The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 19 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 Application Development category for the City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 168 192 238
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +46
Contract jobs citing MDX 42 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.619% 0.258% 0.130%
As % of the Application Development category 2.134% 0.967% 0.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 7
Average daily rate £475 £416 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.11% +11.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £366 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £514 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.25
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1968 2069 2810
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 29.03% 26.73% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1556 1584 2206
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 23
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £41.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -21.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £107.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
MDX
London

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MDX Daily Rate Trend

MDX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MDX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London MDX Daily Rate Histogram

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 60 (86.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 53 (76.81%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (68.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 45 (65.22%) SQL
5 44 (63.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (59.42%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (57.97%) SQL Server
8 27 (39.13%) T-SQL
8 27 (39.13%) OLAP
9 26 (37.68%) ETL
9 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
9 26 (37.68%) SQL Server 2008
10 25 (36.23%) Banking
11 20 (28.99%) Investment Banking
12 18 (26.09%) QlikView
12 18 (26.09%) SharePoint
12 18 (26.09%) C#
13 17 (24.64%) .NET
14 16 (23.19%) Market Risk
15 15 (21.74%) Business Objects
15 15 (21.74%) Cognos
16 12 (17.39%) Oracle
16 12 (17.39%) Advertising
17 11 (15.94%) SAP
17 11 (15.94%) MS Excel
17 11 (15.94%) PerformancePoint
18 10 (14.49%) Oracle OLAP
18 10 (14.49%) ASP.NET
19 9 (13.04%) OO
19 9 (13.04%) Risk Management

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 17 (24.64%) .NET
2 10 (14.49%) ASP.NET
3 4 (5.797%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.449%) JSON
4 1 (1.449%) WCF
4 1 (1.449%) WPF
4 1 (1.449%) jQuery
4 1 (1.449%) LINQ
4 1 (1.449%) XML
4 1 (1.449%) XSD
4 1 (1.449%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 18 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.14%) SAS
3 1 (1.449%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (1.449%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.449%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (15.94%) MS Excel
2 6 (8.696%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) SAP BPC
2 5 (7.246%) Adaptiv
3 1 (1.449%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (86.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 47 (68.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 44 (63.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (59.42%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (57.97%) SQL Server
6 27 (39.13%) OLAP
7 26 (37.68%) SQL Server 2008
8 18 (26.09%) QlikView
9 11 (15.94%) PerformancePoint
10 10 (14.49%) Oracle OLAP
11 9 (13.04%) SAP BI
11 9 (13.04%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (10.14%) SAP BW
12 7 (10.14%) DataStage
12 7 (10.14%) Xcelsius
13 6 (8.696%) SQL Server 2012
13 6 (8.696%) Oracle BI EE
14 3 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
14 3 (4.348%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (1.449%) Moq
1 1 (1.449%) Subversion
1 1 (1.449%) NUnit
1 1 (1.449%) JIRA
1 1 (1.449%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.449%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (36.23%) Banking
2 20 (28.99%) Investment Banking
3 12 (17.39%) Advertising
4 9 (13.04%) Finance
5 5 (7.246%) Marketing
6 2 (2.899%) Front Office
7 1 (1.449%) Retail
7 1 (1.449%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.449%) Games
7 1 (1.449%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (81.16%) Developer
2 24 (34.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 23 (33.33%) SQL Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Business Developer
5 6 (8.696%) SQL Server Developer
6 5 (7.246%) Database Developer
6 5 (7.246%) Analyst
7 4 (5.797%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.797%) SQL Database Developer
7 4 (5.797%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 3 (4.348%) UI Developer
8 3 (4.348%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.348%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.348%) Architect
9 2 (2.899%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.899%) DBA
9 2 (2.899%) Senior Reporting Analyst
9 2 (2.899%) Senior Risk Analyst
9 2 (2.899%) Data Warehouse Architect
9 2 (2.899%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Market Risk
2 8 (11.59%) Fixed Income
3 6 (8.696%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.348%) Derivative
5 2 (2.899%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.899%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.899%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.899%) Visualisation
5 2 (2.899%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.449%) Interactive TV
6 1 (1.449%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.449%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.449%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (37.68%) ETL
3 9 (13.04%) OO
3 9 (13.04%) Risk Management
4 5 (7.246%) TDD
5 4 (5.797%) MVC
5 4 (5.797%) Data Modelling
5 4 (5.797%) Data Management
5 4 (5.797%) Scrum
5 4 (5.797%) Information Governance
5 4 (5.797%) Master Data Management
6 3 (4.348%) BDD
6 3 (4.348%) Data Analysis
6 3 (4.348%) AOP
6 3 (4.348%) Data Migration
6 3 (4.348%) OOP
6 3 (4.348%) Migration
7 2 (2.899%) E-Commerce
7 2 (2.899%) Performance Management
7 2 (2.899%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) SQL
2 27 (39.13%) T-SQL
3 18 (26.09%) C#
4 3 (4.348%) C++
4 3 (4.348%) Java
5 2 (2.899%) VBA
6 1 (1.449%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
6 1 (1.449%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (1.449%) Degree
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.74%) Business Objects
2 15 (21.74%) Cognos
3 12 (17.39%) Oracle
4 11 (15.94%) SAP
5 8 (11.59%) Sybase
6 7 (10.14%) Hyperion
6 7 (10.14%) Informatica
6 7 (10.14%) MicroStrategy
6 7 (10.14%) Netezza
6 7 (10.14%) Teradata
7 3 (4.348%) Trayport
7 3 (4.348%) Reuters
7 3 (4.348%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.449%) Telerik
8 1 (1.449%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.449%) SunGard
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