Database Migration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Database Migration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 140 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 5 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% - -
South East median daily rate £450 £425 -
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the Thames Valley

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the Thames Valley

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +31 5 £700 +64.71% 4
Database Migration
South East

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) BCP
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat