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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 276 189 193
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.73% 6.28% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 6.86% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 132 118
10th Percentile £290 £280 £204
25th Percentile £389 £363 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 9
10th Percentile £14.89 £21.22 £22.61
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.75 £24.43
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -59.94% +62.44%
75th Percentile £80.06 - £84.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.57 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -8.13%

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 4,749 2,757 4,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.40% 91.59% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,087 1,756 2,743
10th Percentile £281 £256 £243
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.57%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £621
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 171 434
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £15.79 £18.23
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.05 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -11 132 £500 -9.09% 48
Berkshire -21 86 £523 -12.92% 18
Hampshire +3 84 £450 -24.21% 23
Buckinghamshire -4 33 £425 -21.66% 18
West Sussex -3 23 £415 +7.79% 9
Surrey -25 21 £525 +43.84% 22
Oxfordshire -14 13 £500 +25.00% 13
Kent -6 6 - - 18
East Sussex +3 4 £417 +11.20% 7
Home Counties - 2 - -
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 28 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.62%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (23.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.16%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) InDesign
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) iTrent
1 7 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (1.45%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (1.09%) Eloqua
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.36%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 189 (68.48%) Power Platform
2 66 (23.91%) Azure
3 30 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.88%) Power Automate
6 18 (6.52%) PowerApps
7 15 (5.43%) AWS
8 14 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (3.99%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (3.99%) SaaS
10 10 (3.62%) GCP
11 9 (3.26%) Serverless
12 8 (2.90%) GitHub
13 7 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
14 6 (2.17%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.17%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.17%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (1.81%) OCI
15 5 (1.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) Intranet
1 3 (1.09%) VPN
2 2 (0.72%) BGP
2 2 (0.72%) Junos
2 2 (0.72%) OSPF
3 1 (0.36%) 2G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.36%) LTE
3 1 (0.36%) Mobile Backhaul
3 1 (0.36%) VoIP
3 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (68.48%) Power BI
2 35 (12.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 33 (11.96%) Oracle Reports
4 28 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (8.33%) Tableau
6 13 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.90%) Big Data
7 8 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.54%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 7 (2.54%) Metadata
8 7 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.54%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.45%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.09%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (11.23%) JIRA
2 7 (2.54%) Git
3 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.72%) JUnit
3 2 (0.72%) Storybook
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Hudson
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.36%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 83 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 81 (29.35%) Finance
3 80 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.33%) Marketing
6 22 (7.97%) Retail
7 21 (7.61%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (5.80%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (4.71%) Manufacturing
11 12 (4.35%) Electronics
11 12 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Advertising
12 4 (1.45%) Military
13 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.36%) Banking
14 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (26.45%) Analyst
2 40 (14.49%) Data Analyst
3 35 (12.68%) Developer
4 25 (9.06%) Architect
5 22 (7.97%) PMO Analyst
5 22 (7.97%) Senior
6 19 (6.88%) Data Engineer
6 19 (6.88%) Lead
7 18 (6.52%) Consultant
7 18 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 11 (3.99%) Platform Architect
9 11 (3.99%) Power Platform Architect
9 11 (3.99%) Report Developer
10 10 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.62%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.26%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 8 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.90%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (4.71%) REST
3 6 (2.17%) ADO
4 3 (1.09%) SOAP
4 3 (1.09%) XML
5 2 (0.72%) CSS
5 2 (0.72%) EDI
5 2 (0.72%) HTML
5 2 (0.72%) JSON
5 2 (0.72%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.72%) React
5 2 (0.72%) RESTful
5 2 (0.72%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.72%) Spring
5 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.72%) Vitest
5 2 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.26%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (2.90%) CMDB
2 8 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.54%) PKI
4 6 (2.17%) NHS
4 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.81%) Clustering
5 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.45%) FMCG
7 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.72%) Wiki
9 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.26%) Windows
2 7 (2.54%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.29%) Analytics
1 56 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (19.93%) Agile
3 54 (19.57%) Data Modelling
4 51 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (17.03%) Data Analysis
6 40 (14.49%) Decision-Making
6 40 (14.49%) DevOps
7 35 (12.68%) Visualisation
8 32 (11.59%) Data Governance
8 32 (11.59%) ERP
9 31 (11.23%) ETL
9 31 (11.23%) Migration
10 29 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (9.78%) Data Visualisation
12 26 (9.42%) Validation
13 25 (9.06%) Process Improvement
14 24 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
15 22 (7.97%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (7.61%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.62%) SQL
2 18 (6.52%) Python
3 15 (5.43%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.54%) C#
6 7 (2.54%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.81%) R
7 5 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) Bicep
8 3 (1.09%) Java
8 3 (1.09%) VBA
9 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 66 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.33%) Degree
4 8 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.81%) ACCA
6 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.45%) PMP
8 3 (1.09%) CIMA
8 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.72%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.72%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.06%) PMO
3 19 (6.88%) GDPR
4 14 (5.07%) QA
5 11 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.72%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 13 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.09%) SCCM
1 3 (1.09%) Terraform
2 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.36%) Grafana
2 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (18.12%) Oracle
3 40 (14.49%) SAP
4 12 (4.35%) Databricks
4 12 (4.35%) IFS
5 8 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.54%) BMC
6 7 (2.54%) Remedy
6 7 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.54%) Workday
7 6 (2.17%) Adobe
8 4 (1.45%) Foundry
8 4 (1.45%) Palantir
9 3 (1.09%) Informatica
9 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Baan
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco
10 2 (0.72%) Cognos
10 2 (0.72%) Juniper