The first table below looks at the demand for MDX skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MDX over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
Rank 538 555 546
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -9
Permanent jobs citing MDX 341 365 346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.316% 0.302% 0.280%
As % of the Application Development category 0.779% 0.723% 0.700%
Number of salaries quoted 255 293 318
Average salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.63% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £39,200 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £82,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +9.75%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43800 50483 49443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.63% 41.74% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38094 44930 43658
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

MDX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MDX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

MDX Jobs Demand Trend

MDX
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MDX within the UK.

MDX Salary Trend

MDX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MDX over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

MDX Salary Histogram

MDX
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +39 329 £47,500 -13.63%
London +37 224 £50,000 -13.04%
City of London +16 75 £56,250 +0.44%
West Midlands - 21 £32,500 -
East of England +8 20 £35,000 -12.50%
South East -16 20 £50,000 +5.26%
West Yorkshire +14 18 £42,500 +21.42%
Leeds -1 18 £42,500 +21.42%
Yorkshire -3 18 £42,500 +21.42%
Hertfordshire +11 17 £36,250 -14.70%
St Albans +4 16 £36,250 -
East Midlands +11 13 £40,000 -2.43%
Nottinghamshire +9 12 £40,000 -2.43%
Nottingham +9 11 £40,000 -2.43%
Birmingham - 11 £35,000 -
North West - 11 £47,500 -
Manchester - 10 £46,250 -
Berkshire +11 9 £50,000 -
Surrey +9 7 £50,000 -13.04%
Wales +8 6 £39,500 +5.33%
South Wales +4 6 £39,500 +5.33%
Slough 0 4 £45,000 -10.00%
Cardiff -16 4 £39,500 +5.33%
Kent -16 4 £60,000 +45.45%
Staffordshire - 4 £31,000 -
Burton-upon-Trent - 4 £31,000 -
Cambridgeshire -1 3 £35,000 -
Egham - 3 - -
Reading +2 2 £50,000 -
Cambridge -3 2 £35,000 -

MDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MDX 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 MDX.

1 822 (86.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 809 (84.71%) Business Intelligence
3 796 (83.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 772 (80.84%) SQL Server
5 760 (79.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 730 (76.44%) SQL
7 542 (56.75%) Data Warehouse
8 530 (55.50%) T-SQL
9 459 (48.06%) Microsoft
10 415 (43.46%) SQL Server 2008
11 392 (41.05%) ETL
12 373 (39.06%) MS Excel
13 369 (38.64%) OLAP
14 284 (29.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 256 (26.81%) SQL Server 2005
16 253 (26.49%) .NET
17 251 (26.28%) C#
18 236 (24.71%) SharePoint
19 190 (19.90%) Finance
20 158 (16.54%) Agile Software Development
21 134 (14.03%) Dimensional Modelling
22 126 (13.19%) Data Modelling
23 118 (12.36%) PowerPivot
24 109 (11.41%) Banking
25 99 (10.37%) Analytics
26 95 (9.948%) SQL Server 2012
27 92 (9.634%) Kimball Methodology
27 92 (9.634%) ASP.NET
28 90 (9.424%) Release Management
29 83 (8.691%) Degree

MDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MDX 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 MDX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 253 (26.49%) .NET
2 92 (9.634%) ASP.NET
3 27 (2.827%) COM
4 23 (2.408%) .NET Framework
5 16 (1.675%) Web Services
5 16 (1.675%) XML
6 14 (1.466%) CSS
6 14 (1.466%) ASP
6 14 (1.466%) Spring
7 11 (1.152%) WPF
7 11 (1.152%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.152%) J2EE
8 8 (0.838%) HTML5
8 8 (0.838%) WCF
8 8 (0.838%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 7 (0.733%) HTML
10 6 (0.628%) ADO.NET
11 5 (0.524%) WSDL
11 5 (0.524%) XML Schema
11 5 (0.524%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 236 (24.71%) SharePoint
2 45 (4.712%) SharePoint Server
3 26 (2.723%) SharePoint 2010
4 18 (1.885%) Apache
5 11 (1.152%) Tomcat
5 11 (1.152%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.628%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.524%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.419%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.314%) CMS
9 3 (0.314%) MS Exchange
9 3 (0.314%) SAS
9 3 (0.314%) IIS
10 2 (0.209%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.209%) Kentico
10 2 (0.209%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.209%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.105%) GlassFish
Applications
1 373 (39.06%) MS Excel
2 118 (12.36%) PowerPivot
3 28 (2.932%) MS Office
4 16 (1.675%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.209%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.209%) SPSS
5 2 (0.209%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 70 (7.330%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (4.188%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (1.257%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 12 (1.257%) SAP BPC
4 8 (0.838%) Cognos Planning
5 4 (0.419%) Line 500
5 4 (0.419%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.419%) Lawson
6 1 (0.105%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.560%) Internet
2 13 (1.361%) Broadband
3 12 (1.257%) HTTP
4 11 (1.152%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (0.628%) SAN
6 4 (0.419%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.209%) Intranet
7 2 (0.209%) LDAP
8 1 (0.105%) Firewall
8 1 (0.105%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.105%) LAN
8 1 (0.105%) WAN
8 1 (0.105%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.105%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 822 (86.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 796 (83.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 772 (80.84%) SQL Server
4 760 (79.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 542 (56.75%) Data Warehouse
6 415 (43.46%) SQL Server 2008
7 369 (38.64%) OLAP
8 284 (29.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 256 (26.81%) SQL Server 2005
10 95 (9.948%) SQL Server 2012
11 78 (8.168%) PerformancePoint
12 60 (6.283%) QlikView
13 54 (5.654%) ProClarity
14 50 (5.236%) OLTP
15 47 (4.921%) Data Mining
16 34 (3.560%) BusinessObjects
17 33 (3.455%) Crystal Reports
18 26 (2.723%) RDBMS
19 20 (2.094%) Star Schema
19 20 (2.094%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 75 (7.853%) Visual Studio
2 49 (5.131%) Team Foundation Server
3 21 (2.199%) Eclipse
4 11 (1.152%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 8 (0.838%) ERwin
6 6 (0.628%) Ant
7 5 (0.524%) JUnit
7 5 (0.524%) Maven
8 4 (0.419%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.209%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (0.105%) NetBeans
10 1 (0.105%) Subversion
10 1 (0.105%) Git (software)
General
1 190 (19.90%) Finance
2 109 (11.41%) Banking
3 58 (6.073%) Retail
4 47 (4.921%) Investment Banking
5 29 (3.037%) Marketing
6 20 (2.094%) Telecoms
7 18 (1.885%) Games
8 17 (1.780%) Advertising
9 16 (1.675%) Front Office
10 15 (1.571%) Music
11 14 (1.466%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.361%) Law
13 11 (1.152%) French Language
14 10 (1.047%) Publishing
15 9 (0.942%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.942%) Retail Banking
16 8 (0.838%) Legal
17 5 (0.524%) Billing
18 1 (0.105%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 790 (82.72%) Developer
2 448 (46.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 245 (25.65%) SQL Developer
4 180 (18.85%) Business Developer
5 146 (15.29%) Senior Developer
6 100 (10.47%) SQL Server Developer
7 97 (10.16%) Microsoft Developer
8 82 (8.586%) Analyst
9 61 (6.387%) Consultant
10 48 (5.026%) Senior SQL Developer
11 44 (4.607%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 36 (3.770%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 33 (3.455%) Report Developer
14 30 (3.141%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 27 (2.827%) Business Analyst
15 27 (2.827%) Architect
15 27 (2.827%) Excel Developer
16 22 (2.304%) DBA
17 21 (2.199%) Report Analyst
17 21 (2.199%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.084%) Fixed Income
2 37 (3.874%) Data Integration
3 33 (3.455%) Hedge funds
4 29 (3.037%) Market Risk
5 26 (2.723%) Computer Science
6 25 (2.618%) Credit Risk
7 24 (2.513%) Equities
7 24 (2.513%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (2.304%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.094%) Replication
10 18 (1.885%) Data Extraction
11 10 (1.047%) Online Games
12 8 (0.838%) Open Source
12 8 (0.838%) PMI
12 8 (0.838%) Mathematics
13 5 (0.524%) Derivative
13 5 (0.524%) Clustering
14 4 (0.419%) NHS
14 4 (0.419%) Blog
14 4 (0.419%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.932%) Windows
2 13 (1.361%) Linux
2 13 (1.361%) UNIX
3 10 (1.047%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (0.942%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (0.838%) Windows XP
5 8 (0.838%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.105%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.105%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.105%) Fedora
6 1 (0.105%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (84.71%) Business Intelligence
2 392 (41.05%) ETL
3 158 (16.54%) Agile Software Development
4 134 (14.03%) Dimensional Modelling
5 126 (13.19%) Data Modelling
6 99 (10.37%) Analytics
7 92 (9.634%) Kimball Methodology
8 90 (9.424%) Release Management
9 79 (8.272%) CRM
10 73 (7.644%) Data Analysis
11 71 (7.435%) E-Commerce
12 59 (6.178%) Unit Testing
13 41 (4.293%) Risk Management
14 36 (3.770%) Validation
15 35 (3.665%) Migration
16 27 (2.827%) Scrum
16 27 (2.827%) System Testing
16 27 (2.827%) Data Analytics
17 25 (2.618%) Software Testing
17 25 (2.618%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 730 (76.44%) SQL
2 530 (55.50%) T-SQL
3 251 (26.28%) C#
4 46 (4.817%) Java
5 39 (4.084%) VBA
6 27 (2.827%) VB.NET
7 22 (2.304%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.885%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.257%) VB
9 12 (1.257%) ABAP
10 11 (1.152%) Python
11 10 (1.047%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.733%) C++
12 7 (0.733%) Perl
13 6 (0.628%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.419%) VB6
14 4 (0.419%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.314%) C
16 2 (0.209%) VBScript
17 1 (0.105%) X++
Qualifications
1 83 (8.691%) Degree
2 21 (2.199%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (1.571%) MCITP
4 12 (1.257%) MCSD
5 8 (0.838%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.314%) MCP
7 1 (0.105%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.105%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.770%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.524%) QA
3 2 (0.209%) TickIT
3 2 (0.209%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.105%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (0.524%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.314%) VMware ESX
2 3 (0.314%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.105%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.209%) WMI
1 2 (0.209%) SCCM
1 2 (0.209%) SCOM
Vendors
1 459 (48.06%) Microsoft
2 83 (8.691%) Business Objects
3 64 (6.702%) Oracle
4 62 (6.492%) SAP
5 45 (4.712%) Cognos
6 32 (3.351%) Tableau
7 19 (1.990%) MicroStrategy
8 14 (1.466%) Sybase
8 14 (1.466%) Red Gate
9 13 (1.361%) Reuters
9 13 (1.361%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.047%) Informatica
10 10 (1.047%) LogiXML
11 8 (0.838%) IBM
11 8 (0.838%) Hyperion
12 7 (0.733%) Brio
13 4 (0.419%) VMware
13 4 (0.419%) Sage
14 3 (0.314%) OutlookSoft
14 3 (0.314%) Salesforce.com
Bournemouth, Dorset
You will have strong MSBI skills including SSAS, SSRS & MDX... This MI Developer / BI Developer role will be working almost exclusively with the MSBI stack - SSIS, SSRS, SSAS &...
Connectus
Salary: £38000 - £44000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Working within a fast paced and challenging environment as a SQL BI developer, you will be responsible for the full end-to-end development lifecycle from requirement gathering...
Real Staffing
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The full Microsoft B.I. stack, using SSMS, SSIS, SSAS,SSRS, Master Data Services, Data Quality Services and MS Excel are required for this position... solutions are essential...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
The role needs a strong developer who has the ability to develop SQL including the business intelligence stack of SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and MDX cubes and being able...
Real Staffing
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
Business Intelligence, Data warehousing, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server, T-SQL A cutting edge Business Intelligence consultancy based in the Midlands is looking for a talented and experienced...
Venturi
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
SQL - ETL- OLAP - Data - Warehouse - Analysis... Design and development of ETL processes. Understanding of common data warehouse design methodologies... Experience of OLAP databases, including using the MDX query...
MBN Recruitment Solutions
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Central London / West End
BI MANAGER, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS - London... You should have held a demonstrable remit of Dimension modelling, OLAP, OLTP, DATAWAREHOUSE, SSIS ETL SOLUTIONS, SSRS & SSAS CUBES. MI DASHBOARDS, BALANCE...
Oxbridge Answers
Salary: c.70,000
Posted: 13 May 2013
Lincoln
toolset (SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) and will provide exposure along the full length of the development life cycle from ETL, through data warehousing to dashboard and report development.
University of Lincoln
Salary: £25,504 per annum + generous benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Planning and Business Intelligence... using SQL Server 2008 R2... To be successful in this position you will need experience of SQL Server 2005/2008 R2, SSRS, SSIS and...
University of Lincoln
Salary: £25,504 per annum + generous benefits
Posted: 7 May 2013
London
Key Skills SQL Server 2005/2008. T-SQL (functions/triggers/indexes) SSIS. SSRS. DBA experience (log shipping/replication/performance tuning) Desirable Skills SQL Server 2012. SSAS (Multi-dimensional /...
Venturi
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
UK
Microsoft BI, Business Intelligence, Data warehousing, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server, T-SQL An innovative Business Intelligence consultancy based in West Midlands is looking for a talented and...
Venturi
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
SQL Server Developer required for expanding privately owned company based in Shirley Solihull... They would like you to be to be familiar with DML, as well as DDL,...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Salary Dependant On Experience
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
Proven experience of MDX and creating MDX driven SSRS reports Experience of designing and developing high quality SSRS reports using the Microsoft BI toolset... Must have commendable T-...
Salt
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Hertfordshire
You must be familiar with the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack, and have experience of using it in an operational environment and be proficient with SSMS, T-SQL, BIDS (...
PNG Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Senior MS Business Intelligence Developer - Insurance - London (SSAS, MDX) - 70K. Senior Microsoft BI Developer, SSAS, MDX, ETL... My client are looking to hire an exceptional BI Developer who...
Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
This Senior Developer would get the opportunity to learn some exciting technology including Tableau, Microstrategy Panorama as well as various other and will be the subject matter expert...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension.
Posted: 15 May 2013
Crewe, North West
The data architect will report directly to the CIO & will advise the business on data architecture, relational and dimensional database design and modeling, master data management, efficient SQL...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The position will require the Business Intelligence (BI) Manager to work with large scale and high volume systems and a strong background in Microsoft BI / Data Warehousing software...
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus, benefits, progression
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
The Business Intelligence (BI) Manager will be required to demonstrate strong leadership qualities and have a proven track record of delivering results through business judgement whilst motivating teams...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus, benefits, progression
Posted: 14 May 2013
Cambridge
You will be responsible for the maintenance and future development of PA's financial Microsoft SQL Server BI stack. The current solution includes a SSIS centred data warehouse,...
PA Consulting
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 19 May 2013
Manchester, North West
A leading e-commerce firm based in Greater Manchester are actively seeking experienced business intelligence & data-warehousing developers to join their growing BI team. This is a role...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire
The BI developer will develop SSIS packages and create reports using SSRS... * Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously * Experience with Microsoft BI Tools (SSIS, SSRS...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh & Lothians
Min 5 yrs SQL Server BI including 2005 and 2008 - SSIS/SSAS/SSRS/ T-SQL/MDX - Dimensional modelling skills - SharePoint 2010 BI including Performance Point Services - Experience of...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
One of the world's leading investment banks are currently seeking a C# developer to join their rates risk technology group and work on developing new functionality for...
iKas International
Salary: £70 - £100000 per annum + bonus+package
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Tech: C# 4.0, .Net, OO, Agile, SQL... The ideal candidate will have: .NET 3.5 C#, LINQ, ASP.NET 2, ASP.NET MVC. Web services, WCF, WSDL,...
Oliver Bernard
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Requirements: Excellent Core Java Apache Tomcat / WebSphere Spring, Eclipse, Maven, jUnit 2.1 or higher from a University + strong A Levels Interpersonal skills are key for the business...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + Pension
Posted: 13 May 2013