OLAP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OLAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 183 155
Rank change year-on-year -69 -28 +38
Contract jobs citing OLAP 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.040% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.30% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £527 £358
25th Percentile £283 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £536 £594
Median % change year-on-year -41.26% -9.65% +31.89%
75th Percentile £427 £542 £719
90th Percentile £475 £545 £732
England median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.55% -

All Database & BI Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 967 672 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.75% 16.49% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 465 368
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £406 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £574 £540 £574
90th Percentile £665 £650 £646
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 5 9
10th Percentile £18.42 - £21.30
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.02 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% +2.86% -13.15%
75th Percentile £72.66 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £67.60 £65.95
England median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -33.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OLAP job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OLAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLAP in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OLAP

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Yorkshire - 3 £315 - 1
OLAP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) OLTP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle