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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 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.

LinkMicrosoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank200269351
Rank change year-on-year
Up+69Up+82
Matching contract IT job ads366176278
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.758 %0.446 %0.338 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category3.582 %2.344 %1.676 %
Daily rates quoted1806685
Average daily rate£350£350£401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--12.60 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£239£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£475£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£315£350
% change year-on-year
-4.760 %-10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted141210
Average hourly rate£31.75£30.00£38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.830 %-22.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£28.25£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£34.85£32.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.75£30.00£38.50
% change year-on-year
-0.830 %-22.07 %
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.

SQL Server Analysis Services
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Demand Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server Analysis Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL Server Analysis Services
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 SQL Server Analysis Services 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
EnglandUp+80361£350-
LondonUp+44228£400-
City of LondonDown-2068£475+24.59 %
South EastUp+2744£310-8.82 %
West MidlandsUp+1622£244-12.94 %
South WestDown-118£320-32.63 %
BerkshireUp+1816£318-6.61 %
North WestDown-715£256-26.82 %
OxfordshireNew entry-14£51-
Docklands, LondonUp+411£538-
East MidlandsUp+211£248-21.42 %
East of EnglandUp+2110£298-4.03 %
BirminghamUp+99£225-30.76 %
KentUp+68£313-21.87 %
OxfordNew entry-8--
NewburyNew entry-8--
WarwickshireDown-15--
ManchesterDown-155£180-33.33 %
DevonDown-155£400-
SloughNew entry-5£290-
CambridgeshireUp+104£290-6.45 %
LeicesterUp+34£375-
LeicestershireDown-14£375-
DerbyshireDown-24£270-
DerbyDown-34£270-
YorkshireDown-54£288-10.15 %
ExeterNew entry-4£400-
HampshireNew entry-4£250-
NorfolkNew entry-4£313-
SomersetUp+43£263-

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1634 (88.06 %)SQL Server
2508 (70.56 %)SQL Server Integration Services
3484 (67.22 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
4440 (61.11 %)SQL
5348 (48.33 %)SQL Server 2005
6344 (47.78 %)Business Intelligence
7278 (38.61 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
8255 (35.42 %)Datawarehouse
9251 (34.86 %)T-SQL
10244 (33.89 %).NET
11205 (28.47 %)Microsoft
12184 (25.56 %)OLAP
13162 (22.50 %)C#
14143 (19.86 %)Banking
15142 (19.72 %)MDX
16139 (19.31 %)SQL Server 2008
17138 (19.17 %)ASP.NET
18136 (18.89 %)ETL
19116 (16.11 %)Finance
20101 (14.03 %)SharePoint
2191 (12.64 %)Investment Banking
2282 (11.39 %)MS Excel
2379 (10.97 %)NHS
2459 (8.194 %)Data Modelling
2553 (7.361 %)BusinessObjects
2553 (7.361 %)Business Objects
2652 (7.222 %)VB.NET
2743 (5.972 %)Migration
2743 (5.972 %)PerformancePoint
2840 (5.556 %)VBA

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1244 (33.89 %).NET
2142 (19.72 %)MDX
3138 (19.17 %)ASP.NET
434 (4.722 %)XML
528 (3.889 %)Silverlight
623 (3.194 %)Web Services
721 (2.917 %).NET Framework
820 (2.778 %)NHibernate
919 (2.639 %)AJAX
1014 (1.944 %)WPF
1113 (1.806 %)WCF
1113 (1.806 %)WinForms
1212 (1.667 %)CSS
1310 (1.389 %)ADO.NET
1310 (1.389 %)ASP
1310 (1.389 %)DHTML
148 (1.111 %)HTML
156 (0.833 %)XSLT
156 (0.833 %)ASP.NET 2.0
165 (0.694 %)ASP.NET MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1101 (14.03 %)SharePoint
232 (4.444 %)SharePoint Server 2007
317 (2.361 %)IIS
41 (0.139 %)BizTalk Server
41 (0.139 %)CMS
41 (0.139 %)LiveLink
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
182 (11.39 %)MS Excel
214 (1.944 %)MS Office
37 (0.972 %)CA Clarity
37 (0.972 %)MS Visio
43 (0.417 %)MS Project
51 (0.139 %)InfoPath
51 (0.139 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (1.528 %)Dynamics CRM
29 (1.250 %)Microsoft CRM
34 (0.556 %)Summit
34 (0.556 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
43 (0.417 %)Navision
52 (0.278 %)Dynamics AX
61 (0.139 %)Line 500
61 (0.139 %)Oracle Financials
61 (0.139 %)Axapta
61 (0.139 %)CODA-Financials
61 (0.139 %)Oracle EBS
61 (0.139 %)Oracle Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (0.833 %)Internet
25 (0.694 %)SAN
34 (0.556 %)NAS
41 (0.139 %)SSH
41 (0.139 %)DMZ
41 (0.139 %)Intranet
41 (0.139 %)3G
41 (0.139 %)Firewall
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1634 (88.06 %)SQL Server
2508 (70.56 %)SQL Server Integration Services
3484 (67.22 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
4348 (48.33 %)SQL Server 2005
5278 (38.61 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
6255 (35.42 %)Datawarehouse
7184 (25.56 %)OLAP
8139 (19.31 %)SQL Server 2008
9136 (18.89 %)ETL
1053 (7.361 %)BusinessObjects
1143 (5.972 %)PerformancePoint
1240 (5.556 %)SQL Server 2000
1329 (4.028 %)DTS
1423 (3.194 %)Star Schema
1519 (2.639 %)Crystal Reports
1617 (2.361 %)BusinessObjects XI
1715 (2.083 %)Data Mart
1814 (1.944 %)OLTP
199 (1.250 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
199 (1.250 %)RDBMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
136 (5.000 %)Visual Studio
222 (3.056 %)NUnit
37 (0.972 %)ERwin
44 (0.556 %)PowerDesigner
44 (0.556 %)VSS/SourceSafe
44 (0.556 %)Team Foundation Server
53 (0.417 %)Subversion
53 (0.417 %)Oracle Forms
62 (0.278 %)Expression Web
62 (0.278 %)FrontPage
71 (0.139 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
71 (0.139 %)Visual Studio Team System
71 (0.139 %)MSTest
71 (0.139 %)PVCS
71 (0.139 %)Synon
71 (0.139 %)ProC
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1143 (19.86 %)Banking
2116 (16.11 %)Finance
391 (12.64 %)Investment Banking
426 (3.611 %)Insurance
520 (2.778 %)Front Office
618 (2.500 %)Health
715 (2.083 %)Retail
814 (1.944 %)Government
95 (0.694 %)Publishing
104 (0.556 %)Marketing
113 (0.417 %)Education
113 (0.417 %)Games
122 (0.278 %)Automotive
122 (0.278 %)Financial Institution
122 (0.278 %)Billing
122 (0.278 %)Auditing
122 (0.278 %)Music
131 (0.139 %)Retail Banking
131 (0.139 %)Pensions
131 (0.139 %)Local Government
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1494 (68.61 %)Developer
2223 (30.97 %)SQL Developer
3130 (18.06 %)SQL Server Developer
4101 (14.03 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
588 (12.22 %)Analyst
668 (9.444 %)DBA
754 (7.500 %)SQL DBA
844 (6.111 %)Business Developer
844 (6.111 %)Consultant
942 (5.833 %)Architect
1036 (5.000 %).NET Developer
1133 (4.583 %)Data Warehouse (DWH) Developer
1232 (4.444 %)C# Developer
1330 (4.167 %)SQL Server DBA
1426 (3.611 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Architect
1525 (3.472 %)Business Analyst
1525 (3.472 %)Senior Developer
1624 (3.333 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst
1723 (3.194 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
1820 (2.778 %)Database Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
179 (10.97 %)NHS
219 (2.639 %)Derivative
315 (2.083 %)Credit Derivative
414 (1.944 %)Fixed Income
510 (1.389 %)Replication
510 (1.389 %)Management Information System
69 (1.250 %)Clustering
77 (0.972 %)Visualisation
86 (0.833 %)N-Tier
86 (0.833 %)Ergonomics
86 (0.833 %)Credit Risk
95 (0.694 %)Data Integration
104 (0.556 %)Cloud Computing
113 (0.417 %)Statistics
113 (0.417 %)Data Extraction
113 (0.417 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
122 (0.278 %)Dependency Injection
122 (0.278 %)Equity Derivative
122 (0.278 %)Informatics
131 (0.139 %)Mathematics
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
138 (5.278 %)Windows
218 (2.500 %)Windows Server 2003
313 (1.806 %)Windows Server 2008
412 (1.667 %)UNIX
53 (0.417 %)Windows 2000
61 (0.139 %)Windows 2000 Server
61 (0.139 %)AIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1344 (47.78 %)Business Intelligence
259 (8.194 %)Data Modelling
343 (5.972 %)Migration
437 (5.139 %)Dimensional Modelling
528 (3.889 %)Data Analysis
625 (3.472 %)MVC
724 (3.333 %)OO
724 (3.333 %)Unit Testing
823 (3.194 %)Data Migration
920 (2.778 %)CRM
1017 (2.361 %)RAD
1115 (2.083 %)Release Management
1214 (1.944 %)TDD
1214 (1.944 %)ERP
1312 (1.667 %)Agile Software Development
1411 (1.528 %)Performance Testing
1411 (1.528 %)Integration Testing
1411 (1.528 %)Continuous Integration
1510 (1.389 %)Scrum
1510 (1.389 %)E-Commerce
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1440 (61.11 %)SQL
2251 (34.86 %)T-SQL
3162 (22.50 %)C#
452 (7.222 %)VB.NET
540 (5.556 %)VBA
627 (3.750 %)PL/SQL
726 (3.611 %)JavaScript
810 (1.389 %)C
810 (1.389 %)Java
99 (1.250 %)VB
104 (0.556 %)Tcl
113 (0.417 %)VBScript
122 (0.278 %)Perl
122 (0.278 %)Korn
131 (0.139 %)X++
131 (0.139 %)C-shell
131 (0.139 %)Shell Script
131 (0.139 %)XAML
131 (0.139 %)J#
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
127 (3.750 %)Degree
222 (3.056 %)MCTS
314 (1.944 %)Microsoft Certification
49 (1.250 %)Security Cleared
56 (0.833 %)MCAD
56 (0.833 %)MCSD
56 (0.833 %)MCITP
64 (0.556 %)SC Cleared
73 (0.417 %)MCDBA
82 (0.278 %)ISEB
82 (0.278 %)MCP
82 (0.278 %)BC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.417 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.556 %)Active Directory
23 (0.417 %)Oracle RAC
23 (0.417 %)Oracle RMAN
31 (0.139 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (0.139 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
17 (0.972 %)AutoSys
26 (0.833 %)Tivoli
31 (0.139 %)SCOM
31 (0.139 %)OpenView
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1205 (28.47 %)Microsoft
253 (7.361 %)Business Objects
337 (5.139 %)ProClarity
432 (4.444 %)Oracle
517 (2.361 %)Cognos
612 (1.667 %)Dundas
711 (1.528 %)SAP
810 (1.389 %)Sybase
99 (1.250 %)MicroStrategy
108 (1.111 %)Informatica
115 (0.694 %)Baan
124 (0.556 %)VMware
133 (0.417 %)Siebel
133 (0.417 %)Hyperion
142 (0.278 %)Bloomberg
142 (0.278 %)Agresso
142 (0.278 %)HP
142 (0.278 %)Wall Street Systems
151 (0.139 %)Netezza
151 (0.139 %)Lagan