Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OLAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OLAP over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 888 930
Rank change year-on-year +32 +42 -115
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 51 107 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.49% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 34 85 157
10th Percentile £47,902 £42,750 £43,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

OLAP is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,050 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,498 13,515 21,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OLAP in the UK

OLAP
Top 12 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 7 May 2024. 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 +33 44 £60,000 -7.69% 21
UK excluding London -20 41 £65,000 +23.81% 14
Work from Home +44 21 £57,500 -11.54% 12
North of England +41 12 £81,250 +21.14% 2
North West +20 12 £81,250 +30.00% 1
London +82 8 £52,000 -35.00% 10
Scotland -59 7 £52,067 -22.86% 2
South West - 7 £70,576 -
East of England +18 6 £57,500 +2.22%
West Midlands +11 6 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Midlands -10 6 £60,000 +20.00% 5
South East +17 3 £60,000 -7.69% 4

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 2 (3.92%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Azure
1 10 (19.61%) Power Platform
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 6 (11.76%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) DNS
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (45.10%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (39.22%) SQL Server
3 14 (27.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (23.53%) OLAP Cube
4 12 (23.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (21.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (19.61%) Power BI
7 6 (11.76%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
9 4 (7.84%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (7.84%) Data Vault
9 4 (7.84%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (7.84%) Star Schema
10 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 3 (5.88%) Data Mining
10 3 (5.88%) Metadata
10 3 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (5.88%) Spark SQL
10 3 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (37.25%) Law
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.80%) Retail
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Retail Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Software Manager
2 11 (21.57%) Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Development Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Software Development Manager
4 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 7 (13.73%) Data Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Database Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Engineering Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Consultant
6 5 (9.80%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) SQL Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Business Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) MDX
2 6 (11.76%) REST
3 5 (9.80%) SOAP
4 3 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Agile
2 20 (39.22%) Data Modelling
3 19 (37.25%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (31.37%) ETL
4 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
5 15 (29.41%) People Management
6 13 (25.49%) Analytics
7 12 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (23.53%) Scrum
8 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
8 10 (19.61%) Kanban
9 8 (15.69%) ERP
9 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
10 7 (13.73%) Data Management
10 7 (13.73%) DevOps
10 7 (13.73%) Visualisation
11 6 (11.76%) Data Architecture
11 6 (11.76%) Data Governance
11 6 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 45 (88.24%) SQL
2 16 (31.37%) C#
3 15 (29.41%) T-SQL
4 8 (15.69%) Python
5 5 (9.80%) VBA
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.88%) Java
7 3 (5.88%) Scala
8 2 (3.92%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.92%) R
9 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Degree
2 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Cognos
2 6 (11.76%) IBM
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 6 (11.76%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) Databricks
3 3 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) BMC
4 1 (1.96%) Remedy