OLAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OLAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 114 128
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing OLAP 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.33% 0.042%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 1.60% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £422 £613 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -29.60% +9.65% -
75th Percentile £508 £654 £585
90th Percentile £548 £683 -
Central London median daily rate £440 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -29.60% +9.65% -

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

OLAP falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 348 376 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.81% 20.48% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 242 343
10th Percentile £338 £408 £413
25th Percentile £410 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £773 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £40.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.41% -17.53% -42.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OLAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

OLAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLAP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) DAMA
3 1 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft