Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Business Intelligence (BI)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 8 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 4.06% 3.09% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.45% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £379 £468 £242
25th Percentile £400 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +9.44% -
75th Percentile £519 £519 £469
90th Percentile £523 £523 £473
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -2.50% +13.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 179 174 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.86% 89.69% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 80 104
10th Percentile £350 £270 £216
25th Percentile £431 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £423 £452
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -6.58% -9.55%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 21
10th Percentile £18.30 £19.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +162.50% -64.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Cambridge over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Cambridge

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (12.50%) Big Data
5 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
5 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
1 4 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Repair
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IFS
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Sybase
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Vertica