Essbase Contracts

Oracle Essbase (formerly Hyperion Essbase)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Essbase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Essbase over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 586 679
Rank change year-on-year +53 +93 +168
Contract jobs citing Essbase 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.053% 0.066% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £422 £454
25th Percentile - £448 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +58.42% -3.81% +15.07%
75th Percentile - £573 £631
90th Percentile - £604 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £494
% change year-on-year - - -23.97%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Essbase falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,649 7,536 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 17.46% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 5,379 6,750
10th Percentile £356 £350 £372
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 171
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.57 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -29.08% +40.47%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Essbase in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Essbase.

Daily rate trend for Essbase in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Essbase.

Hourly rate trend for Essbase in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Essbase within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 3 £800 +58.42% 79
London +45 1 - - 24
UK excluding London +38 1 - - 60
North of England +11 1 - - 13
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6

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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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Budgeting
1 2 (66.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Hyperion
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft