Database Migration Contracts in the South East

Database Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 149 190 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 10 15 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile - £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £613 £450 -
90th Percentile £700 £473 -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the South East

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the South East

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the South East

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in the South East

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +43 5 £700 +64.71% 8
Berkshire +31 5 £700 +64.71% 4
East Sussex - 3 £450 - 1
West Sussex +6 1 £500 +11.11% 1
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DBA
2 3 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) High Availability
1 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Database Security
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) BCP
5 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Observability
6 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
6 1 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat