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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 363 423
Rank change year-on-year -5 +60 +91
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OLAP 4 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.083% 0.027%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.61% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 3
10th Percentile £530 £413 £420
25th Percentile £536 £452 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +8.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £549 £581 £488
90th Percentile £550 £724 £510
UK median daily rate £525 £497 £658
% change year-on-year +5.58% -24.37% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.40
Median hourly rate - - £34.80
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,331 2,455 3,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.18% 13.51% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,653 2,219
10th Percentile £288 £313 £325
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 65 111
10th Percentile £18.57 £13.58 £21.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £17.50 £26.04
Median hourly rate £32.58 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -42.86% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.38 £57.50 £73.73
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £33.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -39.61% +28.71%

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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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OLAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OLAP

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OLAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OLAP

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
South East +22 2 £550 +4.76% 9
North West -13 2 £536 +9.66% 3
North of England -30 2 £536 +9.66% 4
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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 (50.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (50.00%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cognos Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cognos Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Cognos
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle