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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 41 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 272 174 211
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.10% 4.93% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 5.52% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 127 139
10th Percentile £262 £243 £232
25th Percentile £394 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £650 £644
90th Percentile £627 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 3
10th Percentile £28.00 - £27.94
25th Percentile £34.01 - £38.72
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -45.10% +107.30%
75th Percentile £80.06 £34.15 £62.39
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £63.79
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.52% +6.83% -7.18%

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 5,337 3,153 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.51% 89.32% 82.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,256 1,962 2,362
10th Percentile £280 £238 £256
25th Percentile £421 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.53%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 307 307
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.71 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £15.50 £26.47
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +128.26% -59.90% +14.70%
75th Percentile £71.32 £53.63 £70.29
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -29 104 £475 -20.83% 84
Hampshire -16 68 £525 -6.67% 40
Berkshire -40 59 £500 -21.57% 42
West Sussex +7 48 £380 +52.00% 13
Buckinghamshire -9 32 £475 +33.33% 25
Surrey -11 27 £475 +35.71% 26
Oxfordshire -20 13 £400 +77.78% 19
Kent - 8 £550 - 13
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 10
Middlesex - 4 - - 9
Home Counties -1 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 13 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.47%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.94%) iTrent
3 7 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.10%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.74%) Maximo
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.74%) Primavera
7 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.74%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 203 (74.63%) Power Platform
2 70 (25.74%) Azure
3 23 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.72%) Power Automate
5 19 (6.99%) AWS
6 15 (5.51%) Serverless
7 14 (5.15%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.68%) GCP
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.57%) dbt
12 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.21%) SaaS
13 5 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.47%) Broadband
2 1 (0.37%) Intranet
2 1 (0.37%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (73.53%) Power BI
2 26 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (9.56%) Tableau
3 17 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (5.51%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.31%) Metadata
8 8 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (2.21%) Power Query
10 5 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.84%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.47%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.47%) MySQL
11 4 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (1.47%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.72%) JIRA
2 9 (3.31%) Git
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.47%) JUnit
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) Hudson
5 1 (0.37%) JMeter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.37%) RStudio
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) TestRail
5 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 83 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (19.49%) Finance
4 21 (7.72%) Retail
5 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.41%) Aerospace
8 11 (4.04%) Marketing
9 9 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.84%) Banking
11 5 (1.84%) Legal
12 4 (1.47%) Military
12 4 (1.47%) Publishing
12 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.10%) Billing
13 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Aviation
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (26.84%) Analyst
2 45 (16.54%) Data Analyst
3 35 (12.87%) Developer
4 31 (11.40%) Senior
5 19 (6.99%) Architect
5 19 (6.99%) Lead
6 14 (5.15%) Business Analyst
6 14 (5.15%) Consultant
6 14 (5.15%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Engineer
9 10 (3.68%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.31%) E-Commerce Specialist
10 9 (3.31%) Oracle Developer
11 8 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.57%) Data Manager
12 7 (2.57%) HR Analyst
12 7 (2.57%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.25%) REST
2 10 (3.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.94%) Middleware
4 6 (2.21%) .NET
4 6 (2.21%) EDI
5 5 (1.84%) SOAP
5 5 (1.84%) Terraform
6 4 (1.47%) CSS
6 4 (1.47%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.47%) HTML
6 4 (1.47%) JPA
6 4 (1.47%) jQuery
6 4 (1.47%) Spring
6 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.47%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.10%) JSON
7 3 (1.10%) PySpark
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.74%) SPFx
8 2 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.99%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.68%) PKI
3 9 (3.31%) Clustering
4 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.57%) FMCG
6 5 (1.84%) CMDB
7 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.47%) Social Media
8 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) PMI
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.04%) Windows
2 10 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.68%) Analytics
2 73 (26.84%) Data Modelling
3 64 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 60 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (21.32%) Agile
6 44 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.81%) ETL
8 41 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (15.07%) Visualisation
9 40 (14.71%) Data Analysis
10 39 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (13.97%) Validation
12 37 (13.60%) ERP
13 35 (12.87%) Data Governance
13 35 (12.87%) Migration
14 34 (12.50%) DevOps
15 31 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
16 28 (10.29%) CI/CD
16 28 (10.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (45.22%) SQL
2 24 (8.82%) Python
3 23 (8.46%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.51%) PL/SQL
6 13 (4.78%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.78%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.57%) C#
8 6 (2.21%) Java
9 4 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.47%) X++
10 3 (1.10%) R
11 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.19%) Degree
4 18 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.57%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.21%) ACCA
7 6 (2.21%) PMP
8 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) CIMA
10 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CAPM
12 1 (0.37%) CISA
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.99%) GDPR
3 15 (5.51%) QA
4 12 (4.41%) PMO
5 6 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) IFRS
7 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.10%) SLA
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 10 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) Grafana
1 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 85 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 47 (17.28%) Oracle
3 42 (15.44%) SAP
4 21 (7.72%) Databricks
5 16 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.04%) IFS
7 10 (3.68%) BMC
7 10 (3.68%) Remedy
8 9 (3.31%) Google
9 8 (2.94%) Workday
10 6 (2.21%) Baan
10 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.10%) Informatica
12 2 (0.74%) Adobe
12 2 (0.74%) Ariba
12 2 (0.74%) ESRI
12 2 (0.74%) Foundry
12 2 (0.74%) IBM
12 2 (0.74%) Palantir
12 2 (0.74%) Teradata