The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 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 East of England 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
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Rank 74 91 91
Rank change year-on-year
+17 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 42 45 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.945% 1.532% 1.317%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.22% 6.798% 6.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 15
Average daily rate £313 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £315 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £428 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-31.03% +45.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
411 662 545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 19.04% 22.53% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 357 250
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 45
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £21.50 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.40 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server Analysis Services
England

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 East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server Analysis Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services across the East of England region.

East of England SQL Server Analysis Services Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +17 15 £323 +4.03%
Cambridgeshire +19 10 £300 -11.76%
Suffolk -3 10 £438 +34.61%
Essex 0 5 - -
East Anglia +13 1 £400 -
Norfolk - 1 - -
SQL Server Analysis Services
England

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 87 (94.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 84 (91.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 76 (82.61%) SQL Server
4 74 (80.43%) SQL
5 62 (67.39%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (61.96%) T-SQL
7 53 (57.61%) SQL Server 2008
8 48 (52.17%) Microsoft
9 40 (43.48%) SQL Server 2005
10 23 (25.00%) .NET
11 22 (23.91%) Oracle
11 22 (23.91%) MS Office
12 21 (22.83%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (21.74%) PL/SQL
14 19 (20.65%) ETL
15 18 (19.57%) SharePoint
16 16 (17.39%) C#
17 12 (13.04%) Windows
17 12 (13.04%) BizTalk Server
18 11 (11.96%) OLAP
18 11 (11.96%) SharePoint 2010
19 10 (10.87%) MS Excel
19 10 (10.87%) Business Objects
20 9 (9.783%) Microsoft Analysis Services
20 9 (9.783%) ASP.NET
21 8 (8.696%) WCF
22 7 (7.609%) MDX
22 7 (7.609%) Windows Server 2008
22 7 (7.609%) Kimball Methodology
22 7 (7.609%) VBA

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 23 (25.00%) .NET
2 9 (9.783%) ASP.NET
3 8 (8.696%) WCF
4 7 (7.609%) MDX
5 6 (6.522%) LINQ
6 5 (5.435%) Silverlight
7 4 (4.348%) XML
7 4 (4.348%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.261%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.174%) WPF
9 2 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.174%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (2.174%) SAP XI
9 2 (2.174%) Ajax
9 2 (2.174%) NHibernate
9 2 (2.174%) ASP
10 1 (1.087%) Web Services
10 1 (1.087%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 18 (19.57%) SharePoint
2 12 (13.04%) BizTalk Server
3 11 (11.96%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (3.261%) Windows Azure
5 2 (2.174%) MSMQ
6 1 (1.087%) Apache
6 1 (1.087%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (23.91%) MS Office
2 10 (10.87%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.174%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.087%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.087%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.087%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.174%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.174%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.087%) VPN
1 1 (1.087%) SAN
1 1 (1.087%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (94.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 84 (91.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 76 (82.61%) SQL Server
4 53 (57.61%) SQL Server 2008
5 40 (43.48%) SQL Server 2005
6 21 (22.83%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (11.96%) OLAP
8 9 (9.783%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (4.348%) OLTP
9 4 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
10 3 (3.261%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.261%) Hadoop
10 3 (3.261%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.261%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.261%) SQL Server 2000
10 3 (3.261%) MySQL
11 2 (2.174%) Cognos Powerplay
11 2 (2.174%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (2.174%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (2.174%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (1.087%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.087%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.087%) MSI
1 1 (1.087%) Subversion
1 1 (1.087%) FrontPage
General
1 7 (7.609%) Finance
2 4 (4.348%) Retail
3 1 (1.087%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.087%) Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (53.26%) Developer
2 19 (20.65%) Support Engineer
3 18 (19.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 16 (17.39%) SQL Developer
5 14 (15.22%) Analyst
6 10 (10.87%) DBA
6 10 (10.87%) SQL DBA
7 6 (6.522%) Analyst Developer
7 6 (6.522%) Architect
8 5 (5.435%) Business Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.348%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Analyst Programmer
9 4 (4.348%) Programmer
9 4 (4.348%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Information Analyst
9 4 (4.348%) NHS Information Analyst
9 4 (4.348%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.261%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (3.261%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.435%) NHS
2 3 (3.261%) Data Integration
3 2 (2.174%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.174%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.174%) Clustering
4 1 (1.087%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.087%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.087%) Informatics
4 1 (1.087%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.087%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.087%) Replication
4 1 (1.087%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.04%) Windows
2 7 (7.609%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (7.609%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (5.435%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.087%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (67.39%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (20.65%) ETL
3 7 (7.609%) Kimball Methodology
4 6 (6.522%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (5.435%) Validation
5 5 (5.435%) Data Modelling
6 4 (4.348%) SOA
6 4 (4.348%) Business Analysis
7 3 (3.261%) Dimensional Modelling
7 3 (3.261%) Data Management
7 3 (3.261%) Information Management
7 3 (3.261%) Project Management
7 3 (3.261%) MVC
8 2 (2.174%) ITIL
8 2 (2.174%) CRM
8 2 (2.174%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (2.174%) Analytics
9 1 (1.087%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.087%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (1.087%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 74 (80.43%) SQL
2 57 (61.96%) T-SQL
3 20 (21.74%) PL/SQL
4 16 (17.39%) C#
5 7 (7.609%) VBA
6 6 (6.522%) VB
7 5 (5.435%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.261%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.087%) PHP
9 1 (1.087%) C++
9 1 (1.087%) Java
9 1 (1.087%) VBScript
9 1 (1.087%) F#
Qualifications
1 3 (3.261%) Degree
2 1 (1.087%) MCDBA
2 1 (1.087%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.087%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.087%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.348%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.087%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 48 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (23.91%) Oracle
3 10 (10.87%) Business Objects
4 4 (4.348%) Sage
5 3 (3.261%) SAP
6 2 (2.174%) Cognos
7 1 (1.087%) IBM
7 1 (1.087%) HP
7 1 (1.087%) BMC
7 1 (1.087%) Epicor
7 1 (1.087%) JD Edwards
Hertfordshire
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