Data Migration Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 107 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 +118
Permanent jobs citing Data Migration 46 97 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.87% 2.24% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.47% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 48
10th Percentile £45,250 - £42,430
25th Percentile £56,250 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -15.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £77,000 £65,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £81,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +1.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,343 3,932 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.57% 90.66% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,772 2,527
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Migration in the West Midlands

Data Migration
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -30 17 £70,000 +64.71% 15
Staffordshire - 7 £77,500 - 4
Worcestershire -7 5 £51,250 -57.29% 6
Herefordshire - 5 £57,500 - 1
Warwickshire +21 3 £57,500 -34.66% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Coventry +1 2 £53,750 -14.00% 3
Solihull - 2 £75,000 - 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £125,000 - 3
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (10.87%) NetSuite
3 2 (4.35%) SAP MM
4 1 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 18 (39.13%) Dynamics 365
2 18 (39.13%) Power Platform
3 13 (28.26%) PowerApps
4 11 (23.91%) Power Automate
5 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.52%) SaaS
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.35%) OCI
10 1 (2.17%) Asana
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.17%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (2.17%) GitHub
10 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) DHCP
1 3 (6.52%) DNS
1 3 (6.52%) LAN
1 3 (6.52%) VPN
1 3 (6.52%) WAN
1 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Manufacturing
3 6 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Retail
5 4 (8.70%) Local Government
6 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (6.52%) Legal
7 2 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.35%) Marketing
7 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) CRM Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Applications Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Automation Developer
5 5 (10.87%) C# Application Developer
5 5 (10.87%) C# Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Lead Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Data Migration Specialist
6 4 (8.70%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 4 (8.70%) IT Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Change Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 8 (17.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) ODBC
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.52%) NHS
3 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.35%) FMCG
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Migration
2 20 (43.48%) Agile
3 17 (36.96%) CRM
4 12 (26.09%) DevOps
4 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 11 (23.91%) ERP
6 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (19.57%) SOA
7 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
8 6 (13.04%) TDD
9 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.87%) ETL
9 5 (10.87%) Validation
10 4 (8.70%) Data Management
10 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
10 4 (8.70%) ITIL
10 4 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) C#
2 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) Cisco
3 3 (6.52%) Meraki
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) IFS