DTS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DTS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 360 409
Rank change year-on-year -4 +49 +104
Contract jobs citing DTS 4 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.045% 0.056%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £671 - £434
25th Percentile £684 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £630 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +14.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £734 - -
90th Percentile £744 - £555
UK median daily rate £613 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% +14.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 - -

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 2,366 2,450 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.30% 13.76% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 1,614 2,155
10th Percentile £300 £322 £325
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £674 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 57 106
10th Percentile £20.99 £16.54 £20.94
25th Percentile £25.56 £19.30 £26.38
Median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -45.21% +56.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DTS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DTS

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DTS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DTS

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 17 September 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 +19 3 £713 +13.10% 5
South West - 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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Business Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PgMP
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA