The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of MicroStrategy products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MicroStrategy 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within MicroStrategy, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MicroStrategy
Rank 470 504 494
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -10
Contract jobs citing MicroStrategy 70 77 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.148% 0.132% 0.143%
As % of the Vendors category 0.316% 0.283% 0.307%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 39
Average daily rate £423 £400 £411
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% -2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £313 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £431 £340 £375
% change year-on-year
+26.83% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

MicroStrategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MicroStrategy Jobs Demand Trend

MicroStrategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

MicroStrategy Daily Rate Trend

MicroStrategy
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MicroStrategy within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

MicroStrategy Daily Rate Histogram

MicroStrategy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MicroStrategy Hourly Rate Trend

MicroStrategy
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MicroStrategy within the UK 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
England +34 63 £423 +5.62%
London +4 43 £409 -8.14%
City of London +13 19 £400 -3.03%
South East +16 8 £361 +6.25%
Berkshire +1 7 £361 +6.25%
Reading - 6 £325 -
East of England - 5 £450 -
Hertfordshire - 5 £450 -
Scotland -11 3 £294 +6.90%
Dundee - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Paddington - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £650 -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Swindon - 1 - -
Maidstone - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £294 -

MicroStrategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MicroStrategy 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 MicroStrategy.

1 85 (73.28%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (57.76%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (37.93%) SQL
4 41 (35.34%) ETL
5 39 (33.62%) SQL Server
6 36 (31.03%) Business Objects
7 35 (30.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 34 (29.31%) Finance
9 30 (25.86%) Cognos
10 27 (23.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 22 (18.97%) SQL Server 2008
11 22 (18.97%) Oracle
11 22 (18.97%) Informatica
12 19 (16.38%) SAS
12 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
13 17 (14.66%) T-SQL
14 16 (13.79%) SAP
15 15 (12.93%) Sybase
15 15 (12.93%) QlikView
16 14 (12.07%) SQL Server 2005
16 14 (12.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (12.07%) MS Excel
16 14 (12.07%) BusinessObjects
16 14 (12.07%) DataStage
16 14 (12.07%) Teradata
17 13 (11.21%) Data Modelling
17 13 (11.21%) Open Workbench
17 13 (11.21%) Tableau
17 13 (11.21%) Analytics
18 12 (10.34%) Business Analysis

MicroStrategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MicroStrategy 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 MicroStrategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (7.759%) MDX
2 6 (5.172%) .NET
3 1 (0.862%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.862%) Web Services
3 1 (0.862%) Java EE 5
3 1 (0.862%) Java SE
3 1 (0.862%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 19 (16.38%) SAS
2 8 (6.897%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.586%) Oracle UPK
4 2 (1.724%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.862%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.862%) IIS
5 1 (0.862%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.862%) Documentum
5 1 (0.862%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.862%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.862%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.862%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.862%) WorkSite
5 1 (0.862%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 14 (12.07%) MS Excel
2 13 (11.21%) Open Workbench
3 3 (2.586%) MS Office
3 3 (2.586%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.724%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.862%) MS Project
5 1 (0.862%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (6.034%) SAP BPC
2 3 (2.586%) CA Clarity
3 1 (0.862%) Endur
3 1 (0.862%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.862%) LDAP
1 1 (0.862%) ATM
1 1 (0.862%) HTTP
1 1 (0.862%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (57.76%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (33.62%) SQL Server
3 35 (30.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 27 (23.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 22 (18.97%) SQL Server 2008
6 15 (12.93%) QlikView
7 14 (12.07%) SQL Server 2005
7 14 (12.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (12.07%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (12.07%) DataStage
8 12 (10.34%) OLAP
8 12 (10.34%) SAP BI
9 11 (9.483%) SAP BW
10 10 (8.621%) DB2
11 7 (6.034%) Xcelsius
11 7 (6.034%) Oracle OLAP
11 7 (6.034%) Spotfire
12 6 (5.172%) Sybase IQ
12 6 (5.172%) MySQL
12 6 (5.172%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.034%) Talend Open Studio
2 4 (3.448%) ERwin
3 2 (1.724%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.862%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.862%) ProC
4 1 (0.862%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.862%) Subversion
General
1 34 (29.31%) Finance
2 10 (8.621%) Retail
3 9 (7.759%) Banking
4 7 (6.034%) Marketing
5 4 (3.448%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.448%) Advertising
6 3 (2.586%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.586%) German Language
7 2 (1.724%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.862%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.862%) Law
8 1 (0.862%) Billing
8 1 (0.862%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.862%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (38.79%) Developer
2 22 (18.97%) Analyst
3 17 (14.66%) Consultant
4 14 (12.07%) Microstrategy Developer
5 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 11 (9.483%) MicroStrategy Consultant
6 11 (9.483%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.034%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 7 (6.034%) ETL Developer
8 6 (5.172%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.172%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 5 (4.310%) Business Developer
9 5 (4.310%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.310%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.448%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.448%) Support Analyst
11 3 (2.586%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
11 3 (2.586%) Clarity Consultant
11 3 (2.586%) Business Manager
11 3 (2.586%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.621%) Visualisation
2 9 (7.759%) Data Integration
3 7 (6.034%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.172%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.724%) FMCG
5 2 (1.724%) Data Extraction
5 2 (1.724%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.724%) Equities
5 2 (1.724%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.862%) iSeries
6 1 (0.862%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.448%) UNIX
2 2 (1.724%) Linux
3 1 (0.862%) Windows
3 1 (0.862%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (73.28%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (35.34%) ETL
3 13 (11.21%) Data Modelling
3 13 (11.21%) Analytics
4 12 (10.34%) Business Analysis
4 12 (10.34%) Change Management
5 11 (9.483%) Project Planning
6 10 (8.621%) PRINCE2
7 8 (6.897%) Dimensional Modelling
8 7 (6.034%) E-Commerce
8 7 (6.034%) Project Management
8 7 (6.034%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (5.172%) Migration
9 6 (5.172%) Quality Management
10 5 (4.310%) System Testing
10 5 (4.310%) Performance Testing
11 4 (3.448%) Data Management
11 4 (3.448%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (3.448%) Business Analytics
11 4 (3.448%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.93%) SQL
2 17 (14.66%) T-SQL
3 8 (6.897%) PL/SQL
4 7 (6.034%) VBA
5 4 (3.448%) Java
6 3 (2.586%) Python
7 2 (1.724%) R
7 2 (1.724%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.724%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.724%) Perl
7 2 (1.724%) C
7 2 (1.724%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (6.034%) Degree
2 1 (0.862%) ISEB
2 1 (0.862%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.862%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.862%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.862%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.862%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.862%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.862%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 36 (31.03%) Business Objects
2 30 (25.86%) Cognos
3 22 (18.97%) Oracle
3 22 (18.97%) Informatica
4 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
5 16 (13.79%) SAP
6 15 (12.93%) Sybase
7 14 (12.07%) Teradata
8 13 (11.21%) Tableau
9 10 (8.621%) Niku
10 9 (7.759%) Hyperion
11 8 (6.897%) Netezza
12 7 (6.034%) Talend
13 6 (5.172%) Infobright
14 4 (3.448%) TIBCO
15 3 (2.586%) IBM
15 3 (2.586%) CA
15 3 (2.586%) Ab Initio
16 1 (0.862%) JBoss
16 1 (0.862%) Salesforce.com
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