Migration Contracts in Edinburgh

Migration
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Migration 57 75 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.12% 9.20% 10.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 10.42% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 97
10th Percentile £400 £410 £179
25th Percentile £424 £419 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.55% +2.34%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £525
90th Percentile £694 £688 £660
Scotland median daily rate £491 £494 £493
% change year-on-year -0.66% +0.30% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £11.94
25th Percentile - £16.50 £14.11
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.06% +11.73%
75th Percentile - £17.50 -
90th Percentile - £18.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year - -4.06% -19.45%

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 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%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Edinburgh

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Edinburgh

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Edinburgh

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Edinburgh

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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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.26%) Confluence
1 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) Drupal
2 1 (1.75%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
2 19 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 12 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (21.05%) Serverless
4 9 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 8 (14.04%) Azure
6 7 (12.28%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.77%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (7.02%) IaaS
8 4 (7.02%) PaaS
8 4 (7.02%) SaaS
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.51%) GCP
10 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) ATM
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.75%) SSL
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.79%) Oracle Database
4 6 (10.53%) Power BI
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.51%) GIS
7 2 (3.51%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.75%) Metadata
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) JIRA
2 7 (12.28%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) Selenium
4 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.26%) Git
4 3 (5.26%) Postman
4 3 (5.26%) Subversion
4 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.26%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 19 (33.33%) Banking
4 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.26%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Project Manager
3 5 (8.77%) Architect
3 5 (8.77%) Data Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Migration Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) DBA
5 3 (5.26%) ETL Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Senior
5 3 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 4 (7.02%) PostGIS
3 3 (5.26%) .NET
3 3 (5.26%) REST
3 3 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (3.51%) React
4 2 (3.51%) XML
5 1 (1.75%) PySpark
5 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.75%) TypeORM
5 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.02%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Licensing
4 3 (5.26%) Replication
5 2 (3.51%) FMCG
5 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) EPoS
6 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) Data Migration
2 18 (31.58%) Agile
3 12 (21.05%) DevOps
4 11 (19.30%) ETL
5 10 (17.54%) Data Transformation
5 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 9 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
7 8 (14.04%) Kanban
8 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.28%) Data Analysis
8 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
8 7 (12.28%) Scrum
8 7 (12.28%) TDD
9 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) Python
3 5 (8.77%) Java
3 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.26%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.26%) VBA
4 3 (5.26%) VBScript
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.26%) ISEB
5 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Firmware
3 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Grafana
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.26%) Informatica
3 3 (5.26%) Teradata
3 3 (5.26%) VMware
4 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) Citrix
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) Genesys
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) IBM
5 1 (1.75%) Pega
5 1 (1.75%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.75%) TSYS