Business Intelligence Contracts in England

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 38 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,377 1,776 2,217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.23% 4.76% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 5.56% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,237 1,587
10th Percentile £315 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £725 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 48 38
10th Percentile £18.84 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £15.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £30.81 £24.22 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -1.16% +8.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £47.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £56.50 £79.13 £60.03
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £24.26 £24.00
% change year-on-year +30.45% +1.06% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London +1 723 £525 +2.94% 3,799
South East +22 192 £525 +16.67% 971
North of England -22 147 £475 +4.97% 964
Midlands -1 120 £425 - 619
South West -2 103 £444 -17.44% 380
West Midlands +4 95 £425 -2.02% 391
North West -18 78 £500 +11.11% 559
Yorkshire -14 60 £450 -5.26% 321
East of England +12 39 £500 +63.14% 331
East Midlands -1 24 £413 +13.01% 224
North East +7 11 £450 -47.06% 85
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 109 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.18%) Confluence
3 21 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 17 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 15 (1.09%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 9 (0.65%) Apache
7 9 (0.65%) SAS
8 8 (0.58%) IBM Domino
9 7 (0.51%) CMS
9 7 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2003
9 7 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.51%) Office Communications Server
9 7 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.51%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.36%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 205 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.31%) Oracle Smart View
5 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Maple
7 2 (0.15%) SPSS
8 1 (0.073%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.073%) InVision
8 1 (0.073%) Simulink
8 1 (0.073%) Sketch
8 1 (0.073%) Stata
8 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (3.12%) Aladdin
2 25 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.38%) thinkFolio
4 17 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
8 12 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.58%) Oracle HRMS
12 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
14 5 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
14 5 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
14 5 (0.36%) SAP PM
15 4 (0.29%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 845 (61.37%) Power Platform
2 340 (24.69%) Azure
3 136 (9.88%) AWS
4 104 (7.55%) Power Automate
5 102 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 84 (6.10%) Snowflake
7 79 (5.74%) GCP
8 71 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 67 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
12 64 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 51 (3.70%) dbt
14 45 (3.27%) SaaS
15 35 (2.54%) GitHub
16 32 (2.32%) Serverless
17 25 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
17 25 (1.82%) OCI
18 24 (1.74%) Amazon S3
19 19 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.31%) Firewall
2 15 (1.09%) VPN
3 11 (0.80%) DNS
4 9 (0.65%) DHCP
4 9 (0.65%) Internet
5 7 (0.51%) DDNS
5 7 (0.51%) Network Security
5 7 (0.51%) SAN
6 3 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 2 (0.15%) VoIP
8 1 (0.073%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.073%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.073%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.073%) Intranet
8 1 (0.073%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.073%) Junos
8 1 (0.073%) LAN
8 1 (0.073%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 840 (61.00%) Power BI
2 224 (16.27%) Tableau
3 210 (15.25%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (7.33%) SQL Server
5 78 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 66 (4.79%) Relational Database
7 65 (4.72%) Power Query
8 59 (4.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 57 (4.14%) Oracle Reports
10 52 (3.78%) Metadata
11 47 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
13 38 (2.76%) BigQuery
14 37 (2.69%) Looker
15 35 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 31 (2.25%) Big Data
17 30 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
18 26 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
20 23 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 70 (5.08%) JIRA
2 33 (2.40%) Git
3 30 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.89%) Liquibase
5 23 (1.67%) GitLab
6 21 (1.53%) Gradle
6 21 (1.53%) JUnit
6 21 (1.53%) Mockito
7 19 (1.38%) ERwin
8 12 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.44%) Selenium
11 6 (0.44%) Subversion
12 5 (0.36%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.29%) MLflow
13 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.29%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.22%) Clang
General
1 515 (37.40%) Finance
2 509 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 290 (21.06%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (16.85%) Public Sector
5 195 (14.16%) Marketing
6 172 (12.49%) Telecoms
7 168 (12.20%) Manufacturing
8 151 (10.97%) Electronics
9 66 (4.79%) Banking
10 59 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (3.85%) Front Office
12 34 (2.47%) Local Government
13 33 (2.40%) Retail
14 32 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (2.03%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.38%) Legal
19 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
20 12 (0.87%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 366 (26.58%) Analyst
2 217 (15.76%) Developer
3 171 (12.42%) Data Analyst
4 142 (10.31%) Architect
5 122 (8.86%) Senior
6 115 (8.35%) Business Analyst
7 100 (7.26%) Data Engineer
8 94 (6.83%) Lead
9 81 (5.88%) Consultant
10 74 (5.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 62 (4.50%) Data Architect
12 56 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
13 48 (3.49%) Business Manager
14 46 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 38 (2.76%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 33 (2.40%) Project Manager
17 31 (2.25%) Support Engineer
18 30 (2.18%) Azure Engineer
19 29 (2.11%) Data Business Analyst
19 29 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.36%) .NET
2 45 (3.27%) Kafka
3 36 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 36 (2.61%) React
4 25 (1.82%) PySpark
5 22 (1.60%) HTML
5 22 (1.60%) OpenAPI
5 22 (1.60%) REST
5 22 (1.60%) Swagger
6 21 (1.53%) CSS
6 21 (1.53%) Spring
6 21 (1.53%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 15 (1.09%) .NET Framework
9 14 (1.02%) Web Services
10 13 (0.94%) XML
11 11 (0.80%) Pandas
11 11 (0.80%) RESTful
11 11 (0.80%) SOAP
12 10 (0.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.41%) Fixed Income
2 45 (3.27%) Derivative
2 45 (3.27%) Hedge funds
3 44 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 23 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 23 (1.67%) NHS
8 21 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.87%) IoT
13 12 (0.87%) Replication
14 9 (0.65%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 64 (4.65%) Windows
2 21 (1.53%) Linux
3 11 (0.80%) Unix
4 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.15%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.15%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.073%) Android
8 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (31.74%) Analytics
2 362 (26.29%) Agile
3 338 (24.55%) Data Modelling
4 312 (22.66%) Visualisation
5 305 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
6 231 (16.78%) Data Analysis
7 209 (15.18%) Data Visualisation
7 209 (15.18%) Decision-Making
8 192 (13.94%) ETL
9 169 (12.27%) Migration
10 164 (11.91%) Data Governance
10 164 (11.91%) Programme Management
11 155 (11.26%) Digital Marketing
12 154 (11.18%) DevOps
13 150 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 148 (10.75%) Actionable Insight
15 128 (9.30%) Data Engineering
16 122 (8.86%) CI/CD
17 120 (8.71%) Data Management
18 109 (7.92%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 669 (48.58%) SQL
2 304 (22.08%) Python
3 76 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (5.08%) PowerShell
5 60 (4.36%) C#
6 49 (3.56%) Java
6 49 (3.56%) R
7 47 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 46 (3.34%) JavaScript
9 28 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.53%) VBA
12 16 (1.16%) Bash
13 15 (1.09%) Scala
14 10 (0.73%) Bicep
15 7 (0.51%) C++
16 6 (0.44%) C
17 5 (0.36%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.36%) PHP
18 4 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 233 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 171 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 153 (11.11%) Degree
4 47 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.02%) PMP
11 11 (0.80%) ACCA
12 10 (0.73%) CIMA
13 9 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.65%) CISSP
14 8 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.51%) CBAP
15 7 (0.51%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (0.44%) CCNA
16 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 53 (3.85%) GDPR
3 42 (3.05%) QA
4 25 (1.82%) PMO
5 24 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.02%) NIST
8 12 (0.87%) COBIT
8 12 (0.87%) SLA
9 8 (0.58%) Basel II
9 8 (0.58%) IFRS
10 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.51%) RMADS
11 6 (0.44%) MiFID
12 5 (0.36%) Basel III
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) GRC
14 3 (0.22%) HL7
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 45 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.32%) Docker
3 7 (0.51%) Brightmail
3 7 (0.51%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) vSphere
5 2 (0.15%) XenApp
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (3.49%) Terraform
2 15 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.58%) Ansible
5 7 (0.51%) Grafana
5 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.22%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.22%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.15%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.15%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 307 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 229 (16.63%) SAP
3 139 (10.09%) Oracle
4 95 (6.90%) Databricks
5 58 (4.21%) Google
6 43 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.90%) BISAM
8 26 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.45%) Informatica
9 20 (1.45%) SimCorp
10 19 (1.38%) Calypso
10 19 (1.38%) Charles River
11 17 (1.23%) Alteryx
12 15 (1.09%) Cognos
13 14 (1.02%) Workday
14 12 (0.87%) Adobe
14 12 (0.87%) Ariba
14 12 (0.87%) Talend
15 9 (0.65%) IBM
16 8 (0.58%) MicroStrategy