DTS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DTS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DTS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.026% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £230 £675 £630
% change year-on-year -65.93% +7.14% +14.55%

All Database & BI Skills
North of England

DTS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 999 673 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.07% 16.88% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 467 391
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £410 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £613 £648
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 6 9
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.02 £17.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.71 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.56 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% +23.41% -29.65%
75th Percentile £73.56 £39.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £64.38 £52.95
England median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.13% +19.99% -36.36%

DTS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DTS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

DTS job vacancy trend in the North of England

DTS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DTS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DTS

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DTS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DTS

DTS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 4
North West - 1 - -
DTS
England

DTS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Flyway
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Mirroring
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Foglight
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase