The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server Analysis Services over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Canary Wharf 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Rank 42 49 53
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.754% 0.517% 1.198%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 1.626% 5.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
Average daily rate £575 £400 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.75% -21.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £330 £333
% change year-on-year
+2.27% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £43.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
-22.41% +39.20%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
57 123 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 16.67% 31.78% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 76 83
Average daily rate £550 £520 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.76% -5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -20.63%
SQL Server Analysis Services
London

SQL Server Analysis Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Canary Wharf SQL Server Analysis Services Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing SQL Server Analysis Services 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 SQL Server Analysis Services.

1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Risk Management
2 8 (61.54%) Market Risk
3 7 (53.85%) MDX
3 7 (53.85%) C#
3 7 (53.85%) Oracle
3 7 (53.85%) OLAP
3 7 (53.85%) OOP
4 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (46.15%) Business Objects
4 6 (46.15%) Credit Derivative
4 6 (46.15%) Derivative
4 6 (46.15%) QlikView
5 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (38.46%) SQLPlus
5 5 (38.46%) TOAD
5 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
7 3 (23.08%) PowerPivot
7 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (23.08%) Release Management
7 3 (23.08%) C++
7 3 (23.08%) Finance
8 2 (15.38%) Scrum
8 2 (15.38%) Java
8 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing SQL Server Analysis Services 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 SQL Server Analysis Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (53.85%) MDX
2 1 (7.692%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) PowerPivot
2 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) OLAP
2 6 (46.15%) QlikView
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (38.46%) SQLPlus
3 5 (38.46%) TOAD
4 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Market Risk Developer
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Market Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Market Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Market Risk
2 6 (46.15%) Credit Derivative
2 6 (46.15%) Derivative
3 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.692%) Economics
4 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
4 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Risk Management
2 7 (53.85%) OOP
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Code Coverage
6 2 (15.38%) AOP
7 1 (7.692%) Project Planning
7 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.692%) Stress Testing
7 1 (7.692%) UML
7 1 (7.692%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) Business Objects
3 2 (15.38%) Reuters
3 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
3 2 (15.38%) Trayport