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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 58 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -28
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 62 39 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.84% 3.09% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.50% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 19
10th Percentile £363 £221 £186
25th Percentile £400 £383 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £649 £569 £463
90th Percentile £748 £638 £528
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £18.61 £18.38 £15.83
25th Percentile £20.56 £19.25 £15.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.64 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% +58.20% +53.85%
75th Percentile £46.63 - £24.00
90th Percentile £57.50 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -16.67%

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 1,717 1,113 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.73% 88.19% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 519 523
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £385 £364 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 265 499
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +18 18 £565 +41.25% 8
Hertfordshire -11 10 £700 +35.92% 17
Essex -12 10 £375 +4.90% 21
Suffolk -1 8 £750 +552.17% 2
Bedfordshire -3 8 £425 -22.73% 1
Norfolk -8 8 £425 -15.08% 3
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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.23%) Confluence
1 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) CATIA
3 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.61%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Sage X3
2 3 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.23%) SystmOne
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.61%) Primavera
4 1 (1.61%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.61%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 38 (61.29%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.74%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (6.45%) OCI
3 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
3 4 (6.45%) SaaS
3 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.84%) AWS
4 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.84%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.84%) GCP
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.23%) dbt
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.61%) Collibra
6 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.61%) Intranet
1 1 (1.61%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (61.29%) Power BI
2 11 (17.74%) Power Query
3 8 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.90%) Metadata
4 7 (11.29%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (9.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (9.68%) ZAP BI
6 5 (8.06%) Tableau
7 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.84%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (3.23%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (3.23%) PowerPivot
8 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.45%) Retail
6 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.23%) Automotive
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.61%) German Language
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Analyst
1 12 (19.35%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Lead
3 8 (12.90%) Power BI Developer
3 8 (12.90%) SQL BI Developer
3 8 (12.90%) SQL Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Report Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Head of AI
5 6 (9.68%) Report Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Sage Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.45%) REST
3 3 (4.84%) .NET
3 3 (4.84%) Kafka
4 2 (3.23%) ADO
4 2 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (1.61%) FHIR
5 1 (1.61%) SOAP
5 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) AI Agents
1 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Analytics
2 18 (29.03%) ETL
3 17 (27.42%) Validation
4 15 (24.19%) Data Governance
5 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
6 13 (20.97%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (19.35%) Data Analysis
8 11 (17.74%) Data Validation
8 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.13%) Data Architecture
9 10 (16.13%) Visualisation
10 9 (14.52%) Data Lineage
10 9 (14.52%) Decision-Making
11 8 (12.90%) Agile
11 8 (12.90%) AI
11 8 (12.90%) Data Engineering
11 8 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (12.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) SQL
2 11 (17.74%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (9.68%) VBA
5 3 (4.84%) C
5 3 (4.84%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.23%) ProC
7 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Degree
3 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) APMG
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
2 3 (4.84%) PMO
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.61%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Databricks
2 9 (14.52%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) Sage
4 4 (6.45%) SAP
4 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.23%) Informatica
5 2 (3.23%) Talend
6 1 (1.61%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Kepware
6 1 (1.61%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) Siemens