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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 42 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 73 42 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.91% 3.98% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.57% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 51
10th Percentile £363 £313 £168
25th Percentile £375 £321 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £410
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +12.80% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £533 £488
90th Percentile £655 £610 £560
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 4
10th Percentile £17.75 £20.83 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.19 £21.50
Median hourly rate £22.08 £27.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +15.63% -31.43%
75th Percentile £24.40 £31.69 £26.75
90th Percentile £24.49 £33.68 £31.70
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £26.24
% change year-on-year -13.36% +4.80% -1.43%

All Process & 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 1,488 919 1,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.61% 87.03% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 471 827
10th Percentile £198 £247 £250
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 153 514
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £19.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +8.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +8 20 £533 +21.71% 16
Hertfordshire -11 20 £513 - 18
Bedfordshire -6 13 £625 +25.00% 8
Essex -6 10 £375 +18.48% 13
Suffolk +11 7 £600 +60.00% 7
Norfolk - 3 - - 7
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 1 (1.37%) Apache
1 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.11%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.37%) CATIA
4 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (1.37%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (1.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Sage X3
2 5 (6.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.74%) SystmOne
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.37%) Primavera
4 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (67.12%) Power Platform
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 10 (13.70%) AWS
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 9 (12.33%) Azure AI
4 9 (12.33%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (12.33%) GCP
5 5 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.74%) OCI
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.37%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.37%) Modbus
1 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (67.12%) Power BI
2 11 (15.07%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (9.59%) Power Query
5 6 (8.22%) Tableau
5 6 (8.22%) ZAP BI
6 3 (4.11%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.74%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.74%) QlikView
7 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Git
General
1 41 (56.16%) Social Skills
2 37 (50.68%) Finance
3 26 (35.62%) Manufacturing
4 20 (27.40%) Public Sector
5 17 (23.29%) Marketing
5 17 (23.29%) Telecoms
6 16 (21.92%) Electronics
7 11 (15.07%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.11%) Banking
11 2 (2.74%) Billing
11 2 (2.74%) Digital Health
11 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.74%) Local Government
11 2 (2.74%) Retail
12 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.44%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Lead
3 9 (12.33%) SQL Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Power BI Developer
4 8 (10.96%) SQL BI Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Analyst
5 7 (9.59%) Report Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Consultant
6 6 (8.22%) IT Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Migration Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Architect
7 5 (6.85%) Sage Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Migration Technician
8 3 (4.11%) Senior
8 3 (4.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) REST
2 9 (12.33%) PyTorch
2 9 (12.33%) scikit-learn
2 9 (12.33%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.74%) Web Services
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) ADO
4 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) NHS
1 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Life Science
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Midjourney
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) SystemC
5 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Analytics
2 19 (26.03%) Programme Management
3 16 (21.92%) Digital Marketing
3 16 (21.92%) Migration
4 14 (19.18%) AI
4 14 (19.18%) Validation
4 14 (19.18%) Workflow
5 13 (17.81%) DevOps
6 12 (16.44%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.44%) ETL
6 12 (16.44%) Logistics
6 12 (16.44%) Machine Learning
7 11 (15.07%) Agile
7 11 (15.07%) Data Modelling
7 11 (15.07%) LLM
7 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
8 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
8 10 (13.70%) Technology Transformation
8 10 (13.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) SQL
2 18 (24.66%) Python
3 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.22%) VBA
5 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) Java
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
1 17 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) ACCA
4 1 (1.37%) CIMA
4 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) PMO
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) SLA
4 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.37%) GxP
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) NIST
4 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.66%) SAP
3 10 (13.70%) Google
4 9 (12.33%) Foundry
4 9 (12.33%) OpenAI
5 7 (9.59%) Sage
6 6 (8.22%) Databricks
7 3 (4.11%) Oracle
8 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.37%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (1.37%) Avature
9 1 (1.37%) Cerner
9 1 (1.37%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.37%) IFS
9 1 (1.37%) Kepware
9 1 (1.37%) Orchard
9 1 (1.37%) Rockwell
9 1 (1.37%) Siemens
9 1 (1.37%) Virgin Media