Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OLAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OLAP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 655 754
Rank change year-on-year +83 +99 -120
Contract jobs citing OLAP 26 64 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% 0.59% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 74
10th Percentile £380 £433 £343
25th Percentile £419 £538 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £708 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +28.64% +20.55%
75th Percentile £585 £953 £638
90th Percentile £688 £1,013 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +8.67% +12.50% -14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £34.80 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

OLAP 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 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OLAP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLAP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OLAP in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +93 26 £489 -31.61% 18
Work from Home +112 16 £489 -32.55% 8
UK excluding London +70 14 £489 +8.67% 5
London +63 11 £510 -30.85% 14
North of England +36 6 £489 +8.67% 2
North West +19 5 £489 +5.73% 1
Midlands +26 4 £516 +7.55%
West Midlands +31 2 £573 +19.27%
South East +25 2 £475 - 2
South West +23 2 £675 -
East Midlands - 2 £444 -
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 1

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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 5 (19.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Temenos T24
2 1 (3.85%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Power Platform
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Apigee
4 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) Kong
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) Matillion
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) OLTP
2 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (34.62%) Power BI
3 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle OLAP
4 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
5 4 (15.38%) Metadata
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 3 (11.54%) Big Data
6 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (7.69%) Tableau
8 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) kappa
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Architect
2 13 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Data Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) DBA
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Kafka
2 5 (19.23%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (19.23%) J2EE
2 5 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (19.23%) SOAP
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 4 (15.38%) Apache Camel
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Integration
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) DataPower
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 11 (42.31%) Analytics
3 9 (34.62%) Migration
4 8 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
7 5 (19.23%) API Management
7 5 (19.23%) Architectural Design
7 5 (19.23%) CQRS
7 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Google
3 5 (19.23%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) TSYS
4 3 (11.54%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce