DTS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DTS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DTS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 395 451
Rank change year-on-year +62 +56 +39
Contract jobs citing DTS 3 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.019% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.15% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £243
25th Percentile - £405 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £410 £260
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +57.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile - £415 £276
90th Percentile - - £277
UK median daily rate £435 £410 £272
% change year-on-year +6.10% +50.74% -45.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £24.50 - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 - £25.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

DTS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DTS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DTS in the UK excluding London

DTS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DTS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DTS in the UK excluding London

DTS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DTS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DTS in the UK excluding London

DTS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +47 2 - - 6
North of England - 1 £275 - 1
North West - 1 £275 - 1
DTS
UK

DTS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
1 1 (33.33%) MSDE
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory