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 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 74 71 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 -20 +40
Permanent jobs citing Migration 133 159 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.53% 3.67% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 4.04% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 112 80 117
10th Percentile £36,375 - £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +3.64% -3.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,500 £75,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -2.99%

All Process & 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 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%

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 1 January 2026.

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 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 -6 68 £69,500 +24.66% 27
Warwickshire +21 12 £32,500 -42.22% 6
Worcestershire -1 11 £66,500 -44.58% 10
Staffordshire -14 7 £77,500 +63.16% 8
Herefordshire - 7 £57,500 - 2
Coventry +3 6 £55,000 -38.89% 7
Wolverhampton - 6 £125,000 - 4
Solihull - 4 £55,000 - 1
Shropshire -20 3 £32,119 -48.61% 18
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Halesowen - 2 £44,000 -
Kingswinford - 1 £60,000 -
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 8 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (12.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (9.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (3.76%) NetSuite
4 4 (3.01%) SAP FI
5 3 (2.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (1.50%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.75%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 56 (42.11%) Azure
2 30 (22.56%) Power Platform
3 29 (21.80%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (11.28%) PowerApps
6 14 (10.53%) SaaS
7 13 (9.77%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.26%) AWS
11 5 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.50%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.50%) OCI
13 2 (1.50%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.50%) Serverless
14 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECR
14 1 (0.75%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Firewall
1 9 (6.77%) VPN
1 9 (6.77%) WAN
2 6 (4.51%) LAN
3 5 (3.76%) DHCP
3 5 (3.76%) DNS
3 5 (3.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.26%) VLAN
4 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.50%) Internet
5 2 (1.50%) SSL
5 2 (1.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.50%) WLAN
6 1 (0.75%) Broadband
6 1 (0.75%) ISDN
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) PSTN
6 1 (0.75%) RTP
6 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.53%) Power BI
2 17 (12.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.26%) Tableau
5 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Looker
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Git
2 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (21.05%) Finance
4 15 (11.28%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.27%) Retail
6 7 (5.26%) Banking
7 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Legal
8 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.01%) Local Government
10 3 (2.26%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (2.26%) Marketing
10 3 (2.26%) Military
11 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.75%) Automotive
12 1 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Developer
2 20 (15.04%) Senior
3 17 (12.78%) Analyst
4 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) SAP Developer
6 10 (7.52%) Architect
6 10 (7.52%) Lead
7 9 (6.77%) Consultant
7 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Support Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) CRM Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Integration Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Integration Specialist
9 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 6 (4.51%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Automation Developer
11 5 (3.76%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.78%) REST
2 14 (10.53%) SOAP
3 13 (9.77%) .NET
3 13 (9.77%) BAPI
3 13 (9.77%) IBM Integration Bus
3 13 (9.77%) JMS
3 13 (9.77%) Middleware
3 13 (9.77%) OAuth
3 13 (9.77%) SAML
4 8 (6.02%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.50%) Web Services
6 1 (0.75%) Django
6 1 (0.75%) HTML
6 1 (0.75%) JSON
6 1 (0.75%) Kafka
6 1 (0.75%) ODBC
6 1 (0.75%) PySpark
6 1 (0.75%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (12.78%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.52%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.26%) NHS
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.50%) FMCG
6 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.50%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Windows
2 12 (9.02%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.76%) Linux
4 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.59%) Data Migration
2 34 (25.56%) Agile
3 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (22.56%) DevOps
5 26 (19.55%) Mentoring
6 25 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (18.05%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.29%) ERP
9 18 (13.53%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (12.78%) CRM
10 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (12.03%) High Availability
11 16 (12.03%) Service Delivery
12 14 (10.53%) Event-Driven
12 14 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (10.53%) Validation
13 13 (9.77%) Analytics
13 13 (9.77%) API Management
14 11 (8.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.07%) SQL
2 13 (9.77%) C#
3 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.51%) Python
5 5 (3.76%) ABAP
6 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) Degree
4 6 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.01%) ACCA
5 4 (3.01%) CIMA
6 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.50%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CCNP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) MCSA
7 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.51%) Terraform
3 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (2.26%) SCCM
4 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.50%) CASB
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 39 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.29%) SAP
3 13 (9.77%) IBM
4 6 (4.51%) Cisco
5 4 (3.01%) Meraki
6 3 (2.26%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.50%) Aruba
7 2 (1.50%) HP
7 2 (1.50%) IFS
7 2 (1.50%) Netskope
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle
7 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.75%) Databricks
8 1 (0.75%) Dell
8 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.75%) Genesys
8 1 (0.75%) Juniper
8 1 (0.75%) Verint