MDX Contract Job Trends in England

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MDX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 480 552
Rank change year-on-year -70 +72 +130
Contract jobs citing MDX 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% 0.026% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £563 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £610
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -10.66% -3.56%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £624
90th Percentile - £671 £632
UK median daily rate £575 £545 £610
% change year-on-year +5.50% -10.66% -0.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MDX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,122 5,944 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.98% 22.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 3,787 5,697
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

MDX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MDX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

MDX job vacancy trend in England

MDX
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MDX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MDX

MDX
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MDX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MDX

MDX
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the England region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
London -22 1 £575 -17.86% 2
MDX
UK

MDX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) OLAP
1 1 (100.00%) OLAP Cube
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality