Data Migration Contracts in Scotland

Data Migration
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data 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 88 81 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 28 48 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 2.17% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.45% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 38 45
10th Percentile £407 £342 £409
25th Percentile £416 £421 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.25% +0.82%
75th Percentile £510 £718 £520
90th Percentile £538 £750 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in Scotland

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 20 £475 +0.58% 3
Glasgow -4 5 £425 -15.00% 2
West Lothian - 1 £500 -
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Amazon S3
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (35.71%) Serverless
3 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (17.86%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (14.29%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (14.29%) Power BI
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.14%) GIS
6 2 (7.14%) PowerCenter
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) GitLab
2 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Data Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Programme Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Storage Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 4 (14.29%) PostGIS
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Migration
2 13 (46.43%) ETL
3 12 (42.86%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Agile
5 9 (32.14%) Data Integration
5 9 (32.14%) Data Transformation
6 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (17.86%) Kanban
8 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) Scrum
9 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
9 4 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
9 4 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
9 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) SOQL
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Informatica
2 3 (10.71%) Teradata
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.57%) BMC
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) Sage
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.57%) TSYS