DTS Contracts

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DTS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DTS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 664 797
Rank change year-on-year +95 +133 -102
Contract jobs citing DTS 6 18 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.032% 0.047%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.082% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 27
10th Percentile - £236 £325
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £415 £566 £538
90th Percentile - £800 £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £252 £375
% change year-on-year +62.70% -32.80% -4.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DTS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

DTS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DTS in the UK

DTS
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +74 4 £410 -8.89% 4
UK excluding London +35 4 £410 +62.70% 1
Scotland - 2 £410 -
London +90 1 - -
South East +11 1 - - 1
East of England +5 1 £410 +62.70%

DTS
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Commercial Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
2 1 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks