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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 234 165 120
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.18% 11.01% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.72% 12.04% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 81 88
10th Percentile £386 £375 £371
25th Percentile £424 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -3.41% -6.82%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £523 £530
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.89 -
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.07 £48.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -52.10% -
75th Percentile £24.29 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -62.74% -1.46%

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 2,407 1,371 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.16% 91.46% 83.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 857 779
10th Percentile £331 £267 £313
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 £580
90th Percentile £669 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 62 49
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.58 -
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.39 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £76.57 £36.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -9 105 £495 -5.71% 29
South Yorkshire -7 97 £514 +19.19% 12
North Yorkshire -3 30 £493 +51.19% 7
East Yorkshire - 2 £295 - 3
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 11 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.42%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.28%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.79%) Azure
2 32 (13.68%) OpenShift
3 30 (12.82%) AWS
4 18 (7.69%) GitHub
5 17 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.84%) GCP
7 11 (4.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.85%) SaaS
9 8 (3.42%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.99%) Akamai
11 6 (2.56%) OCI
12 5 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 3 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) DNS
2 16 (6.84%) SAN
3 13 (5.56%) Network Security
4 8 (3.42%) NAS
5 6 (2.56%) Firewall
5 6 (2.56%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.56%) VPN
6 4 (1.71%) VSAN
6 4 (1.71%) WAN
7 3 (1.28%) BGP
8 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.85%) LAN
8 2 (0.85%) MPLS
8 2 (0.85%) OSPF
8 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.43%) LTE
9 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.41%) Power BI
2 14 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.70%) Metadata
5 6 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.28%) DTS
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.85%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.85%) Tableau
9 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.43%) Parquet
9 1 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (10.68%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.41%) JIRA
3 12 (5.13%) Git
4 6 (2.56%) Flyway
4 6 (2.56%) GitLab
5 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.85%) git-flow
5 2 (0.85%) JUnit
5 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.85%) Mockito
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Hudson
6 1 (0.43%) LSMW
General
1 72 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.37%) Finance
3 33 (14.10%) Banking
4 30 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.85%) Legal
7 6 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Retail
8 5 (2.14%) Law
9 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.71%) Military
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (17.52%) Architect
2 26 (11.11%) Lead
3 21 (8.97%) Senior
4 17 (7.26%) Developer
5 16 (6.84%) Analyst
6 15 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.56%) Consultant
8 12 (5.13%) Administrator
8 12 (5.13%) Java Architect
9 10 (4.27%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.27%) GCP Architect
9 10 (4.27%) Kubernetes Architect
9 10 (4.27%) Migration Architect
10 9 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.42%) DBA
12 7 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.99%) Product Owner
12 7 (2.99%) Security Specialist
12 7 (2.99%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.85%) .NET
1 9 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (2.56%) Middleware
3 4 (1.71%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.71%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.71%) AWS CDK
3 4 (1.71%) OAuth
3 4 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.28%) JWT
4 3 (1.28%) REST
4 3 (1.28%) Spring
4 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.28%) Web Services
5 2 (0.85%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.85%) HATEOAS
5 2 (0.85%) JDBC
5 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.85%) Spring Batch
5 2 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.98%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.56%) Replication
4 11 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (3.42%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.71%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.71%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.55%) Linux
2 12 (5.13%) Windows
3 10 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.99%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (2.56%) VMS
6 5 (2.14%) CoreOS
6 5 (2.14%) Unix
7 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.85%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.35%) Data Migration
2 50 (21.37%) CI/CD
3 40 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (15.81%) DevOps
5 34 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (11.54%) Agile
9 26 (11.11%) Validation
10 25 (10.68%) ETL
11 23 (9.83%) Change Management
11 23 (9.83%) High Availability
12 22 (9.40%) Data Protection
13 21 (8.97%) Containerisation
13 21 (8.97%) Data Modelling
14 20 (8.55%) Data Analysis
15 19 (8.12%) Analytics
15 19 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.68%) SQL
2 31 (13.25%) Python
3 24 (10.26%) Java
4 17 (7.26%) Bash
5 10 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.42%) C#
7 4 (1.71%) Bicep
7 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.85%) DCL
9 2 (0.85%) PromQL
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.56%) Degree
4 9 (3.85%) OCP
4 9 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.71%) PMP
7 4 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.28%) NCDA
8 3 (1.28%) NCIE
9 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.85%) RHCA
10 1 (0.43%) CCNP
10 1 (0.43%) CEH
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.43%) MBA
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.71%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) PMO
4 2 (0.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (8.12%) vSphere
3 18 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (5.13%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.99%) Ceph
5 7 (2.99%) Docker
5 7 (2.99%) NFS
6 5 (2.14%) KVM
6 5 (2.14%) SRDF
7 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.43%) ACF2
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 33 (14.10%) Terraform
3 31 (13.25%) Ansible
4 16 (6.84%) Grafana
4 16 (6.84%) vCenter Server
5 15 (6.41%) Argo
6 9 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.99%) SnapMirror
8 4 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.71%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.28%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.28%) Foglight
9 3 (1.28%) Puppet
9 3 (1.28%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.85%) Consul
10 2 (0.85%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.85%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 39 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.25%) VMware
3 22 (9.40%) Oracle
4 18 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.84%) Pure Storage
5 16 (6.84%) Red Hat
6 14 (5.98%) Cisco
6 14 (5.98%) SAP
7 13 (5.56%) Databricks
8 8 (3.42%) Dell
8 8 (3.42%) NetApp
8 8 (3.42%) Splunk
9 6 (2.56%) Brocade
9 6 (2.56%) Google
10 5 (2.14%) EMC
11 4 (1.71%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.71%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.71%) HP
11 4 (1.71%) Veeam
12 3 (1.28%) Atlassian