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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Migration 208 144 113
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.17% 9.27% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 10.23% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 72 85
10th Percentile £376 £376 £393
25th Percentile £415 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 1
10th Percentile - £18.14 -
25th Percentile - £25.12 £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 £52.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -52.10% -25.00%

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 2,420 1,407 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.39% 90.60% 83.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 897 757
10th Percentile £343 £238 £310
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 £638 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 55 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.69 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +26.51% -12.50%
75th Percentile £27.29 £25.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £69.75 £45.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -3 96 £500 -7.41% 57
South Yorkshire -14 77 £519 +16.11% 31
North Yorkshire -1 30 £454 +125.19% 10
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 7
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 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.37%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.44%) Maximo
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.96%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.48%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.04%) Azure
2 33 (15.87%) AWS
3 22 (10.58%) Power Platform
4 21 (10.10%) OpenShift
5 9 (4.33%) GCP
5 9 (4.33%) GitHub
6 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (3.85%) SaaS
6 8 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.88%) OCI
9 5 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.44%) Serverless
11 3 (1.44%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.85%) Firewall
1 8 (3.85%) VPN
2 7 (3.37%) SAN
3 6 (2.88%) DNS
3 6 (2.88%) NAS
3 6 (2.88%) Network Security
4 4 (1.92%) VSAN
4 4 (1.92%) WAN
5 2 (0.96%) BGP
5 2 (0.96%) LAN
5 2 (0.96%) MPLS
5 2 (0.96%) OSPF
5 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.48%) LTE
6 1 (0.48%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) Power BI
2 13 (6.25%) Metadata
3 12 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.44%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.96%) Db2
7 2 (0.96%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.96%) Tableau
8 1 (0.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.17%) JIRA
2 13 (6.25%) Git
3 10 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.44%) Flyway
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.96%) git-flow
5 2 (0.96%) JUnit
5 2 (0.96%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.96%) Mockito
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.48%) Hudson
6 1 (0.48%) LSMW
6 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.44%) Finance
3 31 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.58%) Banking
5 11 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.81%) Retail
7 7 (3.37%) Legal
8 6 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.40%) Law
9 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.92%) Military
11 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.96%) Back Office
12 2 (0.96%) Front Office
12 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (14.42%) Architect
2 29 (13.94%) Senior
3 19 (9.13%) Analyst
3 19 (9.13%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.17%) Data Engineer
5 16 (7.69%) Developer
6 15 (7.21%) Lead
7 13 (6.25%) Consultant
8 12 (5.77%) Java Architect
9 11 (5.29%) Administrator
9 11 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.81%) GCP Architect
10 10 (4.81%) Kubernetes Architect
10 10 (4.81%) Migration Architect
11 8 (3.85%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.37%) Product Owner
12 7 (3.37%) SharePoint Administrator
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.02%) Terraform
2 8 (3.85%) .NET
3 7 (3.37%) Middleware
4 5 (2.40%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.40%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.92%) OAuth
6 3 (1.44%) JWT
6 3 (1.44%) PySpark
6 3 (1.44%) REST
6 3 (1.44%) Spring
6 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.44%) Web Services
7 2 (0.96%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.96%) HATEOAS
7 2 (0.96%) Jasypt
7 2 (0.96%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.96%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.96%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.77%) Replication
4 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.33%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.88%) NHS
8 5 (2.40%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.92%) CMDB
9 4 (1.92%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.92%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.69%) Linux
2 7 (3.37%) Windows
3 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (1.92%) VMS
5 3 (1.44%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.96%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.96%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.44%) Data Migration
2 45 (21.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.87%) Validation
5 32 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 29 (13.94%) Agile
7 28 (13.46%) ETL
8 26 (12.50%) Analytics
9 23 (11.06%) Data Modelling
9 23 (11.06%) DevOps
10 22 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (10.10%) Change Management
11 21 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (10.10%) Data Protection
12 20 (9.62%) Data Analysis
13 19 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (8.65%) ERP
14 18 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.31%) SQL
2 23 (11.06%) Python
3 22 (10.58%) Java
4 9 (4.33%) C#
5 8 (3.85%) Bash
6 6 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.92%) Bicep
8 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.96%) DCL
9 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.96%) Korn
9 2 (0.96%) PromQL
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.29%) Degree
4 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.40%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.40%) PMP
5 4 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.44%) NCDA
6 3 (1.44%) NCIE
6 3 (1.44%) OCP
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.96%) RHCA
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.48%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) MBA
8 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.92%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) PMO
3 3 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) MiFID
5 1 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (8.65%) Virtual Machines
1 18 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (4.81%) vSphere
3 7 (3.37%) Ceph
3 7 (3.37%) Docker
4 6 (2.88%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.92%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.44%) KVM
7 3 (1.44%) NFS
7 3 (1.44%) SRDF
7 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.96%) ACF2
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.96%) RACF
9 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.17%) Ansible
3 9 (4.33%) Grafana
3 9 (4.33%) Prometheus
3 9 (4.33%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.88%) Argo
5 4 (1.92%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.92%) SnapMirror
6 3 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (1.44%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.44%) SnapVault
7 2 (0.96%) Consul
7 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.96%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.48%) vMotion
Vendors
1 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.62%) Oracle
3 19 (9.13%) VMware
4 17 (8.17%) SAP
5 15 (7.21%) Databricks
6 13 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 10 (4.81%) Cisco
8 7 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.88%) Brocade
10 5 (2.40%) EMC
10 5 (2.40%) NetApp
11 4 (1.92%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.92%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.92%) Dell
11 4 (1.92%) Google
11 4 (1.92%) Pure Storage
11 4 (1.92%) Veeam
12 3 (1.44%) IBM
12 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.96%) Informatica