The first table below looks at the demand for OLAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLAP over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Rank 75 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -3
Contract jobs citing OLAP 1 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.107% 0.635% 1.441%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.397% 2.033% 4.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
Average daily rate £400 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £338 £345
% change year-on-year
+9.62% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
252 246 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.01% 31.26% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 109 126
Average daily rate £338 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £244 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -76.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
OLAP
Scotland

OLAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow OLAP Daily Rate Trend

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow OLAP Hourly Rate Trend

OLAP
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mart
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) OLTP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) COM
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (33.33%) COM
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mart
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) OLTP
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft BI Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle