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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -32
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 65 38 52
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.92% 3.71% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.13% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 29
10th Percentile £363 £313 £174
25th Percentile £389 £318 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £635 £522 £438
90th Percentile £749 £590 £532
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £18.61 £18.53 £17.58
25th Percentile £21.17 £22.35 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.41 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +31.83% +100.00%
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile £44.75 £33.32 -
England median hourly rate £30.38 £30.00 £24.22
% change year-on-year +1.25% +23.89% +6.44%

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 1,754 921 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.90% 90.03% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 465 659
10th Percentile £193 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £590 £580 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £670
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 186 616
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.96 £36.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -8.13% +88.15%
75th Percentile £67.79 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the East of England

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 13 June 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 +21 19 £420 +29.23% 11
Bedfordshire -8 11 £625 +22.55% 7
Essex -16 9 £375 +16.68% 9
Norfolk -16 9 £425 -15.08% 7
Suffolk - 9 £750 - 8
Hertfordshire -13 8 £475 -5.00% 6
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 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.54%) CATIA
4 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (1.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Sage X3
2 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (6.15%) SystmOne
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 40 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 13 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (9.23%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) Copilot Studio
4 6 (9.23%) GCP
5 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.62%) Azure AI
6 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.08%) dbt
7 2 (3.08%) Google Ads
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.08%) OCI
7 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.08%) SaaS
8 1 (1.54%) Collibra
8 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.54%) Intranet
1 1 (1.54%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (61.54%) Power BI
2 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.31%) Metadata
3 8 (12.31%) Power Query
4 7 (10.77%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (9.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (9.23%) Tableau
5 6 (9.23%) ZAP BI
6 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.62%) QlikView
7 3 (4.62%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (3.08%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (3.08%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.08%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Billing
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.54%) Electronics
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Analyst
3 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (15.38%) SQL Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Power BI Developer
4 9 (13.85%) SQL BI Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Lead
6 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Report Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 6 (9.23%) Consultant
7 6 (9.23%) Head of AI
7 6 (9.23%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Report Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Sage Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
11 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (7.69%) REST
3 3 (4.62%) .NET
3 3 (4.62%) Kafka
3 3 (4.62%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.62%) scikit-learn
3 3 (4.62%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.08%) ADO
4 2 (3.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) FHIR
5 1 (1.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) AI Agents
1 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.15%) NHS
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) SystemC
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Analytics
2 17 (26.15%) Data Governance
3 16 (24.62%) ETL
4 15 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (23.08%) Validation
5 13 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 13 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 12 (18.46%) AI
6 12 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (18.46%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
7 11 (16.92%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.38%) Data Validation
8 10 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 9 (13.85%) Data Lineage
9 9 (13.85%) DevOps
10 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (12.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) SQL
2 11 (16.92%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (9.23%) VBA
5 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.62%) C#
6 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) APMG
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) PMO
3 2 (3.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Grafana
2 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.54%) SCCM
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Databricks
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle
2 7 (10.77%) Sage
3 4 (6.15%) Google
3 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.62%) Foundry
4 3 (4.62%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.08%) Informatica
5 2 (3.08%) SAP
5 2 (3.08%) Talend
6 1 (1.54%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (1.54%) Cerner
6 1 (1.54%) Kepware
6 1 (1.54%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) Siemens