Database Migration Contracts in Scotland

Database Migration
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 128 159
Rank change year-on-year +18 +31 -
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.045% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.051% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £449 - £410
25th Percentile £511 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.29% -
75th Percentile £638 - £477
90th Percentile - - £483
UK median daily rate £450 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -6.49% -12.50% +2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 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%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in Scotland

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in Scotland

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in Scotland

Database 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 Database 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 - 4 £625 - 1
Glasgow +4 2 £417 -16.60% 2
Database Migration
UK

Database 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Laravel
1 2 (33.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Progressive Web App
3 2 (33.33%) Push Notifications
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Data Encryption
4 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Software Licensing
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Teradata