Database Migration Contracts

Database Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Database Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Migration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 620 745
Rank change year-on-year +117 +125 -116
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 91 96 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 67 71
10th Percentile £394 £283 £400
25th Percentile £413 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.80% +25.88%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £606
90th Percentile £683 £730 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.06% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +204.76% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £26.25 -
% change year-on-year +204.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
England +125 85 £463 -15.91% 11
London +122 44 £550 -6.78% 5
Work from Home +118 37 £494 -9.40% 12
UK excluding London +59 35 £450 -14.29% 5
South East - 15 £425 - 1
South West +6 7 - -
Midlands - 7 £488 - 1
North of England +26 6 £488 -7.14%
West Midlands - 5 £488 -
Yorkshire +22 3 £348 -40.85%
North West +18 3 £488 -
East of England +2 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £750 - 1
Scotland +31 1 £500 +9.29% 1

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.20%) Apache
1 2 (2.20%) GemFire
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.47%) AWS
2 17 (18.68%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) OCI
4 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.40%) GCP
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.10%) PaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) NAS
1 7 (7.69%) SAN
2 5 (5.49%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
4 2 (2.20%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.10%) DHCP
5 1 (1.10%) Firewall
5 1 (1.10%) LAN
5 1 (1.10%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.10%) WAN
5 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 19 (20.88%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.99%) MySQL
5 8 (8.79%) DB2
5 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (8.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (6.59%) MariaDB
6 6 (6.59%) Redis
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.49%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (3.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
1 4 (4.40%) Git
1 4 (4.40%) Snyk
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Finance
5 4 (4.40%) German Language
5 4 (4.40%) Retail
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
6 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) DBA
2 15 (16.48%) Architect
3 12 (13.19%) Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Senior
5 10 (10.99%) Oracle Architect
6 9 (9.89%) Database Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Oracle DBA
7 7 (7.69%) Administrator
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Database Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Migration Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) SQL DBA
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Consultant
10 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Programme Manager
10 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared DBA
10 4 (4.40%) SQL Server DBA
10 4 (4.40%) Teradata Specialist
11 3 (3.30%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) Kafka
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (4.40%) .NET
3 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.30%) SAP Basis
5 2 (2.20%) JSON
5 2 (2.20%) LAMP
6 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.10%) J2EE
6 1 (1.10%) LDAP
6 1 (1.10%) Spring
6 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Replication
2 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Clustering
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) LIMS
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (13.19%) Solaris
3 11 (12.09%) VMS
4 10 (10.99%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (4.40%) Windows
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.20%) HPUX
6 2 (2.20%) Unix
7 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (84.62%) Migration
2 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 14 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 14 (15.38%) DevOps
4 13 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (13.19%) Agile
6 10 (10.99%) Database Security
7 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (7.69%) Security Testing
9 6 (6.59%) Business Case
9 6 (6.59%) Database Tuning
9 6 (6.59%) ITIL
9 6 (6.59%) Validation
10 5 (5.49%) High Availability
10 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (5.49%) Kanban
10 5 (5.49%) Scrum
10 5 (5.49%) Task Automation
11 4 (4.40%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) SQL
2 9 (9.89%) Java
3 6 (6.59%) PHP
4 4 (4.40%) Go
4 4 (4.40%) Python
5 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.20%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.89%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.30%) MCITP
6 3 (3.30%) MCTS
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CEH
7 1 (1.10%) CISM
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.99%) KVM
3 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.10%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) Ansible
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.49%) Avamar
4 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.20%) Istio
6 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle
2 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.98%) VMware
4 11 (12.09%) Dell
5 7 (7.69%) IBM
5 7 (7.69%) SAP
6 6 (6.59%) EMC
7 4 (4.40%) Greenplum
7 4 (4.40%) Netezza
7 4 (4.40%) Sybase
7 4 (4.40%) Teradata
8 3 (3.30%) ESRI
8 3 (3.30%) Google
8 3 (3.30%) Micro Focus
9 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Sun
10 1 (1.10%) Aruba
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco
10 1 (1.10%) Facebook
10 1 (1.10%) HP