DTS Job Trends

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DTS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 686 721
Rank change year-on-year +63 +35 +224
Permanent jobs citing DTS 27 13 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.025% 0.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.41% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £25,000 £52,022 £36,352
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,139 £37,817
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,560 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +24.45% -3.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,661 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,900 £80,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,560 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.13% +15.12% +12.88%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,578 9,421 12,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 17.81% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,132 5,217 9,538
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,226 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

DTS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DTS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DTS job vacancy trend in the UK

DTS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DTS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DTS

DTS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DTS over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DTS in the UK

DTS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the UK over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +76 20 £25,000 -56.57% 4
UK excluding London +56 15 £50,000 -13.13% 6
London +59 7 - -
East Midlands - 7 - - 1
Midlands - 7 - - 1
South East - 3 - -
Work from Home +67 2 £75,000 +48.51% 4
Scotland - 2 £75,000 -
South West - 2 £25,000 - 2
East of England +25 1 - -

DTS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
1 7 (25.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Azure Sentinel
1 7 (25.93%) GCP
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Skype
2 5 (18.52%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (40.74%) Games
2 7 (25.93%) Manufacturing
2 7 (25.93%) Retail
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Procurement Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) JSON
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) CMDB
1 7 (25.93%) Onboarding
1 7 (25.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
1 11 (40.74%) AI
1 11 (40.74%) Business Development
1 11 (40.74%) Business Strategy
1 11 (40.74%) Customer Engagement
1 11 (40.74%) Customer Requirements
1 11 (40.74%) Practice Management
1 11 (40.74%) Presales
1 11 (40.74%) Requirements Gathering
1 11 (40.74%) Risk Analysis
1 11 (40.74%) Service Delivery
1 11 (40.74%) Use Case
1 11 (40.74%) Waterfall
2 7 (25.93%) Customer Service
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (25.93%) Problem Management
2 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (25.93%) Server Management
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (18.52%) C
2 5 (18.52%) C++
2 5 (18.52%) Perl
2 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
1 7 (25.93%) Virtual Desktop
1 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Nagios
1 7 (25.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Dell
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.93%) BMC
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
3 7 (25.93%) Darktrace
3 7 (25.93%) Google
3 7 (25.93%) Proofpoint
3 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
3 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
3 7 (25.93%) Tanium
3 7 (25.93%) Trend Micro
3 7 (25.93%) VMware
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle
4 5 (18.52%) Siemens