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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 47 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 57 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.37% 3.79% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 4.20% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 24
10th Percentile £385 £343 £232
25th Percentile £500 £400 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.94% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £525
90th Percentile £750 £650 £553
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £19.45 - £15.78
25th Percentile £20.69 £15.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £57.50 £16.00 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year +259.38% +0.13% +22.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £16.50 £17.99
90th Percentile £68.25 - £19.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.55 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.08% -12.15% +0.56%

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 1,894 1,190 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.59% 90.15% 81.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 521 455
10th Percentile £190 £200 £208
25th Percentile £363 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +13.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £558
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 320 336
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.14 £16.05 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -18 22 £625 +21.95% 87
Essex -8 11 £563 +40.75% 23
Bedfordshire -9 10 £550 - 19
Cambridgeshire -2 8 £600 +23.08% 58
Norfolk -11 3 £425 -15.08% 13
Suffolk -17 3 £750 +552.17% 25
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 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (5.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.75%) Primavera
4 1 (1.75%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.75%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 42 (73.68%) Power Platform
2 10 (17.54%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
4 4 (7.02%) GCP
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (7.02%) OCI
4 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 3 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.75%) Collibra
7 1 (1.75%) dbt
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (73.68%) Power BI
2 6 (10.53%) Metadata
3 5 (8.77%) Power Query
4 4 (7.02%) BigQuery
4 4 (7.02%) Looker
4 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (5.26%) Tableau
6 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.51%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.75%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.75%) ERwin
General
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.77%) Local Government
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Automotive
5 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) German Language
6 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Lead
2 11 (19.30%) Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Report Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Report Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) Analytics Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Data Analytics Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Head of AI
7 3 (5.26%) ICT Officer
7 3 (5.26%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) REST
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.51%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) XML
4 1 (1.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.02%) CMDB
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) Analytics
2 18 (31.58%) Data Modelling
3 16 (28.07%) Data Governance
4 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.30%) Validation
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
7 10 (17.54%) ETL
7 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.79%) Data Analysis
8 9 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (14.04%) Asset Management
9 8 (14.04%) Data Transformation
9 8 (14.04%) Visualisation
10 7 (12.28%) Data Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
10 7 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (10.53%) AI
11 6 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 11 (19.30%) Python
3 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.26%) Google Apps Script
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.51%) C
6 2 (3.51%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) ProC
7 1 (1.75%) Groovy
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.75%) APMG
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.02%) SLA
3 2 (3.51%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Databricks
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.02%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) Remedy
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) Planon
5 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.75%) Civica
5 1 (1.75%) Orchard
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce