Database Migration Contracts in the City of London

Database Migration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 118 123 174
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 +16
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile - £613 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +30.23%
75th Percentile - £638 £744
90th Percentile - - £755
Central London median daily rate £450 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -28.00% -10.71% +30.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the City of London

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the City of London

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