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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Migration 267 98 124
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 11.45% 10.27% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.99% 11.11% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 58 78
10th Percentile £366 £268 £341
25th Percentile £417 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £641 £619
England median daily rate £515 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.19% +0.47% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £16.46 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 - -
75th Percentile £24.34 - -
90th Percentile £30.64 - -
England median hourly rate £23.79 £26.88 £56.50
% change year-on-year -11.49% -52.43% -9.60%

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 2,056 882 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.16% 92.45% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 552 870
10th Percentile £313 £263 £250
25th Percentile £406 £364 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £553 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £668
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 35 62
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £25.45 £21.66
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.59 £51.08
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +6 147 £487 -2.60% 18
West Yorkshire 0 107 £500 - 25
North Yorkshire -2 12 £600 +11.63% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £295 - 2
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 22 (8.24%) Confluence
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.50%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (1.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.46%) OpenShift
2 55 (20.60%) Azure
3 38 (14.23%) AWS
4 37 (13.86%) GitHub
5 24 (8.99%) GCP
6 22 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.99%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.75%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.37%) SaaS
10 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.62%) Akamai
11 7 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.50%) Serverless
13 4 (1.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.86%) DNS
2 27 (10.11%) SAN
3 19 (7.12%) NAS
4 13 (4.87%) Network Security
5 12 (4.49%) iSCSI
6 10 (3.75%) Firewall
7 8 (3.00%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (2.62%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.62%) WAN
9 5 (1.87%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.87%) LAN
10 4 (1.50%) DHCP
10 4 (1.50%) VLAN
11 3 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (1.12%) SSL
11 3 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (1.12%) VoIP
11 3 (1.12%) VPN
11 3 (1.12%) VSAN
12 2 (0.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.99%) Power BI
2 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.12%) DTS
6 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.75%) Metadata
7 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Parquet
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (17.23%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.11%) JIRA
3 17 (6.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (4.12%) Git
5 4 (1.50%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) Flyway
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.37%) Hudson
8 1 (0.37%) LSMW
8 1 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 93 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.85%) Finance
3 46 (17.23%) Banking
4 20 (7.49%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Legal
9 5 (1.87%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (17.23%) Architect
2 33 (12.36%) Analyst
3 28 (10.49%) Business Analyst
4 27 (10.11%) Lead
5 23 (8.61%) Consultant
6 19 (7.12%) Project Manager
6 19 (7.12%) Senior
7 14 (5.24%) Technical Business Analyst
8 13 (4.87%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (3.37%) Developer
9 9 (3.37%) Oracle Consultant
9 9 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.62%) Security Specialist
10 7 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.25%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.25%) IT Engineer
11 6 (2.25%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (1.87%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (3.37%) YAML
3 8 (3.00%) REST
4 7 (2.62%) .NET
4 7 (2.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.25%) LDAP
6 5 (1.87%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.87%) OAuth
7 4 (1.50%) Middleware
7 4 (1.50%) OpenID
7 4 (1.50%) SAML
8 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.75%) PySpark
8 2 (0.75%) Spring
8 2 (0.75%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
9 1 (0.37%) React
9 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (5.62%) Replication
4 11 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.62%) PKI
9 6 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
10 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.87%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) SCORM
11 4 (1.50%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.50%) NHS
12 3 (1.12%) CMDB
12 3 (1.12%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.24%) Linux
2 18 (6.74%) Windows
3 11 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.12%) VMS
4 7 (2.62%) Data ONTAP
4 7 (2.62%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.87%) CoreOS
6 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.12%) Android
8 2 (0.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.09%) DevOps
2 77 (28.84%) CI/CD
3 55 (20.60%) Data Migration
4 49 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (16.48%) Containerisation
6 40 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 35 (13.11%) Data Protection
8 34 (12.73%) Agile
8 34 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (11.99%) High Availability
10 28 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (10.11%) RBAC
12 25 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.61%) Software Delivery
14 22 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (8.24%) Change Management
14 22 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (7.87%) Risk Management
16 20 (7.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.35%) Python
2 21 (7.87%) Bash
3 13 (4.87%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.87%) SQL
4 9 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.62%) Java
6 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.12%) C#
8 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.75%) Delphi
9 2 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (8.99%) Degree
2 17 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.87%) OCP
3 13 (4.87%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.62%) CISM
5 7 (2.62%) CISSP
6 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.87%) PMP
8 3 (1.12%) CCNP
8 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CCNA
9 2 (0.75%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.75%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.37%) CCIE
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.12%) GDPR
2 10 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.00%) QA
4 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.12%) PMO
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (10.49%) vSphere
3 19 (7.12%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (6.37%) NFS
4 17 (6.37%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (2.62%) Docker
7 5 (1.87%) Ceph
7 5 (1.87%) KVM
7 5 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.12%) SRDF
9 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 79 (29.59%) Ansible
2 57 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 48 (17.98%) Terraform
4 20 (7.49%) vCenter Server
5 18 (6.74%) Argo
6 14 (5.24%) Grafana
7 7 (2.62%) SnapMirror
8 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.50%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.12%) Foglight
9 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.75%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.75%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.75%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (14.23%) VMware
2 35 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 32 (11.99%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.74%) Pure Storage
5 21 (7.87%) SAP
6 18 (6.74%) NetApp
7 17 (6.37%) Splunk
8 15 (5.62%) Cisco
8 15 (5.62%) Sonatype
9 14 (5.24%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.87%) Oracle
11 10 (3.75%) Dell
12 9 (3.37%) EMC
12 9 (3.37%) Google
13 6 (2.25%) IBM
14 5 (1.87%) Brocade
14 5 (1.87%) Databricks
15 4 (1.50%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.50%) ESRI
15 4 (1.50%) F5