SQL Server Analysis Services Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server Analysis Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 485 528
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 -107
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 84 236 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 2.23% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 188 284
10th Percentile £400 £392 £356
25th Percentile £420 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% +15.43%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £600
90th Percentile £626 £675 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £448
% change year-on-year -9.52% +17.32% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £32.66 £23.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £33.05 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.69% -0.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £22.50 £36.64 -
90th Percentile - £36.97 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £34.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.69% -0.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Analysis Services is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 79 £525 - 72
London +44 44 £568 +5.58% 35
UK excluding London -1 34 £475 -9.52% 43
Work from Home +60 31 £525 +5.00% 27
South West +29 13 £538 +34.38% 4
South East +7 9 £425 -22.73% 9
Midlands +32 7 £400 -30.43% 14
West Midlands +20 5 £400 -30.43% 14
North of England +5 4 £438 -32.69% 5
North West +8 3 £438 -32.69% 3
East Midlands +20 2 £431 +7.81%
Yorkshire +18 1 £350 -34.88% 1
East of England -14 1 - - 7

SQL Server Analysis Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) IIS
1 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (55.95%) Power Platform
2 42 (50.00%) Azure
3 22 (26.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (11.90%) AWS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.95%) Serverless
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.76%) GitHub
7 4 (4.76%) PaaS
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.38%) GCP
9 2 (2.38%) IaaS
9 2 (2.38%) Matillion
10 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.19%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (84.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 62 (73.81%) SQL Server
3 48 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 46 (54.76%) Power BI
5 32 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (35.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 17 (20.24%) Tableau
8 13 (15.48%) Relational Database
9 11 (13.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (13.10%) Data Lake
10 6 (7.14%) MySQL
11 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.76%) Power Query
12 3 (3.57%) OLAP
13 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
13 2 (2.38%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
14 1 (1.19%) Big Data
14 1 (1.19%) Impala
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (7.14%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Finance
4 9 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Retail
6 4 (4.76%) Back Office
6 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.57%) Marketing
8 2 (2.38%) Electronics
8 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) French Language
9 1 (1.19%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.19%) Law
9 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Developer
2 20 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 17 (20.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 14 (16.67%) DBA
5 11 (13.10%) Analyst
5 11 (13.10%) SQL DBA
6 10 (11.90%) Administrator
7 7 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 7 (8.33%) SSIS Developer
7 7 (8.33%) SSRS Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Power BI Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) SQL Server DBA
11 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) .NET
2 3 (3.57%) MDX
3 1 (1.19%) ADO
3 1 (1.19%) Django
3 1 (1.19%) Kafka
3 1 (1.19%) PySpark
3 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.95%) Clustering
3 4 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Replication
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.19%) Robotics
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
1 2 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) VMS
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (73.81%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (47.62%) ETL
3 23 (27.38%) Data Modelling
4 19 (22.62%) Agile
5 12 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (14.29%) Scrum
5 12 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (13.10%) Migration
7 10 (11.90%) Analytics
8 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.52%) Data Engineering
8 8 (9.52%) DevOps
8 8 (9.52%) High Availability
9 6 (7.14%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (7.14%) Statistics
9 6 (7.14%) Visualisation
10 5 (5.95%) Data Transformation
10 5 (5.95%) Kanban
10 5 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (80.95%) SQL
2 31 (36.90%) T-SQL
3 12 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (8.33%) Python
5 6 (7.14%) C#
6 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.76%) VB
8 3 (3.57%) Java
9 1 (1.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (27.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) Degree
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.57%) MCITP
5 3 (3.57%) MCTS
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) QA
2 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) IFRS
4 3 (3.57%) IFRS 17
4 3 (3.57%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) Databricks
3 5 (5.95%) Oracle
4 2 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (1.19%) Facebook
5 1 (1.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.19%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.19%) Twitter