Database Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 364 402
Rank change year-on-year +58 +38 +70
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 24 31 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 27
10th Percentile £383 £363 £255
25th Percentile £431 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -16.67% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £489 £575
90th Percentile £679 £494 £593
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +220.00% -
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +220.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in the UK excluding London

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South East +40 10 £450 +5.88% 4
North of England +21 9 £400 -17.95% 3
North West +15 6 £438 -10.26% 1
Scotland +11 4 £625 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +9 3 £388 +11.65% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 2
Database Migration
UK

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) ShareGate
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.17%) Miro
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) MySQL
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.17%) DB2
6 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Power BI
6 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) DBeaver
2 1 (4.17%) Flyway
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) DBA
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Database Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Migration Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) CSS
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Licensing
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Migration
2 12 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) High Availability
4 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (25.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Database Security
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Software Licensing
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (12.50%) Workflow
7 2 (8.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Data Guard
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Nintex
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Sybase
3 1 (4.17%) Teradata