Database Migration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Database Migration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 122 121 136
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +57
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.26% 0.18%
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% -6.52%
75th Percentile £590 £566 £597
90th Percentile £614 £616 £621
Central London median daily rate £546 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +6.07% -4.19% +3.37%

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 1,638 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.85% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Database Migration job vacancy trend in the City of London

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the City of London

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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