Business Intelligence Contracts in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence (BI)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 36 41 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.45% 4.96% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 5.82% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 26
10th Percentile £448 £223 £313
25th Percentile £450 £395 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £525 £564 £544
90th Percentile £575 £638 £618
Scotland median daily rate £481 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +8.15% -6.32% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 704 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.24% 85.13% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 392 688
10th Percentile £304 £210 £213
25th Percentile £413 £345 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 5
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.09 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.78 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -65.36% +196.28%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £39.70 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -13.95%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Power Platform
2 7 (19.44%) Power Automate
3 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (16.67%) OCI
3 6 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.11%) Azure
5 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle CX
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) Power BI
2 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (11.11%) Tableau
3 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
3 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Electronics
4 7 (19.44%) Manufacturing
4 7 (19.44%) Marketing
4 7 (19.44%) Telecoms
5 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.11%) Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) RF Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Power Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Middleware
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (2.78%) Ajax
2 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.78%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) JMS
2 1 (2.78%) Pandas
2 1 (2.78%) PySpark
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.78%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) AIX
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) CRM
3 8 (22.22%) Analytics
3 8 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 8 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
4 7 (19.44%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (19.44%) Feasibility Study
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) Programme Management
4 7 (19.44%) Schematic Capture
5 6 (16.67%) ERP
5 6 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 5 (13.89%) Migration
7 4 (11.11%) Business Analytics
7 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) C#
3 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) P3O
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Pega
3 1 (2.78%) VMware