Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the South East

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 251 201 199
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.76% 6.77% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 7.38% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 145 127
10th Percentile £311 £270 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +18.82% -14.14%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 11
10th Percentile £12.29 £21.22 £22.61
25th Percentile £19.97 £25.75 £37.48
Median hourly rate £36.71 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% -32.54% +44.83%
75th Percentile £59.75 £43.75 £82.23
90th Percentile £82.55 £56.34 £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £24.22
% change year-on-year -13.36% +13.57% -6.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,362 2,725 4,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.77% 91.84% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 1,733 2,919
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £406 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £612
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 146 386
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.41 £20.89 £18.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.62% +0.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 £62.35
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the South East

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Thames Valley -11 136 £505 -12.17% 62
Berkshire -18 84 £550 -12.87% 34
Hampshire +4 74 £475 -18.28% 33
Buckinghamshire +8 41 £425 -15.84% 21
Surrey -22 18 £550 +33.33% 16
West Sussex -11 17 £450 +16.88% 6
Oxfordshire -6 11 £500 +17.65% 8
Kent -13 3 - - 22
East Sussex +3 2 £375 - 4
Home Counties - 2 - -
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (13.94%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.19%) Confluence
3 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.80%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (23.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (8.76%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.40%) InDesign
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.59%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.20%) Eloqua
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.80%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 153 (60.96%) Power Platform
2 57 (22.71%) Azure
3 40 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (9.16%) PowerApps
5 19 (7.57%) Power Automate
6 17 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (5.98%) SaaS
8 14 (5.58%) AWS
8 14 (5.58%) GCP
8 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (4.78%) OCI
10 11 (4.38%) Copilot Studio
10 11 (4.38%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.19%) GitHub
11 8 (3.19%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.99%) Serverless
12 5 (1.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) Firewall
1 4 (1.59%) VPN
2 3 (1.20%) BGP
2 3 (1.20%) Intranet
2 3 (1.20%) Junos
2 3 (1.20%) OSPF
3 2 (0.80%) 2G
3 2 (0.80%) 5G
3 2 (0.80%) LTE
3 2 (0.80%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.80%) VoIP
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (60.96%) Power BI
2 41 (16.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 35 (13.94%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (7.97%) Tableau
6 15 (5.98%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.59%) Big Data
8 9 (3.59%) Metadata
8 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.79%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 7 (2.79%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.99%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.99%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.99%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.20%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 32 (12.75%) JIRA
2 9 (3.59%) Git
3 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.20%) JUnit
3 3 (1.20%) Storybook
4 1 (0.40%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.40%) Toad
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 81 (32.27%) Finance
3 66 (26.29%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.94%) Public Sector
5 26 (10.36%) Marketing
6 21 (8.37%) Telecoms
7 19 (7.57%) Manufacturing
8 18 (7.17%) Electronics
9 17 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (5.98%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (5.98%) Retail
12 4 (1.59%) Advertising
12 4 (1.59%) Banking
13 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.80%) Military
14 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (26.69%) Analyst
2 40 (15.94%) Developer
3 36 (14.34%) Data Analyst
4 25 (9.96%) Oracle Developer
5 23 (9.16%) Architect
6 22 (8.76%) PMO Analyst
7 20 (7.97%) Consultant
8 19 (7.57%) Senior
9 15 (5.98%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.98%) Lead
9 15 (5.98%) Report Developer
10 11 (4.38%) Platform Architect
10 11 (4.38%) Power Platform Architect
11 9 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (3.59%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.19%) Oracle Consultant
13 7 (2.79%) Integration Manager
14 6 (2.39%) Functional Consultant
14 6 (2.39%) Resource Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (4.38%) REST
3 5 (1.99%) ADO
4 4 (1.59%) Web Services
5 3 (1.20%) CSS
5 3 (1.20%) HTML
5 3 (1.20%) PySpark
5 3 (1.20%) React
5 3 (1.20%) RESTful
5 3 (1.20%) SOAP
5 3 (1.20%) Spring
5 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.20%) Vitest
5 3 (1.20%) XML
6 2 (0.80%) IDoc
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (0.80%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.80%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.80%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.38%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.19%) NHS
3 7 (2.79%) CMDB
3 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.59%) PKI
6 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.80%) Clustering
7 2 (0.80%) IoT
7 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.80%) Wiki
8 1 (0.40%) AS400
8 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Replication
8 1 (0.40%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Windows
2 6 (2.39%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (21.12%) Data Modelling
3 52 (20.72%) Agile
4 48 (19.12%) Data Analysis
5 47 (18.73%) Analytics
6 45 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (13.55%) Visualisation
8 33 (13.15%) Decision-Making
9 31 (12.35%) Data Governance
9 31 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (11.95%) DevOps
11 28 (11.16%) Migration
12 26 (10.36%) ETL
12 26 (10.36%) Waterfall
13 23 (9.16%) Data Visualisation
14 19 (7.57%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
15 18 (7.17%) Digital Marketing
15 18 (7.17%) Programme Management
16 17 (6.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (26.69%) SQL
2 19 (7.57%) Python
3 17 (6.77%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.19%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.19%) R
5 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.39%) C#
7 5 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.59%) Java
9 3 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.20%) VBA
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (21.12%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.16%) Degree
4 8 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.20%) JNCIA
7 3 (1.20%) JNCIP
7 3 (1.20%) JNCIS
7 3 (1.20%) PMP
7 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.96%) PMO
3 12 (4.78%) GDPR
4 10 (3.98%) QA
5 7 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.39%) SLA
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) COBIT
7 2 (0.80%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.20%) SCCM
3 2 (0.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (21.91%) Oracle
3 35 (13.94%) SAP
4 12 (4.78%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.38%) Databricks
6 10 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.39%) Adobe
8 5 (1.99%) IFS
9 4 (1.59%) BMC
9 4 (1.59%) Foundry
9 4 (1.59%) Palantir
9 4 (1.59%) Remedy
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Juniper
10 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.80%) Cognos
11 2 (0.80%) Informatica
11 2 (0.80%) Talend