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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 284 191 205
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.24% 5.44% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 6.05% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 131 136
10th Percentile £267 £263 £227
25th Percentile £400 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +11.43% +13.18%
75th Percentile £553 £650 £638
90th Percentile £627 £700 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile £28.95 - £27.85
25th Percentile £34.01 - £38.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -45.10% +112.27%
75th Percentile £80.20 £34.15 £64.41
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £67.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -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 5,415 3,156 4,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.78% 89.89% 82.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,334 1,973 2,486
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.62%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 594 293 323
10th Percentile £14.47 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.76 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.39 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +157.13% -62.70% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.09
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.03 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 £490 -18.33% 97
Hampshire -12 79 £525 -6.67% 38
Berkshire -44 59 £525 -16.00% 46
West Sussex +5 50 £380 -5.00% 15
Buckinghamshire -9 32 £475 +33.33% 37
Surrey -15 25 £500 +39.86% 25
Oxfordshire -16 15 £500 +122.22% 15
Kent - 9 £550 - 11
East Sussex +7 7 £616 +64.27% 10
Middlesex - 2 - - 8
Home Counties 0 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 15 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.41%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.70%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.35%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.35%) InDesign
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (4.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.82%) iTrent
2 8 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.76%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.41%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.06%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (1.06%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.70%) Primavera
7 2 (0.70%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 202 (71.13%) Power Platform
2 68 (23.94%) Azure
3 22 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.04%) AWS
4 20 (7.04%) Power Automate
5 14 (4.93%) Serverless
6 13 (4.58%) PowerApps
7 12 (4.23%) GCP
8 9 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.17%) dbt
8 9 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.82%) Azure Functions
9 8 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.46%) OCI
10 7 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Intranet
2 1 (0.35%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (70.42%) Power BI
2 30 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (9.15%) Tableau
4 25 (8.80%) Oracle Reports
5 24 (8.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 17 (5.99%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.17%) Metadata
8 8 (2.82%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.76%) Power Query
10 5 (1.76%) SAP Data Services
10 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.41%) Big Data
11 4 (1.41%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.41%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 20 (7.04%) JIRA
2 9 (3.17%) Git
3 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.35%) ERwin
5 1 (0.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Hudson
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 74 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (18.31%) Finance
4 23 (8.10%) Retail
5 21 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.69%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Marketing
8 10 (3.52%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.76%) Banking
12 4 (1.41%) Military
12 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.06%) Advertising
13 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.06%) Legal
13 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.06%) Publishing
14 2 (0.70%) Aviation
14 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (26.41%) Analyst
2 49 (17.25%) Data Analyst
3 40 (14.08%) Developer
4 31 (10.92%) Senior
5 21 (7.39%) Lead
6 20 (7.04%) Architect
7 17 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 16 (5.63%) Consultant
8 16 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Oracle Developer
10 13 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Engineer
12 10 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.17%) E-Commerce Specialist
14 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.82%) Report Developer
15 7 (2.46%) HR Analyst
15 7 (2.46%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.69%) REST
2 16 (5.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.82%) Middleware
4 6 (2.11%) .NET
4 6 (2.11%) EDI
4 6 (2.11%) SOAP
5 4 (1.41%) CSS
5 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.41%) HTML
5 4 (1.41%) JPA
5 4 (1.41%) jQuery
5 4 (1.41%) Spring
5 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.41%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.06%) JSON
7 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.70%) React
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.34%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.23%) PKI
3 11 (3.87%) Clustering
4 9 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.11%) FMCG
6 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.76%) CMDB
8 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.70%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) Social Media
11 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Windows
2 12 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.52%) Analytics
2 80 (28.17%) Data Modelling
3 66 (23.24%) Agile
3 66 (23.24%) Decision-Making
4 57 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (15.49%) Visualisation
6 43 (15.14%) ETL
6 43 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (14.44%) ERP
7 41 (14.44%) Migration
8 40 (14.08%) Data Analysis
8 40 (14.08%) Validation
9 37 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (12.32%) Dashboard Development
10 35 (12.32%) DevOps
11 33 (11.62%) Data Governance
12 31 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
12 31 (10.92%) Requirements Gathering
13 30 (10.56%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 131 (46.13%) SQL
2 24 (8.45%) JavaScript
2 24 (8.45%) Python
3 17 (5.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (5.63%) PL/SQL
5 14 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.58%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.17%) C#
8 6 (2.11%) Java
9 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.41%) X++
11 3 (1.06%) R
12 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.70%) VBA
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 74 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.80%) Degree
4 20 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.11%) ACCA
6 6 (2.11%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.11%) PMP
7 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.41%) CIMA
8 4 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISA
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.75%) GDPR
3 15 (5.28%) QA
4 12 (4.23%) PMO
5 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.41%) IFRS
7 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.76%) Terraform
2 2 (0.70%) Grafana
2 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.35%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 77 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 58 (20.42%) Oracle
3 40 (14.08%) SAP
4 18 (6.34%) ServiceNow
5 17 (5.99%) Databricks
6 13 (4.58%) IFS
7 12 (4.23%) BMC
7 12 (4.23%) Remedy
8 10 (3.52%) Salesforce
9 9 (3.17%) Google
10 8 (2.82%) Workday
11 7 (2.46%) Adobe
12 6 (2.11%) Baan
13 3 (1.06%) Informatica
13 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.70%) Foundry
14 2 (0.70%) Palantir
15 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
15 1 (0.35%) Blue Prism
15 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace