Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MTS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MTS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 702 808
Rank change year-on-year +131 +106 -133
Contract jobs citing MTS 15 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.033% 0.026%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.36% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 19
10th Percentile - £451 £423
25th Percentile £425 £750 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £800 £800
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% - +45.45%
75th Percentile £475 £931 -
90th Percentile - £975 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £345
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

MTS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,160 6,647 11,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 11.07% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 4,661 7,582
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -1.11% +8.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 152 212
10th Percentile £13.03 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.44 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.01 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.10% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.53
90th Percentile £67.70 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.09 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -8.19% +39.95% -6.25%

MTS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MTS in the UK

MTS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MTS in the UK

MTS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MTS in the UK

MTS
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MTS within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +115 15 £450 -43.75% 4
London +101 14 £450 -43.75% 2
Work from Home +125 5 £450 -5.26% 4
UK excluding London +70 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 1

MTS
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:

Business Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Endur
1 13 (86.67%) EuroRunner
2 12 (80.00%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Front Office
4 4 (26.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
1 10 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Market Risk
2 8 (53.33%) Renewable Energy
2 8 (53.33%) Solar Panel
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) ETRM
2 12 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 11 (73.33%) Data Analysis
3 11 (73.33%) Project Delivery
4 8 (53.33%) Business Strategy
4 8 (53.33%) Process Improvement
4 8 (53.33%) Test Strategy
4 8 (53.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (53.33%) Use Case
5 3 (20.00%) Flow Trading
6 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (6.67%) Software Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree