Essbase Contract Job Trends

Oracle Essbase (formerly Hyperion Essbase)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Essbase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 518 589
Rank change year-on-year -80 +71 +139
Contract jobs citing Essbase 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.030% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.089% 0.16% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £545 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £548 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% - -
75th Percentile £625 £653 -
90th Percentile - £744 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £545 -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Essbase 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,719 5,731 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 18.83% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,639 3,883 5,118
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 95 168
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.66 £15.97
25th Percentile £29.13 £24.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £62.62
90th Percentile £85.25 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.25 £27.63 £40.00
% change year-on-year +85.49% -30.93% -27.27%

Essbase
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Essbase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Essbase job vacancy trend in the UK

Essbase
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Essbase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Essbase

Essbase
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Essbase.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Essbase

Essbase
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Essbase within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Work from Home -13 5 £600 +10.09%
London -36 5 £600 -11.11%
England -78 5 £600 +10.09%

Essbase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) OLAP
1 1 (16.67%) OLAP Cube
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Consultant
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (66.67%) Essbase Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) OLAP Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
2 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (16.67%) Business Forecasting
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Economics
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CFA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) SAP