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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 60 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +24
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 48 37 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.69% 2.43% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.99% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 60
10th Percentile £296 £215 £305
25th Percentile £391 £281 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -6.85% +7.35%
75th Percentile £559 £525 £538
90th Percentile £641 £565 £578
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £20.34 £15.78 £12.30
25th Percentile £27.61 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.98 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.00% +22.92% -60.61%
75th Percentile - £17.99 -
90th Percentile - £19.20 -
England median hourly rate £32.05 £30.30 £33.66
% change year-on-year +5.79% -10.00% +34.69%

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 1,164 1,239 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 81.46% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 453 882
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £375 £306 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £586 £550 £631
90th Percentile £686 £638 £734
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 384 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.64 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence 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 17 September 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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +9 15 £513 +86.36% 44
Bedfordshire -3 15 £550 +18.92% 13
Cambridgeshire 0 7 £444 -17.06% 19
Norfolk -4 6 £501 +9.70% 3
Essex -2 3 £400 +39.13% 25
Suffolk +4 2 £115 - 9
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (4.17%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (60.42%) Power Platform
2 12 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.25%) IaaS
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (6.25%) PaaS
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (60.42%) Power BI
2 13 (27.08%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 6 (12.50%) SAP HANA
4 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.25%) Metadata
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.25%) Tableau
7 2 (4.17%) Big Data
7 2 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.17%) Power Query
7 2 (4.17%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Hudson
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Manufacturing
4 6 (12.50%) Marketing
4 6 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.33%) Electronics
7 3 (6.25%) Retail
8 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Legal
9 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Data Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Installation Technician
7 2 (4.17%) IT Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) IT Support
7 2 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) REST
1 3 (6.25%) SOAP
2 2 (4.17%) Web Services
2 2 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (2.08%) Great Expectations
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Life Science
2 2 (4.17%) Clustering
2 2 (4.17%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Mashup
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Analytics
2 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (25.00%) ETL
2 12 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 10 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (20.83%) ERP
4 8 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 8 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 8 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (14.58%) Migration
6 6 (12.50%) Agile
6 6 (12.50%) Biotechnology
6 6 (12.50%) Data Management
6 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 6 (12.50%) DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) SQL
2 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.25%) Python
4 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) PMP
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (10.42%) GxP
4 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.17%) GDPR
5 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.08%) IFRS
5 1 (2.08%) ITGC
5 1 (2.08%) PMO
5 1 (2.08%) QA
5 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
1 14 (29.17%) SAP
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Databricks
3 4 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (4.17%) IFS
4 2 (4.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.08%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.08%) Ariba
5 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.08%) Cognos
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) Vertica