Database Migration Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Database Migration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Database Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 126 135
Rank change year-on-year -55 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.091% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £388 - £427
25th Percentile £432 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - £488
75th Percentile £582 - £494
90th Percentile £623 - £550
England median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,773 1,954 2,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.45% 88.46% 80.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 1,250 1,573
10th Percentile £306 £206 £242
25th Percentile £403 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £639 £688
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 141 178
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £11.27
25th Percentile £16.74 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.39 £18.99
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +12.67% -24.81%
75th Percentile £51.06 £29.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.48 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Database Migration job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the Midlands

Database Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Database Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
West Midlands -53 4 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £368 -
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospike
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Billing
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) HPUX
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
3 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) ERD
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) ProC
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) NetCracker