Database Migration Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Database Migration
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Database Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.60% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £378 - £324
25th Percentile - - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £348
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.08%
75th Percentile - - £371
90th Percentile £472 - £381
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £388 £348
% change year-on-year +3.09% +11.65% -42.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,000 515 838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.03% 92.29% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 333 495
10th Percentile £311 £273 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 36
10th Percentile - - £11.95
25th Percentile £14.25 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.27 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +76.70% -41.04%
75th Percentile £25.54 £31.45 £15.24
90th Percentile £74.00 £34.46 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.12 £13.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +56.44% +27.00%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Database Migration job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Migration in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in West Yorkshire

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. 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
Leeds - 7 £400 - 1
Database Migration
Yorkshire

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) DTS
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) DocumentDB
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Flyway
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Legal
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DBA
1 5 (71.43%) SQL DBA
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) ETL Development
4 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Foglight
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft