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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 41 36
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 274 160 219
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.19% 4.63% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 5.19% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 115 137
10th Percentile £269 £222 £235
25th Percentile £397 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +7.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £561 £625 £650
90th Percentile £627 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 4
10th Percentile £27.52 - £31.53
25th Percentile £33.38 - £47.70
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £60.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -47.25% +115.78%
75th Percentile £80.60 £34.15 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.39 £35.41 -
England median hourly rate £29.48 £32.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +8.60% -7.18%

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 5,269 3,081 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.57% 89.20% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 1,922 2,304
10th Percentile £276 £226 £258
25th Percentile £420 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £712 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 305 280
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £18.09 £15.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £52.46 £21.90 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +139.55% -61.81% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.37
90th Percentile £87.16 £69.65 £77.17
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -31 106 £483 -19.58% 85
Hampshire -19 67 £525 -6.67% 42
Berkshire -31 58 £525 -12.50% 47
West Sussex +7 48 £380 +117.14% 15
Buckinghamshire -4 36 £475 +33.33% 22
Surrey -6 28 £500 +25.00% 40
Oxfordshire -20 12 £400 +77.78% 18
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 13
Kent - 6 £550 - 15
Middlesex - 5 - - 9
Home Counties -2 1 - -
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 14 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (18.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.92%) iTrent
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS R12
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%) Maximo
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
1 208 (75.91%) Power Platform
2 68 (24.82%) Azure
3 23 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.30%) Power Automate
5 17 (6.20%) AWS
6 15 (5.47%) Serverless
7 14 (5.11%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.28%) GCP
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.92%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.55%) dbt
11 7 (2.55%) SaaS
12 6 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.36%) Intranet
2 1 (0.36%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.36%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (74.82%) Power BI
2 26 (9.49%) Tableau
3 25 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.47%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (5.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 14 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.28%) Metadata
8 8 (2.92%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.82%) Power Query
10 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.46%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.46%) MySQL
11 4 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.66%) 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 86 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.18%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (20.07%) Finance
4 21 (7.66%) Retail
5 20 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.38%) Aerospace
8 11 (4.01%) Marketing
9 9 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.82%) Banking
11 5 (1.82%) Legal
11 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.46%) Military
12 4 (1.46%) Publishing
13 3 (1.09%) Billing
13 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Aviation
14 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (25.55%) Analyst
2 43 (15.69%) Data Analyst
3 34 (12.41%) Developer
4 33 (12.04%) Senior
5 18 (6.57%) Architect
5 18 (6.57%) Lead
6 15 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.11%) Consultant
7 14 (5.11%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 13 (4.74%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) E-Commerce Specialist
11 8 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) Data Manager
11 8 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.55%) Oracle Developer
12 7 (2.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.20%) 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%) SPFx
8 2 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.93%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.65%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.65%) PKI
3 9 (3.28%) Clustering
3 9 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.55%) FMCG
6 5 (1.82%) Social Media
7 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.46%) CMDB
7 4 (1.46%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.09%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.09%) PMI
9 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.73%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.01%) Windows
2 10 (3.65%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.93%) Analytics
2 72 (26.28%) Data Modelling
3 66 (24.09%) Decision-Making
4 61 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (21.53%) Agile
6 44 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (15.33%) Visualisation
8 41 (14.96%) ETL
9 40 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.60%) Data Analysis
9 40 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 36 (13.14%) Validation
11 35 (12.77%) Data Governance
11 35 (12.77%) ERP
11 35 (12.77%) Migration
12 34 (12.41%) DevOps
13 32 (11.68%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (11.68%) Dashboard Development
14 30 (10.95%) AI
15 28 (10.22%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (43.80%) SQL
2 26 (9.49%) Python
3 23 (8.39%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (4.74%) PL/SQL
5 13 (4.74%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.38%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.55%) C#
8 6 (2.19%) Java
9 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.46%) X++
10 3 (1.09%) R
11 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.73%) VBA
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 73 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.76%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.46%) CIMA
10 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.73%) CAPM
11 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CISA
12 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.34%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.57%) GDPR
3 14 (5.11%) QA
4 13 (4.74%) PMO
5 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.46%) IFRS
7 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.09%) GMP
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.73%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 10 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Grafana
1 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 92 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.42%) Oracle
3 43 (15.69%) SAP
4 22 (8.03%) Databricks
5 17 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.65%) BMC
6 10 (3.65%) IFS
6 10 (3.65%) Remedy
7 9 (3.28%) Google
8 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.92%) Workday
9 6 (2.19%) Baan
10 3 (1.09%) Ariba
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 2 (0.73%) Adobe
11 2 (0.73%) ESRI
11 2 (0.73%) IBM
11 2 (0.73%) Teradata
12 1 (0.36%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.36%) NEC