Database Migration Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Database Migration
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 227 154 170
Rank change year-on-year -73 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 9 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.31% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £387 £370 £337
25th Percentile - £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% -7.14%
75th Percentile £427 £531 £494
90th Percentile £496 £611 -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,448 2,950 3,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.22% 89.88% 84.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 1,901 2,404
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £645 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 147 376
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.51 £12.53
Median hourly rate £52.78 £25.15 £19.34
Median % change year-on-year +109.84% +30.04% -31.76%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.00 £45.88
90th Percentile £81.83 £76.75 £62.50
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Database Migration job vacancy trend in the North of England

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the North of England

Database Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Database Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Yorkshire -52 7 £400 +3.09% 1
North West -40 2 £431 -1.60% 2
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (44.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (33.33%) DTS
3 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) DocumentDB
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Flyway
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) DBA
2 5 (55.56%) SQL DBA
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
2 5 (55.56%) High Availability
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) ETL Development
4 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Foglight
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase