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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 257 127 131
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.72% 11.87% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 12.76% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 69 91
10th Percentile £368 £361 £380
25th Percentile £416 £390 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £619
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile - £22.04 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £23.16 -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% - -
75th Percentile £24.29 £25.13 -
90th Percentile £36.12 £25.14 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -37.13% -41.61%

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 2,295 995 1,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.83% 92.99% 84.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 610 859
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £579
90th Percentile £675 £618 £650
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 39 69
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.32 £11.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.95 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £56.63 £22.14 £20.74
90th Percentile £68.75 £29.06 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -5 146 £487 +2.63% 12
West Yorkshire -7 101 £501 -4.67% 21
North Yorkshire -11 10 £600 +11.63% 10
East Yorkshire - 4 £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 18 (7.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.17%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.95%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.56%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.18%) OpenShift
2 53 (20.62%) Azure
3 33 (12.84%) GitHub
4 29 (11.28%) AWS
5 19 (7.39%) GCP
6 13 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (3.89%) SaaS
9 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.72%) Akamai
11 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.56%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (1.17%) OCI
14 3 (1.17%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.28%) SAN
2 27 (10.51%) DNS
3 21 (8.17%) NAS
4 15 (5.84%) Network Security
5 12 (4.67%) iSCSI
6 8 (3.11%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (3.11%) Firewall
7 6 (2.33%) VPN
8 4 (1.56%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.56%) WAN
9 3 (1.17%) SSL
9 3 (1.17%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.17%) VLAN
10 2 (0.78%) BGP
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.78%) DWDM
10 2 (0.78%) LAN
10 2 (0.78%) SMTP
10 2 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.72%) Power BI
3 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.17%) DTS
6 3 (1.17%) Metadata
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.78%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.39%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.39%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.73%) JIRA
3 11 (4.28%) Git
3 11 (4.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (2.33%) Flyway
5 5 (1.95%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.78%) git-flow
6 2 (0.78%) JUnit
6 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.78%) Mockito
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) Hudson
7 1 (0.39%) LSMW
General
1 80 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.79%) Finance
3 45 (17.51%) Banking
4 22 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.89%) Legal
7 8 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Law
10 3 (1.17%) Military
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (17.51%) Architect
2 28 (10.89%) Lead
3 26 (10.12%) Project Manager
4 24 (9.34%) Analyst
5 22 (8.56%) Consultant
6 21 (8.17%) Senior
7 20 (7.78%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.28%) Developer
9 9 (3.50%) Oracle Consultant
10 8 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.72%) Security Specialist
11 7 (2.72%) Technical Business Analyst
12 6 (2.33%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.33%) DBA
12 6 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Product Owner
12 6 (2.33%) Storage Architect
12 6 (2.33%) Storage Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (3.89%) YAML
3 7 (2.72%) Middleware
3 7 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.72%) REST
4 6 (2.33%) .NET
4 6 (2.33%) OAuth
5 5 (1.95%) LDAP
6 4 (1.56%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.17%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.17%) OpenID
7 3 (1.17%) PySpark
7 3 (1.17%) SAML
7 3 (1.17%) Web Services
8 2 (0.78%) Drools
8 2 (0.78%) HATEOAS
8 2 (0.78%) JPA
8 2 (0.78%) RESTful
8 2 (0.78%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.78%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.39%) Replication
3 16 (6.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 16 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (3.11%) EMC VMAX
6 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.72%) PKI
8 6 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.95%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.95%) SCORM
10 4 (1.56%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.56%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.56%) NHS
10 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.56%) Linux
2 16 (6.23%) Windows
3 12 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.50%) Data ONTAP
4 9 (3.50%) VMS
5 7 (2.72%) CoreOS
6 4 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.78%) Unix
8 1 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.79%) CI/CD
2 73 (28.40%) DevOps
3 59 (22.96%) Data Migration
4 47 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (15.56%) Data Protection
7 37 (14.40%) Containerisation
8 35 (13.62%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (12.45%) High Availability
10 30 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
10 30 (11.67%) RBAC
11 29 (11.28%) Agile
12 27 (10.51%) Change Management
13 24 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.95%) Runbook
14 23 (8.95%) Validation
15 22 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (8.56%) Risk Management
15 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.84%) Python
2 21 (8.17%) Bash
3 20 (7.78%) SQL
4 11 (4.28%) Java
5 10 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.11%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.17%) C#
8 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) Bicep
9 2 (0.78%) PromQL
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) Korn
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (8.56%) Degree
2 20 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) OCP
3 9 (3.50%) Oracle Certification
3 9 (3.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.11%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.11%) PMP
5 7 (2.72%) CISM
5 7 (2.72%) CISSP
5 7 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.17%) NCDA
7 3 (1.17%) NCIE
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.78%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.78%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.78%) RHCA
8 2 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.67%) GDPR
2 9 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) PMO
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (10.51%) vSphere
3 20 (7.78%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (7.00%) NFS
5 15 (5.84%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.72%) Ceph
7 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
7 5 (1.95%) Docker
7 5 (1.95%) SRDF
7 5 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.56%) KVM
9 3 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (26.85%) Ansible
2 60 (23.35%) Kubernetes
3 44 (17.12%) Terraform
4 20 (7.78%) Argo
4 20 (7.78%) Grafana
4 20 (7.78%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.50%) SnapMirror
7 5 (1.95%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.56%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.17%) Foglight
9 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.17%) Puppet
9 3 (1.17%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.78%) Consul
10 2 (0.78%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.79%) VMware
3 32 (12.45%) Red Hat
4 23 (8.95%) Pure Storage
5 19 (7.39%) NetApp
6 18 (7.00%) SAP
7 17 (6.61%) Splunk
8 16 (6.23%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.84%) Cisco
9 15 (5.84%) Oracle
10 11 (4.28%) EMC
11 9 (3.50%) Databricks
11 9 (3.50%) Sonatype
12 8 (3.11%) Dell
12 8 (3.11%) Google
13 7 (2.72%) Brocade
14 5 (1.95%) IBM
15 4 (1.56%) 3PAR
15 4 (1.56%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.56%) HP