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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 214 200 202
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.54% 6.39% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 7.09% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 129 132
10th Percentile £290 £233 £200
25th Percentile £400 £365 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £653 £665 £637
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.73 £22.97
25th Percentile £17.65 £33.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -32.54% +58.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £64.73 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.78 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.54 £27.50 £28.37
% change year-on-year -14.41% -3.07% +6.57%

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 3,944 2,820 4,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.67% 90.07% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 1,727 2,926
10th Percentile £255 £252 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.28% +1.80%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £691
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 102 355
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.85% -7.49% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.15
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -5 126 £505 - 50
Berkshire -11 82 £565 +7.62% 30
Hampshire -5 60 £500 -13.04% 40
Buckinghamshire +8 40 £425 -15.84% 9
Surrey -25 17 £550 +17.02% 23
West Sussex -6 14 £400 +14.29% 10
Oxfordshire -15 4 £500 +17.65% 13
East Sussex - 2 £375 - 1
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 (16.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.27%) Confluence
3 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (26.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (10.28%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (2.34%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.47%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 122 (57.01%) Power Platform
2 52 (24.30%) Azure
3 38 (17.76%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.35%) PowerApps
5 16 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.48%) SaaS
6 15 (7.01%) Power Automate
7 14 (6.54%) OCI
8 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (5.14%) Copilot Studio
10 10 (4.67%) AWS
10 10 (4.67%) GCP
11 9 (4.21%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.27%) GitHub
13 6 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.34%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.34%) Serverless
15 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.34%) VPN
2 4 (1.87%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) BGP
3 3 (1.40%) Junos
3 3 (1.40%) OSPF
4 2 (0.93%) 2G
4 2 (0.93%) 5G
4 2 (0.93%) DHCP
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) Intranet
4 2 (0.93%) LTE
4 2 (0.93%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.93%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) DDNS
5 1 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.47%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (57.01%) Power BI
2 35 (16.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 25 (11.68%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (7.01%) Tableau
5 14 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 9 (4.21%) Oracle BI EE
7 9 (4.21%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.27%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.80%) Big Data
9 6 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.34%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.34%) Metadata
10 5 (2.34%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.87%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.40%) MySQL
12 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.40%) Tableau Desktop
12 3 (1.40%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 30 (14.02%) JIRA
2 8 (3.74%) Git
3 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.40%) JUnit
3 3 (1.40%) Storybook
4 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
4 1 (0.47%) Toad
4 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 76 (35.51%) Finance
3 57 (26.64%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.82%) Public Sector
5 24 (11.21%) Marketing
6 23 (10.75%) Manufacturing
7 22 (10.28%) Telecoms
8 21 (9.81%) Electronics
9 16 (7.48%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (4.21%) Retail
12 4 (1.87%) Banking
12 4 (1.87%) Legal
13 3 (1.40%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.47%) Advertising
14 1 (0.47%) Military
14 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (25.23%) Analyst
2 32 (14.95%) Developer
3 25 (11.68%) Data Analyst
4 22 (10.28%) Architect
4 22 (10.28%) PMO Analyst
5 17 (7.94%) Oracle Developer
6 16 (7.48%) Consultant
6 16 (7.48%) Senior
7 13 (6.07%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.61%) Lead
9 11 (5.14%) Platform Architect
9 11 (5.14%) Power Platform Architect
10 10 (4.67%) Report Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.74%) Administrator
13 7 (3.27%) Integration Manager
14 6 (2.80%) Business Analyst
14 6 (2.80%) Functional Consultant
14 6 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.27%) REST
3 5 (2.34%) ADO
4 3 (1.40%) CSS
4 3 (1.40%) HTML
4 3 (1.40%) PySpark
4 3 (1.40%) React
4 3 (1.40%) RESTful
4 3 (1.40%) Spring
4 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.40%) Vitest
4 3 (1.40%) Web Services
4 3 (1.40%) XML
5 2 (0.93%) BAPI
5 2 (0.93%) IDoc
5 2 (0.93%) JSON
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.93%) Pandas
5 2 (0.93%) Plotly
5 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.07%) Data Structures
2 10 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.74%) NHS
4 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.34%) CMDB
5 5 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.93%) IoT
7 2 (0.93%) Replication
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.93%) Wiki
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) PKI
8 1 (0.47%) SCADA
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.74%) Windows
2 6 (2.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (19.16%) Data Modelling
3 40 (18.69%) Data Analysis
4 37 (17.29%) Agile
5 35 (16.36%) Analytics
6 32 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (14.49%) Visualisation
8 30 (14.02%) Decision-Making
9 27 (12.62%) Waterfall
10 25 (11.68%) DevOps
11 22 (10.28%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (9.81%) ETL
13 20 (9.35%) AI
13 20 (9.35%) Data Governance
13 20 (9.35%) Digital Marketing
13 20 (9.35%) Programme Management
14 16 (7.48%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (7.48%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (7.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.90%) SQL
2 17 (7.94%) Python
3 12 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.74%) R
5 5 (2.34%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.40%) Bicep
7 3 (1.40%) C#
7 3 (1.40%) Java
7 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.40%) VBA
8 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.81%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.40%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.40%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.40%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.40%) PMP
6 3 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.21%) PMO
2 20 (9.35%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.21%) GDPR
3 9 (4.21%) QA
4 6 (2.80%) SLA
5 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) COBIT
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.47%) Brightmail
2 1 (0.47%) ISA Server
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.40%) SCCM
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.47%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (27.57%) Microsoft
2 47 (21.96%) Oracle
3 39 (18.22%) SAP
4 13 (6.07%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.67%) Databricks
6 9 (4.21%) OpenAI
7 7 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.87%) Cognos
9 3 (1.40%) Cisco
9 3 (1.40%) Foundry
9 3 (1.40%) Juniper
9 3 (1.40%) Palantir
10 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.93%) Informatica
10 2 (0.93%) Talend
11 1 (0.47%) Arqiva
11 1 (0.47%) BMC
11 1 (0.47%) Concur
11 1 (0.47%) RedGate
11 1 (0.47%) Remedy