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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 475 523
Rank change year-on-year -69 +48 +74
Contract jobs citing OLAP 30 13 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.051% 0.066%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.27% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 8 14
10th Percentile £421 £465 £390
25th Percentile £450 £586 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £625 £573
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +9.17% -4.58%
75th Percentile £614 £708 £730
90th Percentile £638 £733 £854
UK median daily rate £603 £625 £573
% change year-on-year -3.60% +9.17% -0.43%

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 5,866 4,828 6,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.89% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,325 4,344
10th Percentile £344 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.54
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.75 £21.15
Median hourly rate £51.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -10.33% -24.95%
75th Percentile £74.92 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -24 26 £603 -3.60% 2
South East -43 3 £450 +16.88% 3
North of England - 1 £375 - 1
North West - 1 £375 - 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 15 (50.00%) Apache
1 15 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (6.67%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 21 (70.00%) GCP
2 21 (70.00%) Power Platform
3 19 (63.33%) Amazon S3
4 16 (53.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (50.00%) Collibra
6 2 (6.67%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) Power BI
2 18 (60.00%) OLTP
3 16 (53.33%) BigQuery
3 16 (53.33%) Data Lake
4 15 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (50.00%) Mixpanel
5 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (20.00%) Metadata
6 6 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (13.33%) MySQL
9 3 (10.00%) Data Mining
9 3 (10.00%) OLAP Cube
9 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
9 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (10.00%) Tableau
10 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Principal Data Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Lead
4 7 (23.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Principal Software Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Architect
7 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 3 (10.00%) Data Modeller
8 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Kafka
2 15 (50.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (3.33%) MDX
3 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Data Modelling
2 27 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (80.00%) Data Architecture
4 23 (76.67%) ETL
5 21 (70.00%) Data Governance
6 18 (60.00%) Analytics
7 16 (53.33%) Data Engineering
7 16 (53.33%) DevOps
7 16 (53.33%) Dimensional Modelling
7 16 (53.33%) Observability
8 15 (50.00%) AI
8 15 (50.00%) Batch Processing
8 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
8 15 (50.00%) Data Privacy
8 15 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (50.00%) LLM
8 15 (50.00%) Machine Learning
8 15 (50.00%) Monte Carlo Method
8 15 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) SQL
2 21 (70.00%) Python
3 15 (50.00%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (76.67%) Data Quality
2 16 (53.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Google
2 15 (50.00%) Databricks
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.67%) Adobe
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Cognos
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) Percona