Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MDX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MDX over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 928 1147
Rank change year-on-year +47 +219 -314
Permanent jobs citing MDX 24 45 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.043% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 21 38 53
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,525 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.97% +3.33% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,980 31,507 61,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.28% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,677 19,369 30,374
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MDX.

Salary trend for MDX in the UK

MDX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MDX over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MDX in the UK

MDX
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MDX within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +92 22 £57,500 +15.00% 6
London +133 12 £66,250 -5.36% 5
Work from Home +78 11 £57,500 -4.17% 2
UK excluding London -30 8 £56,250 +20.97% 1
East of England - 4 £57,500 -
Midlands -10 3 £45,000 -10.00%
East Midlands -17 2 £45,000 -10.00%
West Midlands +22 1 £57,500 +40.24%
South West - 1 £42,500 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) Power BI
2 19 (79.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 18 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 18 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 16 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (45.83%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (37.50%) Data Lake
7 8 (33.33%) Tableau
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 6 (25.00%) OLAP
8 6 (25.00%) Power Query
9 5 (20.83%) OLAP Cube
10 4 (16.67%) Star Schema
11 3 (12.50%) QlikView
11 3 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (12.50%) ThoughtSpot
12 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (8.33%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Italian Language
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (41.67%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Business Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Business Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) ETL Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft BI Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (8.33%) SSAS Developer
6 2 (8.33%) SSIS Developer
6 2 (8.33%) SSRS Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Principal Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Customer Support
7 1 (4.17%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.50%) NHS
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (87.50%) Data Modelling
3 16 (66.67%) ETL
4 14 (58.33%) Analytics
5 9 (37.50%) Visualisation
6 8 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) DevOps
8 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (20.83%) Dashboard Development
9 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
9 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
9 5 (20.83%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 5 (20.83%) ETL Development
9 5 (20.83%) Migration
9 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (16.67%) Database Tuning
10 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) SQL
2 13 (54.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.50%) Python
6 2 (8.33%) VBA
7 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) SAP
3 4 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Databricks
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 2 (8.33%) Cognos
5 2 (8.33%) MicroStrategy