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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 85 53 80
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 14.60% 8.28% 8.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.98% 9.03% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 27 47
10th Percentile £325 £277 £413
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.07% +3.27%
75th Percentile £550 £491 £550
90th Percentile £583 £546 £622
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £508
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.42% +2.83%

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 532 587 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.41% 91.72% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 310 492
10th Percentile £221 £228 £200
25th Percentile £406 £390 £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 £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.62 £16.86 £13.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £66.00 - £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

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 18 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 (7.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (2.35%) SAS
2 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.18%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) AWS
2 20 (23.53%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) GCP
4 6 (7.06%) OCI
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.53%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.35%) GitHub
8 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.18%) SaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) LAN
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 2 (2.35%) VPN
2 2 (2.35%) WAN
3 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.18%) Internet
3 1 (1.18%) IPsec
3 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Power BI
2 4 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.35%) Metadata
4 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.35%) Tableau
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.18%) DB2
5 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 5 (5.88%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Ant
3 2 (2.35%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.35%) Maven
3 2 (2.35%) Subversion
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 48 (56.47%) Finance
2 34 (40.00%) Banking
3 23 (27.06%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (25.88%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (14.12%) Retail Banking
5 12 (14.12%) Social Skills
6 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.88%) Retail
8 4 (4.71%) Legal
9 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.12%) Analyst
2 9 (10.59%) Fraud Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.24%) Accountant
4 7 (8.24%) Systems Accountant
5 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Lead
6 5 (5.88%) Migration Manager
7 4 (4.71%) Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Business Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) Data Migration Manager
7 4 (4.71%) DBA
7 4 (4.71%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) Senior
8 3 (3.53%) Data Migration Project Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) Spring
2 4 (4.71%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.35%) .NET
3 2 (2.35%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.35%) JPA
3 2 (2.35%) JSP
3 2 (2.35%) JSTL
3 2 (2.35%) SOAP
3 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.35%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (2.35%) Thymeleaf
3 2 (2.35%) Web Services
3 2 (2.35%) XML
4 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.18%) BAPI
4 1 (1.18%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.18%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (12.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.53%) Derivative
3 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.35%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Replication
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (25.88%) Agile
3 21 (24.71%) Data Migration
4 16 (18.82%) Case Management
4 16 (18.82%) Digital Banking
4 16 (18.82%) Due Diligence
4 16 (18.82%) Fintech
4 16 (18.82%) Regulatory Compliance
4 16 (18.82%) Scenario Testing
5 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.29%) Data Protection
7 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 10 (11.76%) DevOps
9 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.59%) Fraud Detection
10 8 (9.41%) Business Analysis
11 7 (8.24%) Data Analysis
11 7 (8.24%) Data Cleansing
11 7 (8.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Python
3 8 (9.41%) Java
4 4 (4.71%) Perl
4 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.35%) Bash
6 2 (2.35%) Bicep
6 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.18%) ABAP
7 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (4.71%) Degree
2 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.18%) CCNA
3 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.18%) CISSP
3 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) COBIT
2 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.35%) KVM
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Terraform
2 7 (8.24%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.18%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.18%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) F5
4 5 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.71%) Cisco
5 4 (4.71%) Dell
5 4 (4.71%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.71%) HP
6 3 (3.53%) SAP
7 2 (2.35%) Databricks
7 2 (2.35%) Pega
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.18%) Delphix
8 1 (1.18%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.18%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.18%) Qualys
8 1 (1.18%) Thales
8 1 (1.18%) Zscaler