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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 295 183 211
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.75% 5.99% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 6.56% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 125 120
10th Percentile £269 £288 £205
25th Percentile £380 £402 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £520
90th Percentile £618 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 8
10th Percentile £14.51 £22.36 £22.05
25th Percentile £30.94 £28.59 £22.61
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.05 £43.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% -26.26% +18.82%
75th Percentile £80.07 £33.10 £81.11
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.99 £84.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

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 5,044 2,789 4,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.30% 91.26% 82.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,199 1,742 2,733
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £665 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 219 469
10th Percentile £15.11 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £15.06 £18.20
Median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year +127.08% -49.77% -8.29%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.09
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -24 118 £500 -16.67% 48
Hampshire +7 82 £475 -20.83% 25
Berkshire -25 81 £505 -15.83% 21
West Sussex +5 47 £380 -5.00% 12
Surrey -20 27 £500 +30.29% 11
Buckinghamshire -20 24 £425 -2.86% 12
Oxfordshire -18 13 £500 +60.00% 15
Kent +5 7 £400 +95.12% 9
East Sussex 0 6 £538 +43.33% 1
Home Counties 0 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 21 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 59 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.44%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.34%) InDesign
6 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.71%) iTrent
3 7 (2.37%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.69%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (1.36%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (1.02%) Eloqua
7 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.68%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.68%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.68%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 217 (73.56%) Power Platform
2 65 (22.03%) Azure
3 26 (8.81%) Power Automate
4 25 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (6.78%) PowerApps
6 16 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.08%) AWS
8 14 (4.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (4.75%) Serverless
9 11 (3.73%) Copilot Studio
10 9 (3.05%) GCP
11 8 (2.71%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.71%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.37%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.37%) dbt
12 7 (2.37%) GitHub
12 7 (2.37%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) Intranet
2 1 (0.34%) DHCP
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
2 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (73.56%) Power BI
2 28 (9.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 26 (8.81%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (7.46%) Tableau
6 16 (5.42%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.71%) Metadata
7 8 (2.71%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.03%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.36%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.36%) MySQL
11 4 (1.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (10.51%) JIRA
2 9 (3.05%) Git
3 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.36%) JUnit
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.68%) Postman
4 2 (0.68%) Toad
5 1 (0.34%) ERwin
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Hudson
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 76 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 75 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (21.36%) Finance
4 25 (8.47%) Retail
5 19 (6.44%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.08%) Marketing
8 8 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.69%) Banking
9 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Military
10 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.02%) Advertising
11 3 (1.02%) Legal
12 2 (0.68%) Billing
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (27.12%) Analyst
2 45 (15.25%) Data Analyst
3 37 (12.54%) Developer
4 33 (11.19%) Architect
5 30 (10.17%) Senior
6 21 (7.12%) Lead
7 20 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 17 (5.76%) Oracle Developer
8 17 (5.76%) PMO Analyst
9 16 (5.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 15 (5.08%) Consultant
11 13 (4.41%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.73%) Microsoft Engineer
12 11 (3.73%) Platform Architect
12 11 (3.73%) Power Platform Architect
12 11 (3.73%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.73%) Report Developer
13 10 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.05%) E-Commerce Specialist
15 8 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.42%) REST
2 15 (5.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.03%) SOAP
4 5 (1.69%) EDI
4 5 (1.69%) JSON
4 5 (1.69%) Middleware
5 4 (1.36%) CSS
5 4 (1.36%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.36%) HTML
5 4 (1.36%) JPA
5 4 (1.36%) jQuery
5 4 (1.36%) Spring
5 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.36%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.36%) XML
6 3 (1.02%) .NET
6 3 (1.02%) ADO
6 3 (1.02%) PySpark
7 2 (0.68%) RESTful
7 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.41%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.39%) PKI
3 9 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.71%) Clustering
4 8 (2.71%) CMDB
5 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.03%) FMCG
6 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.02%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.68%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) Wiki
9 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.34%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.07%) Windows
2 10 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (23.39%) Data Modelling
2 67 (22.71%) Agile
3 63 (21.36%) Analytics
4 56 (18.98%) Decision-Making
5 50 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (15.25%) Data Analysis
8 40 (13.56%) Visualisation
9 38 (12.88%) ETL
9 38 (12.88%) Migration
10 37 (12.54%) DevOps
10 37 (12.54%) ERP
11 33 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (11.19%) Validation
12 30 (10.17%) Data Visualisation
13 29 (9.83%) Dashboard Development
13 29 (9.83%) Process Improvement
14 28 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (9.49%) Data Governance
15 27 (9.15%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 111 (37.63%) SQL
2 18 (6.10%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.10%) Python
3 17 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (5.08%) T-SQL
5 14 (4.75%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.05%) C#
7 6 (2.03%) Java
8 5 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.36%) VBA
10 3 (1.02%) Bicep
10 3 (1.02%) R
10 3 (1.02%) X++
Qualifications
1 63 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.44%) Degree
4 12 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.03%) PMP
6 5 (1.69%) ACCA
7 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.02%) CIMA
8 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.59%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.80%) PMO
3 22 (7.46%) GDPR
4 17 (5.76%) QA
5 11 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.36%) IFRS
6 4 (1.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) COBIT
7 2 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 15 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.36%) Terraform
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.02%) SCCM
3 2 (0.68%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 55 (18.64%) Oracle
3 36 (12.20%) SAP
4 13 (4.41%) Databricks
4 13 (4.41%) IFS
5 11 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.39%) BMC
6 10 (3.39%) Remedy
7 9 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.71%) Workday
9 7 (2.37%) Adobe
10 6 (2.03%) Google
11 5 (1.69%) Baan
12 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.68%) Concur
13 2 (0.68%) Foundry
13 2 (0.68%) NEC
13 2 (0.68%) Palantir