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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Migration 207 71 134
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.38% 7.58% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 8.57% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 52 90
10th Percentile £366 £263 £375
25th Percentile £417 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -8.49%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £596
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £21.31 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.47% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £30.64 - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -45.00% -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 1,785 828 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.47% 88.37% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 499 1,017
10th Percentile £300 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 50
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.18 £11.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £23.58 £22.50 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +46.44% +44.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.85 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 0 114 £475 -9.52% 28
West Yorkshire -1 78 £513 -6.82% 26
North Yorkshire +2 9 £700 +69.70% 4
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
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 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.93%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.93%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.45%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.97%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.48%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.12%) OpenShift
2 39 (18.84%) Azure
3 34 (16.43%) AWS
4 24 (11.59%) GitHub
5 22 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (8.21%) GCP
7 15 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.31%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.90%) OCI
9 6 (2.90%) SaaS
10 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.93%) Serverless
12 3 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.45%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.76%) DNS
2 13 (6.28%) NAS
2 13 (6.28%) SAN
3 10 (4.83%) Firewall
4 6 (2.90%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (2.90%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.90%) WAN
5 5 (2.42%) Kerberos
5 5 (2.42%) LAN
5 5 (2.42%) Network Security
6 4 (1.93%) DHCP
7 3 (1.45%) SSL
7 3 (1.45%) VLAN
7 3 (1.45%) VoIP
8 2 (0.97%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.97%) DWDM
8 2 (0.97%) SMTP
8 2 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.25%) Power BI
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.97%) Metadata
6 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Power Query
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (14.01%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.59%) JIRA
3 16 (7.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (2.42%) Git
5 2 (0.97%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 71 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 53 (25.60%) Finance
3 36 (17.39%) Banking
4 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.42%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.42%) Legal
9 4 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (15.94%) Analyst
2 31 (14.98%) Architect
2 31 (14.98%) Business Analyst
3 22 (10.63%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.21%) Consultant
5 15 (7.25%) Senior
6 13 (6.28%) Technical Business Analyst
7 12 (5.80%) Lead
7 12 (5.80%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (2.90%) Developer
8 6 (2.90%) IT Engineer
8 6 (2.90%) Network Engineer
8 6 (2.90%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (2.90%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.42%) Migration Consultant
9 5 (2.42%) Migration Manager
9 5 (2.42%) Migration Project Manager
9 5 (2.42%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.35%) YAML
2 8 (3.86%) REST
3 7 (3.38%) LDAP
3 7 (3.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.90%) OAuth
5 5 (2.42%) .NET
5 5 (2.42%) SAML
6 4 (1.93%) Middleware
6 4 (1.93%) OpenID
6 4 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.97%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.97%) Jest
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.97%) Node.js
8 2 (0.97%) React
8 2 (0.97%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.97%) Spring
8 2 (0.97%) Web Services
8 2 (0.97%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.35%) Replication
6 6 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.90%) PKI
7 5 (2.42%) SCORM
8 4 (1.93%) CMDB
8 4 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.45%) iPhone
9 3 (1.45%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.45%) NHS
9 3 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.45%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.76%) Linux
2 13 (6.28%) Windows
3 8 (3.86%) VMS
4 5 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.45%) Android
7 2 (0.97%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.95%) DevOps
2 55 (26.57%) CI/CD
3 45 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (16.91%) Containerisation
4 35 (16.91%) Data Migration
5 34 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (14.98%) Agile
7 27 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (12.56%) Data Protection
9 22 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (9.18%) High Availability
11 19 (9.18%) Software Delivery
11 19 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (8.70%) Change Management
12 18 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 18 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (8.21%) Decision-Making
13 17 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.21%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.98%) Python
2 14 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.80%) Bash
4 7 (3.38%) SQL
5 3 (1.45%) C#
5 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.97%) Delphi
6 2 (0.97%) Java
6 2 (0.97%) PHP
7 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.48%) Korn
7 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (9.66%) Degree
2 13 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.86%) CISM
4 8 (3.86%) CISSP
5 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.90%) OCP
5 6 (2.90%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.42%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.42%) PMP
7 3 (1.45%) CCNP
7 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.45%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.97%) CCNA
8 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.97%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.97%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) GDPR
2 11 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.90%) QA
5 4 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.97%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (6.28%) vSphere
2 11 (5.31%) NFS
2 11 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.86%) Docker
4 8 (3.86%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.45%) KVM
6 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) Ceph
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 60 (28.99%) Ansible
2 41 (19.81%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.43%) Terraform
4 8 (3.86%) Grafana
4 8 (3.86%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.38%) Argo
6 4 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.97%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.48%) Istio
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.48%) Podman
8 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.14%) Red Hat
3 18 (8.70%) VMware
4 16 (7.73%) SAP
5 14 (6.76%) Sonatype
6 12 (5.80%) NetApp
6 12 (5.80%) Pure Storage
7 10 (4.83%) Splunk
8 9 (4.35%) Oracle
9 7 (3.38%) Cisco
10 6 (2.90%) EMC
10 6 (2.90%) IBM
11 5 (2.42%) Dell
11 5 (2.42%) Google
12 4 (1.93%) ESRI
12 4 (1.93%) F5
13 3 (1.45%) Isilon
13 3 (1.45%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.97%) SevOne