Migration Contracts in the Midlands

Migration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Migration 181 190 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.31% 6.42% 9.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.37% 8.02% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 133 226
10th Percentile £350 £356 £255
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% -3.05%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £597
90th Percentile £638 £748 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.75
25th Percentile - - £30.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.46% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,932 2,368 2,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.75% 79.97% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 1,567 2,005
10th Percentile £207 £239 £260
25th Percentile £356 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 180 96
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £21.35 £18.99 £25.13
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -24.44% +30.52%
75th Percentile £28.47 £35.00 £48.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in the Midlands

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Migration in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Migration in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +9 134 £510 -1.92% 106
East Midlands -7 42 £500 - 55
Migration
England

Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.94%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.87%) Confluence
4 3 (1.66%) SAS
5 2 (1.10%) IBM Notes
5 2 (1.10%) JBoss
6 1 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.66%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.10%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.10%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 44 (24.31%) Azure
2 23 (12.71%) Power Platform
3 22 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (10.50%) AWS
5 16 (8.84%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.52%) PowerApps
7 9 (4.97%) SaaS
8 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.42%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.76%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.21%) IaaS
10 4 (2.21%) Serverless
11 3 (1.66%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.66%) Collibra
11 3 (1.66%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Firewall
2 7 (3.87%) WAN
3 6 (3.31%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.21%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (2.21%) Network Security
4 4 (2.21%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.66%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.66%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.66%) LAN
5 3 (1.66%) VPN
6 2 (1.10%) BGP
6 2 (1.10%) MPLS
6 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.10%) VoIP
6 2 (1.10%) Wireless
7 1 (0.55%) Intranet
7 1 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.55%) SNMP
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.73%) Power BI
2 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.31%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.21%) Delta Lake
4 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.66%) GIS
5 3 (1.66%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.10%) Metadata
6 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.10%) QlikView
6 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) DB2
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 17 (9.39%) JIRA
2 3 (1.66%) ScriptRunner
2 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (1.10%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.10%) Git
3 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) JMeter
3 2 (1.10%) Postman
3 2 (1.10%) Selenium
3 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) JUnit
4 1 (0.55%) Mockito
4 1 (0.55%) NUnit
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.86%) Finance
3 15 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.08%) Law
5 9 (4.97%) Banking
6 6 (3.31%) Legal
7 5 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.10%) Automotive
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (17.13%) Architect
2 26 (14.36%) Analyst
3 23 (12.71%) Project Manager
4 21 (11.60%) Consultant
5 14 (7.73%) Senior
6 12 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.52%) Developer
7 10 (5.52%) Lead
8 9 (4.97%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.97%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Test Analyst
11 6 (3.31%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.31%) Desktop Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (2.76%) Infrastructure Manager
12 5 (2.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.21%) LDAP
2 3 (1.66%) .NET
2 3 (1.66%) CSS
2 3 (1.66%) Kafka
2 3 (1.66%) React
3 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.10%) EDI
3 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.10%) Entity Framework
3 2 (1.10%) HTML
3 2 (1.10%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (1.10%) IDoc
3 2 (1.10%) Middleware
3 2 (1.10%) REST
3 2 (1.10%) Spring
3 2 (1.10%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.55%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Data Structures
2 15 (8.29%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.87%) IoT
5 6 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.76%) SCADA
6 5 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.21%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) CMDB
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Replication
9 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Windows
2 4 (2.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.21%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.66%) Unix
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.83%) Data Migration
2 32 (17.68%) Agile
3 21 (11.60%) Data Governance
3 21 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (9.94%) DevOps
4 18 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (9.39%) Validation
6 16 (8.84%) ITIL
7 15 (8.29%) Change Management
7 15 (8.29%) Data Integration
8 14 (7.73%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.18%) Data Modelling
9 13 (7.18%) Project Management
10 12 (6.63%) CI/CD
10 12 (6.63%) Roadmaps
11 11 (6.08%) ETL
11 11 (6.08%) Workflow
12 10 (5.52%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.81%) SQL
2 16 (8.84%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.73%) Python
4 6 (3.31%) C#
5 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.21%) Perl
7 3 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.66%) Groovy
7 3 (1.66%) Java
7 3 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.66%) R
7 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.10%) Bash
8 2 (1.10%) PHP
8 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) Degree
4 3 (1.66%) CCIE
4 3 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) MBA
6 1 (0.55%) MCSE
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.42%) QA
3 7 (3.87%) GDPR
4 5 (2.76%) PMO
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) Basel III
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) COBIT
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.76%) Docker
3 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) Firmware
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.52%) SCCM
3 5 (2.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.66%) AirWatch
4 3 (1.66%) Ansible
4 3 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.66%) Terraform
5 2 (1.10%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.10%) Grafana
5 2 (1.10%) Kibana
5 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) CASB
6 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.29%) Oracle
3 13 (7.18%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.63%) SAP
5 10 (5.52%) Cisco
6 6 (3.31%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.76%) Databricks
7 5 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.21%) Denodo
8 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.21%) Workday
9 3 (1.66%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.66%) F5
9 3 (1.66%) Informatica
9 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.66%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.10%) BMC
10 2 (1.10%) Lotus
10 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
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