Database Migration Contracts in London

Database Migration
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 322 347 464
Rank change year-on-year +25 +117 +94
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 31 44 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.28% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 20
10th Percentile £344 £410 £498
25th Percentile £450 £450 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £728
90th Percentile £800 £686 £739
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in London

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in London

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in London

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in London

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +2 2 £450 -28.00%
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Miro
5 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Oracle Database
2 10 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
4 5 (16.13%) DB2
5 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.23%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.23%) MS Access
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) DBeaver
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Maven
2 1 (3.23%) Serena SBM
2 1 (3.23%) Subversion
2 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.23%) Aviation
6 1 (3.23%) French Language
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) DBA
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Migration Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Database Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Data Migration Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Database Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (9.68%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.45%) Chief Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Database Specialist
7 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) EJB
1 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
1 1 (3.23%) Java EE
1 1 (3.23%) JSP
1 1 (3.23%) LDAP
1 1 (3.23%) ODBC
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
1 1 (3.23%) Serverless Framework
1 1 (3.23%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Reference Data
3 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.68%) NHS
4 2 (6.45%) Clustering
4 2 (6.45%) Replication
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Solaris
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Migration
2 13 (41.94%) Data Migration
3 8 (25.81%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) ETL
5 6 (19.35%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) DevOps
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Data Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
7 4 (12.90%) Database Security
7 4 (12.90%) Master Data Management
8 3 (9.68%) API Integration
8 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.68%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (6.45%) Data Extraction
9 2 (6.45%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.90%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
1 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.23%) QRadar
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Google
2 6 (19.35%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Ariba
4 1 (3.23%) BMC
4 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.23%) EMC
4 1 (3.23%) Genesys
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) Rollbar
4 1 (3.23%) Serena
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Sybase
4 1 (3.23%) VMware