The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services 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 SQL Server Analysis Services 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Rank 52 67 64
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 23 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.398% 1.135% 0.671%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.50% 4.730% 3.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 5
Average daily rate £320 £378 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.23% +32.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £325 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £523 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.27% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £43.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +93.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £43.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year
-22.41% +65.71%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
219 296 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 22.84% 23.99% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 167 132
Average daily rate £315 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £200 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £400 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 17
Average hourly rate £82.50 £32.25 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+155.81% +43.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.29 £19.00 £16.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SQL Server Analysis Services
North West

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
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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
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SQL Server Analysis Services
North West

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 40 (97.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 40 (97.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 35 (85.37%) SQL
3 33 (80.49%) SQL Server
4 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (70.73%) T-SQL
6 27 (65.85%) SQL Server 2008
7 20 (48.78%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2005
9 16 (39.02%) MDX
9 16 (39.02%) OLAP
9 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
9 16 (39.02%) Finance
10 14 (34.15%) Kimball Methodology
11 13 (31.71%) ETL
12 9 (21.95%) PerformancePoint
12 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 8 (19.51%) .NET
14 7 (17.07%) Replication
14 7 (17.07%) NHS
14 7 (17.07%) Star Schema
14 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
15 6 (14.63%) Migration
15 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
15 6 (14.63%) VBA
16 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
16 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
17 4 (9.756%) QlikView
17 4 (9.756%) ERD
17 4 (9.756%) Data Migration

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 16 (39.02%) MDX
2 8 (19.51%) .NET
3 2 (4.878%) HTML
3 2 (4.878%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.439%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.439%) WSH
4 1 (2.439%) COM
4 1 (2.439%) CSS
4 1 (2.439%) XML
4 1 (2.439%) ODBC
4 1 (2.439%) DHTML
4 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.439%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (2.439%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (2.439%) Ajax
4 1 (2.439%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.439%) LINQ
4 1 (2.439%) jQuery
4 1 (2.439%) WCF
4 1 (2.439%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.439%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (97.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 40 (97.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 33 (80.49%) SQL Server
3 27 (65.85%) SQL Server 2008
4 20 (48.78%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2005
6 16 (39.02%) OLAP
7 9 (21.95%) PerformancePoint
7 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 7 (17.07%) Star Schema
8 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
9 4 (9.756%) QlikView
9 4 (9.756%) DTS
9 4 (9.756%) RDBMS
10 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2012
11 2 (4.878%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (4.878%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (2.439%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 2 (4.878%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (68.29%) Developer
2 15 (36.59%) SQL Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (19.51%) SQL Server Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Report Developer
6 4 (9.756%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 4 (9.756%) Data Migration Specialist
7 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.878%) Server Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.878%) Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) DBA
7 2 (4.878%) Architect
8 1 (2.439%) Report Analyst
8 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (2.439%) Business Manager
8 1 (2.439%) Database Analyst
8 1 (2.439%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.439%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Replication
1 7 (17.07%) NHS
2 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.878%) Clustering
3 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.439%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (34.15%) Kimball Methodology
3 13 (31.71%) ETL
4 6 (14.63%) Migration
5 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
6 4 (9.756%) ERD
6 4 (9.756%) Data Migration
6 4 (9.756%) Data Transformation
7 3 (7.317%) Dimensional Modelling
8 2 (4.878%) Time Management
8 2 (4.878%) Business Analysis
8 2 (4.878%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.878%) Analytics
8 2 (4.878%) Project Management
9 1 (2.439%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.439%) Scrum
9 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (2.439%) TDD
9 1 (2.439%) MVC
9 1 (2.439%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 35 (85.37%) SQL
2 29 (70.73%) T-SQL
3 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
3 6 (14.63%) VBA
4 3 (7.317%) C#
5 2 (4.878%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.439%) VBScript
6 1 (2.439%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.439%) MCDBA
2 1 (2.439%) MCT
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.756%) Business Objects
2 4 (9.756%) Sage
3 2 (4.878%) SAP
3 2 (4.878%) Cognos
3 2 (4.878%) Sybase
4 1 (2.439%) Oracle
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