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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 485 490
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -79
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 83 244 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 2.25% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 195 294
10th Percentile £398 £393 £356
25th Percentile £414 £441 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +5.13% +20.29%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £544 £445
% change year-on-year -8.05% +22.19% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £32.92 £23.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £33.70 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -19.54%
75th Percentile £22.50 £36.10 -
90th Percentile - £36.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% - -

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 7,301 10,856 17,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.08% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 7,727 12,773
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.09% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 184 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%
75th Percentile £57.61 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -9 78 £525 -2.33% 74
London +32 43 £568 +5.58% 39
UK excluding London +12 34 £500 -8.05% 37
Work from Home +58 33 £525 +5.00% 26
South West +28 13 £538 +34.38% 4
South East +1 10 £425 -22.73% 8
Midlands +27 7 £400 -30.43% 11
West Midlands +28 5 £400 -30.43% 11
North of England +13 3 £438 -32.69% 8
East Midlands +19 2 £431 +7.81%
North West -1 2 £494 -24.04% 6
Yorkshire +25 1 £350 -36.36% 1
East of England -15 1 - - 5

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 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
1 1 (1.20%) IIS
1 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (55.42%) Power Platform
2 43 (51.81%) Azure
3 21 (25.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.05%) AWS
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.82%) GitHub
6 4 (4.82%) PaaS
6 4 (4.82%) Serverless
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.41%) GCP
8 2 (2.41%) IaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Matillion
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.20%) Slack
9 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (84.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 61 (73.49%) SQL Server
3 50 (60.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 45 (54.22%) Power BI
5 30 (36.14%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (36.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 19 (22.89%) Tableau
7 13 (15.66%) Data Lake
7 13 (15.66%) Relational Database
8 11 (13.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (7.23%) MySQL
10 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (4.82%) Power Query
11 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.41%) Impala
11 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.41%) OLAP
11 2 (2.41%) OLTP
11 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (7.23%) JIRA
3 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.20%) ERwin
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.61%) Back Office
8 3 (3.61%) Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Marketing
9 2 (2.41%) Electronics
9 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.20%) French Language
10 1 (1.20%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Developer
2 19 (22.89%) Data Engineer
3 18 (21.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 15 (18.07%) DBA
5 11 (13.25%) Analyst
5 11 (13.25%) SQL DBA
6 10 (12.05%) Administrator
7 8 (9.64%) SSRS Developer
8 7 (8.43%) SQL Developer
8 7 (8.43%) SSIS Developer
9 6 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
10 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 4 (4.82%) Power BI Analyst
11 4 (4.82%) Power BI Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (3.61%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) MDX
3 1 (1.20%) ADO
3 1 (1.20%) Django
3 1 (1.20%) Kafka
3 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.02%) Clustering
3 4 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Replication
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Robotics
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.20%) VMS
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (45.78%) ETL
3 24 (28.92%) Data Modelling
4 18 (21.69%) Agile
5 12 (14.46%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (14.46%) Scrum
5 12 (14.46%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (13.25%) Analytics
7 10 (12.05%) Migration
8 9 (10.84%) High Availability
9 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.43%) Data Analysis
9 7 (8.43%) DevOps
9 7 (8.43%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.23%) Data Engineering
10 6 (7.23%) Statistics
10 6 (7.23%) Visualisation
11 5 (6.02%) Database Migration
11 5 (6.02%) Kanban
11 5 (6.02%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 67 (80.72%) SQL
2 30 (36.14%) T-SQL
3 12 (14.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (8.43%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.02%) C#
7 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.82%) VB
8 2 (2.41%) Java
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.61%) MCITP
5 3 (3.61%) MCTS
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) QA
2 9 (10.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) IFRS
4 2 (2.41%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.41%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Databricks
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Facebook
5 1 (1.20%) IBM
5 1 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.20%) Twitter