OLAP Job Trends

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OLAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 681 759
Rank change year-on-year +20 +78 +123
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 9 14 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.028% 0.061%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% 0.16% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 31
10th Percentile £41,395 £36,650 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,993 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £53,125 £65,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £65,200 £76,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -44.44% +28.57% +27.27%

All Database & 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 6,718 9,021 14,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.04% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,121 5,048 11,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

OLAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OLAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OLAP job vacancy trend in the UK

OLAP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OLAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OLAP

OLAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OLAP over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for OLAP in the UK

OLAP
Top 8 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 10 February 2026. 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 +46 9 £50,000 -16.67% 2
UK excluding London +21 8 £50,000 -44.44% 2
Work from Home +48 4 £50,000 -16.67%
North of England -3 4 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -33 4 £50,000 -
South West - 3 £43,953 -
London +29 1 £71,000 +18.33%
East of England - 1 £60,000 -

OLAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (11.11%) Cognos Connection
5 1 (11.11%) Cognos Event Studio
5 1 (11.11%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata
5 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
5 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Report Developer
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL BI Developer
4 1 (11.11%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ACCA
2 1 (11.11%) CIMA
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cognos
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle