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 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 38 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 2,001 2,734 4,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.64% 4.63% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 5.15% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,949 3,237
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 44 44
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.78 £12.09
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.26 £24.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -22.22% +41.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £44.81 £46.67
90th Percentile £77.90 £58.08 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.13 £24.50
% change year-on-year -9.02% +2.55% +18.07%

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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 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 5 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 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
England +5 1,732 £500 - 1,342
London +9 891 £525 -0.94% 592
UK excluding London 0 849 £450 -5.26% 800
Work from Home +13 816 £500 - 690
North of England +2 194 £450 -5.26% 204
South East -1 191 £425 -5.56% 193
South West +2 171 £538 +2.38% 92
Midlands +7 136 £425 -5.56% 165
North West +1 121 £453 +0.56% 115
West Midlands -2 94 £450 -7.69% 99
Scotland +42 83 £480 +1.05% 44
Yorkshire -7 63 £450 -10.00% 64
East of England -23 56 £393 -12.78% 76
East Midlands +4 41 £375 -11.76% 66
Wales +16 15 £500 +33.33% 24
Northern Ireland +12 13 £500 +17.65% 11
North East +13 9 £663 +32.50% 25

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
1 130 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.15%) Confluence
3 34 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.30%) SAS
6 21 (1.05%) Apache
7 12 (0.60%) MTS
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.100%) Jadu
13 2 (0.100%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.100%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.100%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.100%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.050%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.050%) GeoServer
Applications
1 198 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.40%) SPSS
8 3 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.100%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.100%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.100%) InVision
9 2 (0.100%) Revit
9 2 (0.100%) Sketch
10 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.60%) Endur
8 12 (0.60%) EuroRunner
8 12 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.55%) Aligne
9 11 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
10 10 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
14 4 (0.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,197 (59.82%) Power Platform
2 561 (28.04%) Azure
3 207 (10.34%) PowerApps
4 206 (10.29%) Power Automate
5 134 (6.70%) AWS
5 134 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
6 128 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 125 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
9 68 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (3.15%) Snowflake
11 52 (2.60%) GCP
12 49 (2.45%) Serverless
13 46 (2.30%) Entra ID
14 44 (2.20%) OCI
15 41 (2.05%) GitHub
16 31 (1.55%) Azure Functions
17 29 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (1.30%) PaaS
19 23 (1.15%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.15%) Firewall
2 14 (0.70%) VPN
3 12 (0.60%) HTTP
4 11 (0.55%) 4G
5 10 (0.50%) FTP
6 9 (0.45%) DNS
7 8 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.35%) 3G
8 7 (0.35%) LAN
8 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.35%) WAN
8 7 (0.35%) Wireless
9 6 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (0.20%) 5G
10 4 (0.20%) 5G NR
10 4 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.20%) Intranet
10 4 (0.20%) LTE
10 4 (0.20%) MegaStream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,179 (58.92%) Power BI
2 285 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 226 (11.29%) Tableau
5 152 (7.60%) Data Lake
6 141 (7.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 92 (4.60%) Metadata
8 89 (4.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 85 (4.25%) Big Data
10 67 (3.35%) NoSQL
11 63 (3.15%) Relational Database
12 62 (3.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 60 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (2.40%) Power Query
15 37 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
16 36 (1.80%) QlikView
17 34 (1.70%) Qlik Sense
18 30 (1.50%) Looker
19 29 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
20 28 (1.40%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 119 (5.95%) JIRA
2 35 (1.75%) Git
3 23 (1.15%) ERwin
4 22 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 19 (0.95%) Visual Studio
6 17 (0.85%) GitLab
7 16 (0.80%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.50%) Postman
10 6 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.30%) NUnit
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.100%) Appium
13 2 (0.100%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.100%) GoCD
13 2 (0.100%) kappa
13 2 (0.100%) RStudio
13 2 (0.100%) XCTest
13 2 (0.100%) XCUITest
General
1 757 (37.83%) Finance
2 555 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 487 (24.34%) Public Sector
4 430 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
5 381 (19.04%) Marketing
6 354 (17.69%) Manufacturing
7 345 (17.24%) Telecoms
8 316 (15.79%) Electronics
9 91 (4.55%) Retail
10 80 (4.00%) Banking
11 63 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.00%) Legal
13 37 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.60%) Local Government
14 32 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 31 (1.55%) General Ledger
16 28 (1.40%) Front Office
16 28 (1.40%) Publishing
17 25 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 437 (21.84%) Analyst
2 338 (16.89%) Developer
3 230 (11.49%) Architect
4 200 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 181 (9.05%) Data Engineer
6 178 (8.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 172 (8.60%) Senior
8 152 (7.60%) Consultant
9 123 (6.15%) Power BI Developer
10 122 (6.10%) Lead
11 118 (5.90%) Data Architect
12 106 (5.30%) Business Analyst
13 91 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 91 (4.55%) Project Manager
14 71 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
15 60 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
16 55 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
17 48 (2.40%) Power BI Analyst
17 48 (2.40%) Support Engineer
18 38 (1.90%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.10%) .NET
2 57 (2.85%) JSON
3 42 (2.10%) PySpark
3 42 (2.10%) XML
4 35 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 33 (1.65%) HTML
6 32 (1.60%) CSS
7 18 (0.90%) REST
8 17 (0.85%) RESTful
9 16 (0.80%) Web Services
10 14 (0.70%) .NET Framework
10 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.65%) JSON Schema
12 11 (0.55%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.55%) jQuery
12 11 (0.55%) Node.js
13 10 (0.50%) Kafka
13 10 (0.50%) SOAP
14 9 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 68 (3.40%) Data Structures
3 67 (3.35%) NHS
4 63 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
5 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.55%) Reference Data
8 22 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 19 (0.95%) Market Risk
11 17 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (0.80%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.70%) CMDB
13 14 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.65%) Derivative
14 13 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.60%) Life Science
15 12 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.90%) Windows
2 36 (1.80%) Linux
3 23 (1.15%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.00%) Unix
5 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.40%) VMS
7 6 (0.30%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.100%) Android
8 2 (0.100%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (23.79%) Analytics
2 430 (21.49%) Data Modelling
3 398 (19.89%) Agile
4 337 (16.84%) ETL
5 333 (16.64%) Programme Management
6 328 (16.39%) Visualisation
7 324 (16.19%) Digital Marketing
8 289 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 264 (13.19%) Data Analysis
10 224 (11.19%) Data Visualisation
11 218 (10.89%) DevOps
12 187 (9.35%) Migration
13 169 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 165 (8.25%) Project Management
15 164 (8.20%) Data Management
16 151 (7.55%) Data Governance
17 131 (6.55%) Decision-Making
18 126 (6.30%) Data Analytics
19 125 (6.25%) Data Integration
20 122 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 741 (37.03%) SQL
2 317 (15.84%) Python
3 106 (5.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 84 (4.20%) PowerShell
5 80 (4.00%) C#
6 71 (3.55%) T-SQL
7 64 (3.20%) JavaScript
8 56 (2.80%) Java
9 55 (2.75%) R
10 41 (2.05%) PL/SQL
11 35 (1.75%) Scala
12 15 (0.75%) VBA
13 13 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.65%) VB
14 12 (0.60%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.35%) Bash
17 7 (0.35%) XPath
17 7 (0.35%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 273 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 202 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.30%) Degree
4 57 (2.85%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (0.85%) CISSP
9 15 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.65%) PMP
12 12 (0.60%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.50%) CISM
14 9 (0.45%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.40%) Postgraduate
16 7 (0.35%) CIMA
17 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 5 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
18 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.00%) QA
3 49 (2.45%) GDPR
4 45 (2.25%) PMO
5 28 (1.40%) SLA
6 15 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.75%) GxP
7 9 (0.45%) HL7
8 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.35%) CDISC
9 6 (0.30%) NIST
10 5 (0.25%) GAMP
10 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.25%) RMADS
11 4 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.20%) IFRS
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 52 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.75%) 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 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.100%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.050%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (1.70%) Terraform
2 19 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.60%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
6 4 (0.20%) Puppet
6 4 (0.20%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.100%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.100%) Grafana
8 2 (0.100%) Kibana
8 2 (0.100%) Nessus
8 2 (0.100%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.100%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.100%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.100%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 538 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 439 (21.94%) SAP
3 183 (9.15%) Oracle
4 134 (6.70%) Databricks
5 48 (2.40%) Informatica
6 47 (2.35%) Google
6 47 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.65%) Alteryx
9 24 (1.20%) Sparx
10 23 (1.15%) Remedy
11 16 (0.80%) Adobe
11 16 (0.80%) CA
11 16 (0.80%) Talend
12 14 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.65%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.60%) BISAM
15 11 (0.55%) Ariba
15 11 (0.55%) Dell
16 10 (0.50%) VMware