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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 35 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 150 229 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.30% 4.97% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 6.02% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 138 140
10th Percentile £222 £235 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -11.06%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £575
90th Percentile £650 £738 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile - £31.53 £19.26
25th Percentile - £47.70 £21.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £60.76 £29.91
Median % change year-on-year -47.25% +103.15% +56.39%
75th Percentile - £64.73 £49.69
90th Percentile - - £61.15
England median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £33.66
% change year-on-year +6.83% -10.87% +34.69%

All Process and 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 3,112 3,806 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.17% 82.60% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 2,269 3,336
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £378 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 251 255
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.83 £23.79
Median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence 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 19 September 2025.

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
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 19 September 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
Thames Valley -8 80 £536 +9.39% 139
Berkshire -1 66 £599 +17.40% 97
Hampshire -1 51 £563 -13.46% 42
Surrey -7 14 £400 -12.33% 25
West Sussex +7 11 £175 -74.07% 17
Oxfordshire -7 9 £225 -40.00% 16
Buckinghamshire -6 5 £356 -10.94% 30
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 27 (18.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (8.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (8.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (8.67%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.67%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (8.67%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (8.67%) Skype for Business
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.33%) CMS
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (22.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (10.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (2.00%) Primavera
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 82 (54.67%) Power Platform
2 31 (20.67%) Azure
3 12 (8.00%) AWS
3 12 (8.00%) OCI
4 8 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.67%) GCP
5 7 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.33%) SaaS
8 4 (2.67%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (2.67%) dbt
8 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.00%) Azure Table
9 3 (2.00%) Contentsquare
9 3 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.33%) DNS
2 13 (8.67%) DDNS
2 13 (8.67%) DHCP
2 13 (8.67%) SAN
2 13 (8.67%) VPN
3 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (54.67%) Power BI
2 27 (18.00%) Tableau
3 18 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 9 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (4.67%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.33%) Metadata
10 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) ERwin
2 2 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 59 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.33%) Finance
3 33 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.67%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.67%) Manufacturing
7 12 (8.00%) Marketing
8 11 (7.33%) Electronics
9 5 (3.33%) Local Government
10 4 (2.67%) Legal
10 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.00%) Banking
11 3 (2.00%) Retail
12 2 (1.33%) Billing
12 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) French Language
13 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 41 (27.33%) Analyst
2 20 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 15 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.67%) Developer
4 13 (8.67%) Exchange Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Exchange Support
5 12 (8.00%) Architect
6 9 (6.00%) Administrator
6 9 (6.00%) Lead
6 9 (6.00%) Senior
7 8 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 8 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (5.33%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.67%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) IFS Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.33%) ADO
3 4 (2.67%) .NET
4 3 (2.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.00%) Kafka
5 2 (1.33%) MDX
6 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.67%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.67%) ODBC
6 1 (0.67%) Pandas
6 1 (0.67%) Plotly
6 1 (0.67%) PySpark
6 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.67%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.67%) Replication
2 7 (4.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.67%) Life Science
3 4 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.33%) IoT
5 2 (1.33%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) LIMS
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) PMI
6 1 (0.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.00%) Windows
2 13 (8.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.67%) Analytics
2 36 (24.00%) Data Modelling
3 32 (21.33%) Actionable Insight
4 27 (18.00%) Visualisation
5 26 (17.33%) Agile
6 25 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 25 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (14.67%) ERP
9 21 (14.00%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (14.00%) ITIL
10 20 (13.33%) Data Analysis
10 20 (13.33%) Validation
11 18 (12.00%) Migration
12 15 (10.00%) Content Management
12 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (9.33%) CRM
13 14 (9.33%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (9.33%) Project Delivery
14 13 (8.67%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.67%) SQL
2 25 (16.67%) Python
3 7 (4.67%) R
4 4 (2.67%) Java
5 3 (2.00%) Bash
5 3 (2.00%) Bicep
5 3 (2.00%) C#
5 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.00%) Scala
6 2 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.33%) Degree
3 12 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) CCAB
6 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.00%) ACCA
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.00%) CIMA
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.33%) GDPR
3 7 (4.67%) COBIT
3 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.67%) NIST
4 6 (4.00%) QA
5 5 (3.33%) PMO
6 2 (1.33%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (8.67%) Active Directory
1 13 (8.67%) Brightmail
1 13 (8.67%) ISA Server
2 3 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.00%) Grafana
3 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (26.00%) Oracle
2 38 (25.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.33%) SAP
4 10 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.00%) IFS
6 7 (4.67%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.33%) Adobe
8 4 (2.67%) Cognos
9 3 (2.00%) Google
10 2 (1.33%) Databricks
10 2 (1.33%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.33%) Sparx
10 2 (1.33%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.33%) Workday
11 1 (0.67%) Foundry
11 1 (0.67%) Palantir
11 1 (0.67%) TikTok