OLAP Contracts in the North West

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring OLAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OLAP over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 117 144
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OLAP 2 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.090% 0.33% 0.069%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.60% 2.45% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £527 £449 £419
25th Percentile £531 £477 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £489 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% +5.73% -27.45%
75th Percentile £542 £558 £503
90th Percentile £545 £720 £516
England median daily rate £525 £497 £658
% change year-on-year +5.58% -24.37% +3.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 332 327 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.89% 13.41% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 215 342
10th Percentile £313 £353 £325
25th Percentile £363 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £453 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -5.63% -4.10%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £586
90th Percentile £588 £609 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile - £25.00 £28.26
25th Percentile £21.02 £29.75 £39.80
Median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year -25.73% -16.78% +16.00%
75th Percentile £52.19 £63.75 £55.70
90th Percentile £74.13 £69.25 £64.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.15% -38.31% +28.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OLAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester 0 2 £536 +12.89% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos Transformer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP Cube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cognos Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft