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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 570 636
Rank change year-on-year +13 +66 +213
Contract jobs citing Essbase 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.034% 0.044% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £422 £449
25th Percentile £605 £448 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £505 £494
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% +2.19% -23.97%
75th Percentile £615 £573 £542
90th Percentile - £604 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £494
% change year-on-year - - -23.97%

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 5,967 6,865 8,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.12% 17.95% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 4,734 5,804
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 158
10th Percentile £22.85 £17.50 £20.76
25th Percentile £29.33 £20.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.19 £73.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +18.30% -45.21% +56.43%

Essbase
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Essbase 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 2 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 17 September 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 +31 2 £610 +20.79%
London +26 2 £610 +20.79%

Essbase
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle ODI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GAAP
1 1 (50.00%) IFRS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Hyperion