Database Migration Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Database Migration
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Database Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.76% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.67%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £472 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - £348
% change year-on-year - - -42.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 790 426 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.41% 92.01% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 281 414
10th Percentile £340 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £585
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 25
10th Percentile - £31.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 £12.15
Median hourly rate £16.25 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +169.19% -45.33%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.51 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £15.24
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year +0.56% +76.70% -41.04%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Database Migration job vacancy trend in Leeds

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in Leeds

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) DTS
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) DocumentDB
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Flyway
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Legal
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DBA
1 5 (71.43%) SQL DBA
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) ETL Development
4 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Foglight
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft