OLAP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 329 442
Rank change year-on-year +29 +113 +136
Contract jobs citing OLAP 4 16 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.19% 0.55% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 19
10th Percentile - £387 £445
25th Percentile - £419 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £489 £725
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -32.55% +38.10%
75th Percentile - £585 £994
90th Percentile - £637 £1,013
UK median daily rate £461 £489 £708
% change year-on-year -5.78% -30.88% +28.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

OLAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OLAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OLAP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OLAP.

OLAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OLAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (25.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (50.00%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) MDX
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft