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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 613 757
Rank change year-on-year +130 +144 -103
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 87 77 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 71
10th Percentile £392 £263 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £595
90th Percentile £638 £734 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.06% +22.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +220.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +220.00% - -

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 13 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 23 May 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 +114 83 £450 -18.18% 12
London +115 44 £550 -8.71% 4
Work from Home +127 38 £488 -11.56% 8
UK excluding London +53 30 £438 -16.67% 5
South East - 17 £425 - 4
North of England +25 6 £488 -7.14%
Midlands - 5 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £488 -
North West +20 3 £488 -7.14%
Yorkshire +18 3 £348 -42.08%
East of England +5 2 - -
South West +1 2 - -
Scotland +42 1 £500 +14.29%

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 (2.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.15%) GemFire
2 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.84%) AWS
2 13 (14.94%) Azure
3 7 (8.05%) OCI
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
5 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.30%) Serverless
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.15%) PaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) NAS
1 7 (8.05%) SAN
2 5 (5.75%) DNS
3 4 (4.60%) VPN
4 2 (2.30%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.15%) DHCP
5 1 (1.15%) Firewall
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.03%) Oracle Database
2 14 (16.09%) SQL Server
3 13 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.20%) MySQL
4 8 (9.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (8.05%) DB2
6 6 (6.90%) MariaDB
7 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database 11g
7 5 (5.75%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (4.60%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.45%) GIS
9 3 (3.45%) Informix
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
1 4 (4.60%) Snyk
2 1 (1.15%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Finance
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Legal
7 3 (3.45%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Military
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Back Office
9 1 (1.15%) German Language
9 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) DBA
2 15 (17.24%) Architect
3 12 (13.79%) Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Oracle Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (9.20%) Migration Manager
6 8 (9.20%) Senior
7 7 (8.05%) Administrator
7 7 (8.05%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) SQL DBA
9 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Migration Project Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Oracle Project Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.60%) Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) Database Manager
10 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) SQL Server DBA
10 4 (4.60%) Teradata Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (4.60%) .NET
2 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
2 4 (4.60%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.30%) LAMP
5 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.15%) J2EE
5 1 (1.15%) JSON
5 1 (1.15%) LDAP
5 1 (1.15%) Spring
5 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Replication
2 5 (5.75%) Clustering
3 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.15%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) LIMS
6 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Linux
2 13 (14.94%) Solaris
3 12 (13.79%) VMS
4 11 (12.64%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (4.60%) Windows
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.30%) HPUX
6 2 (2.30%) Unix
7 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (86.21%) Migration
2 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 15 (17.24%) Data Migration
4 13 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (12.64%) DevOps
6 8 (9.20%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (8.05%) Database Security
7 7 (8.05%) Security Testing
8 6 (6.90%) Agile
8 6 (6.90%) ITIL
8 6 (6.90%) Re-Platforming
8 6 (6.90%) Validation
9 5 (5.75%) High Availability
9 5 (5.75%) Kanban
9 5 (5.75%) Performance Testing
9 5 (5.75%) Project Management
9 5 (5.75%) Scrum
9 5 (5.75%) Task Automation
10 4 (4.60%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.93%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) Java
3 6 (6.90%) PHP
4 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.75%) Python
5 4 (4.60%) Bash
5 4 (4.60%) Go
6 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Degree
2 14 (16.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.45%) MCITP
6 3 (3.45%) MCTS
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) CEH
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.64%) KVM
3 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.30%) Docker
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.15%) vSphere
6 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Avamar
3 4 (4.60%) Grafana
3 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.45%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Istio
6 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 38 (43.68%) Oracle
2 21 (24.14%) VMware
3 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 11 (12.64%) Dell
5 7 (8.05%) IBM
5 7 (8.05%) SAP
6 6 (6.90%) EMC
7 5 (5.75%) Google
8 4 (4.60%) Greenplum
8 4 (4.60%) Netezza
8 4 (4.60%) Sybase
8 4 (4.60%) Teradata
9 3 (3.45%) ESRI
9 3 (3.45%) Micro Focus
10 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.30%) Sun
11 1 (1.15%) Aruba
11 1 (1.15%) Facebook
11 1 (1.15%) HP
11 1 (1.15%) Instagram