Business Intelligence Contracts in Scotland

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 -45
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 63 86 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.88% 3.88% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 4.38% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 62 56
10th Percentile £263 £263 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -0.78% -3.75%
75th Percentile £510 £588 £550
90th Percentile £575 £663 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £15.60 £21.98 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £22.49 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.26 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - -
75th Percentile £26.69 £39.46 -
90th Percentile £28.07 £48.03 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £24.13 £25.25
% change year-on-year +13.98% -4.45% -19.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +7 37 £500 -13.04% 32
Glasgow -15 21 £415 -4.05% 23
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 7
Highlands - 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £550 - 1
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.35%) Confluence
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 44 (69.84%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.46%) Azure
2 11 (17.46%) Power Automate
3 8 (12.70%) OCI
3 8 (12.70%) PowerApps
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle CX
6 2 (3.17%) AWS
6 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (69.84%) Power BI
2 8 (12.70%) Tableau
3 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.76%) OLAP
7 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.59%) Big Data
8 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) RStudio
2 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (41.27%) Finance
2 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 18 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (19.05%) Banking
6 6 (9.52%) Marketing
7 5 (7.94%) Electronics
7 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
7 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Front Office
10 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Retail
10 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Analyst
2 9 (14.29%) Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Administrator
7 3 (4.76%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) ETL Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Insight Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Performance Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Power Apps Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Re-Platforming Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) SharePoint Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.59%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.59%) Pandas
3 1 (1.59%) PySpark
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.17%) iPhone
3 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.59%) NHS
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Agile
2 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (23.81%) CRM
4 14 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 13 (20.63%) Data Analysis
5 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
6 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 11 (17.46%) Analytics
7 11 (17.46%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (14.29%) ETL
9 8 (12.70%) ERP
9 8 (12.70%) Migration
10 6 (9.52%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (9.52%) Data Transformation
11 5 (7.94%) Business Analytics
11 5 (7.94%) DevOps
11 5 (7.94%) Digital Marketing
11 5 (7.94%) Programme Management
11 5 (7.94%) Project Management
11 5 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) SQL
2 8 (12.70%) Python
3 5 (7.94%) C#
3 5 (7.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) CISM
2 3 (4.76%) CISSP
3 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.94%) QA
4 3 (4.76%) PMO
5 2 (3.17%) GDPR
5 2 (3.17%) P3O
6 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Databricks
5 3 (4.76%) Qualys
6 1 (1.59%) Dell
6 1 (1.59%) HP
6 1 (1.59%) IDERA
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow