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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 274 151 229
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.14% 4.34% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 4.86% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 105 138
10th Percentile £272 £222 £238
25th Percentile £382 £375 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £647
90th Percentile £625 £665 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £30.38 - £31.53
25th Percentile £34.01 - £47.70
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £60.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -47.25% +115.78%
75th Percentile £82.25 £34.15 £64.73
90th Percentile £85.25 £35.41 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.40% +5.79% -10.00%

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 5,333 3,105 3,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.56% 89.17% 82.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 1,936 2,272
10th Percentile £281 £220 £255
25th Percentile £425 £379 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 621 305 254
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.35 £16.08
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.50 £31.44
Median hourly rate £52.43 £21.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +146.71% -62.95% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £87.16 £69.65 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -19 111 £490 -8.58% 208
Berkshire -26 64 £550 -8.33% 128
Hampshire -26 61 £525 -6.67% 59
West Sussex +5 46 £380 +117.14% 25
Buckinghamshire 0 37 £475 +33.33% 48
Surrey +3 31 £500 +25.00% 76
Oxfordshire -22 10 £388 +72.22% 32
Middlesex - 7 - - 14
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 25
Kent - 6 £550 - 12
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 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.09%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.73%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (18.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.55%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.92%) iTrent
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.09%) Maximo
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.09%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.73%) Primavera
6 2 (0.73%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (76.28%) Power Platform
2 64 (23.36%) Azure
3 21 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (6.93%) Power Automate
5 18 (6.57%) AWS
6 15 (5.47%) Serverless
7 12 (4.38%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.92%) GCP
10 8 (2.92%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.55%) dbt
11 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.55%) SaaS
12 6 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.19%) Smartsheet
12 6 (2.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Broadband
2 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.36%) Mobile Backhaul
3 1 (0.36%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (75.18%) Power BI
2 25 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (9.12%) Tableau
3 15 (5.47%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (5.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 14 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.55%) Metadata
7 6 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (2.19%) Power Query
7 6 (2.19%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.46%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.46%) GIS
9 4 (1.46%) MySQL
9 4 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (7.30%) JIRA
2 8 (2.92%) Git
3 4 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.46%) JUnit
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.73%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Hudson
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) RStudio
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.36%) TestRail
5 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 89 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (20.07%) Finance
4 20 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.93%) Retail
6 15 (5.47%) Aerospace
7 14 (5.11%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.01%) Marketing
9 10 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.19%) Legal
10 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.82%) Banking
11 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.46%) Publishing
13 3 (1.09%) Billing
13 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Military
13 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 70 (25.55%) Analyst
2 43 (15.69%) Data Analyst
3 36 (13.14%) Developer
3 36 (13.14%) Senior
4 19 (6.93%) Architect
5 16 (5.84%) Business Analyst
5 16 (5.84%) Data Engineer
5 16 (5.84%) Lead
6 14 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 13 (4.74%) Consultant
8 12 (4.38%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Engineer
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.92%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) HR Analyst
11 7 (2.55%) HR Data Analyst
11 7 (2.55%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (2.19%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.84%) REST
2 10 (3.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.92%) Middleware
4 6 (2.19%) .NET
4 6 (2.19%) EDI
5 5 (1.82%) SOAP
5 5 (1.82%) Terraform
6 4 (1.46%) CSS
6 4 (1.46%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.46%) HTML
6 4 (1.46%) JPA
6 4 (1.46%) jQuery
6 4 (1.46%) Spring
6 4 (1.46%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.46%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.09%) JSON
7 3 (1.09%) PySpark
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.73%) RESTful
8 2 (0.73%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.84%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.28%) Clustering
4 9 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.28%) PKI
5 7 (2.55%) FMCG
5 7 (2.55%) Social Media
6 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.46%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.46%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.09%) CMDB
8 3 (1.09%) PMI
9 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.73%) Digital TV
9 2 (0.73%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.65%) Windows
2 9 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.46%) Unix
4 3 (1.09%) Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.02%) Analytics
2 76 (27.74%) Data Modelling
3 68 (24.82%) Decision-Making
4 67 (24.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (21.53%) Agile
6 44 (16.06%) ETL
7 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.69%) Visualisation
8 42 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 39 (14.23%) Data Analysis
11 34 (12.41%) Dashboard Development
12 33 (12.04%) Data Governance
12 33 (12.04%) ERP
12 33 (12.04%) Validation
13 31 (11.31%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (11.31%) AI
13 31 (11.31%) DevOps
13 31 (11.31%) Migration
14 29 (10.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.16%) SQL
2 28 (10.22%) Python
3 22 (8.03%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (4.74%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.38%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.38%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.19%) C#
7 6 (2.19%) Java
8 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.46%) X++
9 2 (0.73%) C
9 2 (0.73%) R
9 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.73%) VBA
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 73 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.39%) Degree
4 18 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.19%) ACCA
7 6 (2.19%) PMP
8 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.46%) CIMA
9 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.73%) CAPM
11 2 (0.73%) CISSP
11 2 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (19.71%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.57%) QA
3 14 (5.11%) GDPR
4 13 (4.74%) PMO
5 4 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.46%) IFRS
5 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.09%) GMP
6 3 (1.09%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 9 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.09%) Grafana
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 97 (35.40%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.42%) Oracle
3 44 (16.06%) SAP
4 24 (8.76%) Databricks
5 17 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.28%) BMC
6 9 (3.28%) Google
6 9 (3.28%) Remedy
6 9 (3.28%) Workday
7 8 (2.92%) IFS
7 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.19%) Baan
9 4 (1.46%) Ariba
9 4 (1.46%) IBM
9 4 (1.46%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) ESRI
10 3 (1.09%) Teradata
11 2 (0.73%) Adobe
11 2 (0.73%) Splunk
12 1 (0.36%) Foundry