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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 36
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 277 159 231
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.17% 4.55% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 5.10% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 113 142
10th Percentile £271 £222 £235
25th Percentile £400 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £627 £700 £736
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 4
10th Percentile £28.24 - £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 £85.09 £35.41 -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -6.27%

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 5,359 3,120 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.74% 89.22% 82.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 1,937 2,290
10th Percentile £275 £222 £256
25th Percentile £425 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £633
90th Percentile £706 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 311 271
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.50 £34.50
Median hourly rate £52.43 £22.07 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +137.54% -61.52% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.38 £71.82
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% +1.18%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -22 109 £490 -18.16% 86
Hampshire -19 65 £525 -6.67% 32
Berkshire -27 62 £538 -10.42% 50
West Sussex +6 48 £380 +117.14% 13
Buckinghamshire -2 36 £475 +33.33% 21
Surrey -4 29 £500 +25.00% 20
Oxfordshire -23 11 £388 +72.22% 16
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 10
Kent - 6 £550 - 8
Middlesex - 6 - - 3
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 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.97%) Confluence
3 4 (1.44%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.72%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.72%) 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 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.89%) iTrent
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.08%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.72%) Maximo
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.72%) Primavera
6 2 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.72%) 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
1 212 (76.53%) Power Platform
2 70 (25.27%) Azure
3 23 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.22%) Power Automate
5 19 (6.86%) AWS
6 15 (5.42%) Serverless
7 14 (5.05%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.25%) GCP
10 8 (2.89%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.89%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.53%) dbt
11 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.53%) SaaS
12 6 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.81%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) 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
1 209 (75.45%) Power BI
2 26 (9.39%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (9.39%) Tableau
3 15 (5.42%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 10 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.89%) Metadata
6 8 (2.89%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.81%) Power Query
8 5 (1.81%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.44%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.44%) MySQL
9 4 (1.44%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.58%) JIRA
2 8 (2.89%) Git
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.44%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.72%) 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 88 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.91%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (20.22%) Finance
4 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.22%) Retail
5 15 (5.42%) Aerospace
5 15 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.97%) Marketing
7 9 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Legal
8 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.81%) Banking
9 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.44%) Military
10 4 (1.44%) Publishing
11 3 (1.08%) Billing
11 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (25.27%) Analyst
2 43 (15.52%) Data Analyst
3 35 (12.64%) Developer
4 34 (12.27%) Senior
5 20 (7.22%) Architect
6 17 (6.14%) Lead
7 15 (5.42%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.05%) Consultant
8 14 (5.05%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 13 (4.69%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Engineer
11 9 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.89%) Data Manager
12 8 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.89%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 8 (2.89%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.53%) HR Data Analyst
13 7 (2.53%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.14%) REST
2 10 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.89%) Middleware
4 6 (2.17%) .NET
4 6 (2.17%) EDI
5 5 (1.81%) SOAP
5 5 (1.81%) Terraform
6 4 (1.44%) CSS
6 4 (1.44%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.44%) HTML
6 4 (1.44%) JPA
6 4 (1.44%) jQuery
6 4 (1.44%) Spring
6 4 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.44%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.08%) JSON
7 3 (1.08%) PySpark
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.72%) React
8 2 (0.72%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.50%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.61%) PKI
4 9 (3.25%) Clustering
5 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.53%) FMCG
7 6 (2.17%) Social Media
8 5 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.44%) CMDB
9 4 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.08%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.08%) PMI
11 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.72%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.97%) Windows
2 10 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.32%) Analytics
2 72 (25.99%) Data Modelling
3 67 (24.19%) Decision-Making
4 65 (23.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (21.66%) Agile
6 43 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (15.52%) Visualisation
7 42 (15.16%) ETL
8 41 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 39 (14.08%) Data Analysis
11 35 (12.64%) Data Governance
12 34 (12.27%) DevOps
12 34 (12.27%) ERP
12 34 (12.27%) Migration
12 34 (12.27%) Validation
13 32 (11.55%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (11.55%) Dashboard Development
14 31 (11.19%) AI
15 30 (10.83%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (43.32%) SQL
2 27 (9.75%) Python
3 23 (8.30%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (4.69%) PL/SQL
5 13 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.33%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.53%) C#
8 6 (2.17%) Java
9 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.44%) X++
10 3 (1.08%) R
11 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.72%) VBA
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.16%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.03%) Degree
4 19 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.17%) ACCA
7 6 (2.17%) PMP
8 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.44%) CIMA
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.72%) CAPM
11 2 (0.72%) CISSP
11 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.36%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.14%) GDPR
3 15 (5.42%) QA
4 13 (4.69%) PMO
5 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) IFRS
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.08%) GMP
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 10 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.08%) Grafana
3 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 97 (35.02%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.25%) Oracle
3 44 (15.88%) SAP
4 22 (7.94%) Databricks
5 17 (6.14%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.61%) BMC
6 10 (3.61%) Remedy
7 9 (3.25%) Google
7 9 (3.25%) IFS
8 8 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.89%) Workday
9 6 (2.17%) Baan
10 4 (1.44%) Ariba
11 3 (1.08%) Informatica
12 2 (0.72%) Adobe
12 2 (0.72%) ESRI
12 2 (0.72%) IBM
12 2 (0.72%) Teradata
13 1 (0.36%) Foundry
13 1 (0.36%) Planview