 (1.34%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.34%) Network Security
6 2 (1.34%) SMS
6 2 (1.34%) VSAN
6 2 (1.34%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.67%) VLAN
7 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.37%) Power BI
2 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.01%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.34%) Metadata
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.34%) Tableau
5 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Power Query
5 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.07%) JIRA
3 10 (6.71%) Git
4 5 (3.36%) GitLab
5 4 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.01%) Postman
7 1 (0.67%) Log4j
7 1 (0.67%) Mocha
General
1 55 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.49%) Finance
3 21 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Banking
5 6 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.03%) Legal
5 6 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.01%) Local Government
6 3 (2.01%) Retail
7 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (15.44%) Analyst
2 16 (10.74%) Architect
3 15 (10.07%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.04%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.37%) Developer
6 7 (4.70%) Lead
7 6 (4.03%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.03%) Migration Specialist
7 6 (4.03%) Senior
7 6 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.03%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Administrator
8 5 (3.36%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) SAP Architect
8 5 (3.36%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (2.68%) Consultant
9 4 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Scrum Master
9 4 (2.68%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.68%) Jest
2 4 (2.68%) Middleware
2 4 (2.68%) Node.js
3 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.01%) Express.js
3 3 (2.01%) React
4 2 (1.34%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.34%) LDAP
4 2 (1.34%) OAuth
4 2 (1.34%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.34%) SAML
4 2 (1.34%) Web Services
5 1 (0.67%) JDBC
5 1 (0.67%) JMS
5 1 (0.67%) JNDI
5 1 (0.67%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.67%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.70%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.68%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.01%) CMDB
7 3 (2.01%) iPhone
7 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Windows
2 11 (7.38%) Linux
3 8 (5.37%) Windows 10
3 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.01%) Android
6 2 (1.34%) Unix
6 2 (1.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) AIX
7 1 (0.67%) CentOS
7 1 (0.67%) Solaris
7 1 (0.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.50%) Data Migration
2 34 (22.82%) Agile
3 30 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (18.12%) DevOps
5 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.11%) CI/CD
7 22 (14.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (10.74%) Workflow
10 15 (10.07%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.72%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.05%) Workflow Management
13 11 (7.38%) ITIL
14 10 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (6.71%) Decision-Making
14 10 (6.71%) Scrum
15 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure Automation
15 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (6.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.75%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.08%) Python
3 10 (6.71%) SQL
4 9 (6.04%) Bash
5 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.67%) Bicep
6 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.67%) Java
6 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) Degree
4 3 (2.01%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CCIE
6 1 (0.67%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (0.67%) CCNP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CISM
6 1 (0.67%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) PMP
6 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.34%) COBIT
3 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.34%) GDPR
3 2 (1.34%) PMO
4 1 (0.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.03%) Docker
3 6 (4.03%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.03%) vSphere
4 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.67%) Ceph
6 1 (0.67%) KVM
6 1 (0.67%) QEMU
6 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.67%) XenApp
6 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.78%) Ansible
2 14 (9.40%) Terraform
3 10 (6.71%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.36%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.68%) Puppet
6 3 (2.01%) Grafana
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.01%) vRealize
7 2 (1.34%) Argo
7 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Podman
8 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.67%) SCCM
8 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.08%) SAP
3 16 (10.74%) VMware
4 8 (5.37%) F5
4 8 (5.37%) Oracle
4 8 (5.37%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.36%) Cisco
5 5 (3.36%) Databricks
6 4 (2.68%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.68%) Sonatype
7 3 (2.01%) CloudEndure
7 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.34%) Dell
8 2 (1.34%) HP
8 2 (1.34%) IBM
8 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.34%) Sage
8 2 (1.34%) SevOne