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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 204 205 203
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.50% 6.36% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 7.12% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 132 133
10th Percentile £301 £235 £200
25th Percentile £400 £361 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £550
90th Percentile £667 £674 £638
England median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 19
10th Percentile £12.29 £23.49 £22.29
25th Percentile £17.65 £37.38 £23.84
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.44 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.38% +6.18% +31.94%
75th Percentile £37.00 £64.73 £76.00
90th Percentile £75.78 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.75 £29.00
% change year-on-year -14.73% -4.31% +6.42%

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 3,798 2,881 4,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.75% 89.36% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 1,760 2,922
10th Percentile £250 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.45%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 105 326
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.58 £13.84
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £21.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.88 £48.15
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% -10.94% +8.81%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -1 122 £505 - 102
Berkshire -9 78 £579 +10.24% 70
Hampshire -4 59 £500 -13.04% 33
Buckinghamshire +12 40 £425 -15.84% 18
West Sussex -3 14 £400 +14.29% 16
Surrey -25 12 £600 +26.98% 27
Oxfordshire -12 4 £450 +5.88% 14
East Sussex - 2 £375 - 9
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 36 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.43%) Confluence
4 4 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.96%) Office Communications Server
4 4 (1.96%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.96%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.98%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.98%) Primavera
5 2 (0.98%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 114 (55.88%) Power Platform
2 55 (26.96%) Azure
3 36 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.31%) PowerApps
5 17 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.35%) SaaS
7 14 (6.86%) OCI
7 14 (6.86%) Power Automate
8 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (4.90%) AWS
9 10 (4.90%) Copilot Studio
9 10 (4.90%) GCP
10 8 (3.92%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.94%) GitHub
12 5 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.47%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) VPN
2 4 (1.96%) DDNS
2 4 (1.96%) DHCP
2 4 (1.96%) DNS
2 4 (1.96%) SAN
3 3 (1.47%) BGP
3 3 (1.47%) Firewall
3 3 (1.47%) Junos
3 3 (1.47%) OSPF
4 2 (0.98%) 2G
4 2 (0.98%) 5G
4 2 (0.98%) Intranet
4 2 (0.98%) LTE
4 2 (0.98%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.98%) VoIP
5 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (55.88%) Power BI
2 31 (15.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 21 (10.29%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (8.82%) Tableau
5 12 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 9 (4.41%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (2.94%) Big Data
8 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.94%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.45%) Metadata
9 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.96%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.47%) MySQL
11 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.47%) Tableau Desktop
11 3 (1.47%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 25 (12.25%) JIRA
2 5 (2.45%) Git
3 3 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.47%) JUnit
3 3 (1.47%) Storybook
4 1 (0.49%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.49%) Postman
4 1 (0.49%) Toad
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (44.61%) Social Skills
2 75 (36.76%) Finance
3 47 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 25 (12.25%) Marketing
6 24 (11.76%) Manufacturing
7 22 (10.78%) Telecoms
8 21 (10.29%) Electronics
9 17 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (3.43%) Retail
13 4 (1.96%) Banking
13 4 (1.96%) Legal
14 3 (1.47%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.49%) Advertising
15 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.49%) Military
15 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (25.00%) Analyst
2 28 (13.73%) Data Analyst
2 28 (13.73%) Developer
3 19 (9.31%) Architect
4 17 (8.33%) PMO Analyst
5 15 (7.35%) Consultant
6 14 (6.86%) Senior
7 13 (6.37%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (5.88%) Lead
8 12 (5.88%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.90%) Platform Architect
9 10 (4.90%) Power Platform Architect
10 9 (4.41%) Administrator
10 9 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) Oracle Project Manager
11 7 (3.43%) Integration Manager
11 7 (3.43%) Report Developer
12 6 (2.94%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.94%) Resource Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.43%) ADO
3 5 (2.45%) REST
4 3 (1.47%) CSS
4 3 (1.47%) HTML
4 3 (1.47%) React
4 3 (1.47%) RESTful
4 3 (1.47%) Spring
4 3 (1.47%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.47%) Vitest
4 3 (1.47%) Web Services
5 2 (0.98%) BAPI
5 2 (0.98%) IDoc
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.98%) Pandas
5 2 (0.98%) Plotly
5 2 (0.98%) PySpark
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.98%) SOAP
6 1 (0.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.86%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.92%) NHS
4 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.45%) Replication
6 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.98%) CMDB
8 2 (0.98%) IoT
8 2 (0.98%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) Life Science
9 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.49%) SCADA
9 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.41%) Windows
2 5 (2.45%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (20.59%) Agile
3 41 (20.10%) Data Modelling
4 34 (16.67%) Analytics
4 34 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 33 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (16.18%) Waterfall
6 31 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (15.20%) Visualisation
7 25 (12.25%) DevOps
8 24 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 21 (10.29%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (10.29%) Digital Marketing
9 21 (10.29%) Programme Management
10 20 (9.80%) Data Governance
11 19 (9.31%) AI
12 17 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (7.84%) ETL
13 16 (7.84%) Matrix Organization
13 16 (7.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.55%) SQL
2 17 (8.33%) Python
3 9 (4.41%) R
4 8 (3.92%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.45%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.47%) Java
6 3 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.47%) VBA
7 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 40 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.29%) Degree
4 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.47%) JNCIA
5 3 (1.47%) JNCIP
5 3 (1.47%) JNCIS
5 3 (1.47%) PMP
5 3 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) PMO
2 17 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.90%) GDPR
4 6 (2.94%) QA
5 3 (1.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.96%) Brightmail
2 4 (1.96%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.49%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 49 (24.02%) Oracle
3 37 (18.14%) SAP
4 14 (6.86%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.41%) Databricks
5 9 (4.41%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.96%) Cognos
8 3 (1.47%) Cisco
8 3 (1.47%) Foundry
8 3 (1.47%) Juniper
8 3 (1.47%) Palantir
9 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.98%) Informatica
9 2 (0.98%) Talend
10 1 (0.49%) Adobe
10 1 (0.49%) Concur
10 1 (0.49%) Google
10 1 (0.49%) IFS
10 1 (0.49%) RedGate