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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,990 2,769 4,427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.60% 4.63% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 5.15% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,982 3,266
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.83%
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 42 45
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.29 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.13 £26.13 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -12.92% +36.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £47.44 £46.67
90th Percentile £76.85 £58.53 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +15.38%

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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +6 1,711 £500 - 1,140
London +13 875 £525 -0.94% 492
UK excluding London 0 843 £450 -5.26% 681
Work from Home +12 824 £500 - 549
South East -4 190 £425 -5.56% 144
North of England -3 185 £450 -5.26% 205
South West +4 177 £538 +2.38% 81
Midlands 0 131 £445 -1.11% 138
North West -2 114 £453 +0.56% 110
West Midlands +3 93 £450 -7.69% 83
Scotland +43 86 £478 -0.78% 36
Yorkshire -6 61 £450 -14.29% 64
East of England -22 56 £410 -8.89% 55
East Midlands +2 37 £413 -2.94% 54
Wales +16 15 £500 +33.33% 18
Northern Ireland +13 13 £500 +17.65% 13
North East +15 9 £663 +32.50% 32

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
1 129 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.31%) Confluence
3 32 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.41%) SAS
6 22 (1.11%) Apache
7 12 (0.60%) MTS
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.10%) IIS
13 2 (0.10%) Jadu
13 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.050%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 199 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.40%) SPSS
8 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) InVision
9 2 (0.10%) Revit
9 2 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.80%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.60%) Endur
7 12 (0.60%) EuroRunner
8 11 (0.55%) Aligne
9 9 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (59.40%) Power Platform
2 560 (28.14%) Azure
3 208 (10.45%) Power Automate
4 201 (10.10%) PowerApps
5 137 (6.88%) AWS
6 136 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 118 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
10 67 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 61 (3.07%) Snowflake
12 55 (2.76%) GCP
13 51 (2.56%) Serverless
14 50 (2.51%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.11%) GitHub
15 42 (2.11%) OCI
16 33 (1.66%) Azure Functions
17 28 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (1.31%) PaaS
19 23 (1.16%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.26%) Firewall
2 16 (0.80%) HTTP
2 16 (0.80%) VPN
3 11 (0.55%) 4G
3 11 (0.55%) DNS
4 10 (0.50%) FTP
5 9 (0.45%) LAN
5 9 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.45%) WAN
5 9 (0.45%) Wireless
6 7 (0.35%) 3G
6 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (0.25%) Internet
9 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.20%) 5G
9 4 (0.20%) 5G NR
9 4 (0.20%) LTE
9 4 (0.20%) MegaStream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,164 (58.49%) Power BI
2 282 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
3 227 (11.41%) Tableau
4 220 (11.06%) SQL Server
5 152 (7.64%) Data Lake
6 136 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 84 (4.22%) Metadata
9 78 (3.92%) Big Data
10 65 (3.27%) NoSQL
11 64 (3.22%) Relational Database
12 60 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 60 (3.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 49 (2.46%) Power Query
14 38 (1.91%) QlikView
15 37 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
16 35 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
17 30 (1.51%) Looker
17 30 (1.51%) Oracle ODI
18 29 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 119 (5.98%) JIRA
2 33 (1.66%) Git
3 22 (1.11%) ERwin
3 22 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 18 (0.90%) GitLab
5 17 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 16 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.45%) Postman
9 6 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.30%) NUnit
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.15%) Subversion
12 2 (0.10%) Appium
12 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.10%) kappa
12 2 (0.10%) RStudio
12 2 (0.10%) XCTest
12 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 751 (37.74%) Finance
2 549 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 499 (25.08%) Public Sector
4 430 (21.61%) Analytical Skills
5 394 (19.80%) Marketing
6 366 (18.39%) Manufacturing
7 358 (17.99%) Telecoms
8 329 (16.53%) Electronics
9 92 (4.62%) Retail
10 69 (3.47%) Banking
11 64 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (1.96%) Legal
14 37 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.61%) Local Government
15 32 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 30 (1.51%) General Ledger
17 29 (1.46%) Publishing
18 27 (1.36%) Front Office
19 25 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 434 (21.81%) Analyst
2 326 (16.38%) Developer
3 234 (11.76%) Architect
4 193 (9.70%) Data Analyst
5 176 (8.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 175 (8.79%) Data Engineer
7 166 (8.34%) Senior
8 149 (7.49%) Consultant
9 120 (6.03%) Lead
9 120 (6.03%) Power BI Developer
10 116 (5.83%) Data Architect
11 104 (5.23%) Business Analyst
12 93 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 92 (4.62%) Project Manager
14 71 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
15 59 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
16 55 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
17 50 (2.51%) Support Engineer
18 48 (2.41%) Power BI Analyst
19 37 (1.86%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.86%) JSON
2 55 (2.76%) .NET
3 41 (2.06%) PySpark
3 41 (2.06%) XML
4 37 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 32 (1.61%) HTML
6 31 (1.56%) CSS
7 20 (1.01%) REST
8 19 (0.95%) RESTful
9 16 (0.80%) Web Services
10 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.65%) .NET Framework
11 13 (0.65%) JSON Schema
12 12 (0.60%) Node.js
13 11 (0.55%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
13 11 (0.55%) jQuery
13 11 (0.55%) Kafka
13 11 (0.55%) SOAP
14 9 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.62%) NHS
3 65 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 61 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.51%) Reference Data
7 29 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.01%) Market Risk
10 17 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 16 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.70%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.65%) Life Science
14 12 (0.60%) Derivative
14 12 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.77%) Windows
2 36 (1.81%) Linux
3 23 (1.16%) Windows 10
4 21 (1.06%) Unix
5 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.45%) VMS
7 6 (0.30%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (24.02%) Analytics
2 427 (21.46%) Data Modelling
3 395 (19.85%) Agile
4 347 (17.44%) Programme Management
5 338 (16.98%) ETL
6 337 (16.93%) Digital Marketing
7 330 (16.58%) Visualisation
8 285 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (13.47%) Data Analysis
10 226 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
11 212 (10.65%) DevOps
12 187 (9.40%) Migration
13 168 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 165 (8.29%) Data Management
15 163 (8.19%) Project Management
16 139 (6.98%) Data Governance
17 132 (6.63%) Decision-Making
18 126 (6.33%) Data Analytics
19 124 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
20 123 (6.18%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 732 (36.78%) SQL
2 304 (15.28%) Python
3 107 (5.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 82 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 73 (3.67%) C#
6 72 (3.62%) T-SQL
7 60 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 55 (2.76%) Java
9 54 (2.71%) R
10 41 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.66%) Scala
12 14 (0.70%) VBA
13 13 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.65%) VB
14 11 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.35%) XPath
17 7 (0.35%) XQuery
18 5 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 281 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 212 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.35%) Degree
4 57 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.85%) CISSP
9 15 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 13 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 13 (0.65%) PMP
11 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.50%) CISM
13 9 (0.45%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.40%) Postgraduate
15 6 (0.30%) CIMA
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
16 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 77 (3.87%) QA
3 47 (2.36%) GDPR
4 45 (2.26%) PMO
5 27 (1.36%) SLA
6 16 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.70%) GxP
8 10 (0.50%) HL7
9 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.35%) CDISC
10 6 (0.30%) NIST
11 5 (0.25%) GAMP
11 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.25%) RMADS
12 4 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) IFRS
13 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.70%) Docker
4 8 (0.40%) NFS
5 6 (0.30%) HDFS
5 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 32 (1.61%) Terraform
2 19 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.60%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
5 4 (0.20%) Puppet
5 4 (0.20%) QRadar
6 3 (0.15%) Ansible
6 3 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.10%) Grafana
7 2 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.10%) Kibana
7 2 (0.10%) Nessus
7 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
7 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.10%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 531 (26.68%) Microsoft
2 452 (22.71%) SAP
3 191 (9.60%) Oracle
4 131 (6.58%) Databricks
5 50 (2.51%) Informatica
6 49 (2.46%) Google
7 46 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.66%) Alteryx
8 33 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.21%) Remedy
10 23 (1.16%) Sparx
11 16 (0.80%) Adobe
11 16 (0.80%) CA
11 16 (0.80%) Talend
12 14 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.55%) BISAM
14 11 (0.55%) Dell
15 10 (0.50%) Ariba
16 9 (0.45%) Hyperion