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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 856 877
Rank change year-on-year +171 +21 +61
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 17 51 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.049% 0.095%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.28% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11 35 76
10th Percentile £41,750 £48,036 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £56,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.54% +3.19%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £86,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -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 7,708 18,393 20,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 17.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 12,535 12,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £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 31 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 31 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 +142 15 £92,500 +54.17% 24
London +107 10 £92,500 +77.88% 19
UK excluding London +149 7 £67,500 +12.50% 5
North of England +31 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 4 - -
Scotland +117 2 £67,500 +29.64%
South West +109 1 £43,500 - 1

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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (23.53%) SAP HANA
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (23.53%) Tableau
4 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
4 3 (17.65%) OLTP
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.76%) OLAP Cube
5 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Cognos Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Cognos Planning Developer
2 4 (23.53%) TM1 Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
1 3 (17.65%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) ETL
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
6 4 (23.53%) Budgeting
6 4 (23.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
7 3 (17.65%) Dimensional Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) Insurtech
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) ACCA
1 4 (23.53%) CIMA
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.76%) QA
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Cognos
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) Google