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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 275 178 197
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.58% 6.07% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 6.64% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 124 117
10th Percentile £285 £280 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £517
90th Percentile £627 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 9
10th Percentile £14.14 £22.36 £22.61
25th Percentile £28.59 £28.59 £24.43
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -59.94% +45.45%
75th Percentile £80.08 £33.10 £84.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.99 -
England median hourly rate £27.15 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.60% +21.13% -2.04%

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 4,840 2,680 4,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.60% 91.37% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 1,719 2,712
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £410 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.15% +2.10%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £656 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 176 448
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.31% -41.31% -8.83%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -18 120 £500 -16.67% 35
Berkshire -19 80 £515 -17.60% 18
Hampshire -2 72 £450 -25.00% 17
West Sussex +1 38 £380 -5.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -14 29 £425 -6.08% 10
Surrey -20 25 £500 +36.99% 8
Oxfordshire -18 11 £500 +40.35% 7
East Sussex +1 6 £538 +43.33% 2
Kent -4 6 - - 14
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 25 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.00%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) 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 54 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.18%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
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%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.91%) iTrent
3 6 (2.18%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (2.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.82%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.45%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.09%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.73%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 198 (72.00%) Power Platform
2 62 (22.55%) Azure
3 27 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.64%) Power Automate
5 20 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.55%) PowerApps
7 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (4.73%) AWS
9 11 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (4.00%) Serverless
10 9 (3.27%) SaaS
11 8 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.18%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.18%) dbt
13 6 (2.18%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.18%) GitHub
13 6 (2.18%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Intranet
2 2 (0.73%) Firewall
2 2 (0.73%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) BGP
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.36%) Junos
3 1 (0.36%) OSPF
3 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (72.00%) Power BI
2 32 (11.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 28 (10.18%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.91%) Tableau
6 16 (5.82%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.55%) Big Data
8 7 (2.55%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (2.55%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.82%) Metadata
10 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.09%) OLAP
12 3 (1.09%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 30 (10.91%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) Git
3 2 (0.73%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) ERwin
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%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.36%) TestRail
4 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 75 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (24.00%) Finance
4 23 (8.36%) Retail
5 21 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (6.91%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.82%) Marketing
8 7 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.82%) Military
11 4 (1.45%) Electronics
12 3 (1.09%) Advertising
12 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.73%) Aviation
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
13 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (28.36%) Analyst
2 43 (15.64%) Data Analyst
3 30 (10.91%) Architect
3 30 (10.91%) Developer
4 25 (9.09%) Senior
5 20 (7.27%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.27%) Lead
5 20 (7.27%) PMO Analyst
6 17 (6.18%) Oracle Developer
7 16 (5.82%) Consultant
8 14 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 13 (4.73%) Business Analyst
10 11 (4.00%) Platform Architect
10 11 (4.00%) Power Platform Architect
10 11 (4.00%) Report Developer
11 10 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 9 (3.27%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.55%) REST
2 17 (6.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.18%) SOAP
4 4 (1.45%) ADO
4 4 (1.45%) JSON
5 3 (1.09%) EDI
5 3 (1.09%) Middleware
5 3 (1.09%) XML
6 2 (0.73%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.73%) PySpark
6 2 (0.73%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.73%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.73%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.73%) YAML
7 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) Node.js
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.36%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.64%) Data Structures
1 10 (3.64%) PKI
2 8 (2.91%) Clustering
2 8 (2.91%) CMDB
2 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.82%) FMCG
4 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.09%) NHS
6 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.73%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.73%) Wiki
8 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.36%) Windows
2 10 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.82%) Data Modelling
2 59 (21.45%) Agile
3 55 (20.00%) Analytics
4 47 (17.09%) Decision-Making
4 47 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (15.64%) Data Analysis
7 39 (14.18%) DevOps
8 38 (13.82%) ETL
9 36 (13.09%) Visualisation
10 35 (12.73%) ERP
11 33 (12.00%) Migration
12 29 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (10.18%) Data Governance
13 28 (10.18%) Data Visualisation
14 27 (9.82%) Process Improvement
15 26 (9.45%) Validation
16 25 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
17 24 (8.73%) Dashboard Development
18 23 (8.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 96 (34.91%) SQL
2 18 (6.55%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.45%) Python
4 14 (5.09%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.55%) C#
9 3 (1.09%) Bicep
9 3 (1.09%) VBA
10 2 (0.73%) Java
10 2 (0.73%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 59 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.45%) Degree
4 10 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.18%) PMP
6 5 (1.82%) ACCA
7 4 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.09%) CIMA
8 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.36%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.36%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.36%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.64%) PMO
3 20 (7.27%) GDPR
4 13 (4.73%) QA
5 11 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.45%) IFRS
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.73%) COBIT
8 2 (0.73%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (5.45%) 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 68 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 50 (18.18%) Oracle
3 31 (11.27%) SAP
4 13 (4.73%) IFS
5 12 (4.36%) Databricks
6 10 (3.64%) BMC
6 10 (3.64%) Remedy
6 10 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.91%) Workday
8 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.18%) Adobe
10 3 (1.09%) Baan
10 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) Cognos
11 2 (0.73%) Foundry
11 2 (0.73%) Google
11 2 (0.73%) Palantir
12 1 (0.36%) Informatica
12 1 (0.36%) Juniper