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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 264 203 203
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.83% 6.86% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 7.48% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 145 131
10th Percentile £307 £280 £203
25th Percentile £400 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 11
10th Percentile £12.66 £21.98 £22.61
25th Percentile £20.50 £27.50 £37.48
Median hourly rate £36.71 £38.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -38.89% +58.49%
75th Percentile £39.41 £43.75 £82.23
90th Percentile £82.05 £54.24 £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -7.46%

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 4,518 2,714 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.60% 91.69% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,951 1,747 2,868
10th Percentile £281 £254 £213
25th Percentile £410 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +2.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 158 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.85 £18.20
Median hourly rate £37.16 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80.80 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.83
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -9 137 £505 -8.18% 65
Berkshire -14 87 £540 -13.60% 36
Hampshire +2 82 £500 -14.89% 34
Buckinghamshire +4 38 £425 -18.66% 19
Surrey -28 19 £550 +33.33% 14
West Sussex -5 18 £450 +16.88% 7
Oxfordshire -4 12 £500 +17.65% 11
Kent -9 5 - - 26
East Sussex -1 2 £375 - 3
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 30 (11.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.14%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.38%) InDesign
6 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.52%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.14%) Eloqua
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.76%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) iTrent
6 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 160 (60.61%) Power Platform
2 56 (21.21%) Azure
3 35 (13.26%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.20%) PowerApps
5 18 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.82%) Power Automate
6 15 (5.68%) AWS
7 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Copilot
7 14 (5.30%) SaaS
8 13 (4.92%) GCP
9 12 (4.55%) OCI
10 11 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (3.03%) GitHub
12 7 (2.65%) Serverless
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.27%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.89%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Firewall
1 4 (1.52%) VPN
2 3 (1.14%) BGP
2 3 (1.14%) Intranet
2 3 (1.14%) Junos
2 3 (1.14%) OSPF
3 2 (0.76%) 2G
3 2 (0.76%) 5G
3 2 (0.76%) LTE
3 2 (0.76%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.76%) VoIP
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (60.61%) Power BI
2 43 (16.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 37 (14.02%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.95%) Tableau
6 17 (6.44%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.41%) Big Data
8 9 (3.41%) Metadata
8 9 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 7 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.89%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.89%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.14%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) JIRA
2 9 (3.41%) Git
3 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) JUnit
3 3 (1.14%) Storybook
4 1 (0.38%) Hudson
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.38%) Postman
4 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.38%) Toad
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 86 (32.58%) Finance
3 70 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.88%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.23%) Marketing
6 22 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 19 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (7.20%) Manufacturing
8 18 (6.82%) Electronics
9 17 (6.44%) Retail
10 16 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Advertising
12 4 (1.52%) Banking
13 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.14%) Military
13 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.38%) Legal
15 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (26.14%) Analyst
2 44 (16.67%) Developer
3 37 (14.02%) Data Analyst
4 27 (10.23%) Oracle Developer
5 23 (8.71%) Architect
6 22 (8.33%) PMO Analyst
7 21 (7.95%) Consultant
8 20 (7.58%) Senior
9 17 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.44%) Report Developer
10 16 (6.06%) Lead
11 11 (4.17%) Platform Architect
11 11 (4.17%) Power Platform Architect
12 10 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (3.41%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.41%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
15 7 (2.65%) Integration Manager
16 6 (2.27%) Functional Consultant
16 6 (2.27%) Resource Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (4.55%) REST
3 5 (1.89%) ADO
4 4 (1.52%) Web Services
5 3 (1.14%) CSS
5 3 (1.14%) HTML
5 3 (1.14%) React
5 3 (1.14%) RESTful
5 3 (1.14%) SOAP
5 3 (1.14%) Spring
5 3 (1.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.14%) Vitest
5 3 (1.14%) XML
6 2 (0.76%) IDoc
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (0.76%) PySpark
6 2 (0.76%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.76%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.76%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.79%) CMDB
3 8 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.03%) NHS
4 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.89%) PKI
7 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.14%) Clustering
8 3 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.76%) FMCG
9 2 (0.76%) IoT
9 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) Wiki
10 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.79%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (21.21%) Data Modelling
3 53 (20.08%) Agile
3 53 (20.08%) Data Analysis
4 51 (19.32%) Analytics
5 48 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (14.02%) Decision-Making
7 35 (13.26%) Visualisation
8 33 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (11.74%) Data Governance
9 31 (11.74%) DevOps
10 30 (11.36%) Migration
11 26 (9.85%) ETL
11 26 (9.85%) Waterfall
12 25 (9.47%) Data Visualisation
13 22 (8.33%) ERP
13 22 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (7.58%) Workshop Facilitation
15 19 (7.20%) Process Improvement
15 19 (7.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (28.79%) SQL
2 20 (7.58%) Python
3 13 (4.92%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.79%) PL/SQL
5 9 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.03%) R
7 7 (2.65%) C#
7 7 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.52%) Java
9 3 (1.14%) Bicep
9 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.14%) VBA
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 50 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.71%) Degree
4 8 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.14%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.14%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.14%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.14%) PMP
6 3 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.76%) ACCA
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CIMA
8 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.47%) PMO
3 14 (5.30%) GDPR
4 11 (4.17%) QA
5 10 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.27%) SLA
7 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) COBIT
7 2 (0.76%) NIST
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS
System Software
1 11 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.14%) SCCM
2 2 (0.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (21.97%) Microsoft
1 58 (21.97%) Oracle
2 37 (14.02%) SAP
3 12 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.17%) Databricks
4 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.65%) IFS
6 6 (2.27%) Adobe
7 5 (1.89%) BMC
7 5 (1.89%) Remedy
8 4 (1.52%) Foundry
8 4 (1.52%) Palantir
9 3 (1.14%) Cisco
9 3 (1.14%) Juniper
9 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.76%) Cognos
10 2 (0.76%) Google
10 2 (0.76%) Informatica