OLAP Contract Job Trends in England

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OLAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 502 546
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 +152
Contract jobs citing OLAP 11 26 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile £452 £431 £380
25th Percentile £513 £459 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £548 £729 £775
90th Percentile £551 £838 £966
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.40
Median hourly rate - - £34.80
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £34.80

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OLAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OLAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLAP in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OLAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OLAP

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
London +14 6 £525 -8.70% 5
South East +21 2 £550 +4.76% 1
North West -16 2 £536 -24.68%
North of England -18 2 £536 -9.65% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (54.55%) Power BI
3 5 (45.45%) OLAP Cube
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (18.18%) Big Data
6 2 (18.18%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 2 (18.18%) Cognos Report Studio
6 2 (18.18%) Cognos Transformer
6 2 (18.18%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (18.18%) Power Query
6 2 (18.18%) PowerPivot
6 2 (18.18%) Tableau
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
7 1 (9.09%) MySQL
7 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) TM1 Developer
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Cognos Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modeller
4 2 (18.18%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (18.18%) Report Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Report Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Data Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Reporting Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Cognos Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) MDX
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Budgeting
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) API Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Review
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Analytical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Cognos
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle