The first table below looks at the demand for OLAP 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 OLAP over the 3 months to 23 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Rank 151 161 194
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +33
Contract jobs citing OLAP 48 58 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.756% 0.737% 0.511%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.473% 4.056% 2.746%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 31
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £598 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £346 £345
% change year-on-year
+6.85% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1382 1430 1857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.76% 18.17% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1040 1030 1391
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
OLAP
London

OLAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OLAP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London OLAP Jobs Demand Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLAP across the City of London region.

City of London OLAP Daily Rate Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLAP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London OLAP Daily Rate Histogram

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OLAP across the City of London region.

City of London OLAP Hourly Rate Trend

OLAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OLAP 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 OLAP.

1 56 (60.87%) SQL
2 51 (55.43%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (40.22%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (40.22%) ETL
4 34 (36.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (33.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 31 (33.70%) SQL Server
6 30 (32.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 28 (30.43%) Oracle OLAP
7 28 (30.43%) Oracle
8 27 (29.35%) Finance
9 24 (26.09%) MDX
9 24 (26.09%) Banking
10 23 (25.00%) Data Modelling
11 21 (22.83%) SQL Server 2008
12 19 (20.65%) T-SQL
13 18 (19.57%) Business Objects
14 17 (18.48%) Data Mining
14 17 (18.48%) OLTP
14 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
15 16 (17.39%) Cognos
16 15 (16.30%) Data Analysis
17 13 (14.13%) Java
18 12 (13.04%) SAP
18 12 (13.04%) Big Data
19 11 (11.96%) Hadoop
19 11 (11.96%) QlikView
19 11 (11.96%) Market Risk
19 11 (11.96%) C#
19 11 (11.96%) Informatica

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OLAP 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 OLAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (26.09%) MDX
2 8 (8.696%) MapReduce
3 4 (4.348%) .NET
4 3 (3.261%) ASP
4 3 (3.261%) CSS
4 3 (3.261%) HTML
5 2 (2.174%) SAP MI
5 2 (2.174%) WSH
5 2 (2.174%) XML
5 2 (2.174%) WCF
5 2 (2.174%) WPF
6 1 (1.087%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.087%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.087%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.87%) Apache Pig
2 9 (9.783%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.696%) SAS
4 3 (3.261%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.087%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.087%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.087%) IIS
5 1 (1.087%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.261%) PowerPivot
1 3 (3.261%) MS Office
1 3 (3.261%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.609%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 6 (6.522%) SAP BPC
3 2 (2.174%) LongView
3 2 (2.174%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.174%) Khalix
3 2 (2.174%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.348%) SAN
2 2 (2.174%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (40.22%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (36.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (33.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 31 (33.70%) SQL Server
4 30 (32.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (30.43%) Oracle OLAP
6 21 (22.83%) SQL Server 2008
7 17 (18.48%) Data Mining
7 17 (18.48%) OLTP
8 12 (13.04%) Big Data
9 11 (11.96%) Hadoop
9 11 (11.96%) QlikView
10 10 (10.87%) SAP BW
10 10 (10.87%) BusinessObjects
10 10 (10.87%) RDBMS
10 10 (10.87%) SQL Server 2005
10 10 (10.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (10.87%) Apache Hive
11 9 (9.783%) Oracle 11g
12 8 (8.696%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.348%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.261%) Subversion
3 2 (2.174%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (2.174%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.087%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 27 (29.35%) Finance
2 24 (26.09%) Banking
3 9 (9.783%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.435%) Marketing
4 5 (5.435%) Advertising
5 3 (3.261%) Front Office
5 3 (3.261%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.087%) Retail
6 1 (1.087%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (63.04%) Developer
2 18 (19.57%) SQL Developer
3 10 (10.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 9 (9.783%) Hadoop Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Analyst
5 7 (7.609%) Consultant
6 6 (6.522%) SQL Server Developer
6 6 (6.522%) Cognos Developer
7 5 (5.435%) Architect
7 5 (5.435%) DBA
8 4 (4.348%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.261%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.261%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.261%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 3 (3.261%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.261%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (3.261%) Business Developer
9 3 (3.261%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.261%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (3.261%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Market Risk
2 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
2 10 (10.87%) Mathematics
2 10 (10.87%) Machine Learning
3 8 (8.696%) Physics
3 8 (8.696%) Social Network
3 8 (8.696%) Data Integration
4 5 (5.435%) Derivative
4 5 (5.435%) Blackberry
5 4 (4.348%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.348%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.348%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (4.348%) Kindle
6 3 (3.261%) Visualisation
6 3 (3.261%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.174%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.174%) iPad
8 1 (1.087%) Data Extraction
8 1 (1.087%) Clustering
8 1 (1.087%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.609%) UNIX
1 7 (7.609%) Windows
2 4 (4.348%) Solaris
3 2 (2.174%) Linux
4 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (55.43%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (40.22%) ETL
3 23 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 15 (16.30%) Data Analysis
5 11 (11.96%) Scrum
6 9 (9.783%) Migration
7 8 (8.696%) Software Engineering
7 8 (8.696%) TDD
7 8 (8.696%) Business Analysis
8 7 (7.609%) Risk Management
9 5 (5.435%) Waterfall
9 5 (5.435%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.348%) Data Security
10 4 (4.348%) OOP
10 4 (4.348%) Release Management
10 4 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (3.261%) Kimball Methodology
11 3 (3.261%) Analytics
11 3 (3.261%) Capacity Planning
11 3 (3.261%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 56 (60.87%) SQL
2 19 (20.65%) T-SQL
3 13 (14.13%) Java
4 11 (11.96%) C#
5 9 (9.783%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.609%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.522%) VBA
8 4 (4.348%) Perl
9 3 (3.261%) C++
10 2 (2.174%) Scala
11 1 (1.087%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.087%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.087%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 7 (7.609%) Degree
2 4 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.261%) CIPD
4 2 (2.174%) PhD
5 1 (1.087%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.522%) QA
2 4 (4.348%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (2.174%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Oracle
2 18 (19.57%) Business Objects
3 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
4 16 (17.39%) Cognos
5 12 (13.04%) SAP
6 11 (11.96%) Informatica
7 10 (10.87%) Sybase
8 9 (9.783%) Teradata
9 8 (8.696%) Hyperion
10 6 (6.522%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (6.522%) Netezza
11 3 (3.261%) Trayport
11 3 (3.261%) Reuters
11 3 (3.261%) Bloomberg
12 2 (2.174%) IBM
12 2 (2.174%) Siebel
12 2 (2.174%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (2.174%) Tableau
13 1 (1.087%) Talend
13 1 (1.087%) PeopleSoft
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