The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server Analysis Services skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Analysis Services over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank182171189
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+18
Matching permanent IT job ads170717831096
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.416 %1.454 %1.148 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category4.750 %4.954 %4.114 %
Number of salaries quoted15271562968
Average salary£45,750£45,000£43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.66 %+4.65 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
359343599326642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK29.80 %29.35 %27.90 %
Number of salaries quoted317633129922952
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£28,860£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.14 %

SQL Server Analysis Services
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server Analysis Services Salary Trend

SQL Server Analysis Services
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

SQL Server Analysis Services Salary Histogram

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-211604£47,000+4.44 %
LondonUp+18902£50,000-4.76 %
City of LondonUp+52308£55,000+6.28 %
South EastDown-91224£45,000+5.88 %
East of EnglandDown-37119£40,000-5.88 %
North WestDown-15102£37,500+15.38 %
West MidlandsUp+3599£35,000-
ManchesterDown-3358£40,000+23.07 %
HertfordshireUp+157£37,500-16.66 %
SurreyDown-3057£47,500+11.76 %
YorkshireDown-4555£38,750+15.67 %
BuckinghamshireDown-3645£40,000-11.11 %
South WestDown-344£40,000+8.10 %
East MidlandsDown-5137£32,500-23.52 %
Hemel HempsteadUp+2035£35,500-11.25 %
West YorkshireDown-635£40,000+23.07 %
HampshireDown-2133£45,000+25.00 %
BerkshireDown-3733£46,500-12.26 %
BirminghamUp+431£32,500-23.52 %
WalesUp+428£37,500+37.61 %
ScotlandUp+827£42,500+6.25 %
County AntrimNew entry-27£37,500-
BelfastNew entry-27£37,500-
Northern IrelandNew entry-27£37,500-
StaffordshireUp+1126£36,500-27.00 %
South WalesUp+526£36,500+33.94 %
LeedsDown-226£38,750+19.23 %
LancashireUp+322£31,000+7.82 %
Milton KeynesUp+2020£37,500+7.14 %
North EastUp+1119£46,250+15.62 %

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server Analysis Services.

13160 (88.94 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
23120 (87.81 %)SQL Server Integration Services
33082 (86.74 %)SQL Server
42543 (71.57 %)SQL
52353 (66.23 %)Business Intelligence
61785 (50.24 %)Microsoft
71759 (49.51 %)Data Warehouse
81545 (43.48 %)SQL Server 2008
91520 (42.78 %)T-SQL
101151 (32.40 %)SQL Server 2005
111110 (31.24 %).NET
121089 (30.65 %)MS Excel
131056 (29.72 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
141042 (29.33 %)ETL
15883 (24.85 %)C#
16863 (24.29 %)OLAP
17859 (24.18 %)Finance
18656 (18.46 %)MDX
19531 (14.95 %)SharePoint
20507 (14.27 %)ASP.NET
21428 (12.05 %)Oracle
22424 (11.93 %)Data Modelling
23392 (11.03 %)Business Objects
24330 (9.288 %)Windows
25309 (8.697 %)Degree
26300 (8.444 %)Dimensional Modelling
27297 (8.359 %)Replication
28287 (8.078 %)Banking
29280 (7.881 %)Clustering
30272 (7.656 %)SAP

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server Analysis Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11110 (31.24 %).NET
2656 (18.46 %)MDX
3507 (14.27 %)ASP.NET
4250 (7.036 %)XML
5164 (4.616 %)WCF
6163 (4.588 %)jQuery
7143 (4.025 %)HTML
8126 (3.546 %)Web Services
9113 (3.180 %)Ajax
10108 (3.040 %)CSS
11107 (3.012 %).NET Framework
1295 (2.674 %)LINQ
1389 (2.505 %)Silverlight
1455 (1.548 %)ASP.NET MVC
1543 (1.210 %)J2EE
1639 (1.098 %)XSL
1738 (1.070 %)ASP
1837 (1.041 %)WPF
1936 (1.013 %)SOAP
2035 (0.985 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1531 (14.95 %)SharePoint
2130 (3.659 %)SharePoint 2010
3103 (2.899 %)SAS
497 (2.730 %)SharePoint Server
576 (2.139 %)IIS
663 (1.773 %)BizTalk Server
720 (0.563 %)CMS
817 (0.478 %)MSMQ
915 (0.422 %)MS Exchange
1011 (0.310 %)Exchange Server 2010
119 (0.253 %)GemFire
127 (0.197 %)TIBCO EMS
136 (0.169 %)Lync
144 (0.113 %)Office Communications Server
144 (0.113 %)Exchange Server 2007
144 (0.113 %)Apache
153 (0.084 %)Apache Solr
153 (0.084 %)Google App Engine
153 (0.084 %)Amazon AWS
162 (0.056 %)DotNetNuke
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11089 (30.65 %)MS Excel
286 (2.420 %)MS Office
286 (2.420 %)PowerPivot
343 (1.210 %)MS Visio
412 (0.338 %)SPSS
510 (0.281 %)Spreadsheet
66 (0.169 %)Office 365
73 (0.084 %)MS Project
73 (0.084 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.084 %)InfoPath
81 (0.028 %)Photoshop
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
192 (2.589 %)Dynamics AX
265 (1.829 %)Dynamics CRM
339 (1.098 %)Dynamics NAV
414 (0.394 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
512 (0.338 %)SAP BPC
610 (0.281 %)Summit
75 (0.141 %)Front Arena
84 (0.113 %)Hyperion Planning
84 (0.113 %)Cognos Planning
84 (0.113 %)HFM
93 (0.084 %)SalesLogix
93 (0.084 %)Pivotal CRM
93 (0.084 %)WebTrends
102 (0.056 %)MFGPRO
102 (0.056 %)Cognos Controller
102 (0.056 %)Misys Midas
111 (0.028 %)Oracle 11i
111 (0.028 %)Oracle ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
166 (1.858 %)Internet
243 (1.210 %)SAN
325 (0.704 %)Intranet
413 (0.366 %)Kerberos
512 (0.338 %)Firewall
611 (0.310 %)TCP/IP
611 (0.310 %)HTTP
611 (0.310 %)DNS
79 (0.253 %)VPN
79 (0.253 %)Broadband
87 (0.197 %)VLAN
87 (0.197 %)iSCSI
87 (0.197 %)Cisco ASA
96 (0.169 %)WAN
105 (0.141 %)NAS
114 (0.113 %)Unified Communications
114 (0.113 %)FTP
123 (0.084 %)DHCP
123 (0.084 %)HTTPS
132 (0.056 %)Extranet
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13160 (88.94 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
23120 (87.81 %)SQL Server Integration Services
33082 (86.74 %)SQL Server
41759 (49.51 %)Data Warehouse
51545 (43.48 %)SQL Server 2008
61151 (32.40 %)SQL Server 2005
71056 (29.72 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
81042 (29.33 %)ETL
9863 (24.29 %)OLAP
10243 (6.839 %)SQL Server 2000
11231 (6.502 %)DTS
12211 (5.939 %)BusinessObjects
13161 (4.531 %)BODI
14160 (4.503 %)BusinessObjects Data Services
15159 (4.475 %)Data Mining
16149 (4.194 %)Crystal Reports
17137 (3.856 %)QlikView
18136 (3.828 %)PerformancePoint
19135 (3.800 %)OLTP
20132 (3.715 %)Oracle OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1183 (5.151 %)Visual Studio
2117 (3.293 %)Team Foundation Server
359 (1.661 %)ERwin
418 (0.507 %)VSS/SourceSafe
516 (0.450 %)NUnit
614 (0.394 %)MSBuild
713 (0.366 %)TestComplete
713 (0.366 %)MorphX
713 (0.366 %)Eclipse
713 (0.366 %)Synon
812 (0.338 %)ClearQuest
911 (0.310 %)ClearCase
106 (0.169 %)JIRA
115 (0.141 %)Rational Rose
124 (0.113 %)Subversion
133 (0.084 %)StructureMap
133 (0.084 %)TeamCity
133 (0.084 %)Selenium
133 (0.084 %)CruiseControl
142 (0.056 %)GDB
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1859 (24.18 %)Finance
2287 (8.078 %)Banking
3199 (5.601 %)Marketing
4187 (5.263 %)Retail
5160 (4.503 %)Investment Banking
6128 (3.603 %)Front Office
763 (1.773 %)Advertising
854 (1.520 %)Law
949 (1.379 %)Music
1047 (1.323 %)Games
1146 (1.295 %)Manufacturing
1241 (1.154 %)Telecoms
1330 (0.844 %)Aerospace
1330 (0.844 %)Back Office
1426 (0.732 %)Pharmaceutical
1519 (0.535 %)Financial Institution
1617 (0.478 %)Publishing
1713 (0.366 %)General Ledger
1810 (0.281 %)Legal
199 (0.253 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11934 (54.43 %)Developer
2802 (22.57 %)SQL Developer
3799 (22.49 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
4568 (15.99 %)DBA
5476 (13.40 %)SQL DBA
6378 (10.64 %)Analyst
7357 (10.05 %)Consultant
7357 (10.05 %)SQL Server Developer
8289 (8.134 %)SQL Server DBA
9285 (8.021 %)Business Developer
10281 (7.909 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
11251 (7.064 %)Architect
12212 (5.967 %)Administrator
13204 (5.742 %)Senior Developer
14172 (4.841 %)Business Consultant
15170 (4.785 %)Data Warehouse (DWH) Developer
16142 (3.997 %).NET Developer
17128 (3.603 %)Teradata DBA
18119 (3.349 %)Database Developer
19116 (3.265 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1297 (8.359 %)Replication
2280 (7.881 %)Clustering
3119 (3.349 %)Management Information System
483 (2.336 %)Fixed Income
579 (2.223 %)Derivative
675 (2.111 %)Computer Science
773 (2.055 %)Data Integration
854 (1.520 %)Mathematics
952 (1.464 %)Credit Risk
1039 (1.098 %)Big Data
1138 (1.070 %)Credit Derivative
1235 (0.985 %)SaaS
1332 (0.901 %)NHS
1425 (0.704 %)Statistics
1520 (0.563 %)Artificial Intelligence
1520 (0.563 %)FMCG
1619 (0.535 %)Tandem
1718 (0.507 %)iPhone
1718 (0.507 %)Social Network
1816 (0.450 %)Data Extraction
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1330 (9.288 %)Windows
2104 (2.927 %)Windows Server 2008
382 (2.308 %)Windows Server 2003
442 (1.182 %)UNIX
532 (0.901 %)Linux
618 (0.507 %)Windows XP
713 (0.366 %)Windows 2000 Server
811 (0.310 %)Windows 7
98 (0.225 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
106 (0.169 %)Android
115 (0.141 %)Debian
124 (0.113 %)Windows Mobile
124 (0.113 %)Windows 2000
124 (0.113 %)AIX
124 (0.113 %)HPUX
124 (0.113 %)Solaris
131 (0.028 %)Windows Phone 7
131 (0.028 %)Apple iOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12353 (66.23 %)Business Intelligence
2424 (11.93 %)Data Modelling
3300 (8.444 %)Dimensional Modelling
4244 (6.867 %)Project Management
5198 (5.573 %)Agile Software Development
6173 (4.869 %)Migration
7170 (4.785 %)CRM
8156 (4.391 %)OO
9147 (4.137 %)Data Analysis
10139 (3.912 %)Scrum
11129 (3.631 %)Disaster Recovery
12122 (3.434 %)ERP
13118 (3.321 %)Data Management
14106 (2.983 %)E-Commerce
15101 (2.843 %)Change Management
1691 (2.561 %)MVC
1691 (2.561 %)Risk Management
1781 (2.280 %)Stakeholder Management
1877 (2.167 %)Performance Management
1974 (2.083 %)ITIL
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12543 (71.57 %)SQL
21520 (42.78 %)T-SQL
3883 (24.85 %)C#
4213 (5.995 %)JavaScript
5203 (5.713 %)VB.NET
6168 (4.728 %)Java
7136 (3.828 %)VBA
8131 (3.687 %)VB
9124 (3.490 %)PL/SQL
1073 (2.055 %)Perl
1158 (1.632 %)VBScript
1256 (1.576 %)Python
1346 (1.295 %)C
1445 (1.267 %)C++
1543 (1.210 %)PHP
1638 (1.070 %)Shell Script
1736 (1.013 %)Ruby
1827 (0.760 %)PowerShell
1827 (0.760 %)VB6
1926 (0.732 %)X++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1309 (8.697 %)Degree
2225 (6.333 %)Microsoft Certification
372 (2.026 %)MCITP
454 (1.520 %)MCTS
539 (1.098 %)MCDBA
636 (1.013 %)Security Cleared
735 (0.985 %)MCP
832 (0.901 %)MCAD
931 (0.873 %)MCSD
1016 (0.450 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1111 (0.310 %)PMI Certification
1111 (0.310 %)ACCA
128 (0.225 %)ISEB
136 (0.169 %)ITIL Certification
136 (0.169 %)MCSA
136 (0.169 %)MCPD
145 (0.141 %)SC Cleared
154 (0.113 %)CBAP
154 (0.113 %)NVQ Level 3
154 (0.113 %)OCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1125 (3.518 %)Data Quality
275 (2.111 %)QA
311 (0.310 %)ISO 9001
410 (0.281 %)SLA
55 (0.141 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
55 (0.141 %)ISO/IEC 27001
64 (0.113 %)Solvency II
73 (0.084 %)PCI DSS
82 (0.056 %)TickIT
91 (0.028 %)BS7799
91 (0.028 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
140 (1.126 %)Active Directory
222 (0.619 %)VMware Infrastructure
316 (0.450 %)Hyper-V
411 (0.310 %)Terminal Services
59 (0.253 %)VMware ESX
68 (0.225 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
68 (0.225 %)Citrix Presentation Server
68 (0.225 %)XenApp
77 (0.197 %)Oracle RMAN
85 (0.141 %)MetaFrame
93 (0.084 %)UAG
102 (0.056 %)LiteSpeed
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
126 (0.732 %)SCOM
215 (0.422 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
313 (0.366 %)MOM
410 (0.281 %)SCCM
57 (0.197 %)SCVMM
66 (0.169 %)Data Guard
75 (0.141 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
84 (0.113 %)NetBackup
92 (0.056 %)WhatsUp Gold
101 (0.028 %)HP Quality Center
101 (0.028 %)OpenView
101 (0.028 %)Foglight
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11785 (50.24 %)Microsoft
2428 (12.05 %)Oracle
3392 (11.03 %)Business Objects
4272 (7.656 %)SAP
5251 (7.064 %)Cognos
6158 (4.447 %)MicroStrategy
7112 (3.152 %)Informatica
899 (2.786 %)IBM
997 (2.730 %)Hyperion
1090 (2.533 %)Netezza
1185 (2.392 %)Teradata
1268 (1.914 %)NCR
1367 (1.886 %)Ab Initio
1464 (1.801 %)DATAllegro
1559 (1.661 %)Sybase
1651 (1.435 %)VMware
1745 (1.267 %)Ascential
1841 (1.154 %)Trillium
1841 (1.154 %)DataFlux
1933 (0.929 %)Red Gate