Business Intelligence Contracts

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,939 2,609 4,206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 4.64% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 5.17% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 1,855 3,112
10th Percentile £299 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £713 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 41 47
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.00 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.36 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -23.81% +43.18%
75th Percentile £46.56 £53.75 £44.48
90th Percentile £79.63 £58.75 £57.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.13 £24.50
% change year-on-year -10.45% +2.55% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 1,692 £500 - 1,225
London +12 869 £525 - 500
UK excluding London +1 845 £450 -5.26% 749
Work from Home +10 745 £488 -2.50% 596
South East -3 197 £425 - 170
North of England +2 194 £450 -5.26% 207
South West +2 169 £532 +1.33% 104
Midlands -2 137 £425 -10.53% 136
North West -5 113 £450 - 125
West Midlands +2 101 £440 -9.74% 84
Scotland +37 80 £475 - 45
Yorkshire 0 72 £450 -10.00% 60
East of England -32 52 £400 -11.11% 66
East Midlands -3 35 £375 -14.29% 52
Wales +18 15 £500 +50.94% 24
Northern Ireland +13 12 £500 +14.29% 11
North East +8 8 £663 +20.45% 23

Business Intelligence
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
1 126 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 37 (1.91%) Confluence
3 29 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (1.34%) SAS
5 20 (1.03%) Apache
6 12 (0.62%) MTS
6 12 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.10%) CMS
10 2 (0.10%) Jadu
10 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.052%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 202 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.32%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.41%) SPSS
8 3 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.10%) InVision
9 2 (0.10%) Revit
9 2 (0.10%) Sketch
9 2 (0.10%) Trello
10 1 (0.052%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 49 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.70%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.62%) Endur
7 12 (0.62%) EuroRunner
7 12 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.57%) Aligne
9 10 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (62.25%) Power Platform
2 552 (28.47%) Azure
3 216 (11.14%) Power Automate
3 216 (11.14%) PowerApps
4 134 (6.91%) Dynamics 365
5 130 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (6.29%) AWS
7 118 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
8 116 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 65 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 61 (3.15%) Snowflake
11 50 (2.58%) Entra ID
11 50 (2.58%) GCP
12 41 (2.11%) GitHub
13 40 (2.06%) OCI
14 37 (1.91%) Serverless
15 30 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (1.34%) Azure Functions
16 26 (1.34%) Google Analytics
17 23 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.08%) Firewall
2 11 (0.57%) 4G
2 11 (0.57%) VPN
3 8 (0.41%) FTP
3 8 (0.41%) HTTP
4 7 (0.36%) 3G
4 7 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.36%) Wireless
5 6 (0.31%) DNS
5 6 (0.31%) LAN
5 6 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.26%) Internet
6 5 (0.26%) WAN
7 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.21%) Intranet
7 4 (0.21%) LTE
7 4 (0.21%) MegaStream
7 4 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,191 (61.42%) Power BI
2 253 (13.05%) Data Warehouse
3 240 (12.38%) Tableau
4 220 (11.35%) SQL Server
5 140 (7.22%) Data Lake
6 134 (6.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (4.85%) Big Data
8 89 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 84 (4.33%) Metadata
10 68 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 67 (3.46%) Relational Database
12 59 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 58 (2.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 47 (2.42%) Power Query
15 39 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
16 36 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
17 35 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
18 34 (1.75%) QlikView
19 30 (1.55%) MySQL
20 29 (1.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 110 (5.67%) JIRA
2 34 (1.75%) Git
3 23 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.88%) ERwin
6 11 (0.57%) GitLab
6 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.52%) Postman
8 9 (0.46%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.21%) NUnit
10 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.10%) Appium
11 2 (0.10%) git-flow
11 2 (0.10%) kappa
11 2 (0.10%) RStudio
11 2 (0.10%) XCTest
11 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 706 (36.41%) Finance
2 531 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 440 (22.69%) Public Sector
4 429 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (17.17%) Marketing
6 302 (15.58%) Manufacturing
7 297 (15.32%) Telecoms
8 267 (13.77%) Electronics
9 87 (4.49%) Banking
9 87 (4.49%) Retail
10 63 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.01%) Legal
12 37 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.60%) General Ledger
13 31 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 30 (1.55%) Front Office
15 29 (1.50%) Local Government
16 27 (1.39%) Publishing
17 22 (1.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 458 (23.62%) Analyst
2 344 (17.74%) Developer
3 215 (11.09%) Architect
4 208 (10.73%) Data Analyst
5 190 (9.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 164 (8.46%) Senior
7 154 (7.94%) Data Engineer
8 151 (7.79%) Consultant
9 129 (6.65%) Power BI Developer
10 111 (5.72%) Lead
11 107 (5.52%) Business Analyst
11 107 (5.52%) Data Architect
12 87 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 74 (3.82%) Project Manager
14 69 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
15 57 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
17 47 (2.42%) Power Platform Developer
18 42 (2.17%) Power BI Analyst
19 37 (1.91%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.20%) .NET
2 50 (2.58%) JSON
3 42 (2.17%) XML
4 39 (2.01%) HTML
5 37 (1.91%) PySpark
6 33 (1.70%) CSS
6 33 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 17 (0.88%) .NET Framework
7 17 (0.88%) REST
7 17 (0.88%) RESTful
8 16 (0.83%) Web Services
9 15 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.67%) JSON Schema
11 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.62%) React
12 11 (0.57%) jQuery
12 11 (0.57%) Node.js
12 11 (0.57%) SOAP
13 10 (0.52%) ADO
13 10 (0.52%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.25%) NHS
5 32 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.60%) Reference Data
7 27 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.13%) Hedge funds
9 19 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 17 (0.88%) Market Risk
11 15 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.72%) CMDB
13 13 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.67%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.67%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.18%) Windows
2 34 (1.75%) Linux
3 20 (1.03%) Unix
4 17 (0.88%) Windows 10
4 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.46%) VMS
6 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (23.26%) Analytics
2 398 (20.53%) Data Modelling
3 395 (20.37%) Agile
4 327 (16.86%) Visualisation
5 309 (15.94%) ETL
6 289 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
7 284 (14.65%) Programme Management
8 275 (14.18%) Digital Marketing
9 268 (13.82%) Data Analysis
10 223 (11.50%) Data Visualisation
11 210 (10.83%) DevOps
12 169 (8.72%) Migration
12 169 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 152 (7.84%) Project Management
14 148 (7.63%) Data Management
15 139 (7.17%) Data Governance
16 137 (7.07%) Decision-Making
17 123 (6.34%) Data Analytics
18 122 (6.29%) Data Integration
19 114 (5.88%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 748 (38.58%) SQL
2 307 (15.83%) Python
3 103 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 83 (4.28%) PowerShell
5 79 (4.07%) C#
6 68 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 67 (3.46%) JavaScript
8 56 (2.89%) R
9 45 (2.32%) Java
10 43 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.13%) Scala
12 19 (0.98%) VBA
13 15 (0.77%) VB
14 14 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 11 (0.57%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.36%) Bash
16 7 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.36%) XPath
16 7 (0.36%) XQuery
17 6 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 262 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 202 (10.42%) Degree
3 183 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 54 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.77%) PMP
11 13 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.62%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.31%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (0.26%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.92%) QA
3 44 (2.27%) PMO
4 40 (2.06%) GDPR
5 36 (1.86%) SLA
6 15 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.77%) GxP
7 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.41%) HL7
8 7 (0.36%) CDISC
9 6 (0.31%) NIST
10 5 (0.26%) GAMP
10 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.26%) RMADS
11 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.15%) GRC
13 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.62%) Docker
4 9 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.31%) NFS
6 5 (0.26%) HDFS
7 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.052%) Firmware
9 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (1.13%) Terraform
2 19 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Nessus
6 4 (0.21%) Puppet
6 4 (0.21%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.052%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.052%) SCOM
9 1 (0.052%) WMI
Vendors
1 531 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 388 (20.01%) SAP
3 174 (8.97%) Oracle
4 120 (6.19%) Databricks
5 51 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.48%) Google
8 38 (1.96%) Alteryx
8 38 (1.96%) Informatica
9 23 (1.19%) Remedy
10 20 (1.03%) Adobe
11 17 (0.88%) Sparx
12 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 14 (0.72%) CA
13 13 (0.67%) VMware
14 12 (0.62%) BISAM
15 11 (0.57%) Ariba
16 10 (0.52%) Cisco
16 10 (0.52%) Talend