Database Migration Contracts

Database Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 458 490 622
Rank change year-on-year +32 +132 +125
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 62 92 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 67
10th Percentile £374 £395 £283
25th Percentile £430 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -12.50% +2.80%
75th Percentile £658 £575 £610
90th Percentile £778 £681 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £22.88
25th Percentile - - £23.44
Median hourly rate £22.48 £80.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -71.90% +204.76% -
75th Percentile - - £28.44
90th Percentile - - £28.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.48 £80.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -71.90% +204.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 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
England +22 51 £450 -5.26% 93
London +25 31 £500 -9.09% 16
UK excluding London +56 28 £450 - 87
Work from Home +23 20 £450 -10.00% 95
South East +41 10 £450 +5.88% 22
North of England +21 8 £419 -14.05% 21
Scotland +18 6 £625 +25.00% 4
North West +19 5 £450 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire +8 3 £388 +11.65% 9
South West +41 2 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 2

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 4 (6.45%) Confluence
1 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) GCP
4 7 (11.29%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.45%) Serverless
7 3 (4.84%) Miro
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.61%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.61%) Datadog
9 1 (1.61%) IaaS
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.16%) Oracle Database
2 16 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (25.81%) SQL Server
3 9 (14.52%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.68%) DB2
5 4 (6.45%) MySQL
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.23%) Power BI
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.61%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) GitLab
2 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) DBeaver
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.61%) Flyway
5 1 (1.61%) Git
5 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.61%) Subversion
5 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Aviation
7 1 (1.61%) Back Office
7 1 (1.61%) French Language
7 1 (1.61%) Front Office
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) DBA
2 10 (16.13%) Architect
3 7 (11.29%) SQL DBA
4 6 (9.68%) Database Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Migration Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Migration Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Administrator
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Oracle Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.84%) Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Data Migration Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Database Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Laravel
1 2 (3.23%) Middleware
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (3.23%) Symfony
2 1 (1.61%) EJB
2 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.61%) Java EE
2 1 (1.61%) JSP
2 1 (1.61%) LDAP
2 1 (1.61%) ODBC
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.61%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (1.61%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (6.45%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.84%) Clustering
4 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.84%) NHS
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle Licensing
4 3 (4.84%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Derivative
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) AIX
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) VMS
5 1 (1.61%) Solaris
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Migration
2 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (33.87%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (29.03%) Data Migration
5 17 (27.42%) High Availability
6 12 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (16.13%) Database Security
8 8 (12.90%) ETL
9 7 (11.29%) Agile
9 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.29%) DevOps
9 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.29%) Project Management
10 6 (9.68%) Data Governance
10 6 (9.68%) SQL Optimisation
11 5 (8.06%) Cost Optimisation
11 5 (8.06%) Data Architecture
11 5 (8.06%) ITIL
11 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
11 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) Java
3 6 (9.68%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.23%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) C++
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
3 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (9.68%) Data Guard
3 5 (8.06%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.45%) Terraform
5 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Control-M
6 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.61%) QRadar
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Oracle
2 9 (14.52%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) IBM
4 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Sybase
6 1 (1.61%) Ariba
6 1 (1.61%) BMC
6 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.61%) EMC
6 1 (1.61%) Genesys
6 1 (1.61%) Qualys
6 1 (1.61%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.61%) Serena
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Teradata
6 1 (1.61%) VMware