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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 111 128 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.70% 6.01% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 6.89% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 93 155
10th Percentile £313 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £489
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.02% +0.82%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £544
90th Percentile £606 £748 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - - £11.22
25th Percentile - £16.50 £12.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £14.36
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% +18.38% -27.29%
75th Percentile £25.85 £17.50 £16.17
90th Percentile £27.11 £18.50 £17.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -38.93% +151.92%

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 1,549 1,859 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.48% 87.24% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,152 1,723
10th Percentile £263 £219 £251
25th Percentile £370 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 96 54
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.53 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +33.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 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 31 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 72 £484 +1.79% 25
Glasgow -7 26 £442 -9.33% 18
Aberdeen +3 6 £168 -69.55% 8
Stirling - 1 £400 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
West Lothian - 1 £500 -
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 9 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.41%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.90%) Drupal
5 1 (0.90%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.90%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) AWS
2 21 (18.92%) Amazon S3
3 14 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (12.61%) Serverless
4 13 (11.71%) Azure
5 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.41%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.41%) PowerApps
8 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.50%) GCP
8 5 (4.50%) IaaS
8 5 (4.50%) PaaS
8 5 (4.50%) SaaS
8 5 (4.50%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) Firewall
1 3 (2.70%) WAN
2 2 (1.80%) ATM
2 2 (1.80%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) LAN
2 2 (1.80%) Network Security
2 2 (1.80%) SSL
2 2 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) FTP
3 1 (0.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (11.71%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.11%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.41%) Power BI
5 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.80%) GIS
8 2 (1.80%) PowerCenter
8 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.90%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.90%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (14.41%) JIRA
2 9 (8.11%) GitLab
3 5 (4.50%) Git
4 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.60%) Selenium
5 3 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.70%) ER Studio
5 3 (2.70%) Postman
5 3 (2.70%) Subversion
5 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.70%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.90%) Mockito
6 1 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.90%) Toad
6 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (43.24%) Finance
2 44 (39.64%) Social Skills
3 29 (26.13%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Public Sector
5 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.80%) Electronics
9 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (21.62%) Analyst
2 16 (14.41%) Project Manager
3 10 (9.01%) Data Analyst
3 10 (9.01%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.21%) Senior
5 7 (6.31%) Architect
5 7 (6.31%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.31%) Consultant
5 7 (6.31%) Lead
6 6 (5.41%) Migration Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Administrator
8 4 (3.60%) DBA
8 4 (3.60%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Migration Consultant
8 4 (3.60%) Technical Manager
9 3 (2.70%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (2.70%) QA Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Re-Platforming Analyst
9 3 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) AWS CDK
2 5 (4.50%) REST
3 4 (3.60%) .NET
3 4 (3.60%) PostGIS
3 4 (3.60%) Spring
4 3 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) React
5 2 (1.80%) SPFx
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.80%) XML
6 1 (0.90%) ADO
6 1 (0.90%) JWT
6 1 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.90%) OAuth
6 1 (0.90%) OpenID
6 1 (0.90%) SAML
6 1 (0.90%) Spring Batch
6 1 (0.90%) TypeORM
6 1 (0.90%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.50%) Replication
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.60%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (1.80%) Clustering
6 2 (1.80%) EPoS
6 2 (1.80%) FMCG
6 2 (1.80%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.90%) CMDB
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) AIX
2 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Solaris
2 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.83%) Agile
2 31 (27.93%) Data Migration
3 20 (18.02%) DevOps
3 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (14.41%) ETL
5 14 (12.61%) CI/CD
5 14 (12.61%) Test Automation
6 13 (11.71%) Project Management
7 12 (10.81%) Computer Science
7 12 (10.81%) Data Modelling
7 12 (10.81%) Data Transformation
8 11 (9.91%) Scrum
9 10 (9.01%) Business Analysis
9 10 (9.01%) Data Integration
9 10 (9.01%) Kanban
10 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (8.11%) Data Analysis
10 9 (8.11%) Validation
10 9 (8.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.32%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) Java
4 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.70%) C#
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) VBA
7 3 (2.70%) VBScript
8 2 (1.80%) Groovy
8 2 (1.80%) Perl
8 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.90%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.90%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 11 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.70%) ISEB
6 3 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.70%) PMP
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.90%) APMP
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CCNA
8 1 (0.90%) CCNP
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.60%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.80%) Firmware
5 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Grafana
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.90%) Argo
4 1 (0.90%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.90%) Istio
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Oracle
3 5 (4.50%) Teradata
4 4 (3.60%) Cisco
4 4 (3.60%) Google
4 4 (3.60%) SAP
5 3 (2.70%) Informatica
5 3 (2.70%) Pega
5 3 (2.70%) VMware
6 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.80%) Meraki
6 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.90%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.90%) Concur
7 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.90%) Nintex
7 1 (0.90%) Okta
7 1 (0.90%) StreamSets