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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 503 498
Rank change year-on-year -106 -5 +55
Contract jobs citing OLAP 17 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.037% 0.044% 0.091%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.24% 0.24% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 20
10th Percentile £282 £457 £418
25th Percentile £319 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £497
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +5.58% -13.52%
75th Percentile £593 £545 £647
90th Percentile £638 £551 £759
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £497
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.58% -13.52%

All Database & BI 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 6,947 4,909 6,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.93% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,639 3,375 4,287
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £705 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 80 91
10th Percentile £14.96 £21.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.05 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.38 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -1.21% +19.52% -40.91%

OLAP
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

OLAP
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

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLAP in England over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in England

OLAP
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

OLAP
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 2 September 2026. 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 -66 12 £563 +7.14% 13
North of England -75 4 £315 -41.26% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £315 -
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
OLAP
UK

OLAP
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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (5.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 2 (11.76%) Collibra
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (52.94%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (52.94%) OLTP
3 6 (35.29%) Power BI
4 5 (29.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (17.65%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (17.65%) Star Schema
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
6 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (11.76%) Mixpanel
6 2 (11.76%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Database Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
3 1 (5.88%) gRPC
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) NHS
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Analytics
1 12 (70.59%) ETL
2 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
4 7 (41.18%) Dimensional Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (29.41%) AI
6 5 (29.41%) Data Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
6 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
6 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
8 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (17.65%) LLM
8 3 (17.65%) Observability
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) T-SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Anaplan
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Sparx