Database Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 399 477
Rank change year-on-year +44 +78 -57
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 32 38 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 20
10th Percentile £363 £257 £396
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +3.54% +23.75%
75th Percentile £489 £575 £588
90th Percentile £494 £590 £595
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,110 20,642 27,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,201 14,252 18,911
10th Percentile £250 £255 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,261 1,359
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.71 £61.30
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
South East - 17 £425 - 4
North of England +17 6 £488 -7.14%
Midlands - 5 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £488 -
South West +7 4 - -
Yorkshire +20 3 £348 -42.08%
North West +15 3 £488 -
East of England +5 2 - -
Scotland +44 1 £500 +9.29%
Database Migration
UK

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) NAS
1 7 (21.88%) SAN
2 2 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) LAN
3 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.13%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (12.50%) MySQL
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (9.38%) Informix
5 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.25%) DB2
6 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
General
1 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.38%) German Language
2 3 (9.38%) Legal
3 2 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Back Office
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DBA
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
1 7 (21.88%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Migration Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Database Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Database Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Informix DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LAMP
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) LIMS
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
1 4 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (6.25%) HPUX
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) VMS
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Migration
2 8 (25.00%) Database Security
3 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Business Case
5 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.38%) Data Protection
5 3 (9.38%) Data Reconciliation
5 3 (9.38%) Data Science
5 3 (9.38%) Database Tuning
5 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.38%) Project Management
5 3 (9.38%) RBAC
5 3 (9.38%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.25%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) PHP
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
3 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Avamar
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) VMware
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle
3 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.88%) Dell
5 6 (18.75%) EMC
6 3 (9.38%) Micro Focus
7 2 (6.25%) Google
7 2 (6.25%) IBM
7 2 (6.25%) Sun
8 1 (3.13%) Aruba
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco
8 1 (3.13%) Citrix
8 1 (3.13%) Facebook
8 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.13%) Fujitsu
8 1 (3.13%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) Instagram
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.13%) Sophos