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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 231 77 129
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 11.15% 8.49% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 9.48% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 55 86
10th Percentile £363 £263 £378
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £469
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +10.40% -14.77%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £575
90th Percentile £670 £650 £589
England median daily rate £514 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.55% +2.33% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.91 - -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £22.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.73% -43.13% -38.46%

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 1,846 812 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.09% 89.53% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 494 1,002
10th Percentile £304 £231 £263
25th Percentile £403 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £557 £567 £587
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 46
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.43 £11.06
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.66 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%
75th Percentile £53.69 £36.45 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.53 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +2 126 £487 -6.57% 14
West Yorkshire -1 88 £500 -4.76% 24
North Yorkshire +5 11 £700 +69.70% 3
East Yorkshire - 3 £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 21 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.73%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.30%) Cloudability
3 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.54%) OpenShift
2 41 (17.75%) Azure
3 35 (15.15%) AWS
4 29 (12.55%) GitHub
5 24 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (8.66%) GCP
7 14 (6.06%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.46%) SaaS
10 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.60%) OCI
11 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.73%) Serverless
13 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.09%) DNS
2 13 (5.63%) NAS
2 13 (5.63%) SAN
3 10 (4.33%) Firewall
4 9 (3.90%) Network Security
5 7 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.03%) WAN
6 6 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (2.60%) iSCSI
7 5 (2.16%) Kerberos
7 5 (2.16%) LAN
8 4 (1.73%) DHCP
8 4 (1.73%) VLAN
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (1.30%) SSL
9 3 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.30%) VoIP
9 3 (1.30%) VPN
10 2 (0.87%) SMTP
10 2 (0.87%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.06%) Power BI
2 5 (2.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.87%) Metadata
6 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) DTS
6 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (15.58%) Jenkins
2 23 (9.96%) JIRA
3 16 (6.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (2.60%) Git
5 3 (1.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Flyway
6 1 (0.43%) Mocha
General
1 81 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.81%) Finance
3 40 (17.32%) Banking
4 18 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Legal
9 5 (2.16%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (16.02%) Architect
2 36 (15.58%) Analyst
3 32 (13.85%) Business Analyst
4 22 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 19 (8.23%) Consultant
6 18 (7.79%) Lead
7 15 (6.49%) Senior
8 13 (5.63%) Technical Business Analyst
9 12 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.03%) IT Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (2.16%) Developer
13 5 (2.16%) Migration Consultant
13 5 (2.16%) Migration Manager
13 5 (2.16%) Migration Project Manager
13 5 (2.16%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.90%) YAML
2 8 (3.46%) REST
3 7 (3.03%) LDAP
3 7 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.60%) .NET
4 6 (2.60%) OAuth
5 5 (2.16%) Middleware
5 5 (2.16%) SAML
6 4 (1.73%) OpenID
7 3 (1.30%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.87%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.87%) Spring
8 2 (0.87%) Web Services
8 2 (0.87%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.43%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.43%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (3.90%) Replication
6 7 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.03%) PKI
7 5 (2.16%) SCORM
8 4 (1.73%) CMDB
8 4 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.73%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.73%) NHS
8 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.30%) iPhone
9 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.06%) Linux
1 14 (6.06%) Windows
2 8 (3.46%) VMS
3 5 (2.16%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.30%) Android
6 2 (0.87%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.57%) DevOps
2 59 (25.54%) CI/CD
3 46 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (17.75%) Data Migration
5 39 (16.88%) Containerisation
6 38 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.15%) Agile
8 28 (12.12%) Data Protection
9 27 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (10.39%) High Availability
12 22 (9.52%) Change Management
12 22 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (8.66%) Roadmaps
14 19 (8.23%) Software Delivery
14 19 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
15 18 (7.79%) Decision-Making
15 18 (7.79%) Process Improvement
15 18 (7.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (16.45%) Python
2 18 (7.79%) Bash
3 15 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.03%) SQL
5 5 (2.16%) Java
6 4 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.30%) C#
7 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.87%) Delphi
8 2 (0.87%) PHP
8 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (9.52%) Degree
2 11 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.46%) CISM
3 8 (3.46%) CISSP
4 7 (3.03%) OCP
4 7 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.16%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.16%) PMP
7 3 (1.30%) CCNP
7 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.87%) CCNA
8 2 (0.87%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.87%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) GDPR
2 11 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.03%) QA
5 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.23%) vSphere
2 17 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.63%) VMware NSX
4 12 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (4.76%) NFS
6 10 (4.33%) Active Directory
7 8 (3.46%) Docker
8 5 (2.16%) KVM
9 3 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.43%) Ceph
11 1 (0.43%) Firmware
11 1 (0.43%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 67 (29.00%) Ansible
2 45 (19.48%) Kubernetes
3 40 (17.32%) Terraform
4 14 (6.06%) vCenter Server
5 12 (5.19%) Argo
6 11 (4.76%) Grafana
7 4 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.30%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.87%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.87%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.43%) Foglight
10 1 (0.43%) Istio
10 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.43%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.43%) Podman
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (10.82%) Microsoft
1 25 (10.82%) VMware
2 24 (10.39%) Red Hat
3 20 (8.66%) SAP
4 17 (7.36%) Pure Storage
5 14 (6.06%) Sonatype
6 13 (5.63%) Splunk
7 12 (5.19%) NetApp
8 9 (3.90%) Oracle
9 8 (3.46%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.03%) Cisco
11 6 (2.60%) EMC
11 6 (2.60%) IBM
12 5 (2.16%) Dell
12 5 (2.16%) F5
12 5 (2.16%) Google
13 4 (1.73%) ESRI
14 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.30%) Isilon
14 3 (1.30%) Sage