Migration Contracts in Scotland

Migration
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 35 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing Migration 88 122 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.45% 5.50% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 6.20% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 83 167
10th Percentile £346 £400 £368
25th Percentile £418 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £494 £493
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +0.30% +1.55%
75th Percentile £567 £655 £539
90th Percentile £634 £738 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £11.94
25th Percentile - £16.50 £14.11
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.06% -19.45%
75th Percentile - £17.50 -
90th Percentile - £18.50 -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -38.46% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 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 £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -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 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Scotland

Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Migration in Scotland

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 Migration within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -3 57 £477 +0.47% 9
Glasgow +2 26 £509 -3.14% 10
West Lothian +13 1 £500 -
Stirling - 1 £400 - 1
Migration
UK

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 8 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.55%) Confluence
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) CMS
5 1 (1.14%) Drupal
5 1 (1.14%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) AWS
2 21 (23.86%) Amazon S3
3 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (15.91%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) Serverless
4 13 (14.77%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (6.82%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.68%) IaaS
7 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.68%) PaaS
7 5 (5.68%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.68%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) ATM
2 2 (2.27%) Network Security
2 2 (2.27%) SSL
3 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.14%) DNS
3 1 (1.14%) FTP
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (14.77%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.23%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.95%) Power BI
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.41%) MySQL
7 2 (2.27%) GIS
7 2 (2.27%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.14%) DB2
8 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) JIRA
2 9 (10.23%) GitLab
3 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.55%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) Selenium
4 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.41%) Postman
4 3 (3.41%) Subversion
4 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.41%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.14%) Mockito
5 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.14%) Toad
5 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (38.64%) Finance
2 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (28.41%) Banking
4 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.41%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (15.91%) Analyst
2 13 (14.77%) Project Manager
3 10 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Lead
5 7 (7.95%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) DBA
8 4 (4.55%) Migration Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Technical Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) ETL Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.41%) Re-Platforming Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 8 (9.09%) Spring
2 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.68%) REST
4 4 (4.55%) .NET
4 4 (4.55%) PostGIS
5 2 (2.27%) React
5 2 (2.27%) SPFx
5 2 (2.27%) XML
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.14%) JWT
6 1 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.14%) OAuth
6 1 (1.14%) OpenID
6 1 (1.14%) PySpark
6 1 (1.14%) SAML
6 1 (1.14%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.14%) TypeORM
6 1 (1.14%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.68%) Replication
4 4 (4.55%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Clustering
6 2 (2.27%) EPoS
6 2 (2.27%) FMCG
6 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.27%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) AIX
2 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Solaris
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) Data Migration
2 27 (30.68%) Agile
3 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (21.59%) DevOps
5 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
5 13 (14.77%) ETL
5 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 11 (12.50%) Data Transformation
7 11 (12.50%) Scrum
7 11 (12.50%) TDD
8 10 (11.36%) Data Integration
8 10 (11.36%) Kanban
8 10 (11.36%) Project Management
9 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
9 9 (10.23%) Data Protection
9 9 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (9.09%) High Availability
10 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) Python
3 10 (11.36%) Java
4 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.41%) C#
8 3 (3.41%) C++
8 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.41%) VBA
8 3 (3.41%) VBScript
9 2 (2.27%) Groovy
9 2 (2.27%) Perl
10 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.14%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.32%) Degree
2 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.41%) ISEB
5 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.14%) APMP
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) CCNP
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
7 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 5 (5.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.27%) GDPR
5 2 (2.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Firmware
5 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Grafana
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.27%) Ansible
5 1 (1.14%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
1 13 (14.77%) Oracle
2 3 (3.41%) Informatica
2 3 (3.41%) Pega
2 3 (3.41%) Teradata
2 3 (3.41%) VMware
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.27%) Cisco
3 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.14%) BMC
4 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.14%) Citrix
4 1 (1.14%) Dell
4 1 (1.14%) Genesys
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.14%) Sage
4 1 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Sun
4 1 (1.14%) Sybase