Migration Job Trends in the West Midlands

Migration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 90 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -45 +48
Permanent jobs citing Migration 128 150 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.74% 3.01% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.44% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 108 74 126
10th Percentile £35,500 - £41,250
25th Percentile £45,188 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,313 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,125 £82,500 £75,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
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 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Migration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Migration
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration in the West Midlands

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 Migration within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. 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 +5 71 £65,000 +10.17% 30
Warwickshire +29 11 £32,500 -31.58% 7
Wolverhampton +7 8 £125,000 +177.78% 13
Herefordshire - 8 £80,000 - 1
Worcestershire - 7 £66,500 - 14
Staffordshire -13 6 £70,000 +47.37% 11
Solihull - 4 £55,000 -
Shropshire -11 3 £32,119 -48.61% 15
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Coventry +2 2 £53,125 -40.97% 7
Kingswinford - 2 £77,500 -
Halesowen - 1 £44,000 - 1
Migration
England

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 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (8.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (3.13%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (1.56%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.78%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.78%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.63%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) Power Platform
3 30 (23.44%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (11.72%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (10.94%) PowerApps
6 13 (10.16%) Power Automate
7 12 (9.38%) SaaS
8 10 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.03%) AWS
10 7 (5.47%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.56%) GCP
13 2 (1.56%) Google Sheets
13 2 (1.56%) OCI
13 2 (1.56%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.56%) Serverless
14 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
1 5 (3.91%) WAN
2 3 (2.34%) DHCP
2 3 (2.34%) DNS
2 3 (2.34%) LAN
2 3 (2.34%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.34%) VPN
3 2 (1.56%) VLAN
3 2 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (0.78%) Broadband
4 1 (0.78%) ISDN
4 1 (0.78%) PSTN
4 1 (0.78%) RTP
4 1 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) WebEx
4 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) Power BI
2 17 (13.28%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.91%) Tableau
5 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.34%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Looker
7 1 (0.78%) MySQL
7 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.00%) Finance
3 29 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.94%) Manufacturing
5 10 (7.81%) Retail
6 8 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.47%) Banking
8 6 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.91%) Legal
9 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.13%) Local Government
11 3 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.34%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (2.34%) Marketing
12 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.78%) Automotive
13 1 (0.78%) Games
13 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (20.31%) Developer
2 21 (16.41%) Analyst
3 17 (13.28%) Senior
4 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.59%) Lead
5 11 (8.59%) SAP Developer
6 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Support Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) CRM Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Consultant
9 6 (4.69%) Accountant
9 6 (4.69%) Integration Developer
9 6 (4.69%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.69%) Systems Accountant
10 5 (3.91%) Automation Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.72%) REST
2 13 (10.16%) .NET
3 12 (9.38%) SOAP
4 11 (8.59%) BAPI
4 11 (8.59%) IBM Integration Bus
4 11 (8.59%) JMS
4 11 (8.59%) Middleware
4 11 (8.59%) OAuth
4 11 (8.59%) SAML
5 8 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.56%) EDI
6 2 (1.56%) Web Services
7 1 (0.78%) Django
7 1 (0.78%) HTML
7 1 (0.78%) JSON
7 1 (0.78%) Kafka
7 1 (0.78%) ODBC
7 1 (0.78%) PySpark
7 1 (0.78%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (13.28%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (8.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.34%) NHS
5 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) FMCG
7 1 (0.78%) IoT
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.28%) Windows
2 11 (8.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.34%) Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.59%) Data Migration
2 31 (24.22%) Agile
3 28 (21.88%) DevOps
3 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 22 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (16.41%) CI/CD
6 21 (16.41%) ERP
7 20 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (15.63%) CRM
8 16 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 15 (11.72%) High Availability
9 15 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.94%) Validation
11 13 (10.16%) Analytics
11 13 (10.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (9.38%) Event-Driven
12 12 (9.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (8.59%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) SQL
2 13 (10.16%) C#
3 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.25%) Python
5 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.91%) ABAP
7 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.47%) Degree
2 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.13%) ACCA
5 4 (3.13%) CIMA
6 2 (1.56%) AAT
6 2 (1.56%) CCAB
6 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.78%) MCSA
7 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) QA
2 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
3 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) Docker
3 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.13%) SCCM
3 3 (2.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.41%) SAP
3 11 (8.59%) IBM
4 4 (3.13%) Google
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco
5 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.56%) Aruba
6 2 (1.56%) HP
6 2 (1.56%) IFS
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle
6 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.56%) VMware
7 1 (0.78%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.78%) Concur
7 1 (0.78%) Databricks
7 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.78%) Meraki
7 1 (0.78%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.78%) Verint