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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OLAP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLAP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

LinkOnline Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank310265278
Rank change year-on-year
Down-45Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads197181394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.408 %0.459 %0.479 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category1.928 %2.411 %2.376 %
Daily rates quoted10356105
Average daily rate£475£400£401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-0.120 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£533£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£369£340£400
% change year-on-year
+8.450 %-15.00 %
Hourly rates quoted41118
Average hourly rate£36.75£32.50£32.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.07 %-0.760 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.60£17.00£28.24
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.35£40.00£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£41.00£31.50£30.75
% change year-on-year
+30.15 %+2.430 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
10218750716584
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK21.15 %19.03 %20.18 %
Daily rates quoted483223894898
Average daily rate£380£350£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-8.010 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£225£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£320£350
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted4325581133
Average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.40£15.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£40.00£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£26.50£32.00
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-17.18 %

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.

OLAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OLAP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

OLAP Demand Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

OLAP Daily Rate Trend

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLAP within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

OLAP Daily Rate Histogram

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OLAP Hourly Rate Trend

OLAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLAP within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

OLAP Hourly Rate Histogram

OLAP
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 OLAP within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-28190£475+18.75 %
LondonDown-32121£500+11.11 %
City of LondonDown-5054£500+11.11 %
South EastUp+2142£380+11.76 %
BerkshireUp+2122£310-8.82 %
South WestDown-816£350-18.84 %
OxfordshireNew entry-10--
ReadingUp+28£219-40.81 %
OxfordNew entry-8--
NewburyNew entry-8--
ExeterNew entry-6£325-
DevonNew entry-6£325-
West MidlandsUp+25£275-
SurreyDown-134£450+172.72 %
Canary WharfDown-264£500-
South WalesNew entry-4--
WalesNew entry-4--
MiddlesexDown-43--
Docklands, LondonDown-53£538-
ScotlandDown-163£375-
NewportNew entry-3--
BirminghamNo change02--
North WestDown-172--
BristolNew entry-2--
BathNew entry-2£263-
East SussexNew entry-2£378-
SomersetNew entry-2£263-
Tyne and WearUp+101--
North EastUp+91--
YorkshireUp+51--

OLAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1274 (58.42 %)SQL
2237 (50.53 %)SQL Server
3232 (49.47 %)Business Intelligence
4199 (42.43 %)Datawarehouse
5184 (39.23 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
6155 (33.05 %)Banking
7133 (28.36 %)Oracle
7133 (28.36 %)Oracle OLAP
8122 (26.01 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8122 (26.01 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9116 (24.73 %)ETL
10115 (24.52 %)SQL Server 2005
11111 (23.67 %)Investment Banking
12109 (23.24 %)T-SQL
13108 (23.03 %)Finance
14100 (21.32 %)C#
1596 (20.47 %).NET
1686 (18.34 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1785 (18.12 %)MDX
1874 (15.78 %)Microsoft
1965 (13.86 %)PL/SQL
2062 (13.22 %)Data Modelling
2154 (11.51 %)ASP.NET
2248 (10.23 %)MS Excel
2347 (10.02 %)Business Objects
2347 (10.02 %)BusinessObjects
2441 (8.742 %)Dimensional Modelling
2539 (8.316 %)Oracle 10g
2637 (7.889 %)SQL Server 2008
2736 (7.676 %)Cognos

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
196 (20.47 %).NET
285 (18.12 %)MDX
354 (11.51 %)ASP.NET
416 (3.412 %)Web Services
515 (3.198 %)NHibernate
614 (2.985 %)XML
713 (2.772 %)AJAX
811 (2.345 %)HTML
910 (2.132 %)ASP
910 (2.132 %)WSH
109 (1.919 %)CSS
117 (1.493 %)Silverlight
117 (1.493 %)Spring
126 (1.279 %)WF
135 (1.066 %)ASP.NET 2.0
135 (1.066 %)WCF
135 (1.066 %)Hibernate
144 (0.853 %)J2EE
144 (0.853 %)Middleware
153 (0.640 %)WPF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
130 (6.397 %)SharePoint
227 (5.757 %)SAS
313 (2.772 %)SharePoint Server 2007
410 (2.132 %)IIS
52 (0.426 %)PowerExchange
61 (0.213 %)ESB
61 (0.213 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
148 (10.23 %)MS Excel
210 (2.132 %)MS Office
32 (0.426 %)MS Project
32 (0.426 %)CA Clarity
41 (0.213 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
120 (4.264 %)LongView
218 (3.838 %)Khalix
39 (1.919 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
46 (1.279 %)Siebel Analytics
52 (0.426 %)WebTrends
52 (0.426 %)Oracle ERP
52 (0.426 %)SAP BPC
52 (0.426 %)HFM
61 (0.213 %)Cognos Planning
61 (0.213 %)Oracle EBS
61 (0.213 %)Summit
61 (0.213 %)Temenos Globus
61 (0.213 %)Oracle 11i
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (0.640 %)HTTPS
13 (0.640 %)HTTP
22 (0.426 %)LDAP
22 (0.426 %)SAN
31 (0.213 %)Network Security
31 (0.213 %)Intranet
31 (0.213 %)Internet
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1237 (50.53 %)SQL Server
2199 (42.43 %)Datawarehouse
3184 (39.23 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
4133 (28.36 %)Oracle OLAP
5122 (26.01 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5122 (26.01 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6116 (24.73 %)ETL
7115 (24.52 %)SQL Server 2005
886 (18.34 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
947 (10.02 %)BusinessObjects
1039 (8.316 %)Oracle 10g
1137 (7.889 %)SQL Server 2008
1233 (7.036 %)Essbase
1331 (6.610 %)Star Schema
1428 (5.970 %)SQL Server 2000
1525 (5.330 %)Oracle 9i
1525 (5.330 %)OLTP
1619 (4.051 %)Oracle 8/8i
1718 (3.838 %)RDBMS
1718 (3.838 %)Oracle BI EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
121 (4.478 %)NUnit
210 (2.132 %)VSS/SourceSafe
37 (1.493 %)Subversion
46 (1.279 %)Oracle APEX
55 (1.066 %)TestDirector
55 (1.066 %)Visual Studio
63 (0.640 %)ClearCase
71 (0.213 %)JIRA
71 (0.213 %)Visual Studio Team System
71 (0.213 %)TeamCity
71 (0.213 %)ERwin
71 (0.213 %)QuickTest Pro
71 (0.213 %)LoadRunner
71 (0.213 %)PVCS
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1155 (33.05 %)Banking
2111 (23.67 %)Investment Banking
3108 (23.03 %)Finance
430 (6.397 %)Front Office
58 (1.706 %)Games
58 (1.706 %)Government
67 (1.493 %)Health
67 (1.493 %)Publishing
76 (1.279 %)Marketing
85 (1.066 %)Construction
85 (1.066 %)Retail
94 (0.853 %)Financial Institution
94 (0.853 %)General Ledger
103 (0.640 %)Insurance
112 (0.426 %)Pharmaceutical
112 (0.426 %)Auditing
121 (0.213 %)Online Games
121 (0.213 %)Private Banking
121 (0.213 %)Retail Banking
121 (0.213 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1290 (61.83 %)Developer
266 (14.07 %)SQL Developer
352 (11.09 %)Analyst
448 (10.23 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
538 (8.102 %)SQL Server Developer
636 (7.676 %)Consultant
728 (5.970 %)Architect
827 (5.757 %)Oracle Developer
926 (5.544 %)C# Developer
1023 (4.904 %)Business Developer
1120 (4.264 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
1120 (4.264 %)DBA
1120 (4.264 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Architect
1218 (3.838 %)Senior Developer
1218 (3.838 %)Database Developer
1316 (3.412 %)Data Warehouse (DWH) Developer
1316 (3.412 %)Business Analyst
1415 (3.198 %)Designer
1514 (2.985 %).NET Developer
1613 (2.772 %)Business Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
122 (4.691 %)NHS
218 (3.838 %)Derivative
317 (3.625 %)Fixed Income
415 (3.198 %)Credit Risk
513 (2.772 %)Credit Derivative
610 (2.132 %)Replication
78 (1.706 %)Data Extraction
85 (1.066 %)Data Integration
85 (1.066 %)Equities
94 (0.853 %)Management Information System
94 (0.853 %)Statistics
94 (0.853 %)Computer Science
103 (0.640 %)Grid Computing
112 (0.426 %)Data Conversion
112 (0.426 %)Dependency Injection
112 (0.426 %)SaaS
112 (0.426 %)Economics
112 (0.426 %)Mathematics
121 (0.213 %)Informatics
121 (0.213 %)FMCG
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
124 (5.117 %)Windows
221 (4.478 %)UNIX
37 (1.493 %)MVS
37 (1.493 %)Windows Server 2003
46 (1.279 %)Solaris
55 (1.066 %)Windows XP
64 (0.853 %)Linux
73 (0.640 %)AIX
82 (0.426 %)Windows Server 2008
91 (0.213 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1232 (49.47 %)Business Intelligence
262 (13.22 %)Data Modelling
341 (8.742 %)Dimensional Modelling
423 (4.904 %)OO
522 (4.691 %)Data Analysis
619 (4.051 %)Migration
718 (3.838 %)Agile Software Development
817 (3.625 %)Business Analysis
914 (2.985 %)MVC
1012 (2.559 %)Continuous Integration
1111 (2.345 %)CRM
1210 (2.132 %)Automated Testing
139 (1.919 %)Data Management
139 (1.919 %)Project Management
148 (1.706 %)Data Migration
157 (1.493 %)Unit Testing
157 (1.493 %)Integration Testing
157 (1.493 %)Technical Architecture
157 (1.493 %)Requirements Analysis
157 (1.493 %)TDD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1274 (58.42 %)SQL
2109 (23.24 %)T-SQL
3100 (21.32 %)C#
465 (13.86 %)PL/SQL
527 (5.757 %)Java
626 (5.544 %)VB.NET
724 (5.117 %)VBA
817 (3.625 %)C
916 (3.412 %)JavaScript
106 (1.279 %)Perl
106 (1.279 %)Shell Script
114 (0.853 %)C++
123 (0.640 %)SAS Macro
123 (0.640 %)Apex Code
123 (0.640 %)Python
123 (0.640 %)VB
132 (0.426 %)Korn
141 (0.213 %)XAML
141 (0.213 %)PowerHouse
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
118 (3.838 %)Security Cleared
29 (1.919 %)Degree
38 (1.706 %)SC Cleared
44 (0.853 %)MCTS
52 (0.426 %)MCITP
61 (0.213 %)BC Cleared
61 (0.213 %)DV Cleared
61 (0.213 %)MOS
61 (0.213 %)Microsoft Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (4.051 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (1.706 %)VMware Infrastructure
24 (0.853 %)Active Directory
32 (0.426 %)Hyper-V
32 (0.426 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
41 (0.213 %)Oracle RAC
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (1.279 %)Tivoli
23 (0.640 %)Data Guard
23 (0.640 %)Oracle Statspack
32 (0.426 %)Backup Exec
32 (0.426 %)WhatsUp Gold
32 (0.426 %)WSUS
41 (0.213 %)HP Quality Center
41 (0.213 %)AutoSys
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1133 (28.36 %)Oracle
274 (15.78 %)Microsoft
347 (10.02 %)Business Objects
436 (7.676 %)Cognos
525 (5.330 %)Informatica
619 (4.051 %)Hyperion
715 (3.198 %)MicroStrategy
715 (3.198 %)SAP
811 (2.345 %)Siebel
910 (2.132 %)ProClarity
109 (1.919 %)Sybase
118 (1.706 %)Ab Initio
118 (1.706 %)VMware
124 (0.853 %)IBM
133 (0.640 %)Dundas
133 (0.640 %)DataSynapse
133 (0.640 %)Teradata
133 (0.640 %)Salesforce.com
133 (0.640 %)Fidessa
133 (0.640 %)NetApp