MDX Contracts

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MDX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MDX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 576 688
Rank change year-on-year +65 +112 +106
Contract jobs citing MDX 9 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.014% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.067% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile £350 £347 £405
25th Percentile £500 £389 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -3.79% -11.36%
75th Percentile - £540 £800
90th Percentile - £576 £853
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £338 £500
% change year-on-year +61.48% -32.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £79.19

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 1 May 2025.

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 7 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 1 May 2025. 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 +60 8 £545 +16.20% 16
UK excluding London +65 5 £545 +61.48% 3
Work from Home +44 4 £523 - 1
North West - 4 £545 -
North of England - 4 £545 -
London +39 2 £250 -58.37% 14
East of England - 1 £500 -

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Essbase
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) OLAP
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) PowerPivot
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Essbase Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Report Writer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) TM1 Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Budgeting
1 4 (44.44%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 4 (44.44%) Financial Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
1 4 (44.44%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Scorecard
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Cognos
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Reuters