Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 48 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +28
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 61 39 78
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.30% 2.91% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.63% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 52
10th Percentile £348 £248 £229
25th Percentile £405 £318 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -5.41% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £541
90th Percentile £650 £538 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.86 -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £15.98 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +22.92% -60.61%
75th Percentile £24.38 £17.99 £13.25
90th Percentile - £19.20 £13.70
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £29.91
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.66% +2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,266 1,073 1,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.34% 80.13% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 429 903
10th Percentile £195 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £603
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 232 374
10th Percentile £14.12 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.24% +27.14%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the East of England

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the East of England

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Hertfordshire 0 21 £513 +57.69% 27
Bedfordshire +5 17 £550 +10.00% 10
Cambridgeshire -3 9 £488 -8.88% 5
Norfolk -9 8 £501 +9.70% 4
Suffolk +2 4 £115 -69.33% 7
Essex -3 2 £400 +34.91% 11
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (3.28%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.92%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.64%) Primavera
3 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) Power Platform
2 17 (27.87%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) AWS
4 7 (11.48%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.56%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) IaaS
8 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.92%) PaaS
8 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.92%) SaaS
9 2 (3.28%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (60.66%) Power BI
2 11 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (13.11%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.84%) SAP HANA
5 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.56%) Tableau
7 3 (4.92%) Power Query
7 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
7 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.28%) Big Data
8 2 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.28%) Metadata
8 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.28%) PowerCenter
8 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.64%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Hudson
General
1 25 (40.98%) Finance
2 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.23%) Manufacturing
4 13 (21.31%) Public Sector
5 12 (19.67%) Marketing
6 11 (18.03%) Telecoms
7 10 (16.39%) Electronics
8 6 (9.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (4.92%) Banking
10 3 (4.92%) Retail
11 2 (3.28%) Digital Health
11 2 (3.28%) Health Technology
11 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.64%) Legal
12 1 (1.64%) Local Government
12 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Lead
2 15 (24.59%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Installation Technician
7 2 (3.28%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) IT Support
7 2 (3.28%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) REST
2 3 (4.92%) SOAP
3 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.28%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.64%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) PySpark
4 1 (1.64%) Web Services
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Life Science
2 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.64%) Mashup
4 1 (1.64%) Midjourney
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) Analytics
2 12 (19.67%) Programme Management
3 11 (18.03%) Visualisation
4 10 (16.39%) Data Modelling
4 10 (16.39%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (16.39%) ERP
4 10 (16.39%) ETL
5 9 (14.75%) Actionable Insight
5 9 (14.75%) Agile
6 8 (13.11%) Business Analysis
6 8 (13.11%) CRM
6 8 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (11.48%) AI
7 7 (11.48%) Data Analysis
7 7 (11.48%) Data Governance
7 7 (11.48%) Data Science
7 7 (11.48%) DevOps
7 7 (11.48%) Migration
8 6 (9.84%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) SQL
2 5 (8.20%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) Bicep
5 1 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) Scala
5 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) ACCA
5 1 (1.64%) CIMA
5 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.20%) GxP
3 3 (4.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.92%) PMO
4 2 (3.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.64%) IFRS
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.79%) SAP
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 4 (6.56%) Databricks
4 4 (6.56%) Informatica
5 3 (4.92%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) Foundry
6 2 (3.28%) IFS
6 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.64%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.64%) Ariba
7 1 (1.64%) Avature
7 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.64%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) Sybase
7 1 (1.64%) Vertica
7 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media