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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 47 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 266 153 228
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.05% 4.31% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 4.83% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 106 136
10th Percentile £287 £222 £241
25th Percentile £381 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +9.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £625 £650 £731
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile £29.66 - £31.00
25th Percentile £35.07 - £45.11
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £60.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -47.25% +120.95%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £64.73
90th Percentile £87.43 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £31.55
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.44% -2.40%

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 5,301 3,165 3,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.71% 89.10% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,128 1,975 2,184
10th Percentile £279 £215 £255
25th Percentile £420 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.49%
75th Percentile £617 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 650 316 211
10th Percentile £13.44 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.34 £16.10 £30.21
Median hourly rate £47.77 £22.35 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +113.78% -61.72% +7.37%
75th Percentile £69.69 £49.06 £70.84
90th Percentile £87.84 £69.20 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -19 108 £495 -7.56% 208
Berkshire -26 60 £563 -5.86% 124
Hampshire -21 53 £525 -4.55% 59
West Sussex +7 47 £380 +117.14% 19
Buckinghamshire +4 38 £475 +2.70% 58
Surrey 0 34 £500 +25.00% 78
Oxfordshire -26 10 £375 +66.67% 27
Middlesex - 7 - - 3
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 17
Kent - 4 £550 - 16
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 13 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.51%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.13%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (19.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (2.63%) iTrent
3 3 (1.13%) Maximo
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.75%) Primavera
4 2 (0.75%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.75%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (77.44%) Power Platform
2 63 (23.68%) Azure
3 21 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.77%) Power Automate
5 16 (6.02%) AWS
6 13 (4.89%) Serverless
7 11 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (4.14%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.38%) dbt
10 8 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.01%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.63%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.63%) GCP
11 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.63%) SaaS
11 7 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.26%) Smartsheet
13 5 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.63%) Broadband
2 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.38%) Mobile Backhaul
3 1 (0.38%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (76.32%) Power BI
2 25 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (9.40%) Tableau
3 14 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 14 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (4.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 12 (4.51%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.01%) Power Query
6 7 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (2.63%) Metadata
7 6 (2.26%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.26%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.50%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.50%) GIS
8 4 (1.50%) MySQL
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle ODI
8 4 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.89%) JIRA
2 9 (3.38%) Git
3 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.50%) JUnit
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) JMeter
5 1 (0.38%) RStudio
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.38%) TestRail
5 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 92 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (20.30%) Finance
4 19 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.39%) Retail
6 14 (5.26%) Aerospace
7 12 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.76%) Marketing
9 7 (2.63%) Legal
10 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.88%) Banking
12 4 (1.50%) Publishing
12 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.13%) Aviation
13 3 (1.13%) Billing
13 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.75%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (25.19%) Analyst
2 40 (15.04%) Data Analyst
3 36 (13.53%) Senior
4 33 (12.41%) Developer
5 18 (6.77%) Architect
5 18 (6.77%) Lead
6 17 (6.39%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.64%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.26%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 13 (4.89%) Consultant
10 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.01%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.63%) HR Data Analyst
13 6 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
13 6 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.64%) REST
2 10 (3.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.63%) Middleware
4 6 (2.26%) EDI
5 5 (1.88%) .NET
5 5 (1.88%) SOAP
5 5 (1.88%) Terraform
6 4 (1.50%) CSS
6 4 (1.50%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.50%) HTML
6 4 (1.50%) JPA
6 4 (1.50%) jQuery
6 4 (1.50%) Spring
6 4 (1.50%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.50%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.13%) JSON
7 3 (1.13%) PySpark
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.75%) React
8 2 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.64%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.01%) Clustering
5 8 (3.01%) PKI
6 7 (2.63%) Social Media
7 5 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.88%) FMCG
8 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.13%) PMI
9 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.75%) Digital TV
10 2 (0.75%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.38%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Windows
2 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.50%) Unix
4 3 (1.13%) Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.95%) Analytics
2 77 (28.95%) Data Modelling
3 69 (25.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (25.19%) Decision-Making
5 57 (21.43%) Agile
6 44 (16.54%) ETL
7 43 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 41 (15.41%) Visualisation
10 36 (13.53%) AI
11 34 (12.78%) Actionable Insight
11 34 (12.78%) Data Analysis
11 34 (12.78%) Data Governance
12 31 (11.65%) Dashboard Development
12 31 (11.65%) DevOps
13 30 (11.28%) CI/CD
13 30 (11.28%) Migration
13 30 (11.28%) Validation
14 28 (10.53%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.74%) SQL
2 28 (10.53%) Python
3 20 (7.52%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (4.51%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.14%) PL/SQL
6 11 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.26%) Java
8 5 (1.88%) C#
9 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) X++
11 2 (0.75%) C
11 2 (0.75%) R
11 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.75%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) JCL
12 1 (0.38%) LookML
Qualifications
1 70 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.27%) Degree
4 17 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.26%) PMP
8 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.50%) ACCA
9 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.13%) CIMA
10 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.75%) CAPM
11 2 (0.75%) CISSP
11 2 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.38%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.39%) QA
3 15 (5.64%) PMO
4 12 (4.51%) GDPR
5 6 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.13%) GMP
6 3 (1.13%) IFRS
6 3 (1.13%) SLA
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.13%) Grafana
3 2 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 97 (36.47%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.54%) SAP
3 43 (16.17%) Oracle
4 26 (9.77%) Databricks
5 16 (6.02%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.01%) BMC
6 8 (3.01%) Google
6 8 (3.01%) Remedy
6 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.01%) Workday
7 6 (2.26%) Baan
7 6 (2.26%) IFS
8 5 (1.88%) Informatica
9 4 (1.50%) Ariba
9 4 (1.50%) IBM
10 3 (1.13%) ESRI
10 3 (1.13%) Teradata
11 2 (0.75%) Adobe
11 2 (0.75%) Splunk
12 1 (0.38%) Alteryx