Database Migration Jobs

Database Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Database Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Migration over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 772 913
Rank change year-on-year +98 +141 +172
Permanent jobs citing Database Migration 37 123 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.12% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.15% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 44
10th Percentile £57,000 £50,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £73,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% +37.21% -6.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £88,875 £82,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +23.53% -22.73%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Migration.

Salary trend for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Migration over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Migration in the UK

Database Migration
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +146 31 £69,500 +32.38% 23
England +63 27 £67,500 -18.18% 39
London +106 16 £75,000 -10.45% 24
UK excluding London +108 15 £67,500 +28.57% 22
North of England +27 6 £62,500 +19.05% 4
North West +3 6 £62,500 +19.05% 1
South East +69 3 £62,500 -28.57% 9
Scotland - 3 £67,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £69,000 - 2
East of England +37 1 £75,000 - 4

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 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (62.16%) SQL Server
2 21 (56.76%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (21.62%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Moq
1 8 (21.62%) SpecFlow
2 4 (10.81%) Git
General
1 15 (40.54%) Law
2 8 (21.62%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Finance
7 2 (5.41%) Advertising
7 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Lead
2 14 (37.84%) Database Team Leader
2 14 (37.84%) Team Leader
3 11 (29.73%) Developer
3 11 (29.73%) Development Team Leader
4 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Database Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) SQL Developer
6 4 (10.81%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) SQL Database Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) .NET
1 12 (32.43%) REST
2 8 (21.62%) .NET Core
2 8 (21.62%) .NET Framework
2 8 (21.62%) Entity Framework
2 8 (21.62%) FHIR
2 8 (21.62%) OAuth
2 8 (21.62%) OAuth2
3 6 (16.22%) Swagger
4 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
5 4 (10.81%) HTML
5 4 (10.81%) SOAP
5 4 (10.81%) XML
6 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.70%) Clustering
1 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) Migration
2 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 23 (62.16%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (59.46%) Performance Tuning
4 21 (56.76%) Mentoring
5 19 (51.35%) Data Migration
5 19 (51.35%) Database Tuning
6 15 (40.54%) Coaching
6 15 (40.54%) PRINCE2
7 11 (29.73%) DevOps
8 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
8 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
8 8 (21.62%) Data Security
8 8 (21.62%) Front End Development
8 8 (21.62%) Microservices
8 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
9 6 (16.22%) API Design
10 4 (10.81%) Clean Code
10 4 (10.81%) Data Cleansing
10 4 (10.81%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) SQL
2 12 (32.43%) C#
3 8 (21.62%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 6 (16.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) ISO 9001
2 8 (21.62%) QA
3 6 (16.22%) CDISC
4 1 (2.70%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Databricks
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle