Hybrid/Remote Database Migration Contract Job Trends

Database Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Database Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 298 352
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 +128
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 11 19 29
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 20
10th Percentile £390 £400 £425
25th Percentile £431 £417 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -19.61% +34.21%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £678
90th Percentile £491 - £705
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +19.94%

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 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Migration and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Database Migration job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Database Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Database Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Database Migration

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Datadog
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) OLAP
5 1 (9.09%) OLTP
5 1 (9.09%) Redis
5 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Liquibase
1 1 (9.09%) Mockito
1 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Database Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Rust Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (18.18%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) htmx
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) Laravel
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) Vue
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Database Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Fintech
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) SDET
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Rust
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Percona