Hybrid/Remote OLAP Contract Job Trends

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OLAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 325 399
Rank change year-on-year +20 +74 +160
Contract jobs citing OLAP 5 10 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.081% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.26% 0.40% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £478 £465 £364
25th Percentile £582 £588 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £712 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +35.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £838 £761
90th Percentile - £926 £1,141
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -

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 1,930 2,517 3,700
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.90% 20.26% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,774 2,666
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 60
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.82 £20.38
25th Percentile £33.53 £19.59 £30.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -36.59% -5.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £87.50 £62.02 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.99% -36.36% +20.88%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing OLAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing OLAP

OLAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OLAP over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

OLAP daily rate histogram 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 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (60.00%) OLTP
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle