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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 335 443
Rank change year-on-year -13 +108 +103
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 27 51 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.31% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.35% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 22
10th Percentile £403 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -11.02% +7.03%
75th Percentile £636 £588 £610
90th Percentile £800 £680 £635
England median daily rate £475 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% +4.76%

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 12,653 14,416 21,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,213 15,864
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -6 1 £450 -14.29% 3
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 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Datadog
3 2 (7.41%) OCI
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.70%) CloudFront
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle Database
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (22.22%) DB2
4 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (7.41%) AlloyDB
7 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.70%) MS Access
8 1 (3.70%) MySQL
8 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) French Language
5 2 (7.41%) Local Government
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Aviation
6 1 (3.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) DBA
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Migration Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Database Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Migration Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Migration Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Database Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Chief Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) SQL DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Basis
1 1 (3.70%) Serverless Framework
1 1 (3.70%) TypeORM
1 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
1 4 (14.81%) Reference Data
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) AIX
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) VMS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Migration
2 10 (37.04%) Data Migration
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (22.22%) ETL
5 6 (22.22%) High Availability
6 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (14.81%) Data Architecture
7 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.81%) Master Data Management
8 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (7.41%) Architecture Roadmap
9 2 (7.41%) Database Security
9 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
9 2 (7.41%) SQL Optimisation
9 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Data Guard
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) IBM
3 5 (18.52%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) Delphix
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Ariba
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Rollbar
5 1 (3.70%) SAP