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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 235 151 131
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.45% 11.78% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.79% 12.70% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 77 97
10th Percentile £366 £369 £368
25th Percentile £418 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile - £15.00 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £22.23 £48.75
Median hourly rate £18.91 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -52.10% -
75th Percentile £24.29 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -37.13% -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 2,401 1,189 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.37% 92.75% 83.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 731 874
10th Percentile £325 £263 £283
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £577
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 66
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £11.53
25th Percentile £16.91 £18.29 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.03
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +69.92% -0.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.15 £21.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £33.76 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -8 117 £504 +2.76% 12
West Yorkshire -7 94 £500 - 26
North Yorkshire -3 26 £525 -2.33% 9
East Yorkshire - 2 £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 16 (6.81%) Confluence
2 11 (4.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.55%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.70%) 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
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.13%) Azure
2 50 (21.28%) OpenShift
3 33 (14.04%) GitHub
4 26 (11.06%) AWS
5 18 (7.66%) GCP
6 11 (4.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 11 (4.68%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.98%) Akamai
8 7 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.55%) SaaS
10 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.64%) DNS
2 24 (10.21%) SAN
3 16 (6.81%) NAS
4 15 (6.38%) Network Security
5 7 (2.98%) Firewall
5 7 (2.98%) iSCSI
5 7 (2.98%) VPN
6 5 (2.13%) WAN
7 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.28%) BGP
8 3 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.28%) LAN
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.85%) DWDM
9 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.85%) MPLS
9 2 (0.85%) OSPF
9 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.85%) VSAN
10 1 (0.43%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.83%) Power BI
3 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.70%) Metadata
4 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.28%) DTS
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.85%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.85%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.85%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) Parquet
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 23 (9.79%) JIRA
3 11 (4.68%) Git
3 11 (4.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (2.55%) Flyway
5 5 (2.13%) GitLab
6 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.85%) git-flow
6 2 (0.85%) JUnit
6 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.85%) Mockito
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.43%) Hudson
7 1 (0.43%) LSMW
General
1 82 (34.89%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.55%) Finance
3 41 (17.45%) Banking
4 21 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.40%) Legal
7 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.70%) Retail
9 3 (1.28%) Law
9 3 (1.28%) Military
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (19.57%) Architect
2 26 (11.06%) Lead
3 24 (10.21%) Analyst
4 20 (8.51%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.23%) Project Manager
6 16 (6.81%) Senior
7 15 (6.38%) Developer
8 12 (5.11%) Consultant
9 10 (4.26%) Administrator
9 10 (4.26%) Java Architect
10 9 (3.83%) GCP Architect
11 8 (3.40%) Kubernetes Architect
11 8 (3.40%) Migration Architect
11 8 (3.40%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (2.98%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.98%) Product Owner
12 7 (2.98%) Security Specialist
12 7 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (4.68%) .NET
3 6 (2.55%) Middleware
4 4 (1.70%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.70%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.70%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.28%) OAuth
5 3 (1.28%) PySpark
5 3 (1.28%) Web Services
5 3 (1.28%) YAML
6 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.85%) JDBC
6 2 (0.85%) JWT
6 2 (0.85%) LDAP
6 2 (0.85%) Loki
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.85%) Spring
6 2 (0.85%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (0.85%) Swagger
6 2 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.96%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.96%) Replication
4 13 (5.53%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.40%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (3.40%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (2.13%) FlexPod
9 4 (1.70%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.70%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.70%) NHS
9 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.64%) Linux
2 15 (6.38%) Windows
3 12 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.83%) Data ONTAP
5 8 (3.40%) VMS
6 7 (2.98%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.70%) Unix
8 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.85%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.53%) CI/CD
2 56 (23.83%) DevOps
3 54 (22.98%) Data Migration
4 45 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 32 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (12.77%) Data Protection
8 29 (12.34%) Containerisation
9 28 (11.91%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (11.06%) High Availability
12 24 (10.21%) Agile
13 23 (9.79%) Change Management
13 23 (9.79%) RBAC
14 19 (8.09%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (7.23%) ETL
15 17 (7.23%) Validation
16 16 (6.81%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (6.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.45%) Python
2 25 (10.64%) SQL
3 20 (8.51%) Java
4 19 (8.09%) Bash
5 10 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.40%) C#
7 6 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.70%) Bicep
8 4 (1.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) DCL
10 2 (0.85%) Korn
10 2 (0.85%) PromQL
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.96%) Degree
3 10 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.83%) OCP
4 9 (3.83%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.70%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.70%) PMP
8 3 (1.28%) NCDA
8 3 (1.28%) NCIE
9 2 (0.85%) CCNA
9 2 (0.85%) CCNP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.85%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.85%) RHCA
9 2 (0.85%) RHCE
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.70%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.43%) MiFID
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (11.49%) vSphere
3 23 (9.79%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (6.38%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.53%) NFS
6 7 (2.98%) Ceph
6 7 (2.98%) Docker
6 7 (2.98%) KVM
7 5 (2.13%) SRDF
7 5 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
8 4 (1.70%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (22.13%) Ansible
2 49 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 38 (16.17%) Terraform
4 20 (8.51%) Argo
4 20 (8.51%) vCenter Server
5 19 (8.09%) Grafana
6 9 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.83%) SnapMirror
7 5 (2.13%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.70%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
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%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.85%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.43%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 39 (16.60%) VMware
2 37 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.21%) Red Hat
4 23 (9.79%) Pure Storage
5 17 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 17 (7.23%) Splunk
6 16 (6.81%) Cisco
6 16 (6.81%) SAP
7 14 (5.96%) NetApp
8 13 (5.53%) Oracle
9 9 (3.83%) Databricks
9 9 (3.83%) Sonatype
10 8 (3.40%) Dell
10 8 (3.40%) Google
11 7 (2.98%) Brocade
12 6 (2.55%) EMC
13 4 (1.70%) 3PAR
13 4 (1.70%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.70%) HP
13 4 (1.70%) Veeam