Database Migration Contracts in Edinburgh

Database Migration
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 63 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £613 - £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £466
75th Percentile £638 - £482
90th Percentile - - £485
Scotland median daily rate £625 £500 £458
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 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%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in Edinburgh

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in Edinburgh

Database 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata