Database Migration Contracts in England

Database Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 447 575
Rank change year-on-year +21 +128 +106
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 52 84 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 47
10th Percentile £370 £391 £267
25th Percentile £431 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £665 £575 £614
90th Percentile £785 £638 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +220.00% -
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.48 £80.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -71.90% +220.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,200 31,464 43,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.38% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 20,624 30,476
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,249 1,526
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.20
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in England

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Migration within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +37 35 £500 -9.09% 20
South East +30 10 £450 +5.88% 8
North of England +18 7 £388 -20.41% 4
North West +15 4 £520 +6.67% 1
Yorkshire +13 3 £388 +11.65% 3
Database Migration
UK

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) Miro
5 2 (3.85%) OCI
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) Oracle Database
2 16 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.62%) DB2
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (3.85%) MySQL
7 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.92%) MS Access
8 1 (1.92%) Power BI
8 1 (1.92%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) JIRA
3 2 (3.85%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.92%) Flyway
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.92%) Maven
4 1 (1.92%) Serena SBM
4 1 (1.92%) Subversion
4 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) French Language
5 2 (3.85%) Local Government
6 1 (1.92%) Aviation
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Front Office
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) DBA
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
2 8 (15.38%) Database Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) SQL DBA
4 5 (9.62%) Migration Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle DBA
4 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Database Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) EJB
1 1 (1.92%) Hibernate
1 1 (1.92%) Java EE
1 1 (1.92%) JSP
1 1 (1.92%) LDAP
1 1 (1.92%) ODBC
1 1 (1.92%) REST
1 1 (1.92%) SAP Basis
1 1 (1.92%) Serverless Framework
1 1 (1.92%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.77%) Clustering
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.77%) NHS
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Licensing
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.92%) Solaris
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Migration
2 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (28.85%) Data Migration
5 13 (25.00%) High Availability
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps
6 8 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (15.38%) ETL
7 7 (13.46%) Database Security
8 6 (11.54%) Agile
9 5 (9.62%) Data Governance
9 5 (9.62%) ITIL
9 5 (9.62%) Project Management
9 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.62%) SQL Optimisation
10 4 (7.69%) Change Management
10 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.69%) Data Architecture
10 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.69%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) PL/SQL
3 6 (11.54%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Data Guard
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Terraform
4 2 (3.85%) Ansible
4 2 (3.85%) Grafana
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) Control-M
5 1 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.92%) QRadar
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Oracle
2 8 (15.38%) Google
3 6 (11.54%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Ariba
6 1 (1.92%) BMC
6 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.92%) Delphix
6 1 (1.92%) EMC
6 1 (1.92%) Genesys
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.92%) Qualys
6 1 (1.92%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.92%) Serena
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Sybase
6 1 (1.92%) VMware