The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 48 - 51
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MDX 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.189% - 0.161%
As % of the Application Development category 0.926% - 1.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.48% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 197 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.45% 23.48% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 136 35
Average daily rate £309 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.92% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £405 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
MDX
South West

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MDX across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bristol MDX Jobs Demand Trend

MDX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MDX across the Bristol region.

Bristol MDX Daily Rate Trend

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing MDX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MDX.

1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) CAML
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing MDX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MDX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) CAML
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ETL
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft