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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 46 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Migration 20 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.12% 2.97% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 3.50% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 21
10th Percentile £384 £410 £394
25th Percentile £434 £433 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £505 £565 £508
90th Percentile £524 £646 £538
Scotland median daily rate £459 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -16.64% +10.00% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 685 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.60% 84.88% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 369 668
10th Percentile £313 £206 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +3.12% +1.04% -3.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Edinburgh

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Migration

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
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.00%) GIS
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (70.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Cutover Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) ETL
3 6 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) Teradata
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Pega
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) TSYS