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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 479 529
Rank change year-on-year -14 +50 -110
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 82 209 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 2.11% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 168 275
10th Percentile £400 £386 £345
25th Percentile £419 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £448
% change year-on-year -11.90% +17.32% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £16.74 - £27.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.40 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.52% -0.59% -21.35%
75th Percentile £22.50 £37.19 -
90th Percentile - - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £34.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.52% -0.59% -

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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -15 79 £525 - 51
UK excluding London -6 42 £463 -11.90% 34
London +37 37 £550 +4.76% 16
Work from Home +47 24 £525 +2.19% 27
South West +16 17 £538 +34.38% 4
South East -5 9 £425 -22.73% 4
Midlands +28 7 £400 -30.43% 14
North of England +4 7 £438 -27.08% 9
North West +5 6 £438 -32.69% 6
West Midlands +17 5 £400 -30.43% 12
East of England -13 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 £431 - 2
Yorkshire +15 1 £350 -34.88% 3

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 2 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.10%) Power Platform
2 39 (47.56%) Azure
3 22 (26.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.20%) AWS
5 7 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.10%) Serverless
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.88%) GitHub
7 4 (4.88%) PaaS
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.44%) GCP
9 2 (2.44%) IaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Matillion
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Fabric
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (81.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 57 (69.51%) SQL Server
3 49 (59.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 45 (54.88%) Power BI
5 32 (39.02%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (35.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 17 (20.73%) Tableau
8 13 (15.85%) Relational Database
9 12 (14.63%) Data Lake
10 10 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (8.54%) MySQL
12 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.66%) Power Query
13 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
13 2 (2.44%) Impala
13 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 2 (2.44%) OLAP
13 2 (2.44%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (2.44%) OLTP
14 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JIRA
1 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.63%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.88%) Back Office
6 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.44%) Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Marketing
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) French Language
9 1 (1.22%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (37.80%) Developer
2 19 (23.17%) Data Engineer
3 17 (20.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Administrator
5 12 (14.63%) DBA
6 10 (12.20%) Analyst
7 9 (10.98%) SQL DBA
8 7 (8.54%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.32%) SSIS Developer
10 5 (6.10%) SSRS Developer
10 5 (6.10%) Systems Administrator
11 4 (4.88%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior
12 3 (3.66%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) .NET
2 2 (2.44%) MDX
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.22%) ADO
3 1 (1.22%) Django
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) PySpark
3 1 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.10%) Clustering
2 5 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) NHS
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.22%) Robotics
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) VMS
2 1 (1.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (42.68%) ETL
3 22 (26.83%) Data Modelling
4 16 (19.51%) Agile
5 12 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (14.63%) Translating Business Requirements
6 10 (12.20%) Analytics
7 9 (10.98%) Migration
7 9 (10.98%) Scrum
8 8 (9.76%) Data Engineering
8 8 (9.76%) High Availability
9 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.54%) Data Analysis
9 7 (8.54%) DevOps
10 6 (7.32%) Data Analytics
10 6 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.32%) Statistics
10 6 (7.32%) Visualisation
11 5 (6.10%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 67 (81.71%) SQL
2 33 (40.24%) T-SQL
3 12 (14.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (8.54%) Python
5 6 (7.32%) C#
6 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.88%) VB
8 3 (3.66%) Java
8 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.22%) Bash
9 1 (1.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.22%) R
9 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.32%) Degree
3 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.66%) MCITP
4 3 (3.66%) MCTS
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.51%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) IFRS
3 2 (2.44%) IFRS 17
3 2 (2.44%) Solvency II
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (3.66%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Databricks
3 5 (6.10%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) SAP
5 1 (1.22%) Facebook
5 1 (1.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.22%) Twitter