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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 472 610
Rank change year-on-year -29 +138 +112
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 52 98 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 48
10th Percentile £400 £399 £400
25th Percentile £450 £416 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -8.14% +2.38%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £610
90th Percentile £760 £639 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +2.78% -12.20% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 29,778 33,530 47,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.52% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,631 21,488 32,626
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,872 1,558
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +85.19%

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 4 August 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 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 4 August 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 -32 42 £475 -2.56% 33
London -23 27 £518 -1.43% 23
Work from Home +9 19 £475 -2.56% 13
UK excluding London -5 18 £463 +2.78% 13
South East +14 6 £475 +8.57% 5
North of England -8 5 £400 -17.95% 2
Midlands -7 4 £500 +2.56% 4
Yorkshire -3 3 £388 +21.25% 1
North West -2 2 £438 -10.26% 1
Scotland -2 2 - -
West Midlands -5 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -

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 5 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (13.46%) Datadog
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (9.62%) GCP
6 5 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.85%) OCI
7 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
1 2 (3.85%) Intranet
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (48.08%) Oracle Database
2 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
3 16 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (13.46%) DB2
5 7 (13.46%) MySQL
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (9.62%) MariaDB
6 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (5.77%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.85%) AlloyDB
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.92%) MS Access
10 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Gradle
2 1 (1.92%) JMeter
2 1 (1.92%) JUnit
2 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
2 1 (1.92%) Mockito
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.92%) Postman
2 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) French Language
6 2 (3.85%) Local Government
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Aviation
7 1 (1.92%) Back Office
7 1 (1.92%) Front Office
7 1 (1.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) DBA
2 11 (21.15%) Administrator
3 8 (15.38%) Architect
3 8 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (11.54%) Database Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Migration Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) SQL DBA
6 4 (7.69%) Migration Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
7 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Database Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
8 2 (3.85%) Chief Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.85%) .NET
2 2 (3.85%) CSS
2 2 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.92%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (1.92%) Spring
3 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.92%) Swagger
3 1 (1.92%) TypeORM
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Replication
2 5 (9.62%) Clustering
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.69%) Reference Data
4 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Licensing
6 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.77%) VMS
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
3 2 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.92%) AIX
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Migration
2 23 (44.23%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (38.46%) High Availability
3 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (25.00%) DevOps
6 12 (23.08%) Database Security
7 11 (21.15%) Data Migration
8 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
10 7 (13.46%) ETL
11 6 (11.54%) Fintech
11 6 (11.54%) SQL Optimisation
12 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
12 5 (9.62%) Database Tuning
12 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (9.62%) ITIL
13 4 (7.69%) Agile
13 4 (7.69%) Data Architecture
13 4 (7.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (17.31%) PL/SQL
3 6 (11.54%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (5.77%) Bash
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) PHP
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) Bicep
7 1 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.85%) OCP
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.77%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Data Guard
1 9 (17.31%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) IBM
3 5 (9.62%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) Delphix
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Nintex
6 1 (1.92%) Ariba
6 1 (1.92%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.92%) Sybase
6 1 (1.92%) Teradata