The first table below looks at the demand for OLAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLAP 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the South 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Rank 97 137 108
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -29
Contract jobs citing OLAP 20 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.960% 0.153% 0.436%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.640% 0.799% 1.954%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 6
Average daily rate £325 £400 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +68.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £400 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £343 £345
% change year-on-year
+5.10% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
431 626 614
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.68% 19.17% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 387 326
Average daily rate £335 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 35 36
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.75 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.33% -20.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £11.22 £16.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
OLAP
England

OLAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West OLAP Jobs Demand Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLAP across the South West region.

South West OLAP Daily Rate Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLAP across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West OLAP Daily Rate Histogram

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West OLAP Hourly Rate Trend

OLAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bristol +21 11 £325 -
Dorset +6 5 £413 -
Wiltshire - 1 £300 -
Devon - 1 £200 -
OLAP
England

OLAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OLAP 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 OLAP.

1 25 (69.44%) SQL
2 22 (61.11%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 18 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (47.22%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (44.44%) Hyperion
5 16 (44.44%) Essbase
6 14 (38.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (30.56%) Oracle OLAP
7 11 (30.56%) RDBMS
7 11 (30.56%) Oracle
7 11 (30.56%) SQL Server
8 10 (27.78%) Teradata
8 10 (27.78%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (16.67%) ETL
9 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
10 5 (13.89%) MS Excel
10 5 (13.89%) Finance
10 5 (13.89%) SQL Server 2012
11 4 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
11 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
11 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
11 4 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
11 4 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
11 4 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
11 4 (11.11%) Middleware
11 4 (11.11%) C

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OLAP 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 OLAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (11.11%) Middleware
2 3 (8.333%) .NET
2 3 (8.333%) MDX
3 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.556%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (5.556%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.556%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (2.778%) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (61.11%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 18 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 16 (44.44%) Essbase
4 14 (38.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (30.56%) Oracle OLAP
5 11 (30.56%) RDBMS
5 11 (30.56%) SQL Server
6 6 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (13.89%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (8.333%) MySQL
9 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (5.556%) Base SAS
10 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (5.556%) DB2
11 1 (2.778%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (2.778%) OLTP
General
1 5 (13.89%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (2.778%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (83.33%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 6 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Consultant
5 4 (11.11%) Teradata Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle BI Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Business Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (8.333%) OBIEE Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Teradata Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) Business Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) SAS Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (5.556%) SAS Developer
8 1 (2.778%) ETL Developer
8 1 (2.778%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.333%) NHS
2 1 (2.778%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.556%) OS/390
2 1 (2.778%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (27.78%) Unit Testing
3 6 (16.67%) ETL
4 4 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
4 4 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 3 (8.333%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (5.556%) Analytics
6 2 (5.556%) System Testing
6 2 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.556%) Multidimensional Analysis
6 2 (5.556%) Data Analysis
6 2 (5.556%) ERP
7 1 (2.778%) ITIL
7 1 (2.778%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
3 4 (11.11%) C
4 3 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.556%) JCL
6 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.556%) HL7
2 1 (2.778%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Hyperion
2 11 (30.56%) Oracle
3 10 (27.78%) Teradata
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.556%) Infor
5 2 (5.556%) ION Trading
5 2 (5.556%) IBM
6 1 (2.778%) Cognos
6 1 (2.778%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.778%) SAP
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