The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services 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 SQL Server Analysis Services over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Rank 90 88 104
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 24 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.988% 0.640% 0.254%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.503% 3.353% 1.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
Average daily rate £338 £450 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +66.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-31.03% +45.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
533 507 535
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.95% 19.10% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 225 260
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 13
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server Analysis Services
UK

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Scotland SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Glasgow -14 13 £338 -25.00%
Edinburgh +9 10 £450 -2.70%
Scottish Borders - 1 £275 -
SQL Server Analysis Services
UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 35 (83.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 33 (78.57%) SQL Server
3 27 (64.29%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (64.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 23 (54.76%) SQL
5 19 (45.24%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (38.10%) ETL
7 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
8 13 (30.95%) Finance
8 13 (30.95%) SQL Server 2012
9 12 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
9 12 (28.57%) SharePoint
10 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
10 9 (21.43%) .NET
11 8 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (16.67%) Subversion
12 7 (16.67%) C#
12 7 (16.67%) T-SQL
13 6 (14.29%) OLAP
14 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
14 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
14 5 (11.90%) MS Excel
15 4 (9.524%) Informatica
15 4 (9.524%) XML
15 4 (9.524%) MVC
15 4 (9.524%) Migration
15 4 (9.524%) Data Analysis
15 4 (9.524%) Banking
15 4 (9.524%) Visualisation
16 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (21.43%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
3 4 (9.524%) XML
4 3 (7.143%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.762%) MDX
5 2 (4.762%) jQuery
5 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.762%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (4.762%) HTML
5 2 (4.762%) Middleware
5 2 (4.762%) CSS
5 2 (4.762%) Web Services
6 1 (2.381%) XML Schema
6 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 12 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (4.762%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.381%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.381%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (83.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 33 (78.57%) SQL Server
3 27 (64.29%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (64.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (30.95%) SQL Server 2012
5 12 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (14.29%) OLAP
8 3 (7.143%) DTS
8 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (4.762%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (4.762%) QlikView
9 2 (4.762%) Data Mining
10 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
10 1 (2.381%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (4.762%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.762%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.381%) NUnit
3 1 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.381%) MSTest
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 4 (9.524%) Banking
3 3 (7.143%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) SQL Developer
3 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 6 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Business Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Consultant
5 5 (11.90%) DBA
6 4 (9.524%) SQL DBA
7 3 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (7.143%) SQL Server DBA
8 2 (4.762%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 2 (4.762%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.762%) Database Consultant
8 2 (4.762%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.762%) Architect
8 2 (4.762%) Development DBA
8 2 (4.762%) Development Consultant
9 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Development DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) Visualisation
2 2 (4.762%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.762%) Data Conversion
2 2 (4.762%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.381%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (38.10%) ETL
3 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
5 4 (9.524%) MVC
5 4 (9.524%) Migration
5 4 (9.524%) Data Analysis
6 3 (7.143%) TDD
6 3 (7.143%) Investment Management
6 3 (7.143%) Data Architecture
7 2 (4.762%) Master Data Management
7 2 (4.762%) Metadata Management
7 2 (4.762%) Data Management
7 2 (4.762%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (4.762%) Business Analysis
7 2 (4.762%) Web Development
7 2 (4.762%) Wealth Management
7 2 (4.762%) Scrum
7 2 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (4.762%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 7 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (4.762%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.762%) VB
4 1 (2.381%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.762%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.524%) Informatica
3 2 (4.762%) Oracle
3 2 (4.762%) Business Objects
3 2 (4.762%) Trillium
3 2 (4.762%) IBM
3 2 (4.762%) DataFlux
4 1 (2.381%) Cadis
4 1 (2.381%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.381%) Ab Initio
Scottish Borders, Scotland
These tasks include some on-going application development, and database migration work. As such, we are looking for an all round Microsoft developer with both back-end database...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £275 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013