Migration Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Migration
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 86 55 80
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 14.38% 8.35% 8.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.58% 9.31% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 49
10th Percentile £325 £292 £413
25th Percentile £427 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.89% +3.06%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £550
90th Percentile £572 £553 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £471 £518
% change year-on-year +6.16% -8.99% +4.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Migration job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Edinburgh

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Migration

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.16%) SAS
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.16%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.91%) AWS
2 20 (23.26%) Azure
3 10 (11.63%) GCP
4 6 (6.98%) OCI
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.33%) GitHub
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) LAN
2 2 (2.33%) VPN
2 2 (2.33%) WAN
3 1 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.16%) IPsec
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Power BI
2 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.33%) Metadata
3 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) DB2
4 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) JIRA
2 7 (8.14%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.33%) Ant
4 2 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.33%) Maven
4 2 (2.33%) Subversion
5 1 (1.16%) GitLab
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 52 (60.47%) Finance
2 36 (41.86%) Banking
3 27 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (30.23%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
6 10 (11.63%) Retail Banking
7 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.81%) Retail
9 4 (4.65%) Legal
10 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Analyst
2 11 (12.79%) Fraud Analyst
3 8 (9.30%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.30%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.14%) Accountant
4 7 (8.14%) Systems Accountant
5 6 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Lead
6 5 (5.81%) Migration Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Business Consultant
7 4 (4.65%) Consultant
7 4 (4.65%) Data Migration Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Consultant
7 4 (4.65%) Senior
8 3 (3.49%) Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) Spring
2 4 (4.65%) Spring Security
3 3 (3.49%) RESTful
4 2 (2.33%) .NET
4 2 (2.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.33%) JPA
4 2 (2.33%) JSP
4 2 (2.33%) JSTL
4 2 (2.33%) SOAP
4 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.33%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (2.33%) Thymeleaf
4 2 (2.33%) Web Services
4 2 (2.33%) XML
5 1 (1.16%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.16%) BAPI
5 1 (1.16%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (12.79%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.49%) Derivative
4 3 (3.49%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) PKI
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Windows
2 6 (6.98%) Linux
3 3 (3.49%) Unix
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (25.58%) Agile
3 21 (24.42%) Data Migration
4 20 (23.26%) Case Management
4 20 (23.26%) Digital Banking
4 20 (23.26%) Due Diligence
4 20 (23.26%) Fintech
4 20 (23.26%) Regulatory Compliance
4 20 (23.26%) Scenario Testing
5 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.12%) Data Protection
7 11 (12.79%) Fraud Detection
7 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
8 10 (11.63%) DevOps
9 9 (10.47%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.30%) Business Analysis
11 7 (8.14%) Data Analysis
11 7 (8.14%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Java
2 10 (11.63%) Python
3 6 (6.98%) Perl
4 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.33%) Bash
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) ABAP
6 1 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.16%) CCNA
3 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.16%) CISSP
3 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.65%) COBIT
4 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) KVM
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Terraform
2 7 (8.14%) Ansible
3 3 (3.49%) Grafana
3 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.16%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.16%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) F5
4 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.65%) Dell
4 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.65%) HP
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco
5 3 (3.49%) SAP
6 2 (2.33%) Databricks
6 2 (2.33%) Pega
6 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Delphix
7 1 (1.16%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.16%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.16%) Meraki
7 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.16%) Qualys
7 1 (1.16%) Talend
7 1 (1.16%) Thales