The first table below looks at the demand for OLAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OLAP over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Rank 118 120 112
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 2 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.112% 0.051% 0.184%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.342% 0.145% 0.529%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
Average salary - £26,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,250
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +0.59%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
584 688 567
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 32.81% 35.25% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 468 619 521
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
OLAP
North West

OLAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OLAP across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cheshire OLAP Jobs Demand Trend

OLAP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OLAP across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire OLAP Salary Trend

OLAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 2 - -
OLAP
North West

OLAP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OLAP.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) HTTP
3 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OLAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) OLTP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Developer
2 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
1 5 (71.43%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL