Database Migration Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Database Migration
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 139 87 102
Rank change year-on-year -52 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing Database Migration 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £378 £367 £324
25th Percentile - £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £348
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +11.65% -42.08%
75th Percentile - £482 £371
90th Percentile £472 £538 £381
England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,244 973 1,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.67% 92.49% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 604 858
10th Percentile £323 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £546 £576
90th Percentile £675 £623 £647
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 36 68
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.93 £11.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.91 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.12 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +56.44% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £22.14 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £26.95 £53.75
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

Database Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Database Migration job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Database Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Database Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Migration in Yorkshire

Database Migration
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire - 7 £400 - 1
Database Migration
England

Database Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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