The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 118 104 110
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +6
Contract jobs citing MDX 2 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.038% 0.143%
As % of the Application Development category 0.250% 0.240% 0.716%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
800 416 559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.70% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 186 297
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £25.25 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
MDX
UK

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland MDX Hourly Rate Trend

MDX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh - 2 - -
MDX
UK

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Trillium
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) DataFlux
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) QlikView
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Conversion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2013
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) QlikView
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Conversion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) Trillium
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) DataFlux