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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 69 40 75
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.40% 3.21% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 3.88% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 48
10th Percentile £350 £314 £213
25th Percentile £407 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £533 £517
90th Percentile £650 £585 £550
England median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.16 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.59 £16.80 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% +27.61% -57.58%
75th Percentile £23.61 £18.93 £24.50
90th Percentile £24.38 £19.57 £30.80
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -20.83% -4.49% -4.82%

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 1,338 1,030 1,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.33% 82.73% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 421 838
10th Percentile £185 £243 £243
25th Percentile £363 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £706
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 215 373
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.28 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +30.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 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
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 5 December 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 -1 24 £525 +3.70% 65
Bedfordshire +10 20 £625 +19.05% 29
Cambridgeshire 0 16 £488 -1.02% 35
Suffolk +3 4 £115 -69.33% 19
Essex -2 3 £400 +34.91% 38
Norfolk -18 2 - - 13
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 44 (63.77%) Power Platform
2 20 (28.99%) Azure
3 9 (13.04%) AWS
4 7 (10.14%) GCP
5 6 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (7.25%) Azure AI
6 5 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (7.25%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.45%) Alation
9 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (63.77%) Power BI
2 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.70%) SAP HANA
2 6 (8.70%) Tableau
3 5 (7.25%) Data Lake
3 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) Power Query
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.90%) Big Data
5 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.90%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.90%) Metadata
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.45%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (1.45%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Hudson
General
1 33 (47.83%) Finance
2 32 (46.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (33.33%) Manufacturing
4 19 (27.54%) Marketing
4 19 (27.54%) Public Sector
5 18 (26.09%) Telecoms
6 17 (24.64%) Electronics
7 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (4.35%) Banking
9 3 (4.35%) Retail
10 2 (2.90%) Digital Health
10 2 (2.90%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.45%) Billing
11 1 (1.45%) Legal
11 1 (1.45%) Local Government
11 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Analyst
2 14 (20.29%) Lead
3 6 (8.70%) Architect
4 5 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
4 5 (7.25%) Developer
4 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Migration Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Senior
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Installation Technician
7 2 (2.90%) Support Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) Support Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Support Technician
7 2 (2.90%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) REST
2 5 (7.25%) PyTorch
2 5 (7.25%) scikit-learn
2 5 (7.25%) 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%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.90%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) NHS
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
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%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Analytics
2 19 (27.54%) Programme Management
3 17 (24.64%) Digital Marketing
4 14 (20.29%) Migration
4 14 (20.29%) Visualisation
5 12 (17.39%) Workflow
6 11 (15.94%) AI
6 11 (15.94%) DevOps
6 11 (15.94%) Logistics
7 10 (14.49%) Data Modelling
7 10 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (14.49%) Data Science
7 10 (14.49%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (13.04%) Agile
8 9 (13.04%) ERP
9 8 (11.59%) Business Analysis
9 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.59%) CRM
9 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) SQL
2 11 (15.94%) Python
3 3 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.45%) Bash
4 1 (1.45%) Bicep
4 1 (1.45%) C#
4 1 (1.45%) Java
4 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.45%) Scala
4 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (24.64%) SC Cleared
1 17 (24.64%) 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%) PMP
4 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
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%) PMO
4 2 (2.90%) SLA
5 1 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
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 5 (7.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (36.23%) SAP
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 5 (7.25%) Databricks
4 5 (7.25%) Foundry
4 5 (7.25%) OpenAI
4 5 (7.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) IFS
6 1 (1.45%) Ariba
6 1 (1.45%) Avature
6 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.45%) Cognos
6 1 (1.45%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) Informatica
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) Sybase
6 1 (1.45%) Vertica
6 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media