The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 338 446 465
Rank change year-on-year
+108 +19
Contract jobs citing MDX 201 99 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.464% 0.187% 0.201%
As % of the Application Development category 1.658% 0.707% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 61 62
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £300 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.25
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
MDX
UK

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England MDX Daily Rate Histogram

MDX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MDX across the England region.

England MDX Hourly Rate Trend

MDX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +104 141 £500 +25.00% 39
North West +33 23 £330 -17.50% 1
South East +32 8 £400 +23.07% 8
West Midlands +3 8 £400 +8.47% 2
East of England +24 7 £401 - 3
Yorkshire +7 6 £333 -3.27% 4
South West +33 3 £388 - 1
East Midlands -14 2 £200 -33.33%
MDX
UK

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 314 (82.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 275 (72.37%) Business Intelligence
3 259 (68.16%) SQL
4 258 (67.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 255 (67.11%) SQL Server
6 244 (64.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 165 (43.42%) Data Warehouse
8 159 (41.84%) OLAP
9 155 (40.79%) SQL Server 2008
10 134 (35.26%) Microsoft
11 123 (32.37%) T-SQL
12 120 (31.58%) ETL
13 115 (30.26%) C#
14 86 (22.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 83 (21.84%) .NET
16 79 (20.79%) Finance
17 71 (18.68%) Banking
18 64 (16.84%) MS Excel
19 62 (16.32%) SQL Server 2012
20 56 (14.74%) Kimball Methodology
20 56 (14.74%) SharePoint
21 49 (12.89%) Risk Management
22 45 (11.84%) Investment Banking
23 44 (11.58%) SQL Server 2005
23 44 (11.58%) Oracle
24 43 (11.32%) QlikView
25 41 (10.79%) Market Risk
26 40 (10.53%) Business Objects
27 39 (10.26%) ASP.NET
27 39 (10.26%) Oracle OLAP

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 83 (21.84%) .NET
2 39 (10.26%) ASP.NET
3 23 (6.053%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (3.947%) WCF
5 14 (3.684%) .NET Framework
6 12 (3.158%) WPF
7 10 (2.632%) LINQ
7 10 (2.632%) Web Services
8 6 (1.579%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 6 (1.579%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 6 (1.579%) XML
9 5 (1.316%) XML Schema
9 5 (1.316%) WSDL
9 5 (1.316%) Flash
9 5 (1.316%) CSS
9 5 (1.316%) HTML
9 5 (1.316%) HTML5
10 4 (1.053%) jQuery
11 2 (0.526%) Ajax
11 2 (0.526%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 56 (14.74%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.105%) SAS
3 7 (1.842%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (1.316%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.526%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.526%) IIS
6 1 (0.263%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 64 (16.84%) MS Excel
2 27 (7.105%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.263%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.263%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.158%) SAP BPC
2 8 (2.105%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.526%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 2 (0.526%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.263%) SAP SEM
4 1 (0.263%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.263%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.263%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.263%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (82.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 258 (67.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 255 (67.11%) SQL Server
4 244 (64.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 165 (43.42%) Data Warehouse
6 159 (41.84%) OLAP
7 155 (40.79%) SQL Server 2008
8 86 (22.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 62 (16.32%) SQL Server 2012
10 44 (11.58%) SQL Server 2005
11 43 (11.32%) QlikView
12 39 (10.26%) Oracle OLAP
13 32 (8.421%) PerformancePoint
14 26 (6.842%) Data Mart
15 20 (5.263%) SAP BI
16 18 (4.737%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
17 16 (4.211%) SQLPlus
17 16 (4.211%) TOAD
18 14 (3.684%) SAP BW
19 13 (3.421%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 10 (2.632%) Subversion
2 7 (1.842%) Visual Studio
2 7 (1.842%) JIRA
3 5 (1.316%) NUnit
3 5 (1.316%) Rhino Mocks
4 3 (0.789%) Moq
5 2 (0.526%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.263%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 79 (20.79%) Finance
2 71 (18.68%) Banking
3 45 (11.84%) Investment Banking
4 19 (5.000%) Front Office
5 13 (3.421%) Advertising
6 11 (2.895%) Marketing
7 9 (2.368%) Retail
8 3 (0.789%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.789%) Legal
8 3 (0.789%) Games
9 2 (0.526%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.263%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 318 (83.68%) Developer
2 156 (41.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 115 (30.26%) SQL Developer
4 50 (13.16%) Business Developer
5 32 (8.421%) SQL Server Developer
6 22 (5.789%) Analyst
7 20 (5.263%) Consultant
8 16 (4.211%) C# Developer
9 15 (3.947%) Senior Developer
10 11 (2.895%) Architect
10 11 (2.895%) .NET Developer
11 10 (2.632%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 10 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 9 (2.368%) UI Developer
12 9 (2.368%) Database Developer
12 9 (2.368%) ETL Developer
12 9 (2.368%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (2.105%) Microsoft Developer
13 8 (2.105%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 8 (2.105%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.79%) Market Risk
2 33 (8.684%) Fixed Income
3 28 (7.368%) Derivative
4 24 (6.316%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (5.526%) Credit Derivative
6 15 (3.947%) N-Tier
6 15 (3.947%) NHS
7 12 (3.158%) Hedge funds
8 11 (2.895%) Credit Risk
8 11 (2.895%) Equities
9 6 (1.579%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.053%) Visualisation
10 4 (1.053%) Computer Science
10 4 (1.053%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.789%) Statistics
12 2 (0.526%) Replication
13 1 (0.263%) Clustering
13 1 (0.263%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.263%) Data Integration
13 1 (0.263%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.789%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (72.37%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (31.58%) ETL
3 56 (14.74%) Kimball Methodology
4 49 (12.89%) Risk Management
5 30 (7.895%) Dimensional Modelling
6 29 (7.632%) OOP
7 26 (6.842%) Data Modelling
8 23 (6.053%) Scrum
8 23 (6.053%) TDD
9 19 (5.000%) OO
9 19 (5.000%) Waterfall
10 18 (4.737%) MVC
10 18 (4.737%) Agile Software Development
11 17 (4.474%) Software Engineering
12 15 (3.947%) Analytics
13 14 (3.684%) BDD
14 12 (3.158%) Multithreading
14 12 (3.158%) Migration
15 11 (2.895%) AOP
16 10 (2.632%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 259 (68.16%) SQL
2 123 (32.37%) T-SQL
3 115 (30.26%) C#
4 14 (3.684%) Java
5 13 (3.421%) VBA
6 12 (3.158%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.158%) C++
7 9 (2.368%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.316%) ActionScript
9 4 (1.053%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
9 4 (1.053%) ABAP
10 3 (0.789%) VB
10 3 (0.789%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.263%) VBScript
11 1 (0.263%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (2.368%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (1.842%) MCSE
3 2 (0.526%) MCITP
4 1 (0.263%) Degree
4 1 (0.263%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.263%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.263%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.263%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.895%) QA
2 2 (0.526%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.263%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.263%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 134 (35.26%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.58%) Oracle
3 40 (10.53%) Business Objects
4 35 (9.211%) Cognos
5 28 (7.368%) SAP
6 13 (3.421%) Sybase
6 13 (3.421%) Teradata
7 12 (3.158%) Hyperion
7 12 (3.158%) Reuters
7 12 (3.158%) Bloomberg
7 12 (3.158%) Trayport
8 11 (2.895%) MicroStrategy
9 9 (2.368%) DevExpress
9 9 (2.368%) Syncfusion
10 8 (2.105%) Netezza
10 8 (2.105%) Informatica
11 4 (1.053%) SunGard
12 3 (0.789%) Tableau
13 1 (0.263%) PeopleSoft
13 1 (0.263%) IBM
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Logic Engagements Ltd
Rate: £450 - £550 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
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OPUS
Rate: GBP400 to GBP450 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
West Midlands
SQL Developer with extensive BI stack development experience required by my Birmingham based financial services client. The ideal candidate must have an excellent understanding of the Kimball methodology...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
SQL Developer with extensive BI stack development experience required by a London based consultancy to work on a project for a financial services client. The ideal candidate must...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £400 to £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leyland, North West
You should have excellent T-SQL and SSRS skills and be available to interview and start at short notice. Key skills for these roles include; - T-SQL. - SSRS... -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £160 - £200 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £310 - £330 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
JM
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £280 - £320 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
Croydon, Surrey
RDF Resources
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Croydon, Surrey
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £275 to £290 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Venturi
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
JM
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
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Rate: £550 - £650 per day
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