SQL Server Analysis Services Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server Analysis Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 478 516
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 -95
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 83 227 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 2.19% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 181 286
10th Percentile £400 £388 £356
25th Percentile £419 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +17.05%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £525 £445
% change year-on-year -10.71% +17.98% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £32.66 £23.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £33.05 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.69% -0.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £22.50 £36.64 -
90th Percentile - £36.97 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £34.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.69% -0.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Analysis Services is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,285 10,368 17,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 17.94% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,210 7,377 12,459
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.75% +9.92%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 188 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.72 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.45%

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -8 79 £525 - 82
London +35 42 £568 +5.58% 38
UK excluding London -5 36 £469 -10.71% 48
Work from Home +50 28 £525 +5.00% 23
South West +19 14 £538 +34.38% 4
South East +3 9 £425 -22.73% 8
Midlands +31 7 £400 -30.43% 21
West Midlands +17 5 £400 -30.43% 21
North of England +12 5 £438 -27.08% 8
North West -1 4 £438 -32.69% 6
East Midlands +21 2 £431 +7.81%
Yorkshire +14 1 £350 -34.88% 1
East of England -9 1 - - 5

SQL Server Analysis Services
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 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
1 1 (1.20%) IIS
1 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 47 (56.63%) Power Platform
2 42 (50.60%) Azure
3 22 (26.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.05%) AWS
5 7 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.02%) Serverless
7 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub
7 4 (4.82%) PaaS
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.41%) GCP
9 2 (2.41%) IaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Matillion
9 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.20%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.20%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.20%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (83.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 62 (74.70%) SQL Server
3 49 (59.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 46 (55.42%) Power BI
5 32 (38.55%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (37.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 17 (20.48%) Tableau
8 13 (15.66%) Relational Database
9 12 (14.46%) Data Lake
10 11 (13.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (7.23%) MySQL
12 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (4.82%) Power Query
13 3 (3.61%) OLAP
14 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
14 2 (2.41%) OLAP Cube
14 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
15 1 (1.20%) QlikView
15 1 (1.20%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.41%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Finance
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Back Office
7 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.61%) Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Marketing
9 2 (2.41%) Electronics
9 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) French Language
10 1 (1.20%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Developer
2 20 (24.10%) Data Engineer
3 17 (20.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 14 (16.87%) DBA
5 11 (13.25%) Administrator
5 11 (13.25%) SQL DBA
6 10 (12.05%) Analyst
7 7 (8.43%) SSIS Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) SQL Developer
8 6 (7.23%) SSRS Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.82%) Senior
10 4 (4.82%) SQL Server DBA
11 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) MDX
3 1 (1.20%) ADO
3 1 (1.20%) Django
3 1 (1.20%) Kafka
3 1 (1.20%) PySpark
3 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.02%) Clustering
3 4 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) NHS
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Replication
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Robotics
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.20%) VMS
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (46.99%) ETL
3 21 (25.30%) Data Modelling
4 19 (22.89%) Agile
5 12 (14.46%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (14.46%) Scrum
5 12 (14.46%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (13.25%) Analytics
7 9 (10.84%) Data Engineering
7 9 (10.84%) Migration
8 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.64%) DevOps
8 8 (9.64%) High Availability
9 7 (8.43%) Visualisation
10 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
10 6 (7.23%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.23%) Statistics
11 5 (6.02%) Data Extraction
11 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (81.93%) SQL
2 32 (38.55%) T-SQL
3 13 (15.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (8.43%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) C#
6 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.82%) VB
8 3 (3.61%) Java
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.61%) MCITP
4 3 (3.61%) MCTS
4 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) IFRS
3 3 (3.61%) IFRS 17
3 3 (3.61%) Solvency II
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (3.61%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) Databricks
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Facebook
5 1 (1.20%) IBM
5 1 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.20%) Twitter