Database Migration Contracts in Central London

Database Migration
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Database Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Migration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 129 168
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile - £613 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -10.71% +30.23%
75th Percentile - £638 £744
90th Percentile - - £755
London median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Database 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in Central London

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in Central London

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in Central London

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +5 1 - -
Southwark - 1 £450 -
Database Migration
London

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Serena SBM
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Serena
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase
1 1 (50.00%) VMware