Data Migration Contracts in Scotland

Data Migration
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Migration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 103 105
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 58 60 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.71% 2.24% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.43% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 49
10th Percentile £359 £401 £394
25th Percentile £437 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £482
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +1.97% +7.11%
75th Percentile £705 £520 £550
90th Percentile £750 £631 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,473 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.21% 92.38% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,727 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 +18 30 £475 -2.46% 5
Glasgow +18 12 £500 +9.59%
South Lanarkshire - 9 £750 -
Aberdeen +4 4 £550 -12.00% 2
Perthshire - 1 £683 -
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 12 (20.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) GeoServer
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) Serverless
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.62%) OCI
3 5 (8.62%) PaaS
3 5 (8.62%) SaaS
4 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (5.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) VSAN
2 3 (5.17%) IPsec
2 3 (5.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Metadata
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) GIS
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Banking
3 5 (8.62%) Billing
4 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Applications Engineer
1 11 (18.97%) JIRA Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Applications Support
2 8 (13.79%) Applications Support Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Consultant
5 5 (8.62%) Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Lead
5 5 (8.62%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Data Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Data Integration Manager
6 4 (6.90%) DBA
6 4 (6.90%) Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Integration Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Migration Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (6.90%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) REST
2 10 (17.24%) Web Services
3 5 (8.62%) AWS CDK
3 5 (8.62%) PostGIS
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.45%) .NET
6 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.45%) CSS
6 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.45%) jQuery
6 2 (3.45%) OAuth
6 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.45%) OpenID
6 2 (3.45%) RESTful
6 2 (3.45%) SOAP
6 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.45%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.90%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Migration
2 17 (29.31%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) Analytics
3 11 (18.97%) Data Transformation
3 11 (18.97%) Kalman Filter
3 11 (18.97%) Service Management
3 11 (18.97%) Workflow
4 10 (17.24%) DevOps
4 10 (17.24%) Performance Metrics
5 8 (13.79%) Scrum
6 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.07%) CRM
6 7 (12.07%) ERP
6 7 (12.07%) Kanban
6 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.34%) User Stories
8 5 (8.62%) Process Improvement
8 5 (8.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) SQL
2 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.90%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.45%) C#
3 2 (3.45%) Java
3 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
3 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) PMO
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (15.52%) vSphere
2 5 (8.62%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (5.17%) Docker
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Data Guard
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (6.90%) vCenter Server
1 4 (6.90%) VxRail
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Atlassian
2 10 (17.24%) Dell
2 10 (17.24%) Oracle
3 9 (15.52%) VMware
4 7 (12.07%) Cisco
4 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.62%) SAP
6 4 (6.90%) Alteryx
7 3 (5.17%) Cognizant
7 3 (5.17%) Okta
8 2 (3.45%) Databricks
9 1 (1.72%) Canon
9 1 (1.72%) IBM
9 1 (1.72%) IFS
9 1 (1.72%) Informatica