The first table below looks at the demand for Essbase skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Essbase 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.

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
Oracle Essbase
Rank 446 466 405
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -61
Contract jobs citing Essbase 84 112 188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.181% 0.192% 0.307%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.870% 1.011% 1.507%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 120
Average daily rate £475 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.67% -15.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £275 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £600 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £325 £425
% change year-on-year
+53.84% -23.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £26.28 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £26.28 -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9659 11079 12476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.82% 19.01% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5830 6348 6943
Average daily rate £382 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.86% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £259 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 253 405
Average hourly rate £25.70 £27.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -12.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.22 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

Essbase
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Essbase within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Essbase Jobs Demand Trend

Essbase
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Essbase within the UK.

Essbase Daily Rate Trend

Essbase
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Essbase within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Essbase Daily Rate Histogram

Essbase
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Essbase within the UK.

Essbase Hourly Rate Trend

Essbase
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Essbase within the UK 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
England +30 75 £475 +5.55%
London +22 51 £463 -10.19%
South East +26 9 £488 +50.00%
City of London +3 9 £450 -10.00%
South West +26 8 - -
Bristol - 6 - -
Hampshire -1 5 £469 +10.29%
Tyne and Wear - 4 £550 -
North East - 4 £550 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £550 -
Berkshire +17 3 £500 +66.66%
Edinburgh -1 2 £450 +63.63%
Scotland -25 2 £450 +63.63%
Yorkshire - 2 £338 -
Basingstoke - 2 £469 -
Slough -11 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Surrey - 1 £525 -
Newbury - 1 £475 -
Leeds - 1 £500 -

Essbase
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Essbase 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 Essbase.

1 157 (83.07%) Hyperion
2 111 (58.73%) Oracle
3 89 (47.09%) Finance
4 78 (41.27%) Hyperion Planning
5 41 (21.69%) SQL
6 35 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (17.99%) Oracle BI EE
8 31 (16.40%) RDBMS
8 31 (16.40%) WebLogic
9 30 (15.87%) OLAP
10 26 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (13.76%) HFM
11 25 (13.23%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (12.70%) Oracle 11g
13 21 (11.11%) PL/SQL
14 19 (10.05%) Teradata
15 18 (9.524%) MS Office
16 17 (8.995%) ERP
16 17 (8.995%) Oracle EBS
16 17 (8.995%) Migration
16 17 (8.995%) Unit Testing
17 15 (7.937%) Oracle OLAP
17 15 (7.937%) Microsoft
17 15 (7.937%) Linux
18 14 (7.407%) Oracle EBS R12
19 12 (6.349%) DRM
19 12 (6.349%) IIS
19 12 (6.349%) Data Modelling
20 11 (5.820%) Banking
20 11 (5.820%) ETL

Essbase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Essbase 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 Essbase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (5.820%) J2EE
2 7 (3.704%) CSS
2 7 (3.704%) Middleware
2 7 (3.704%) HTML
3 4 (2.116%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.116%) JRules
3 4 (2.116%) Spring
3 4 (2.116%) Java EE
3 4 (2.116%) XML
3 4 (2.116%) XSLT
4 3 (1.587%) MDX
4 3 (1.587%) WebCenter
5 2 (1.058%) .NET
5 2 (1.058%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 31 (16.40%) WebLogic
2 12 (6.349%) IIS
3 5 (2.646%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.116%) TIBCO EMS
5 3 (1.587%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.587%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (9.524%) MS Office
2 1 (0.529%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.529%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.529%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 78 (41.27%) Hyperion Planning
2 26 (13.76%) HFM
3 17 (8.995%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (7.407%) Oracle EBS R12
5 10 (5.291%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (2.646%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.646%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (2.116%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (1.058%) LongView
8 2 (1.058%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (1.058%) Khalix
9 1 (0.529%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.116%) LDAP
2 2 (1.058%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.058%) DNS
2 2 (1.058%) SSL
2 2 (1.058%) SAN
2 2 (1.058%) NAS
3 1 (0.529%) HTTP
3 1 (0.529%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.99%) Oracle BI EE
2 31 (16.40%) RDBMS
3 30 (15.87%) OLAP
4 26 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (12.70%) Oracle 11g
6 15 (7.937%) Oracle OLAP
7 11 (5.820%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (3.704%) Star Schema
9 6 (3.175%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (3.175%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.646%) Oracle Discoverer
10 5 (2.646%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (2.116%) TOAD
11 4 (2.116%) SQLPlus
12 3 (1.587%) Oracle 9i
12 3 (1.587%) DB2
13 2 (1.058%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.058%) SQL Server 2005
13 2 (1.058%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.058%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (3.175%) Subversion
2 4 (2.116%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.116%) Ant
2 4 (2.116%) JUnit
3 2 (1.058%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.529%) Oracle Forms
General
1 89 (47.09%) Finance
2 11 (5.820%) Banking
3 6 (3.175%) Publishing
4 4 (2.116%) Investment Banking
5 3 (1.587%) Retail
6 2 (1.058%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (31.75%) Developer
2 51 (26.98%) Consultant
3 31 (16.40%) Hyperion Consultant
4 21 (11.11%) DBA
5 20 (10.58%) Hyperion Developer
6 17 (8.995%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (6.878%) Administrator
8 12 (6.349%) Essbase Developer
9 11 (5.820%) Hyperion Administrator
10 10 (5.291%) Essbase Consultant
11 9 (4.762%) Analyst
12 7 (3.704%) Architect
12 7 (3.704%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.704%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 6 (3.175%) Systems Accountant
13 6 (3.175%) OBIEE Developer
14 5 (2.646%) Oracle Developer
14 5 (2.646%) Programme Manager
15 4 (2.116%) Solutions Architect
15 4 (2.116%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.704%) Data Integration
2 5 (2.646%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.116%) Clustering
4 2 (1.058%) FMCG
4 2 (1.058%) NHS
5 1 (0.529%) Spread Betting
5 1 (0.529%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.529%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.937%) Linux
2 10 (5.291%) UNIX
3 7 (3.704%) Windows
4 3 (1.587%) OS/390
5 2 (1.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (13.23%) User Acceptance Testing
3 17 (8.995%) Unit Testing
3 17 (8.995%) ERP
3 17 (8.995%) Migration
4 12 (6.349%) DRM
4 12 (6.349%) Data Modelling
5 11 (5.820%) ETL
6 10 (5.291%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (4.233%) Workflow
8 7 (3.704%) Kimball Methodology
8 7 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (3.704%) Project Management
9 6 (3.175%) CRM
9 6 (3.175%) Business Analysis
9 6 (3.175%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (2.116%) Workflow Management
10 4 (2.116%) Systems Analysis
10 4 (2.116%) Programme Management
10 4 (2.116%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.69%) SQL
2 21 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 5 (2.646%) C
3 5 (2.646%) Java
3 5 (2.646%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.116%) Perl
4 4 (2.116%) XPath
5 3 (1.587%) JCL
5 3 (1.587%) Korn
5 3 (1.587%) VB
6 2 (1.058%) VBA
7 1 (0.529%) VBScript
7 1 (0.529%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.529%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.529%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (2.646%) CIMA
1 5 (2.646%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.116%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.058%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.529%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.233%) QA
2 3 (1.587%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.058%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (4.762%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (3.704%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.058%) SRDF
3 2 (1.058%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (3.175%) Data Guard
2 3 (1.587%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.587%) Oracle Statspack
3 2 (1.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 157 (83.07%) Hyperion
2 111 (58.73%) Oracle
3 19 (10.05%) Teradata
4 15 (7.937%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.291%) Informatica
6 9 (4.762%) IBM
7 5 (2.646%) Siebel
8 4 (2.116%) HP
8 4 (2.116%) SAP
8 4 (2.116%) Cognos
8 4 (2.116%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.116%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.058%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.058%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.058%) Business Objects
9 2 (1.058%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.529%) Alias
10 1 (0.529%) Brio
Basingstoke, South East
Hyperion Planning Consultant (EPM)My client is searching for a well seasoned Hyperion Planning Consultant (EPM) who will be responsible for the Hyperion Planning Administration across their applications...
Rate: £450 - £525 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Hyperion Planning, v11, ERPi, FRS, LCM, EPM I am currently looking for a contract Hyperion Planning System Administrator to join a London based organisation. You will be responsible...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bedfordshire, South East
Principal responsibilities will include: Working with clients to design and implement Hyperion Essbase applications using Oracle Essbase Studio... The desired background will typically include either: Strong hands-on...
clearedgeconsulting
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
Hampshire
Responsibilities include: - First line point of contact for any technical issues or queries regarding the Oracle Hyperion environment... - Technical troubleshooting and problem management. Suitable candidates will have the...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £250.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
Responsibilities include: First line point of contact for any technical issues or queries regarding the Oracle Hyperion environment... Technical troubleshooting and problem management. Suitable candidates will have the...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
They are currently looking for an Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant(Oracle BI/OBIEE/OBI/ODI/Essbase/Hyperion) to join their Enterprise Data Management and Analytics department's growing...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400.00 - £500 per day
Posted: 25 April 2013
London
Ability to Provide suggestions on OBIEE reports design and enhancements - Understanding of design/development/enhancements as per Oracle recommended leading practices - Ability to manage Repository rollouts to TEST,...
Axica Recruitment
Rate: Up to £500 Per Day
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
We are looking for an experienced Oracle DBA to join my global financial services client for a new implementation project: Very strong Oracle 11g R2 DBA with RAC,...
TEKsystems
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
We are looking for candidates, ideally from a banking background, to support the set-up of an OBIEE & Essbase reporting enviroment with their informatica expertise. Power Exchange and...
TEKsystems
Posted: 16 May 2013