The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development category for the Manchester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 64 85 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing MDX 9 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.953% 0.308% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.103% 1.028% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
Average daily rate £309 £545 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.48% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
290 389 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.72% 29.92% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 153
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
MDX
North West

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester MDX Daily Rate Trend

MDX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MDX Hourly Rate Trend

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 12 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (46.67%) Kimball Methodology
5 7 (46.67%) OLAP
6 6 (40.00%) NHS
6 6 (40.00%) PerformancePoint
7 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 5 (33.33%) T-SQL
8 3 (20.00%) ETL
8 3 (20.00%) Star Schema
8 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
9 2 (13.33%) Cognos
9 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
9 2 (13.33%) VBA
9 2 (13.33%) .NET
9 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
9 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (13.33%) Finance
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
10 1 (6.667%) Replication
10 1 (6.667%) Clustering

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (46.67%) OLAP
6 6 (40.00%) PerformancePoint
7 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 3 (20.00%) Star Schema
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (6.667%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (6.667%) QlikView
10 1 (6.667%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) SQL Developer
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Developer
4 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Report Developer
6 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Architect
7 1 (6.667%) Business Manager
7 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (6.667%) Replication
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (20.00%) ETL
3 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Time Management
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
3 2 (13.33%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cognos
1 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Sybase