Database Migration Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 284 307 432
Rank change year-on-year +23 +125 +140
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 20 38 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 28
10th Percentile £363 - £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.26% +2.83%
75th Percentile - £638 £631
90th Percentile £563 £688 £729
UK median daily rate £450 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -6.49% -12.50% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.48 £80.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -71.90% +204.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Database Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Migration trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Migration.

Database Migration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Database Migration over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Database Migration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (15.00%) MySQL
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI
6 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (5.00%) Flyway
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Aviation
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) French Language
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) DBA
2 6 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Laravel
1 2 (10.00%) Symfony
2 1 (5.00%) ODBC
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Migration
2 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (40.00%) High Availability
5 6 (30.00%) Database Security
5 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
7 4 (20.00%) ETL
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) Data Extraction
9 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
9 2 (10.00%) Data Validation
9 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (10.00%) Progressive Web App
9 2 (10.00%) Push Notifications
9 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) PHP
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Google