OLAP Contracts

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OLAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OLAP 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 505 554 655
Rank change year-on-year +49 +101 +107
Contract jobs citing OLAP 15 28 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 0.38% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 34
10th Percentile £380 £383 £433
25th Percentile £399 £427 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £489 £708
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -30.88% +28.64%
75th Percentile £523 £585 £953
90th Percentile £532 £684 £1,013
UK excluding London median daily rate £385 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -21.27% +8.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.36 - -
25th Percentile £25.52 - £32.40
Median hourly rate £26.93 - £34.80
75th Percentile £28.22 - £37.19
90th Percentile £28.32 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.93 - £34.80

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

OLAP 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OLAP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OLAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OLAP in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLAP 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 +40 11 £461 -5.78% 28
London +32 7 £513 +13.89% 22
UK excluding London +55 6 £385 -21.27% 9
Work from Home +29 4 £409 -16.36% 7
South East +47 3 £385 -18.95% 4
Scotland - 3 - -

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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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (6.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Collibra
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (46.67%) Power BI
3 4 (26.67%) Big Data
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (26.67%) OLTP
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (20.00%) SAP BW
4 3 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (20.00%) SAP HANA
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (13.33%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (13.33%) MySQL
5 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) ERwin
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
4 2 (13.33%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (13.33%) TM1 Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) MDX
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) ETL
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Management
6 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Line Management
6 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
7 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Cognos
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Sparx