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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 33 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 290 193 207
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.35% 5.54% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 6.14% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 128 133
10th Percentile £268 £271 £208
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £638
90th Percentile £606 £700 £735
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 2
10th Percentile £28.48 - £24.30
25th Percentile £34.01 - £29.63
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -23.69% +14.82%
75th Percentile £80.13 £34.15 £57.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £64.10
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -7.92%

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 5,413 3,142 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.11% 90.21% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 1,961 2,521
10th Percentile £280 £250 £262
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 280 338
10th Percentile £15.26 £13.50 £14.85
25th Percentile £25.72 £15.13 £23.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +150.17% -61.67% +14.70%
75th Percentile £81.05 £51.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.14
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -34 109 £500 -16.67% 67
Hampshire -10 81 £525 -8.70% 33
Berkshire -36 65 £523 -16.40% 34
West Sussex +5 50 £380 -5.00% 6
Buckinghamshire -13 29 £475 - 22
Surrey -13 29 £500 +39.86% 17
Oxfordshire -14 15 £500 +122.22% 12
Kent - 9 £550 - 15
East Sussex +2 5 £616 +64.27% 8
Middlesex - 2 - - 4
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 17 (5.86%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (18.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.34%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.34%) InDesign
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.76%) iTrent
2 8 (2.76%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.07%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.72%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.38%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.03%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.69%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.69%) Primavera
7 2 (0.69%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 208 (71.72%) Power Platform
2 64 (22.07%) Azure
3 21 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (6.55%) Power Automate
5 16 (5.52%) AWS
6 14 (4.83%) Serverless
7 13 (4.48%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.79%) GCP
9 9 (3.10%) dbt
9 9 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.76%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.41%) OCI
11 7 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (71.03%) Power BI
2 31 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 28 (9.66%) Oracle Reports
5 26 (8.97%) Tableau
6 19 (6.55%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.76%) Metadata
8 8 (2.76%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.38%) Big Data
12 4 (1.38%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.38%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 25 (8.62%) JIRA
2 8 (2.76%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.38%) JUnit
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.69%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) ERwin
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Hudson
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.34%) TestRail
5 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 73 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 58 (20.00%) Finance
4 24 (8.28%) Retail
5 20 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (5.86%) Marketing
8 9 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.76%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.72%) Banking
11 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.38%) Military
13 3 (1.03%) Advertising
13 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.03%) Legal
13 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Publishing
14 2 (0.69%) Aviation
14 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (27.24%) Analyst
2 47 (16.21%) Data Analyst
3 42 (14.48%) Developer
4 33 (11.38%) Senior
5 23 (7.93%) Architect
6 20 (6.90%) Lead
7 19 (6.55%) Oracle Developer
8 17 (5.86%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.17%) Consultant
9 15 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (3.79%) Microsoft Engineer
11 11 (3.79%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.79%) Report Developer
12 9 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) E-Commerce Specialist
13 8 (2.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.41%) HR Analyst
14 7 (2.41%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
1 20 (6.90%) REST
2 7 (2.41%) Middleware
3 6 (2.07%) EDI
3 6 (2.07%) SOAP
4 5 (1.72%) .NET
4 5 (1.72%) JSON
5 4 (1.38%) CSS
5 4 (1.38%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.38%) HTML
5 4 (1.38%) JPA
5 4 (1.38%) jQuery
5 4 (1.38%) Spring
5 4 (1.38%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.38%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.38%) XML
6 2 (0.69%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.69%) RESTful
6 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.17%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.48%) PKI
3 11 (3.79%) Clustering
4 10 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.07%) CMDB
6 6 (2.07%) FMCG
6 6 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.38%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.03%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.69%) Social Media
10 2 (0.69%) Wiki
11 1 (0.34%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.83%) Windows
2 13 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.21%) Analytics
2 74 (25.52%) Data Modelling
3 71 (24.48%) Decision-Making
4 66 (22.76%) Agile
5 57 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (15.86%) Data Analysis
6 46 (15.86%) Visualisation
7 43 (14.83%) ETL
7 43 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (14.48%) ERP
9 40 (13.79%) Migration
10 39 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (13.10%) Validation
12 35 (12.07%) Dashboard Development
13 32 (11.03%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (11.03%) Data Visualisation
14 31 (10.69%) Data Governance
14 31 (10.69%) DevOps
14 31 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.52%) SQL
2 23 (7.93%) JavaScript
3 22 (7.59%) Python
4 18 (6.21%) PowerShell
5 17 (5.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (5.52%) PL/SQL
7 15 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 11 (3.79%) C#
9 6 (2.07%) Java
10 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.38%) X++
12 3 (1.03%) R
13 2 (0.69%) Bicep
13 2 (0.69%) VBA
14 1 (0.34%) Groovy
14 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.59%) Degree
4 21 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.07%) ACCA
6 6 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.07%) PMP
7 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.38%) CIMA
8 4 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CISA
11 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.93%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.59%) GDPR
3 18 (6.21%) QA
4 17 (5.86%) PMO
5 9 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.38%) IFRS
6 4 (1.38%) SLA
7 3 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.69%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) GRC
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 15 (5.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.38%) Terraform
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.69%) SCCM
3 1 (0.34%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
3 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 62 (21.38%) Oracle
3 41 (14.14%) SAP
4 19 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.48%) BMC
5 13 (4.48%) Databricks
5 13 (4.48%) IFS
5 13 (4.48%) Remedy
6 10 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.76%) Google
7 8 (2.76%) Workday
8 7 (2.41%) Adobe
9 6 (2.07%) Baan
10 3 (1.03%) Informatica
10 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) ESRI
11 2 (0.69%) Foundry
11 2 (0.69%) NEC
11 2 (0.69%) Palantir
12 1 (0.34%) Ab Initio