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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 505 531
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 +118
Contract jobs citing OLAP 16 14 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.051% 0.046% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.25% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile £416 £569 £364
25th Percentile £513 £613 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £655 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% +34.36% -18.75%
75th Percentile £614 £745 £784
90th Percentile - £926 £888
UK median daily rate £549 £655 £488
% change year-on-year -16.22% +34.36% -15.22%

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 5,396 5,542 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 18.13% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 3,707 4,513
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £665 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 78 130
10th Percentile £21.30 £18.35 £18.38
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.31 £22.69
Median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.55 £64.52
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OLAP job vacancy trend 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -6 13 £575 -12.21% 3
North of England -41 3 £525 -
North West - 3 £525 -
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (31.25%) Apache
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (18.75%) SAS
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Power Platform
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (31.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Collibra
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Power BI
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (43.75%) OLTP
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (31.25%) BigQuery
3 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
3 5 (31.25%) Mixpanel
3 5 (31.25%) OLAP Cube
4 3 (18.75%) Cognos Framework Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Cognos Report Studio
4 3 (18.75%) Cognos Transformer
4 3 (18.75%) Metadata
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (12.50%) Power Query
5 2 (12.50%) PowerPivot
5 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (12.50%) Tableau
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Cognos Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Report Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Report Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Developer
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 5 (31.25%) Great Expectations
3 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (81.25%) Data Modelling
3 10 (62.50%) Analytics
3 10 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 10 (62.50%) ETL
4 8 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (37.50%) Data Analytics
5 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 6 (37.50%) Observability
6 5 (31.25%) Batch Processing
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Data Privacy
6 5 (31.25%) Dimensional Modelling
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) LLM
6 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
6 5 (31.25%) MapReduce
6 5 (31.25%) Monte Carlo Method
6 5 (31.25%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Cognos
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Percona