Business Intelligence Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Business Intelligence (BI) England / London
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	44	46	37
Rank change year-on-year	+2	-9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence	1023	922	1099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	4.95%	4.26%	4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.71%	5.00%	5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted	725	683	840
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£314	£313	£313
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£625	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	1	19
Median hourly rate	£21.50	£23.50	£24.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.51%	-4.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.10	£23.50	£16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.52	£23.50	£60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.96	£32.50	£23.75
% change year-on-year	-13.96%	+36.84%

Business Intelligence is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17919	18449	19236
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.65%	85.29%	82.10%
Number of daily rates quoted	12848	13494	13624
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£630	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£383
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	195	158	261
Median hourly rate	£27.00	£21.00	£21.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+28.57%	-2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£43.75	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.50	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+17.54%	-5.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Business Intelligence in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+12	182	£469	+4.16%	51
West End of London	+13	5	£538	+19.44%	4
Croydon	-6	4	£475	+46.15%	2
Westminster	-	4	£588	-
Canary Wharf	-1	3	-	-
Uxbridge	-3	3	£275	+37.84%
Hammersmith	-6	2	£433	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	2	-	-
Docklands, London	-2	1	£490	+13.95%
Chiswick	-	1	£425	-
Moorgate	-	1	£500	-
Ilford	-	1	£425	-
Business Intelligence England

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Business Intelligence.

1	811 (41.59%)	SQL
2	720 (36.92%)	Finance
3	552 (28.31%)	Data Warehouse
4	490 (25.13%)	Agile Software Development
5	464 (23.79%)	SQL Server
6	454 (23.28%)	Microsoft
7	433 (22.21%)	Analytics
8	396 (20.31%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	361 (18.51%)	ETL
10	350 (17.95%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	338 (17.33%)	SAP
12	304 (15.59%)	Marketing
13	292 (14.97%)	Data Modelling
14	279 (14.31%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
15	264 (13.54%)	Power BI

16	255 (13.08%)	Oracle
17	244 (12.51%)	Analytical Skills
18	235 (12.05%)	Telecoms
19	220 (11.28%)	Tableau
20	212 (10.87%)	Programme Management
21	209 (10.72%)	Digital Marketing
22	205 (10.51%)	Java
23	203 (10.41%)	Manufacturing
23	203 (10.41%)	Degree
23	203 (10.41%)	Microsoft Azure
24	202 (10.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas
25	200 (10.26%)	Electronics
26	199 (10.21%)	Banking
27	195 (10.00%)	Visualisation
28	188 (9.64%)	Scrum

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	116 (5.95%)	SharePoint
2	93 (4.77%)	SAS
3	72 (3.69%)	Apache Spark
4	34 (1.74%)	IIS
5	33 (1.69%)	BizTalk Server
6	32 (1.64%)	CMS
7	30 (1.54%)	Apache Pig
8	29 (1.49%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	23 (1.18%)	Confluence
10	21 (1.08%)	Apache
11	17 (0.87%)	Cloud Foundry
11	17 (0.87%)	SharePoint 2013
11	17 (0.87%)	Skype for Business
12	14 (0.72%)	WebLogic
13	12 (0.62%)	Elasticsearch
13	12 (0.62%)	Mule
13	12 (0.62%)	nginx
13	12 (0.62%)	Oracle Service Bus
14	10 (0.51%)	Drupal
15	9 (0.46%)	Oracle Workflow

Applications
1	143 (7.33%)	Microsoft Excel
2	54 (2.77%)	Microsoft Office
3	38 (1.95%)	MS Visio
4	34 (1.74%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	30 (1.54%)	SPSS
6	19 (0.97%)	Microsoft Project
7	14 (0.72%)	Stata
8	6 (0.31%)	Spreadsheet
9	4 (0.21%)	Photoshop
10	3 (0.15%)	Mathematica
10	3 (0.15%)	S-PLUS
11	2 (0.10%)	InVision
12	1 (0.051%)	InfoPath
12	1 (0.051%)	Weka

Business Applications
1	202 (10.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	52 (2.67%)	Dynamics CRM
3	49 (2.51%)	Dynamics AX
4	28 (1.44%)	Oracle EBS
5	21 (1.08%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	15 (0.77%)	Cognos TM1
6	15 (0.77%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	15 (0.77%)	Oracle iRecruitment
7	11 (0.56%)	Dynamics NAV
8	9 (0.46%)	Siebel CRM
9	8 (0.41%)	Oracle Financials
9	8 (0.41%)	Payment Gateway
10	7 (0.36%)	NetSuite
10	7 (0.36%)	Oracle Applications
11	6 (0.31%)	Oracle Payroll
12	5 (0.26%)	Magento
12	5 (0.26%)	Oracle General Ledger
13	4 (0.21%)	Oracle 11i
13	4 (0.21%)	SAP ERP
13	4 (0.21%)	SystmOne

Cloud Services
1	203 (10.41%)	Microsoft Azure
2	100 (5.13%)	Amazon AWS
3	66 (3.38%)	Office 365
4	50 (2.56%)	PaaS
5	41 (2.10%)	IaaS
6	31 (1.59%)	Google Analytics
7	22 (1.13%)	SaaS
8	16 (0.82%)	Cloud Computing
9	15 (0.77%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	14 (0.72%)	Yammer
11	13 (0.67%)	Dynamics 365
12	12 (0.62%)	Oracle CX
13	11 (0.56%)	Azure Data Factory
13	11 (0.56%)	Oracle Service Cloud
14	9 (0.46%)	Adobe Analytics
15	8 (0.41%)	G Suite
16	7 (0.36%)	AdWords
16	7 (0.36%)	Data Lake Analytics
17	6 (0.31%)	OneDrive
18	5 (0.26%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	23 (1.18%)	SSL
2	20 (1.03%)	Firewall
3	13 (0.67%)	Internet
4	11 (0.56%)	IPsec
4	11 (0.56%)	LDAP
5	10 (0.51%)	Skype
6	9 (0.46%)	Intranet
7	7 (0.36%)	HTTP
7	7 (0.36%)	Kerberos
7	7 (0.36%)	LAN
7	7 (0.36%)	VPN
8	6 (0.31%)	SAN
8	6 (0.31%)	Wi-Fi
9	5 (0.26%)	TCP/IP
9	5 (0.26%)	WAN
10	4 (0.21%)	DNS
10	4 (0.21%)	SMTP
11	3 (0.15%)	FTP
11	3 (0.15%)	Wireless
12	2 (0.10%)	DHCP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	552 (28.31%)	Data Warehouse
2	464 (23.79%)	SQL Server
3	396 (20.31%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	350 (17.95%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	279 (14.31%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	264 (13.54%)	Power BI
7	180 (9.23%)	Big Data
8	139 (7.13%)	QlikView
9	131 (6.72%)	BusinessObjects
10	114 (5.85%)	Hadoop
11	100 (5.13%)	SQL Server 2012
12	87 (4.46%)	SQL Server 2008
13	83 (4.26%)	Relational Database
14	75 (3.85%)	NoSQL
15	63 (3.23%)	MySQL
16	61 (3.13%)	Oracle Database
17	57 (2.92%)	OLAP
18	56 (2.87%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
19	54 (2.77%)	MongoDB
20	52 (2.67%)	Azure SQL Database

Development Applications
1	92 (4.72%)	JIRA
2	80 (4.10%)	Team Foundation Server
3	71 (3.64%)	Git (software)
4	59 (3.03%)	Visual Studio
5	37 (1.90%)	Jenkins
6	28 (1.44%)	Talend Open Studio
7	25 (1.28%)	Maven
8	18 (0.92%)	IntelliJ
9	16 (0.82%)	Cucumber
10	11 (0.56%)	Oracle APEX
11	10 (0.51%)	LoadRunner
11	10 (0.51%)	Octopus Deploy
11	10 (0.51%)	Oracle Forms
11	10 (0.51%)	Rational Rhapsody
11	10 (0.51%)	Selenium
12	8 (0.41%)	Subversion
13	7 (0.36%)	Gradle
13	7 (0.36%)	Mockito
13	7 (0.36%)	TeamCity
14	6 (0.31%)	Jasmine

General
1	720 (36.92%)	Finance
2	304 (15.59%)	Marketing
3	235 (12.05%)	Telecoms
4	203 (10.41%)	Manufacturing
5	200 (10.26%)	Electronics
6	199 (10.21%)	Banking
7	121 (6.21%)	Retail
8	78 (4.00%)	Legal
9	63 (3.23%)	Investment Banking
10	47 (2.41%)	Advertising
11	45 (2.31%)	Front Office
12	33 (1.69%)	Law
13	26 (1.33%)	Financial Institution
13	26 (1.33%)	Games
14	22 (1.13%)	Back Office
15	21 (1.08%)	Publishing
16	13 (0.67%)	Pharmaceutical
17	11 (0.56%)	Billing
17	11 (0.56%)	General Ledger
17	11 (0.56%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	681 (34.92%)	Developer
2	375 (19.23%)	Analyst
3	254 (13.03%)	Business Intelligence Developer
4	194 (9.95%)	Architect
5	168 (8.62%)	Business Analyst
6	167 (8.56%)	Consultant
7	152 (7.79%)	SQL Developer
8	105 (5.38%)	Business Intelligence Analyst
9	91 (4.67%)	Data Analyst
10	88 (4.51%)	Business Developer
11	86 (4.41%)	SQL BI Developer
12	85 (4.36%)	Project Manager
13	83 (4.26%)	Data Architect
14	69 (3.54%)	SSIS Developer
15	65 (3.33%)	Business Intelligence Manager
16	56 (2.87%)	Business Intelligence Consultant
17	55 (2.82%)	Senior Developer
18	50 (2.56%)	DBA
19	49 (2.51%)	Microsoft Developer
19	49 (2.51%)	SSRS Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	138 (7.08%)	.NET
2	81 (4.15%)	HTML
3	72 (3.69%)	JSON
4	68 (3.49%)	Web Services
5	67 (3.44%)	MDX
6	56 (2.87%)	CSS
7	48 (2.46%)	XML
8	40 (2.05%)	AngularJS
9	39 (2.00%)	Spring
10	38 (1.95%)	REST
11	36 (1.85%)	RESTful
11	36 (1.85%)	WCF
12	34 (1.74%)	Middleware
13	32 (1.64%)	Node.js
14	31 (1.59%)	ASP.NET
14	31 (1.59%)	D3.js
15	26 (1.33%)	HTML5
15	26 (1.33%)	jQuery
16	25 (1.28%)	COM
17	22 (1.13%)	.NET Framework

Miscellaneous
1	244 (12.51%)	Analytical Skills
2	99 (5.08%)	NHS
3	86 (4.41%)	Computer Science
4	72 (3.69%)	Management Information System
5	51 (2.62%)	Data Structures
6	48 (2.46%)	Greenfield Project
7	39 (2.00%)	User Experience
8	37 (1.90%)	Credit Risk
9	29 (1.49%)	Algorithms
10	27 (1.38%)	Private Cloud
11	26 (1.33%)	Market Risk
12	22 (1.13%)	Fintech
12	22 (1.13%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
13	21 (1.08%)	Data Centre
14	19 (0.97%)	Social Media
15	18 (0.92%)	Fixed Income
15	18 (0.92%)	Virtual Team
16	17 (0.87%)	Clustering
17	12 (0.62%)	Mobile App
18	11 (0.56%)	Hedge funds

Operating Systems
1	121 (6.21%)	Windows
2	102 (5.23%)	Linux
3	59 (3.03%)	Unix
4	30 (1.54%)	Windows Server
5	19 (0.97%)	Android
6	16 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2008
7	12 (0.62%)	Windows Server 2012
8	11 (0.56%)	CentOS
9	10 (0.51%)	Apple iOS
10	9 (0.46%)	AIX
11	8 (0.41%)	Windows Server 2003
12	6 (0.31%)	Solaris
13	5 (0.26%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	4 (0.21%)	Ubuntu
15	3 (0.15%)	Mac OS X
15	3 (0.15%)	Windows 10
16	2 (0.10%)	Windows 8
16	2 (0.10%)	Windows Embedded Compact
16	2 (0.10%)	Windows Mobile
16	2 (0.10%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	490 (25.13%)	Agile Software Development
2	433 (22.21%)	Analytics
3	361 (18.51%)	ETL
4	292 (14.97%)	Data Modelling
5	212 (10.87%)	Programme Management
6	209 (10.72%)	Digital Marketing
7	195 (10.00%)	Visualisation
8	188 (9.64%)	Scrum
9	176 (9.03%)	Migration
10	175 (8.97%)	Data Analysis
11	135 (6.92%)	Stakeholder Management
12	131 (6.72%)	Data Visualisation
13	123 (6.31%)	TDD
14	119 (6.10%)	CRM
14	119 (6.10%)	Data Management
15	112 (5.74%)	Project Management
16	110 (5.64%)	Business Analysis
17	100 (5.13%)	E-Commerce
18	99 (5.08%)	Data Analytics
19	95 (4.87%)	DevOps

Programming Languages
1	811 (41.59%)	SQL
2	205 (10.51%)	Java
3	169 (8.67%)	Python
4	156 (8.00%)	C#
4	156 (8.00%)	T-SQL
5	136 (6.97%)	JavaScript
6	111 (5.69%)	R
7	70 (3.59%)	PL/SQL
8	54 (2.77%)	Scala
9	52 (2.67%)	VBA
10	44 (2.26%)	PowerShell
11	40 (2.05%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12	32 (1.64%)	PHP
13	31 (1.59%)	C++
14	26 (1.33%)	C
14	26 (1.33%)	Ruby
15	21 (1.08%)	Shell Script
16	20 (1.03%)	MATLAB
17	19 (0.97%)	Perl
18	16 (0.82%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	203 (10.41%)	Degree
2	169 (8.67%)	Security Cleared
3	143 (7.33%)	SC Cleared
4	39 (2.00%)	Computer Science Degree
5	22 (1.13%)	Microsoft Certification
6	19 (0.97%)	PMI Certification
7	17 (0.87%)	Master's Degree
8	13 (0.67%)	ISEB
9	12 (0.62%)	BPSS Clearance
10	10 (0.51%)	ISTQB
10	10 (0.51%)	MCITP
10	10 (0.51%)	Numerate Degree
10	10 (0.51%)	PhD
10	10 (0.51%)	PMP
11	8 (0.41%)	MCSE
11	8 (0.41%)	MCTS
11	8 (0.41%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	8 (0.41%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
12	7 (0.36%)	DV Cleared
12	7 (0.36%)	ITIL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	107 (5.49%)	Data Quality
2	68 (3.49%)	QA
3	14 (0.72%)	PMO
4	11 (0.56%)	MiFID
5	9 (0.46%)	HL7
6	8 (0.41%)	WCAG
7	7 (0.36%)	IFRS
7	7 (0.36%)	SLA
7	7 (0.36%)	Solvency II
8	6 (0.31%)	EMIR
9	3 (0.15%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	3 (0.15%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	2 (0.10%)	GDPR
10	2 (0.10%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	2 (0.10%)	IFRS 9
10	2 (0.10%)	ISO 9000
10	2 (0.10%)	ISO/IEC 27001
10	2 (0.10%)	PCI DSS
10	2 (0.10%)	RMADS
10	2 (0.10%)	SEPA

System Software
1	40 (2.05%)	Docker
2	33 (1.69%)	Active Directory
3	17 (0.87%)	Apache Flume
4	7 (0.36%)	Virtual Machines
5	6 (0.31%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	5 (0.26%)	HDFS
7	4 (0.21%)	VMware ESXi
8	3 (0.15%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	3 (0.15%)	Hyper-V
8	3 (0.15%)	XenDesktop
8	3 (0.15%)	XenServer
9	1 (0.051%)	BitLocker
9	1 (0.051%)	Cronacle
9	1 (0.051%)	VMware Workstation
9	1 (0.051%)	vSphere
9	1 (0.051%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	36 (1.85%)	Puppet
2	28 (1.44%)	Ansible
3	22 (1.13%)	Opscode Chef
4	21 (1.08%)	Kubernetes
5	12 (0.62%)	Kibana
6	10 (0.51%)	logstash
7	9 (0.46%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	8 (0.41%)	Control-M
8	8 (0.41%)	Terraform
9	7 (0.36%)	Oozie
10	6 (0.31%)	Grafana
10	6 (0.31%)	SCOM
11	5 (0.26%)	Failover Clustering
12	4 (0.21%)	HP Quality Center
12	4 (0.21%)	SCCM
13	3 (0.15%)	Galera Cluster
13	3 (0.15%)	Nagios
13	3 (0.15%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
13	3 (0.15%)	Salt
14	2 (0.10%)	Rancher

Vendors
1	454 (23.28%)	Microsoft
2	338 (17.33%)	SAP
3	255 (13.08%)	Oracle
4	220 (11.28%)	Tableau
5	67 (3.44%)	Cognos
6	57 (2.92%)	MicroStrategy
7	54 (2.77%)	Teradata
8	50 (2.56%)	Google
9	49 (2.51%)	Informatica
10	38 (1.95%)	IBM
11	28 (1.44%)	Netezza
11	28 (1.44%)	Talend
12	23 (1.18%)	Alteryx
12	23 (1.18%)	Sybase
13	21 (1.08%)	Adobe
13	21 (1.08%)	Salesforce.com
14	20 (1.03%)	Splunk
15	19 (0.97%)	Greenplum
16	16 (0.82%)	ServiceNow
17	15 (0.77%)	Hyperion