Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MDX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MDX over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 691 811
Rank change year-on-year +109 +120 -165
Contract jobs citing MDX 7 29 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.047% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 43
10th Percentile £347 £405 £325
25th Percentile £389 £432 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £788 £600
90th Percentile £576 £811 £624
UK excluding London median daily rate £338 £500 £356
% change year-on-year -32.50% +40.35% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £79.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.19 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MDX is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,938 14,448 24,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.38% 23.52% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,229 10,524 17,997
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £653
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 151 254
10th Percentile £20.48 £30.00 £21.30
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.11% +27.55% +8.89%

MDX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MDX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MDX in the UK

MDX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MDX.

Daily rate trend for MDX in the UK

MDX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MDX over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MDX in the UK

MDX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MDX.

Hourly rate trend for MDX in the UK

MDX
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +100 6 £469 -6.20% 10
UK excluding London +53 3 £338 -32.50% 2
Work from Home +115 2 - - 5
London +95 2 £601 +0.08% 7
South East +18 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £338 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

MDX
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 2 (28.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (42.86%) Tableau
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) Power Query
5 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (14.29%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) French Language
3 1 (14.29%) Italian Language
3 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (14.29%) Anaplan
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce