Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OLAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 676 843 877
Rank change year-on-year +167 +34 +19
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 16 53 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.054% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 87
10th Percentile £36,750 £48,170 £43,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £56,250 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £86,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +33.33% -4.55%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,431 18,186 22,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.47% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,213 12,623 13,902
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

OLAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OLAP in the UK

OLAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OLAP.

Salary trend for OLAP in the UK

OLAP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for OLAP in the UK

OLAP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 13 £92,500 +54.17% 28
UK excluding London +175 8 £67,500 -3.57% 9
London +109 8 £92,500 +60.87% 22
North of England +77 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 4 - -
Scotland +128 3 £67,500 +29.64%
South West +101 1 £43,500 -38.36% 3

OLAP
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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (25.00%) OLTP
2 4 (25.00%) SAP HANA
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (25.00%) Tableau
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Cognos Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Cognos Planning Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) TM1 Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Integration Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Report Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
1 3 (18.75%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) ETL
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
5 4 (25.00%) Budgeting
5 4 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Data Transformation
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Insurtech
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) ACCA
1 4 (25.00%) CIMA
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 2 (12.50%) QA
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Cognos
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
1 4 (25.00%) IBM
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Google