Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DTS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DTS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 696 808
Rank change year-on-year +105 +112 -142
Contract jobs citing DTS 7 23 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.038% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.097% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 25
10th Percentile - £239 £295
25th Percentile £405 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £272 £525
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -48.19% +31.25%
75th Percentile £415 £450 £538
90th Percentile - £738 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £260 £350
% change year-on-year +57.69% -25.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DTS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

DTS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DTS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DTS.

Daily rate trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DTS.

Hourly rate trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +58 4 £410 +57.69% 7
England +111 3 £410 +51.85% 7
Work from Home +121 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 £410 - 1
South East +26 1 - - 2
East of England +10 1 £410 +57.69%

DTS
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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (14.29%) Military
3 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Commercial Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
2 1 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks