Database Migration Contracts in the North West

Database Migration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 134 149
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £389 - £356
25th Percentile £410 £481 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.56%
75th Percentile £560 £494 £538
90th Percentile £623 - £550
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 the North West

Job postings citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the North West

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the North West

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the North West

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in the North West

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Merseyside +4 3 £665 +36.41% 1
Manchester - 2 £413 - 5
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Flyway
1 1 (20.00%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Database Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Technical Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Business Case
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft