Data Migration Contracts in Scotland

Data Migration
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Migration over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 107 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 46 56 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.06% 1.96% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.12% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 45 45
10th Percentile £337 £409 £409
25th Percentile £414 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £489 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +0.82% +7.78%
75th Percentile £728 £520 £550
90th Percentile £750 £638 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh +26 24 £472 -3.43% 1
Glasgow +9 11 £438 +2.94% 3
South Lanarkshire - 8 £750 -
Perthshire - 1 £683 -
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (21.74%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) CMS
3 2 (4.35%) GeoServer
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
1 5 (10.87%) AWS
1 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (10.87%) SaaS
1 5 (10.87%) Serverless
2 4 (8.70%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) OCI
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.52%) PaaS
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) VSAN
2 3 (6.52%) IPsec
2 3 (6.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Metadata
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) GIS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) JIRA
2 6 (13.04%) GitLab
3 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.17%) TestComplete
5 1 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Billing
5 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Applications Engineer
1 9 (19.57%) JIRA Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Consultant
3 6 (13.04%) Applications Support
3 6 (13.04%) Applications Support Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Data Consultant
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Migration Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) DBA
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (8.70%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Data Migration Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) Web Services
3 5 (10.87%) AWS CDK
3 5 (10.87%) PostGIS
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 3 (6.52%) JSP
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.17%) React
7 1 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.70%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Migration
2 17 (36.96%) Analytics
3 13 (28.26%) Agile
4 9 (19.57%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (19.57%) Service Management
4 9 (19.57%) Workflow
5 8 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (15.22%) Data Transformation
6 7 (15.22%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) Kanban
7 6 (13.04%) ERP
7 6 (13.04%) Inclusive Design
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Business Impact Analysis
8 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.87%) Human-Centred Design
8 5 (10.87%) Impact Analysis
8 5 (10.87%) Process Improvement
8 5 (10.87%) Scrum
8 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) Java
1 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.70%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) PMO
2 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (19.57%) vSphere
2 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (6.52%) Docker
4 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Data Guard
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
1 4 (8.70%) VxRail
2 2 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Dell
2 9 (19.57%) Atlassian
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Oracle
4 7 (15.22%) Cisco
4 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.52%) Okta
5 3 (6.52%) Pega
6 2 (4.35%) Databricks
7 1 (2.17%) Canon
7 1 (2.17%) Informatica