OLAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 380 446
Rank change year-on-year +52 +66 +47
Contract jobs citing OLAP 6 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.068% 0.038%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.54% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - £413 £418
25th Percentile £368 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.27% +8.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £403 £573 £505
90th Percentile - £631 £517
UK median daily rate £461 £489 £715
% change year-on-year -5.78% -31.61% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.36 - -
25th Percentile £25.52 - £32.40
Median hourly rate £26.93 - £34.80
75th Percentile £28.22 - £37.19
90th Percentile £28.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.93 - £34.80

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,017 2,594 3,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 12.53% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 1,829 2,653
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.46
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.20 £31.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.98% -30.43% +35.29%

OLAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OLAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OLAP in the UK excluding London

OLAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OLAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OLAP in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South East +37 3 £385 -18.95% 3
Scotland - 3 - -
OLAP
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Power BI
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (33.33%) Finance Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Line Management
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Cognos