OLAP Cube Contracts

OLAP Cubes
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OLAP Cube skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OLAP Cube over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 558 662
Rank change year-on-year +9 +104 +183
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OLAP Cube 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.003% 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.085% 0.014% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £505 - £863
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -45.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £550 - £1,213
90th Percentile £554 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

OLAP Cube 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,877 7,030 8,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 18.13% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 4,930 6,090
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 100 167
10th Percentile £21.21 £14.93 £20.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £19.77 £31.37
Median hourly rate £38.85 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -40.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £64.00 £54.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.93 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.88 £30.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.93% -44.19% +53.57%

OLAP Cube
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OLAP Cube in the UK

OLAP Cube
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OLAP Cube
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

OLAP Cube
Top 5 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP Cube within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +20 5 £531 -3.41% 9
London +25 2 £506 -7.95% 7
North West - 2 £536 -
UK excluding London - 2 £536 - 6
North of England - 2 £536 -

OLAP Cube
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 2 (40.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) OLAP
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos Report Studio
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos Transformer
3 2 (40.00%) Power Query
3 2 (40.00%) PowerPivot
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Report Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Report Developer
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Data Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Reporting Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Cognos Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) MDX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cognos
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (20.00%) IBM