The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Analysis Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Analysis Services over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Analysis Services
Rank 108 118 115
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Analysis Services 10 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.427% 0.352% 0.387%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.842% 1.585% 1.734%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
Average daily rate £273 £300 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.16% -14.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £104 £258 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £320 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £319 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.96% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
- +55.55%
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
543 694 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.17% 22.23% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 364 380
Average daily rate £325 £300 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £453 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 34 43
Average hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.43 £11.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £74.25 £43.50 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Microsoft Analysis Services
England

Microsoft Analysis Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Analysis Services across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

North West Microsoft Analysis Services Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Analysis Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Analysis Services across the North West region.

North West Microsoft Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Analysis Services across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Microsoft Analysis Services Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Analysis Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Analysis Services across the North West region.

North West Microsoft Analysis Services Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft 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 Microsoft Analysis Services within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Manchester +16 8 £278 -7.50%
Merseyside +2 2 £103 -65.83%
Microsoft Analysis Services
England

Microsoft Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft Analysis Services.

1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 9 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
3 8 (72.73%) OLAP
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (54.55%) Replication
5 6 (54.55%) Kimball Methodology
6 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (45.45%) Star Schema
6 5 (45.45%) Finance
7 4 (36.36%) Migration
7 4 (36.36%) DTS
7 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
7 4 (36.36%) Sage
7 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
7 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
7 4 (36.36%) ERD
7 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
8 2 (18.18%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 2 (18.18%) PerformancePoint
8 2 (18.18%) MDX
8 2 (18.18%) ETL
8 2 (18.18%) Management Information System

Microsoft Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft Analysis Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) MDX
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) DHTML
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Foundation
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 8 (72.73%) OLAP
3 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (45.45%) Star Schema
5 4 (36.36%) DTS
5 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (18.18%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 2 (18.18%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (9.091%) MI Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) MI Developer
4 1 (9.091%) CRM Developer
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Kimball Methodology
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
3 4 (36.36%) ERD
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 1 (9.091%) CRM
5 1 (9.091%) Time Management
5 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
5 1 (9.091%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
1 8 (72.73%) T-SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Sage
3 2 (18.18%) Sybase