Database Migration Contract Job Trends in Central London

Database Migration
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Database Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 128 141
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £474 £431 £444
25th Percentile £500 £477 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.07% -4.19% +3.37%
75th Percentile £590 £566 £597
90th Percentile £614 £616 £621
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%

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 1,806 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.85% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Database Migration job vacancy trend in Central London

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in Central London

Database Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Database Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Database Migration

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 18 December 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 -1 3 £546 +6.07% 1
Database Migration
London

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (33.33%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Database Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) ProC
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OutSystems
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce