OLAP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 436 567
Rank change year-on-year +111 +131 -119
Contract jobs citing OLAP 16 32 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% 0.67% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 44
10th Percentile £387 £445 £338
25th Percentile £419 £563 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.55% +38.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £585 £994 £675
90th Percentile £637 £1,013 £709
UK median daily rate £489 £720 £525
% change year-on-year -32.08% +37.14% +6.60%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

OLAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OLAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OLAP trend for jobs with a WFH option

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OLAP.

OLAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OLAP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

OLAP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OLAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Apigee
3 4 (25.00%) Kong
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Matillion
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) OLTP
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (18.75%) Metadata
4 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (18.75%) Power BI
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (6.25%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) kappa
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
2 7 (43.75%) Data Architect
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) DBA
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (6.25%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (25.00%) J2EE
2 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Camel
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Integration
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) DataPower
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Taxonomies
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
3 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) API Management
4 4 (25.00%) CQRS
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) OO
4 4 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (25.00%) SOA
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) TSYS
3 3 (18.75%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce