Hybrid/Remote OLAP Job Trends

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OLAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 439 467
Rank change year-on-year +71 +28 +161
Permanent jobs citing OLAP 6 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.012% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% 0.048% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 17
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £60,750 - £71,723
UK median annual salary £46,977 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.71% - -2.98%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,099 4,148 5,379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 25.25% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 2,472 4,393
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,272
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OLAP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OLAP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLAP

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLAP over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

OLAP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Report Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (66.67%) ETL
4 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) AI
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (16.67%) Data Science
6 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle