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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 29 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 225 201 207
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.67% 6.36% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 7.01% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 125 132
10th Percentile £311 £223 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £541
90th Percentile £651 £663 £637
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 12
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.73 £22.79
25th Percentile £20.24 £33.50 £40.80
Median hourly rate £29.36 £42.50 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.93% -32.27% +44.25%
75th Percentile £80.12 £64.73 £81.11
90th Percentile £83.00 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -13.50% +6.55% -4.41%

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 4,034 2,867 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.76% 90.73% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,649 1,770 2,933
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -
75th Percentile £600 £609 £613
90th Percentile £694 £670 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 109 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.05 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58.50 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £83.38 £75.10 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -6 130 £505 - 41
Berkshire -9 86 £565 +10.24% 24
Hampshire -7 64 £450 -20.00% 35
Buckinghamshire +13 39 £425 -15.84% 11
Surrey -25 18 £550 +16.40% 15
West Sussex -9 13 £408 +16.43% 7
Oxfordshire -13 5 £550 +29.41% 9
East Sussex +4 2 £375 -
Kent -16 1 - - 15
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 34 (15.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.11%) Confluence
3 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 56 (24.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.78%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.33%) Eloqua
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.89%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (57.33%) Power Platform
2 56 (24.89%) Azure
3 39 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.78%) PowerApps
5 17 (7.56%) Power Automate
6 15 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.67%) SaaS
7 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (4.89%) AWS
8 11 (4.89%) Copilot Studio
8 11 (4.89%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.89%) GCP
9 9 (4.00%) OCI
10 8 (3.56%) GitHub
11 6 (2.67%) OneDrive
12 5 (2.22%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.22%) Serverless
13 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) Firewall
1 4 (1.78%) VPN
2 3 (1.33%) BGP
2 3 (1.33%) Junos
2 3 (1.33%) OSPF
3 2 (0.89%) 2G
3 2 (0.89%) 5G
3 2 (0.89%) Intranet
3 2 (0.89%) LTE
3 2 (0.89%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.89%) VoIP
4 1 (0.44%) DHCP
4 1 (0.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (57.33%) Power BI
2 35 (15.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 29 (12.89%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (8.00%) Tableau
5 17 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 7 (3.11%) Big Data
8 7 (3.11%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.22%) Metadata
10 5 (2.22%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.33%) MySQL
12 3 (1.33%) OLAP
12 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.56%) Git
3 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.33%) JUnit
3 3 (1.33%) Storybook
4 1 (0.44%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.44%) Postman
4 1 (0.44%) Toad
4 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 76 (33.78%) Finance
3 56 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 28 (12.44%) Marketing
6 23 (10.22%) Telecoms
7 22 (9.78%) Manufacturing
8 21 (9.33%) Electronics
9 15 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.89%) Retail
12 4 (1.78%) Advertising
12 4 (1.78%) Banking
12 4 (1.78%) Legal
13 3 (1.33%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.44%) Military
14 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (27.11%) Analyst
2 36 (16.00%) Developer
3 33 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 23 (10.22%) Architect
5 22 (9.78%) PMO Analyst
6 21 (9.33%) Oracle Developer
7 18 (8.00%) Consultant
8 16 (7.11%) Senior
9 14 (6.22%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Report Developer
11 11 (4.89%) Lead
11 11 (4.89%) Platform Architect
11 11 (4.89%) Power Platform Architect
12 10 (4.44%) Business Analyst
13 9 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 7 (3.11%) Administrator
14 7 (3.11%) Functional Consultant
14 7 (3.11%) Integration Manager
14 7 (3.11%) Oracle Consultant
14 7 (3.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.11%) REST
3 5 (2.22%) ADO
4 3 (1.33%) CSS
4 3 (1.33%) HTML
4 3 (1.33%) PySpark
4 3 (1.33%) React
4 3 (1.33%) RESTful
4 3 (1.33%) Spring
4 3 (1.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.33%) Vitest
4 3 (1.33%) Web Services
4 3 (1.33%) XML
5 2 (0.89%) IDoc
5 2 (0.89%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.89%) Plotly
5 2 (0.89%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.89%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.56%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.56%) NHS
3 7 (3.11%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.22%) CMDB
5 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.89%) IoT
7 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) Wiki
8 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.44%) AS400
8 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.44%) PKI
8 1 (0.44%) Replication
8 1 (0.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.67%) Windows
1 6 (2.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (20.44%) Agile
2 46 (20.44%) Data Modelling
3 45 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 40 (17.78%) Analytics
5 37 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (16.44%) Visualisation
6 33 (14.67%) Decision-Making
7 30 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (12.44%) Data Visualisation
9 27 (12.00%) DevOps
10 26 (11.56%) Waterfall
11 23 (10.22%) Data Governance
12 21 (9.33%) ETL
13 20 (8.89%) AI
13 20 (8.89%) Digital Marketing
13 20 (8.89%) Migration
13 20 (8.89%) Programme Management
14 18 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
15 16 (7.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 56 (24.89%) SQL
2 19 (8.44%) Python
3 14 (6.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.56%) R
5 6 (2.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.33%) Bicep
7 3 (1.33%) C#
7 3 (1.33%) Java
7 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.33%) VBA
8 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.78%) Degree
4 7 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.33%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.33%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.33%) PMP
6 3 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.67%) PMO
3 10 (4.44%) QA
4 6 (2.67%) GDPR
4 6 (2.67%) SLA
5 4 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) COBIT
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.33%) SCCM
3 2 (0.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 49 (21.78%) Oracle
3 36 (16.00%) SAP
4 17 (7.56%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.89%) Databricks
6 9 (4.00%) OpenAI
7 7 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.22%) Adobe
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco
9 3 (1.33%) Cognos
9 3 (1.33%) Foundry
9 3 (1.33%) Juniper
9 3 (1.33%) Palantir
9 3 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.89%) Informatica
10 2 (0.89%) Talend
11 1 (0.44%) BMC
11 1 (0.44%) ESRI
11 1 (0.44%) Remedy