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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 222 206 199
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.57% 6.59% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 7.24% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 131 127
10th Percentile £311 £238 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £509
90th Percentile £650 £663 £630
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.73 £22.61
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.50 £37.48
Median hourly rate £36.71 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% -32.54% +44.83%
75th Percentile £80.09 £64.73 £82.23
90th Percentile £82.85 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.75 £28.05 £25.81
% change year-on-year -15.33% +8.68% -4.41%

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 4,069 2,846 4,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.71% 90.98% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,673 1,760 2,905
10th Percentile £260 £250 £213
25th Percentile £401 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £694 £671 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 108 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.83 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -2.81% +0.47%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £62.54
90th Percentile £83.53 £75.15 £76.53
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -7 125 £505 - 37
Berkshire -12 81 £556 +5.95% 22
Hampshire -10 64 £450 -21.74% 37
Buckinghamshire +10 39 £425 -15.84% 11
Surrey -24 18 £550 +19.57% 12
West Sussex -6 15 £415 +18.57% 5
Oxfordshire -14 5 £550 +29.41% 7
East Sussex +3 2 £375 -
Kent -15 1 - - 15
Home Counties - 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 35 (15.77%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.15%) Confluence
3 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (25.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (9.91%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.45%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.45%) InDesign
5 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.80%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.35%) Eloqua
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.90%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 132 (59.46%) Power Platform
2 50 (22.52%) Azure
3 40 (18.02%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.91%) PowerApps
5 17 (7.66%) Power Automate
6 15 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.76%) SaaS
7 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (4.95%) AWS
8 11 (4.95%) Copilot Studio
8 11 (4.95%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.95%) GCP
9 9 (4.05%) OCI
10 8 (3.60%) GitHub
11 7 (3.15%) OneDrive
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.25%) Serverless
13 4 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.80%) Firewall
1 4 (1.80%) VPN
2 3 (1.35%) BGP
2 3 (1.35%) Junos
2 3 (1.35%) OSPF
3 2 (0.90%) 2G
3 2 (0.90%) 5G
3 2 (0.90%) Intranet
3 2 (0.90%) LTE
3 2 (0.90%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.90%) VoIP
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (59.46%) Power BI
2 36 (16.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 30 (13.51%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (8.11%) Tableau
5 17 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.50%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.60%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 7 (3.15%) Big Data
9 7 (3.15%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.25%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.25%) Metadata
11 5 (2.25%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.51%) JIRA
2 8 (3.60%) Git
3 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.35%) JUnit
3 3 (1.35%) Storybook
4 1 (0.45%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.45%) Postman
4 1 (0.45%) Toad
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 75 (33.78%) Finance
3 56 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.32%) Public Sector
5 27 (12.16%) Marketing
6 22 (9.91%) Telecoms
7 21 (9.46%) Manufacturing
8 20 (9.01%) Electronics
9 16 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (4.95%) Retail
13 4 (1.80%) Advertising
13 4 (1.80%) Banking
14 3 (1.35%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.45%) Military
15 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (27.48%) Analyst
2 37 (16.67%) Developer
3 33 (14.86%) Data Analyst
4 22 (9.91%) Oracle Developer
4 22 (9.91%) PMO Analyst
5 18 (8.11%) Architect
5 18 (8.11%) Consultant
6 17 (7.66%) Senior
7 14 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Report Developer
9 11 (4.95%) Lead
9 11 (4.95%) Platform Architect
9 11 (4.95%) Power Platform Architect
10 10 (4.50%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.15%) Administrator
12 7 (3.15%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (3.15%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.15%) Oracle Consultant
12 7 (3.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.60%) REST
3 5 (2.25%) ADO
4 3 (1.35%) CSS
4 3 (1.35%) HTML
4 3 (1.35%) PySpark
4 3 (1.35%) React
4 3 (1.35%) RESTful
4 3 (1.35%) Spring
4 3 (1.35%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.35%) Vitest
4 3 (1.35%) Web Services
4 3 (1.35%) XML
5 2 (0.90%) IDoc
5 2 (0.90%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.90%) Pandas
5 2 (0.90%) Plotly
5 2 (0.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.60%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.60%) NHS
3 7 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.25%) CMDB
5 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) IoT
7 2 (0.90%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.90%) Wiki
8 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.45%) AS400
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.15%) Windows
2 6 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (21.17%) Agile
3 46 (20.72%) Data Modelling
4 41 (18.47%) Data Analysis
5 39 (17.57%) Analytics
6 38 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 31 (13.96%) Visualisation
9 29 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (12.16%) DevOps
11 26 (11.71%) Waterfall
12 23 (10.36%) Data Governance
13 22 (9.91%) Data Visualisation
14 21 (9.46%) ETL
15 19 (8.56%) Digital Marketing
15 19 (8.56%) Migration
15 19 (8.56%) Programme Management
15 19 (8.56%) Workshop Facilitation
16 17 (7.66%) Performance Tuning
17 15 (6.76%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.13%) SQL
2 19 (8.56%) Python
3 15 (6.76%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.60%) R
5 6 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.80%) C#
7 4 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.35%) Bicep
8 3 (1.35%) Java
8 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.35%) VBA
9 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.91%) Degree
4 7 (3.15%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.35%) JNCIA
7 3 (1.35%) JNCIP
7 3 (1.35%) JNCIS
7 3 (1.35%) PMP
7 3 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.71%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.81%) PMO
3 10 (4.50%) QA
4 6 (2.70%) GDPR
4 6 (2.70%) SLA
5 5 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) COBIT
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.35%) SCCM
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 50 (22.52%) Oracle
3 35 (15.77%) SAP
4 11 (4.95%) Databricks
4 11 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.70%) Adobe
7 3 (1.35%) Cisco
7 3 (1.35%) Cognos
7 3 (1.35%) Foundry
7 3 (1.35%) Juniper
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.35%) Palantir
7 3 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.90%) BMC
8 2 (0.90%) Informatica
8 2 (0.90%) Remedy
8 2 (0.90%) Talend
9 1 (0.45%) ESRI