Data Migration Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Migration
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data 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 47 48 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 20 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.20% 2.94% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.33% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 27
10th Percentile £418 £411 £400
25th Percentile £452 £432 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -3.43% +2.95%
75th Percentile £489 £646 £503
90th Percentile £507 £725 £532
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £489
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.25% +0.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Edinburgh

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in Edinburgh

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in Edinburgh

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (45.00%) Serverless
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.00%) Azure
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (20.00%) Power BI
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.00%) GIS
6 2 (10.00%) PowerCenter
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (20.00%) PostGIS
3 3 (15.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Migration
2 11 (55.00%) ETL
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
5 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
7 4 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
7 4 (20.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
7 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Informatica
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Teradata
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Pega
2 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (5.00%) TSYS