Essbase Contracts

Oracle Essbase (formerly Hyperion Essbase)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Essbase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Essbase over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 577 713
Rank change year-on-year +66 +136 +130
Contract jobs citing Essbase 9 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.011% 0.008%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.16% 0.068% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - £514
25th Percentile £545 - £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 - £695
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.33%
75th Percentile £653 - £706
90th Percentile £744 - £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -28.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Essbase
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Essbase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Essbase in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Essbase.

Daily rate trend for Essbase in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Essbase over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Essbase in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Essbase.

Hourly rate trend for Essbase in the UK

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Top 8 Contract 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 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
England +60 8 £545 - 21
UK excluding London +67 6 £545 - 1
North of England +23 5 £545 - 1
North West +20 4 £545 - 1
London +38 2 £675 - 20
Work from Home +41 1 £545 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £550 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) HFM
2 1 (11.11%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Consultant
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (44.44%) Essbase Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Hyperion Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Derivative
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Budgeting
2 6 (66.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
3 5 (55.56%) Planning and Forecasting
4 4 (44.44%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Data Management
6 2 (22.22%) ERP
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (11.11%) Agile
7 1 (11.11%) Analytics
7 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Hyperion