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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 561 631
Rank change year-on-year -3 +70 +193
Contract jobs citing Essbase 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.049% 0.030% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £422 -
25th Percentile £605 £448 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% -3.81% -10.64%
75th Percentile £615 £573 £563
90th Percentile - £604 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

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 6,120 6,580 7,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.26% 17.71% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 4,420 5,556
10th Percentile £340 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 90 160
10th Percentile £20.69 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £40.25 £30.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.38% -39.20% +0.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.28 £69.93 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -38.78% +20.30%

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 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 23 October 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
London +15 3 £610 +20.79%
England -17 3 £610 +20.79%

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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle ODI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Economics
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CFA
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MBA
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GAAP
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Hyperion