Business Intelligence Contracts in England

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,732 2,411 3,521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.70% 4.83% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 5.35% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,750 2,643
10th Percentile £300 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +4.30%
75th Percentile £607 £610 £619
90th Percentile £737 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 43 40
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.04 £11.95
25th Percentile £16.70 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.67% +39.53%
75th Percentile £45.63 £46.13 £46.26
90th Percentile £80.00 £58.30 £60.18
UK median hourly rate £24.26 £24.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -1.00% -22.22% +41.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +9 891 £525 -0.94% 591
North of England +2 194 £450 -5.26% 204
South East -1 191 £425 -5.56% 194
South West +2 171 £538 +2.38% 92
Midlands +7 136 £425 -5.56% 166
North West +1 121 £453 +0.56% 115
West Midlands -2 94 £450 -7.69% 100
Yorkshire -7 63 £450 -10.00% 64
East of England -23 56 £393 -12.78% 76
East Midlands +4 41 £375 -11.76% 66
North East +13 9 £663 +32.50% 25
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 102 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.96%) Confluence
3 31 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.10%) SAS
6 16 (0.92%) Apache
7 12 (0.69%) MTS
8 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Jadu
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.058%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.058%) IIS
13 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.46%) SPSS
7 3 (0.17%) MicroStation
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) InVision
8 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.73%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.69%) Endur
7 12 (0.69%) EuroRunner
8 11 (0.64%) Aligne
9 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,022 (59.01%) Power Platform
2 496 (28.64%) Azure
3 166 (9.58%) PowerApps
4 161 (9.30%) Power Automate
5 116 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (6.47%) AWS
7 109 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 107 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
10 57 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 50 (2.89%) Snowflake
12 43 (2.48%) Entra ID
13 41 (2.37%) Serverless
14 39 (2.25%) GCP
15 31 (1.79%) Azure Functions
15 31 (1.79%) GitHub
16 29 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
17 24 (1.39%) PaaS
18 23 (1.33%) OCI
19 18 (1.04%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.33%) Firewall
2 14 (0.81%) VPN
3 9 (0.52%) FTP
4 7 (0.40%) 3G
4 7 (0.40%) 4G
4 7 (0.40%) LAN
4 7 (0.40%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.40%) WAN
4 7 (0.40%) Wireless
5 6 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (0.35%) DNS
5 6 (0.35%) HTTP
6 5 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.23%) Internet
7 4 (0.23%) MegaStream
8 3 (0.17%) InfiniBand
8 3 (0.17%) Intranet
8 3 (0.17%) Network Security
8 3 (0.17%) SNMP
8 3 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,010 (58.31%) Power BI
2 264 (15.24%) Data Warehouse
3 215 (12.41%) SQL Server
4 199 (11.49%) Tableau
5 128 (7.39%) Data Lake
5 128 (7.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 88 (5.08%) Metadata
7 78 (4.50%) Big Data
7 78 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 67 (3.87%) NoSQL
9 59 (3.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 54 (3.12%) Relational Database
11 50 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
13 32 (1.85%) Power Query
13 32 (1.85%) QlikView
14 29 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
15 27 (1.56%) Metadata Repository
16 26 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (1.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 86 (4.97%) JIRA
2 28 (1.62%) Git
3 23 (1.33%) ERwin
4 20 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 14 (0.81%) GitLab
6 14 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.58%) Postman
9 6 (0.35%) NUnit
10 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.12%) kappa
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.12%) RStudio
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) Subversion
12 2 (0.12%) XCTest
12 2 (0.12%) XCUITest
General
1 686 (39.61%) Finance
2 488 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 425 (24.54%) Public Sector
4 376 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (20.44%) Marketing
6 333 (19.23%) Manufacturing
7 320 (18.48%) Telecoms
8 297 (17.15%) Electronics
9 87 (5.02%) Retail
10 76 (4.39%) Banking
11 60 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.79%) Legal
14 30 (1.73%) General Ledger
14 30 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 29 (1.67%) Local Government
15 29 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 28 (1.62%) Front Office
17 27 (1.56%) Publishing
18 24 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 369 (21.30%) Analyst
2 295 (17.03%) Developer
3 201 (11.61%) Architect
4 166 (9.58%) Data Analyst
5 154 (8.89%) Data Engineer
6 153 (8.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 148 (8.55%) Senior
8 125 (7.22%) Consultant
9 115 (6.64%) Data Architect
10 112 (6.47%) Lead
11 101 (5.83%) Power BI Developer
12 98 (5.66%) Business Analyst
13 80 (4.62%) Project Manager
14 78 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 61 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
16 50 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.42%) Power BI Analyst
19 40 (2.31%) Support Engineer
20 33 (1.91%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.12%) JSON
2 51 (2.94%) .NET
3 38 (2.19%) XML
4 33 (1.91%) PySpark
5 31 (1.79%) HTML
6 26 (1.50%) CSS
7 19 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (0.92%) REST
9 15 (0.87%) Web Services
10 14 (0.81%) RESTful
11 13 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.75%) JSON Schema
11 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.64%) .NET Framework
13 10 (0.58%) Node.js
14 9 (0.52%) jQuery
14 9 (0.52%) Swagger
15 8 (0.46%) SAML
15 8 (0.46%) SOAP
15 8 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 66 (3.81%) NHS
3 64 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 59 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.73%) Reference Data
8 24 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 19 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 15 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (0.87%) Market Risk
12 13 (0.75%) Derivative
12 13 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.69%) Equities
13 12 (0.69%) Fixed Income
13 12 (0.69%) Life Science
13 12 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 75 (4.33%) Windows
2 35 (2.02%) Linux
3 23 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 19 (1.10%) Unix
5 15 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.46%) VMS
7 6 (0.35%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.058%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (22.69%) Analytics
2 385 (22.23%) Data Modelling
3 354 (20.44%) Agile
4 312 (18.01%) Programme Management
5 305 (17.61%) Digital Marketing
6 293 (16.92%) ETL
7 275 (15.88%) Visualisation
8 248 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (13.45%) Data Analysis
10 183 (10.57%) DevOps
11 179 (10.33%) Data Visualisation
12 162 (9.35%) Migration
13 152 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 150 (8.66%) Project Management
15 136 (7.85%) Data Governance
16 134 (7.74%) Data Management
17 116 (6.70%) Data Architecture
17 116 (6.70%) Decision-Making
18 111 (6.41%) Data Integration
19 110 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 647 (37.36%) SQL
2 267 (15.42%) Python
3 86 (4.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 76 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 67 (3.87%) C#
6 62 (3.58%) T-SQL
7 50 (2.89%) JavaScript
8 45 (2.60%) R
9 37 (2.14%) Java
10 35 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 31 (1.79%) Scala
12 13 (0.75%) VBA
13 12 (0.69%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.64%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.40%) Bash
15 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.40%) XPath
15 7 (0.40%) XQuery
16 6 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 232 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 165 (9.53%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.41%) Degree
4 57 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 35 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 14 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.75%) CISSP
10 12 (0.69%) PMP
11 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.40%) CIMA
12 7 (0.40%) Postgraduate
13 6 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.35%) CISM
13 6 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.29%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.23%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 72 (4.16%) QA
3 48 (2.77%) GDPR
4 31 (1.79%) PMO
5 23 (1.33%) SLA
6 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.58%) GxP
8 9 (0.52%) HL7
9 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.35%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) GAMP
11 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.29%) RMADS
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS
12 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.17%) GRC
13 3 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.75%) Docker
4 8 (0.46%) NFS
5 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.23%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.058%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.50%) Terraform
2 17 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.23%) CA Service Virtualization
6 4 (0.23%) Puppet
6 4 (0.23%) QRadar
7 3 (0.17%) Ansible
7 3 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Nessus
8 2 (0.12%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.12%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.058%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.058%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.058%) SCOM
Vendors
1 449 (25.92%) Microsoft
2 397 (22.92%) SAP
3 139 (8.03%) Oracle
4 112 (6.47%) Databricks
5 46 (2.66%) Informatica
6 45 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 36 (2.08%) Google
8 33 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.39%) Sparx
11 23 (1.33%) Remedy
12 16 (0.92%) Adobe
12 16 (0.92%) Talend
13 14 (0.81%) CA
14 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
15 12 (0.69%) BISAM
16 11 (0.64%) Dell
17 10 (0.58%) VMware
18 9 (0.52%) Hyperion
19 7 (0.40%) Cisco