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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 46 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 69 37 76
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.38% 3.35% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 3.99% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 48
10th Percentile £363 £313 £213
25th Percentile £431 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £533 £538
90th Percentile £650 £585 £565
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £16.84 - £13.20
25th Percentile £20.02 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.04 - £14.00
75th Percentile £24.38 - £24.50
90th Percentile £24.49 - £30.80
England median hourly rate £23.75 £29.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -18.10% -7.67% +14.22%

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 1,335 928 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.71% 84.13% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 400 767
10th Percentile £200 £242 £233
25th Percentile £363 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £694 £704
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 179 360
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.62 £14.44
Median hourly rate £20.35 £35.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -41.86% +63.09% -2.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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
Hertfordshire -7 23 £513 - 23
Bedfordshire +8 20 £625 +21.95% 9
Cambridgeshire 0 17 £488 +5.69% 11
Suffolk +4 3 - - 4
Essex -4 3 £250 -21.38% 15
Norfolk -17 3 - - 10
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 (1.45%) Apache
1 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (7.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.45%) Primavera
3 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.87%) Power Platform
2 20 (28.99%) Azure
3 12 (17.39%) AWS
4 10 (14.49%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (11.59%) Azure AI
6 8 (11.59%) Copilot Studio
7 6 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.45%) GitHub
10 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (60.87%) Power BI
2 10 (14.49%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.14%) Tableau
4 6 (8.70%) SAP HANA
5 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.90%) Metadata
8 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.45%) Ataccama
9 1 (1.45%) Big Data
9 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.45%) Pentaho
9 1 (1.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Hudson
General
1 35 (50.72%) Finance
2 34 (49.28%) Social Skills
3 24 (34.78%) Manufacturing
4 21 (30.43%) Marketing
4 21 (30.43%) Public Sector
5 20 (28.99%) Telecoms
6 19 (27.54%) Electronics
7 9 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.35%) Banking
10 3 (4.35%) Retail
11 2 (2.90%) Digital Health
11 2 (2.90%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.45%) Billing
12 1 (1.45%) Legal
12 1 (1.45%) Local Government
12 1 (1.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Lead
2 13 (18.84%) Analyst
3 6 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Architect
4 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
4 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
4 4 (5.80%) Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.35%) Consultant
5 3 (4.35%) Migration Technician
5 3 (4.35%) Senior
5 3 (4.35%) Support Technician
6 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (2.90%) Support Analyst
6 2 (2.90%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Technical Support
6 2 (2.90%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) REST
2 8 (11.59%) PyTorch
2 8 (11.59%) scikit-learn
2 8 (11.59%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.45%) .NET
3 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.45%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.45%) Node.js
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.45%) PySpark
3 1 (1.45%) React
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Life Science
2 3 (4.35%) NHS
3 2 (2.90%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Midjourney
4 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.45%) SystemC
4 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Analytics
2 21 (30.43%) Programme Management
3 19 (27.54%) Digital Marketing
4 16 (23.19%) Migration
5 15 (21.74%) DevOps
5 15 (21.74%) Workflow
6 14 (20.29%) AI
7 13 (18.84%) Data Science
8 12 (17.39%) Logistics
9 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
9 11 (15.94%) Visualisation
10 10 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (14.49%) Machine Learning
11 9 (13.04%) Agile
11 9 (13.04%) Data Analytics
11 9 (13.04%) Data Modelling
11 9 (13.04%) ERP
11 9 (13.04%) LLM
11 9 (13.04%) MLOps
11 9 (13.04%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) SQL
2 14 (20.29%) Python
3 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.45%) Bash
4 1 (1.45%) Bicep
4 1 (1.45%) C#
4 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.45%) Java
4 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.45%) Scala
4 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) ACCA
4 1 (1.45%) CIMA
4 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (7.25%) GxP
3 3 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) GDPR
4 2 (2.90%) PMO
4 2 (2.90%) SLA
5 1 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.45%) IFRS
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (40.58%) SAP
2 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.04%) Google
4 8 (11.59%) Foundry
4 8 (11.59%) OpenAI
5 5 (7.25%) Oracle
6 3 (4.35%) Databricks
7 2 (2.90%) IFS
8 1 (1.45%) Ariba
8 1 (1.45%) Cerner
8 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.45%) Cognos
8 1 (1.45%) IBM
8 1 (1.45%) Informatica
8 1 (1.45%) Orchard
8 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.45%) Sybase
8 1 (1.45%) Vertica
8 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media