The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Staffordshire 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
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Rank 15 32 38
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 4.598% 0.913% 0.446%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 5.556% 0.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £225 £288 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.73% +21.05%
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
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
36 36 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 41.38% 16.44% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 58
Average daily rate £250 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
Average hourly rate £15.31 £28.75 £12.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.74% +137.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SQL Server Analysis Services
West Midlands

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire SQL Server Analysis Services Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (66.67%) RDBMS
4 6 (50.00%) OLTP
4 6 (50.00%) Replication
4 6 (50.00%) QA
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (16.67%) NHS
8 2 (16.67%) .NET
8 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
8 2 (16.67%) ETL
8 2 (16.67%) MCITP
8 2 (16.67%) MDX
9 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
9 1 (8.333%) Degree
9 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (8.333%) Clustering
9 1 (8.333%) Migration
9 1 (8.333%) Scrum
9 1 (8.333%) Data Migration

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (16.67%) MDX
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (66.67%) RDBMS
4 6 (50.00%) OLTP
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) DBA
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
1 6 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 6 (50.00%) Teradata DBA
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Server Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
3 1 (8.333%) Clustering
3 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Scrum
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (16.67%) MCITP
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
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