The first table below looks at the demand for OLAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Rank 232 261 269
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +8
Contract jobs citing OLAP 154 161 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.711% 0.598% 0.576%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.401% 3.194% 2.882%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 107 119
Average daily rate £475 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £325 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £338 £345
% change year-on-year
+9.62% -2.17%
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4528 5041 6211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.71% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3111 3262 3947
Average daily rate £430 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 43 54
Average hourly rate £22.85 £26.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.11% +6.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £17.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
OLAP
England

OLAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 London region.

London OLAP Hourly Rate Trend

OLAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +6 49 £425 -
Canary Wharf +12 15 £600 +2.12%
Docklands, London +1 1 - -
Bromley - 1 - -
OLAP
England

OLAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 164 (57.95%) SQL
2 146 (51.59%) Business Intelligence
3 120 (42.40%) Finance
4 116 (40.99%) SQL Server
5 111 (39.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 105 (37.10%) MDX
7 102 (36.04%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (34.98%) Oracle
8 99 (34.98%) Oracle OLAP
9 92 (32.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 88 (31.10%) ETL
11 76 (26.86%) C#
12 72 (25.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 65 (22.97%) Data Modelling
13 65 (22.97%) SQL Server 2008
14 63 (22.26%) Microsoft
14 63 (22.26%) Banking
15 54 (19.08%) Business Objects
16 51 (18.02%) Risk Management
17 43 (15.19%) T-SQL
18 41 (14.49%) Derivative
19 35 (12.37%) QlikView
20 34 (12.01%) Oracle 11g
20 34 (12.01%) Investment Banking
20 34 (12.01%) PL/SQL
21 32 (11.31%) MS Excel
21 32 (11.31%) Front Office
22 31 (10.95%) Market Risk
22 31 (10.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
23 30 (10.60%) Java

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 105 (37.10%) MDX
2 27 (9.541%) WCF
3 26 (9.187%) .NET
4 23 (8.127%) WPF
5 13 (4.594%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.594%) Web Services
6 12 (4.240%) CSS
7 9 (3.180%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (3.180%) LINQ
8 8 (2.827%) HTML
8 8 (2.827%) MapReduce
9 7 (2.473%) XML
10 5 (1.767%) HTML5
11 4 (1.413%) XML Schema
11 4 (1.413%) WSDL
11 4 (1.413%) Flash
11 4 (1.413%) ASP.NET 2.0
12 3 (1.060%) Spring Integration
12 3 (1.060%) jQuery
12 3 (1.060%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 19 (6.714%) SAS
1 19 (6.714%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.534%) Apache Pig
3 7 (2.473%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.413%) ColdFusion
4 4 (1.413%) Confluence
5 2 (0.707%) IIS
5 2 (0.707%) CMS
5 2 (0.707%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.353%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.353%) Facebook Platform
6 1 (0.353%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.353%) SAP Portal
6 1 (0.353%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.353%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.353%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.353%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 32 (11.31%) MS Excel
2 7 (2.473%) MS Office
3 5 (1.767%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.353%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (3.887%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 6 (2.120%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 6 (2.120%) SAP BPC
3 4 (1.413%) Sophis RISQUE
4 3 (1.060%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.707%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.707%) LongView
5 2 (0.707%) Khalix
5 2 (0.707%) HFM
6 1 (0.353%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.353%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.060%) HTTP
1 3 (1.060%) SAN
2 1 (0.353%) DNS
2 1 (0.353%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.353%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (40.99%) SQL Server
2 111 (39.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 102 (36.04%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (34.98%) Oracle OLAP
5 92 (32.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 72 (25.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 65 (22.97%) SQL Server 2008
8 35 (12.37%) QlikView
9 34 (12.01%) Oracle 11g
10 31 (10.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 28 (9.894%) OLTP
12 26 (9.187%) SQL Server 2005
12 26 (9.187%) TOAD
12 26 (9.187%) SQLPlus
13 24 (8.481%) RDBMS
14 20 (7.067%) SAP BW
15 19 (6.714%) Data Mining
15 19 (6.714%) BusinessObjects
15 19 (6.714%) Big Data
16 18 (6.360%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 15 (5.300%) Subversion
2 10 (3.534%) JIRA
3 5 (1.767%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.413%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.060%) DbUnit
5 3 (1.060%) Maven
5 3 (1.060%) ERwin
6 2 (0.707%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (0.707%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.707%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.707%) WiX
7 1 (0.353%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 120 (42.40%) Finance
2 63 (22.26%) Banking
3 34 (12.01%) Investment Banking
4 32 (11.31%) Front Office
5 16 (5.654%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.534%) Marketing
7 5 (1.767%) French Language
7 5 (1.767%) Advertising
8 3 (1.060%) Retail
9 2 (0.707%) Back Office
9 2 (0.707%) Games
9 2 (0.707%) Publishing
10 1 (0.353%) Legal
10 1 (0.353%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.353%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 185 (65.37%) Developer
2 38 (13.43%) SQL Developer
3 35 (12.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 25 (8.834%) Consultant
4 25 (8.834%) Architect
5 17 (6.007%) C# Developer
5 17 (6.007%) Analyst
6 15 (5.300%) SQL Server Developer
7 13 (4.594%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.240%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 11 (3.887%) Data Architect
9 11 (3.887%) Business Developer
10 10 (3.534%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.534%) Cognos Developer
11 9 (3.180%) Hadoop Developer
11 9 (3.180%) Microsoft BI Consultant
11 9 (3.180%) Market Risk Developer
11 9 (3.180%) Microsoft Consultant
12 8 (2.827%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.827%) Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.49%) Derivative
2 31 (10.95%) Market Risk
3 29 (10.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (8.834%) Credit Derivative
5 19 (6.714%) Equities
6 17 (6.007%) Computer Science
7 15 (5.300%) Data Integration
8 13 (4.594%) Credit Risk
8 13 (4.594%) Hedge funds
9 12 (4.240%) Fixed Income
10 11 (3.887%) Management Information System
11 10 (3.534%) N-Tier
11 10 (3.534%) Mathematics
11 10 (3.534%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (3.534%) Machine Learning
12 9 (3.180%) Visualisation
13 8 (2.827%) Blackberry
13 8 (2.827%) Social Network
13 8 (2.827%) Physics
14 6 (2.120%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.894%) UNIX
2 13 (4.594%) Windows
3 11 (3.887%) Linux
4 6 (2.120%) AIX
5 5 (1.767%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.060%) Solaris
7 1 (0.353%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.353%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.353%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (51.59%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (31.10%) ETL
3 65 (22.97%) Data Modelling
4 51 (18.02%) Risk Management
5 27 (9.541%) OOP
6 26 (9.187%) Multithreading
7 25 (8.834%) Software Engineering
8 24 (8.481%) Waterfall
8 24 (8.481%) Kimball Methodology
9 23 (8.127%) Data Analysis
9 23 (8.127%) Scrum
10 19 (6.714%) OO
11 17 (6.007%) TDD
12 16 (5.654%) Dimensional Modelling
12 16 (5.654%) Analytics
13 14 (4.947%) Migration
13 14 (4.947%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (4.594%) Business Analysis
15 11 (3.887%) Data Architecture
15 11 (3.887%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 164 (57.95%) SQL
2 76 (26.86%) C#
3 43 (15.19%) T-SQL
4 34 (12.01%) PL/SQL
5 30 (10.60%) Java
6 16 (5.654%) VBA
6 16 (5.654%) C++
7 13 (4.594%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.120%) Perl
8 6 (2.120%) SAS Macro
9 5 (1.767%) C
9 5 (1.767%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.413%) ActionScript
10 4 (1.413%) VB
10 4 (1.413%) VB6
11 2 (0.707%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.707%) ABAP
11 2 (0.707%) Python
11 2 (0.707%) XAML
11 2 (0.707%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (5.300%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (3.887%) Degree
3 8 (2.827%) MCP
4 3 (1.060%) CIPD
4 3 (1.060%) PhD
4 3 (1.060%) MCSE
4 3 (1.060%) SAS Certification
4 3 (1.060%) IBM Certification
5 2 (0.707%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.707%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.353%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.007%) QA
2 4 (1.413%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.707%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.353%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.353%) Basel II
System Software
1 5 (1.767%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.707%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.353%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.767%) Data Guard
2 4 (1.413%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 99 (34.98%) Oracle
2 63 (22.26%) Microsoft
3 54 (19.08%) Business Objects
4 28 (9.894%) Cognos
5 25 (8.834%) SAP
6 22 (7.774%) Sybase
7 19 (6.714%) Informatica
8 15 (5.300%) Teradata
9 12 (4.240%) Reuters
9 12 (4.240%) Bloomberg
9 12 (4.240%) Trayport
10 10 (3.534%) MicroStrategy
11 9 (3.180%) Syncfusion
11 9 (3.180%) DevExpress
11 9 (3.180%) Hyperion
12 8 (2.827%) IBM
13 7 (2.473%) Netezza
14 6 (2.120%) Siebel
15 5 (1.767%) Tableau
15 5 (1.767%) EMC
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