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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 32 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 178 241 222
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.58% 5.82% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 6.86% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 142
10th Percentile £222 £282 £205
25th Percentile £402 £388 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +10.81% -11.06%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 15
10th Percentile £19.76 £33.05 £21.02
25th Percentile £20.24 £41.25 £22.15
Median hourly rate £22.00 £58.38 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -62.31% +80.62% +67.90%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.20 - £59.33
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -26.15% +0.56% -1.31%

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 3,413 3,513 4,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.90% 84.83% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,154 2,146 3,199
10th Percentile £219 £257 £219
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £616
90th Percentile £656 £688 £695
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 172 250
10th Percentile £13.88 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.56 £24.63
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.52 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +9.56% +31.83%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £66.39
90th Percentile £68.13 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 -9 103 £540 +6.93% 396
Berkshire -4 72 £599 +14.05% 322
Hampshire -13 50 £600 -4.00% 62
Buckinghamshire +7 22 £475 +8.57% 45
Surrey -8 17 £413 -10.81% 23
West Sussex - 16 £213 - 15
Oxfordshire -12 9 £225 -35.71% 31
Home Counties - 2 £550 -
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 29 (16.29%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (5.62%) Office Communications Server
3 10 (5.62%) SharePoint Server
3 10 (5.62%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 38 (21.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (3.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.69%) Primavera
5 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.12%) SAP MDG
5 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.56%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 88 (49.44%) Power Platform
2 36 (20.22%) Azure
3 15 (8.43%) AWS
3 15 (8.43%) GCP
3 15 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (8.43%) OCI
4 12 (6.74%) PowerApps
5 9 (5.06%) SaaS
6 8 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.81%) dbt
8 5 (2.81%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) VPN
2 10 (5.62%) DDNS
2 10 (5.62%) DHCP
2 10 (5.62%) DNS
2 10 (5.62%) SAN
3 2 (1.12%) 2G
3 2 (1.12%) 5G
3 2 (1.12%) LTE
3 2 (1.12%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.12%) VoIP
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) Junos
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (49.44%) Power BI
2 27 (15.17%) Tableau
3 26 (14.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 19 (10.67%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.62%) Oracle BI EE
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.49%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 5 (2.81%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.69%) MySQL
11 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.25%) Git
2 4 (2.25%) JIRA
3 3 (1.69%) JUnit
3 3 (1.69%) Storybook
4 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.46%) Finance
3 43 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 27 (15.17%) Telecoms
5 22 (12.36%) Manufacturing
5 22 (12.36%) Marketing
6 21 (11.80%) Electronics
7 9 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Banking
8 6 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.81%) Local Government
10 4 (2.25%) Legal
10 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.12%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Analyst
2 27 (15.17%) Developer
3 24 (13.48%) Data Analyst
4 17 (9.55%) Oracle Developer
5 14 (7.87%) Lead
6 13 (7.30%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Administrator
7 12 (6.74%) Architect
8 11 (6.18%) Report Developer
8 11 (6.18%) Senior
9 10 (5.62%) Exchange Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Exchange Support
10 9 (5.06%) Consultant
10 9 (5.06%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Project Manager
11 8 (4.49%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 7 (3.93%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.37%) IFS Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.69%) ADO
2 3 (1.69%) CSS
2 3 (1.69%) HTML
2 3 (1.69%) Kafka
2 3 (1.69%) React
2 3 (1.69%) RESTful
2 3 (1.69%) Spring
2 3 (1.69%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.69%) Vitest
2 3 (1.69%) Web Services
3 2 (1.12%) BAPI
3 2 (1.12%) IDoc
3 2 (1.12%) Pandas
3 2 (1.12%) Plotly
3 2 (1.12%) PySpark
3 2 (1.12%) REST
3 2 (1.12%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.56%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.62%) Replication
3 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.25%) NHS
5 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.12%) CMDB
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 2 (1.12%) Life Science
6 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.56%) AS400
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) PMI
7 1 (0.56%) SCADA
7 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.43%) Windows
2 10 (5.62%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (2.25%) Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.97%) Data Modelling
2 38 (21.35%) Analytics
2 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (20.79%) Visualisation
4 33 (18.54%) Agile
5 31 (17.42%) Decision-Making
6 27 (15.17%) Actionable Insight
7 26 (14.61%) Data Analysis
7 26 (14.61%) Data Visualisation
8 25 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (13.48%) Migration
9 24 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (12.92%) Validation
11 20 (11.24%) ERP
12 19 (10.67%) ITIL
12 19 (10.67%) Programme Management
13 18 (10.11%) Digital Marketing
13 18 (10.11%) Project Management
14 17 (9.55%) CRM
14 17 (9.55%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.64%) SQL
2 31 (17.42%) Python
3 12 (6.74%) R
4 7 (3.93%) Java
5 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.25%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.69%) Scala
7 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.67%) Degree
4 12 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) CCAB
8 3 (1.69%) ACCA
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.69%) CIMA
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.56%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.56%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.06%) GDPR
3 7 (3.93%) COBIT
3 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.93%) NIST
4 6 (3.37%) QA
5 3 (1.69%) PMO
5 3 (1.69%) SLA
6 2 (1.12%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.62%) Brightmail
2 10 (5.62%) ISA Server
3 3 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (29.78%) Oracle
2 38 (21.35%) Microsoft
3 33 (18.54%) SAP
4 14 (7.87%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.06%) IFS
6 6 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.69%) Adobe
7 3 (1.69%) Google
8 2 (1.12%) Cognos
8 2 (1.12%) Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) Foundry
8 2 (1.12%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.12%) Palantir
9 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.56%) Arqiva
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco
9 1 (0.56%) Juniper
9 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.56%) RedGate