Database Migration Contracts in England

Database Migration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Database Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 586 686
Rank change year-on-year +136 +100 -89
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 85 77 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 57
10th Percentile £393 £283 £403
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £578 £613 £613
90th Percentile £684 £738 £667
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.80% +25.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +204.76% - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £26.25 -
% change year-on-year +204.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Database Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in England.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Migration within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +116 44 £550 -6.78% 5
South East - 15 £425 - 1
South West +13 7 - -
Midlands - 7 £488 - 1
North of England +27 6 £488 -7.14%
West Midlands - 5 £488 -
Yorkshire +19 3 £348 -40.85%
North West +11 3 £488 -
East of England +10 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £750 - 1
Database Migration
UK

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.35%) Apache
1 2 (2.35%) GemFire
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.24%) AWS
2 17 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.88%) OCI
4 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (4.71%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.71%) GCP
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.35%) SaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.18%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) NAS
1 7 (8.24%) SAN
2 5 (5.88%) DNS
3 4 (4.71%) VPN
4 2 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.18%) DHCP
5 1 (1.18%) Firewall
5 1 (1.18%) LAN
5 1 (1.18%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.18%) WAN
5 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (22.35%) SQL Server
3 18 (21.18%) Oracle Database
4 8 (9.41%) DB2
4 8 (9.41%) MySQL
4 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (7.06%) MariaDB
6 5 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (4.71%) Redis
8 3 (3.53%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
1 4 (4.71%) Git
1 4 (4.71%) Snyk
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Finance
5 4 (4.71%) German Language
5 4 (4.71%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Legal
6 3 (3.53%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) DBA
2 15 (17.65%) Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Developer
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 10 (11.76%) Oracle Architect
5 7 (8.24%) Database Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (8.24%) Senior Database Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) Migration Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) SQL DBA
7 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Consultant
8 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Programme Manager
8 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (4.71%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (4.71%) Teradata Specialist
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) .NET
1 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
1 4 (4.71%) Kafka
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (3.53%) SAP Basis
3 2 (2.35%) JSON
3 2 (2.35%) LAMP
4 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.18%) LDAP
4 1 (1.18%) Spring
4 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Replication
2 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.88%) Clustering
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.18%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.18%) LIMS
6 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Linux
1 12 (14.12%) Solaris
2 11 (12.94%) VMS
3 10 (11.76%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (4.71%) Windows
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.35%) HPUX
5 2 (2.35%) Unix
6 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (87.06%) Migration
2 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
4 13 (15.29%) Data Migration
4 13 (15.29%) DevOps
5 11 (12.94%) Agile
5 11 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (10.59%) Database Security
7 7 (8.24%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (8.24%) Security Testing
8 6 (7.06%) Business Case
8 6 (7.06%) Database Tuning
8 6 (7.06%) ITIL
8 6 (7.06%) Validation
9 5 (5.88%) Task Automation
10 4 (4.71%) High Availability
10 4 (4.71%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (4.71%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (4.71%) Kanban
10 4 (4.71%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.88%) SQL
2 8 (9.41%) Java
3 6 (7.06%) PHP
4 4 (4.71%) Go
5 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.35%) Bash
6 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.35%) Python
7 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Degree
2 12 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.53%) MCITP
6 3 (3.53%) MCTS
6 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) CEH
7 1 (1.18%) CISM
7 1 (1.18%) CISSP
7 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.18%) PMP
7 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (11.76%) KVM
3 6 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.18%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Terraform
2 6 (7.06%) Ansible
2 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.88%) Avamar
4 4 (4.71%) Grafana
4 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (35.29%) Oracle
2 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
3 20 (23.53%) VMware
4 11 (12.94%) Dell
5 7 (8.24%) IBM
6 6 (7.06%) EMC
6 6 (7.06%) SAP
7 4 (4.71%) Greenplum
7 4 (4.71%) Netezza
7 4 (4.71%) Sybase
7 4 (4.71%) Teradata
8 3 (3.53%) ESRI
8 3 (3.53%) Google
8 3 (3.53%) Micro Focus
9 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.35%) Sun
10 1 (1.18%) Aruba
10 1 (1.18%) Citrix
10 1 (1.18%) Facebook
10 1 (1.18%) HP