The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 315 488 470
Rank change year-on-year
+173 -18
Contract jobs citing MDX 235 96 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.507% 0.165% 0.187%
As % of the Application Development category 1.855% 0.647% 0.678%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 53 74
Average daily rate £450 £400 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £280 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £593 £550 £548
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

MDX Daily Rate Trend

MDX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MDX within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

MDX Daily Rate Histogram

MDX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MDX Hourly Rate Trend

MDX
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +176 227 £450 +12.50%
London +125 153 £500 +19.04%
City of London +40 42 £506 +20.53%
North West +28 20 £325 -30.29%
Yorkshire +12 13 £425 +25.92%
West Yorkshire +11 11 £425 +25.92%
Leeds +2 11 £425 +25.92%
South East +23 10 £400 +23.07%
Manchester +13 10 £288 -47.24%
West Midlands +10 10 £320 +2.40%
South West - 10 £313 -
Merseyside - 9 £350 -
Canary Wharf - 8 £575 -
Birmingham - 6 £320 -
Oxfordshire - 5 £400 -
South Wales - 5 £475 -
Wales - 5 £475 -
East of England +21 4 £400 -
East Midlands -7 3 £263 -12.50%
Abingdon - 3 £400 -
Scotland -8 2 - -
Plymouth - 2 £313 -
Oxford - 2 £400 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £313 -
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Cardiff - 2 £475 -
Bristol - 2 £475 -
Brighton - 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 - -
Devon - 2 £313 -

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 299 (80.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 267 (71.97%) Business Intelligence
3 252 (67.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 249 (67.12%) SQL Server
5 245 (66.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 242 (65.23%) SQL
7 172 (46.36%) Data Warehouse
8 164 (44.20%) OLAP
9 151 (40.70%) SQL Server 2008
10 127 (34.23%) Microsoft
11 118 (31.81%) ETL
12 113 (30.46%) C#
13 108 (29.11%) T-SQL
14 80 (21.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 75 (20.22%) .NET
16 71 (19.14%) Finance
17 61 (16.44%) Banking
18 58 (15.63%) MS Excel
19 57 (15.36%) SharePoint
19 57 (15.36%) Kimball Methodology
20 54 (14.56%) SQL Server 2012
21 43 (11.59%) Risk Management
22 40 (10.78%) SQL Server 2005
22 40 (10.78%) QlikView
23 39 (10.51%) Oracle
24 37 (9.973%) ASP.NET
25 36 (9.704%) Investment Banking
26 35 (9.434%) Oracle OLAP
26 35 (9.434%) Business Objects
27 32 (8.625%) Fixed Income

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 Development
1 75 (20.22%) .NET
2 37 (9.973%) ASP.NET
3 18 (4.852%) ASP.NET MVC
4 14 (3.774%) WCF
5 13 (3.504%) WPF
6 12 (3.235%) .NET Framework
7 9 (2.426%) LINQ
8 8 (2.156%) Web Services
9 6 (1.617%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 5 (1.348%) Windows SharePoint Services
10 5 (1.348%) HTML
10 5 (1.348%) CSS
11 4 (1.078%) HTML5
11 4 (1.078%) XML
11 4 (1.078%) Flash
11 4 (1.078%) XML Schema
11 4 (1.078%) WSDL
11 4 (1.078%) ASP.NET 2.0
11 4 (1.078%) jQuery
12 2 (0.539%) CAML
Application Platforms
1 57 (15.36%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.235%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (2.426%) SAS
4 4 (1.078%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.809%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.809%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 58 (15.63%) MS Excel
2 25 (6.739%) PowerPivot
3 4 (1.078%) SPSS
3 4 (1.078%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.270%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.270%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.270%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.965%) SAP BPC
2 5 (1.348%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.539%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.539%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.270%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.270%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.270%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.270%) SAP SEM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (80.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 252 (67.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 249 (67.12%) SQL Server
4 245 (66.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 172 (46.36%) Data Warehouse
6 164 (44.20%) OLAP
7 151 (40.70%) SQL Server 2008
8 80 (21.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 54 (14.56%) SQL Server 2012
10 40 (10.78%) SQL Server 2005
10 40 (10.78%) QlikView
11 35 (9.434%) Oracle OLAP
12 30 (8.086%) PerformancePoint
13 28 (7.547%) Data Mart
14 18 (4.852%) SAP BI
14 18 (4.852%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
15 13 (3.504%) Oracle BI EE
15 13 (3.504%) TOAD
15 13 (3.504%) SQLPlus
16 12 (3.235%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (2.426%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.156%) Subversion
3 6 (1.617%) JIRA
4 5 (1.348%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.539%) Rhino Mocks
5 2 (0.539%) Moq
5 2 (0.539%) NUnit
6 1 (0.270%) Selenium
6 1 (0.270%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.270%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (19.14%) Finance
2 61 (16.44%) Banking
3 36 (9.704%) Investment Banking
4 20 (5.391%) Front Office
5 15 (4.043%) Marketing
6 10 (2.695%) Advertising
7 8 (2.156%) Retail
8 3 (0.809%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.809%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.539%) Games
9 2 (0.539%) Legal
10 1 (0.270%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 303 (81.67%) Developer
2 153 (41.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 116 (31.27%) SQL Developer
4 46 (12.40%) Business Developer
5 39 (10.51%) SQL Server Developer
6 27 (7.278%) Analyst
7 18 (4.852%) Consultant
8 16 (4.313%) C# Developer
9 13 (3.504%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.504%) Architect
10 12 (3.235%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 10 (2.695%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (2.156%) Report Developer
12 8 (2.156%) .NET Developer
12 8 (2.156%) Microsoft Developer
13 7 (1.887%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 7 (1.887%) Data Architect
13 7 (1.887%) C# .NET Developer
14 6 (1.617%) Front-End Developer
14 6 (1.617%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.625%) Fixed Income
2 30 (8.086%) Market Risk
3 26 (7.008%) Derivative
4 21 (5.660%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (4.852%) Credit Derivative
5 18 (4.852%) NHS
6 14 (3.774%) Hedge funds
7 11 (2.965%) Credit Risk
7 11 (2.965%) Equities
8 9 (2.426%) N-Tier
9 6 (1.617%) Visualisation
9 6 (1.617%) Statistics
9 6 (1.617%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (1.348%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.809%) Data Integration
12 2 (0.539%) Data Conversion
12 2 (0.539%) Mathematics
12 2 (0.539%) Computer Science
13 1 (0.270%) Clustering
13 1 (0.270%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.348%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (71.97%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (31.81%) ETL
3 57 (15.36%) Kimball Methodology
4 43 (11.59%) Risk Management
5 29 (7.817%) OOP
6 26 (7.008%) Dimensional Modelling
7 20 (5.391%) Data Modelling
7 20 (5.391%) TDD
8 16 (4.313%) Scrum
9 14 (3.774%) Software Engineering
9 14 (3.774%) Analytics
10 13 (3.504%) Waterfall
10 13 (3.504%) BDD
10 13 (3.504%) Agile Software Development
10 13 (3.504%) Migration
10 13 (3.504%) MVC
11 12 (3.235%) Multithreading
12 11 (2.965%) Data Architecture
12 11 (2.965%) AOP
12 11 (2.965%) OO
Programming Languages
1 242 (65.23%) SQL
2 113 (30.46%) C#
3 108 (29.11%) T-SQL
4 16 (4.313%) Java
5 13 (3.504%) C++
6 12 (3.235%) VBA
7 11 (2.965%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.156%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.348%) ABAP
10 4 (1.078%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.809%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.539%) VB
13 1 (0.270%) Python
13 1 (0.270%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (1.348%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (0.809%) Degree
2 3 (0.809%) MCSE
3 2 (0.539%) MCITP
4 1 (0.270%) MCTS
4 1 (0.270%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.270%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.270%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.270%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.426%) QA
2 2 (0.539%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.270%) SLA
3 1 (0.270%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.270%) TickIT
Systems Management
1 1 (0.270%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 127 (34.23%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.51%) Oracle
3 35 (9.434%) Business Objects
4 30 (8.086%) Cognos
5 27 (7.278%) SAP
6 12 (3.235%) Reuters
6 12 (3.235%) Bloomberg
6 12 (3.235%) Trayport
7 11 (2.965%) Sybase
8 10 (2.695%) Hyperion
8 10 (2.695%) Informatica
9 9 (2.426%) Syncfusion
9 9 (2.426%) MicroStrategy
9 9 (2.426%) DevExpress
10 7 (1.887%) Teradata
11 6 (1.617%) Netezza
12 4 (1.078%) Tableau
13 2 (0.539%) SunGard
13 2 (0.539%) Trillium
13 2 (0.539%) DataFlux
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