Business Intelligence Contracts in the South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Business Intelligence (BI) England / South East
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	45	45	42
Rank change year-on-year	0	-3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence	338	361	410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	4.34%	4.09%	4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.23%	5.00%	5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted	224	227	285
Median daily rate	£430	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.50%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£280	£313	£262
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£500	£535
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	6	2
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£36.25	£29.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-55.86%	+25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.50	£20.00	£21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£53.75	£37.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.96	£32.50	£23.75
% change year-on-year	-13.96%	+36.84%

Business Intelligence is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills South East
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	6465	7227	7633
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East	82.97%	81.97%	80.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	3782	4419	4405
Median daily rate	£425	£413	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.03%	+3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£538	£515
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	236	268	264
Median hourly rate	£29.92	£32.00	£24.12
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.50%	+32.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£52.50	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South East citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East.

Contractor daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the South East

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South East over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Berkshire	+1	77	£450	+13.92%	24
Hampshire	-5	54	£394	-7.35%	21
West Sussex	+48	50	£400	+6.66%	8
Buckinghamshire	-19	49	£425	+11.84%	20
Surrey	-8	37	£400	-	23
Oxfordshire	+11	32	£475	+5.55%	6
East Sussex	+10	12	£340	-2.85%	1
Kent	-14	2	£235	-47.77%	2
Business Intelligence England

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the South East region with a requirement for Business Intelligence.

1	243 (37.56%)	SQL
2	221 (34.16%)	Finance
3	172 (26.58%)	Data Warehouse
4	162 (25.04%)	SAP
5	154 (23.80%)	Oracle
6	149 (23.03%)	SQL Server
7	144 (22.26%)	Agile Software Development
8	142 (21.95%)	Telecoms
9	135 (20.87%)	Marketing
10	129 (19.94%)	ETL
11	125 (19.32%)	Microsoft
12	114 (17.62%)	Data Modelling
13	102 (15.77%)	Programme Management
14	99 (15.30%)	Manufacturing
14	99 (15.30%)	SAP Oil and Gas

15	98 (15.15%)	Digital Marketing
16	97 (14.99%)	Electronics
17	93 (14.37%)	SQL Server Integration Services
18	81 (12.52%)	Analytical Skills
19	80 (12.36%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
20	72 (11.13%)	Power BI
21	70 (10.82%)	Analytics
22	69 (10.66%)	Security Cleared
22	69 (10.66%)	Microsoft Excel
23	62 (9.58%)	Oracle Database
24	57 (8.81%)	Tableau
25	55 (8.50%)	Project Management
26	53 (8.19%)	Oracle BI EE
27	52 (8.04%)	SC Cleared
27	52 (8.04%)	PL/SQL

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	42 (6.49%)	SharePoint
2	15 (2.32%)	Drupal
3	12 (1.85%)	Oracle SOA Suite
3	12 (1.85%)	WebLogic
4	10 (1.55%)	Apache Spark
5	9 (1.39%)	SharePoint 2013
6	8 (1.24%)	SAS
7	7 (1.08%)	Confluence
8	6 (0.93%)	Alfresco
8	6 (0.93%)	CMS
8	6 (0.93%)	Liferay
9	4 (0.62%)	Elasticsearch
9	4 (0.62%)	OpenStack
9	4 (0.62%)	Oracle Coherence
9	4 (0.62%)	SharePoint 2010
9	4 (0.62%)	Tomcat
10	3 (0.46%)	BizTalk Server
10	3 (0.46%)	IIS
10	3 (0.46%)	MS Exchange
10	3 (0.46%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	69 (10.66%)	Microsoft Excel
2	24 (3.71%)	Microsoft Office
3	7 (1.08%)	Spreadsheet
4	5 (0.77%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	3 (0.46%)	MS Visio
6	2 (0.31%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.31%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	99 (15.30%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	16 (2.47%)	Oracle EBS
3	8 (1.24%)	Maximo
4	6 (0.93%)	Dynamics CRM
5	5 (0.77%)	Dynamics NAV
5	5 (0.77%)	Oracle 11i
5	5 (0.77%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	5 (0.77%)	Oracle ERP
6	4 (0.62%)	Oracle Financials
7	3 (0.46%)	Cognos TM1
7	3 (0.46%)	Eagle PACE
7	3 (0.46%)	HFM
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle Assets
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle Cash Management
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle E-Business Tax
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle iProcurement
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle Payables
7	3 (0.46%)	Oracle Receivables
7	3 (0.46%)	Primavera
7	3 (0.46%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	32 (4.95%)	Microsoft Azure
2	19 (2.94%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (1.85%)	Office 365
4	5 (0.77%)	SaaS
5	4 (0.62%)	Yammer
6	2 (0.31%)	Adobe Analytics
6	2 (0.31%)	Amazon EC2
6	2 (0.31%)	Azure Data Factory
6	2 (0.31%)	Cloud Computing
6	2 (0.31%)	Google Analytics
6	2 (0.31%)	OneDrive
7	1 (0.15%)	Amazon EMR
7	1 (0.15%)	Amazon SQS
7	1 (0.15%)	Azure Machine Learning
7	1 (0.15%)	CallidusCloud
7	1 (0.15%)	Dynamics 365
7	1 (0.15%)	IaaS
7	1 (0.15%)	PaaS
7	1 (0.15%)	Taleo
7	1 (0.15%)	Veeva

Communications & Networking
1	8 (1.24%)	NAS
1	8 (1.24%)	SAN
2	7 (1.08%)	PuTTY
2	7 (1.08%)	WinSCP
3	6 (0.93%)	Kerberos
3	6 (0.93%)	MVNO
4	5 (0.77%)	Skype
5	4 (0.62%)	Firewall
6	3 (0.46%)	Internet
6	3 (0.46%)	Network Security
6	3 (0.46%)	TCP/IP
6	3 (0.46%)	VPN
6	3 (0.46%)	WAN
6	3 (0.46%)	Wi-Fi
7	2 (0.31%)	4G
7	2 (0.31%)	DNS
7	2 (0.31%)	Intranet
7	2 (0.31%)	IPsec
7	2 (0.31%)	LDAP
7	2 (0.31%)	SSL

Database & Business Intelligence
1	172 (26.58%)	Data Warehouse
2	149 (23.03%)	SQL Server
3	93 (14.37%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	80 (12.36%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	72 (11.13%)	Power BI
6	62 (9.58%)	Oracle Database
7	53 (8.19%)	Oracle BI EE
8	50 (7.73%)	Big Data
9	49 (7.57%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	40 (6.18%)	BusinessObjects
11	37 (5.72%)	Hadoop
12	34 (5.26%)	Oracle Reports
13	32 (4.95%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13	32 (4.95%)	Relational Database
14	30 (4.64%)	Oracle Database 11g
15	29 (4.48%)	QlikView
16	23 (3.55%)	SQL Server 2008
17	22 (3.40%)	Oracle Database 12c
18	20 (3.09%)	Oracle OWB
18	20 (3.09%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	32 (4.95%)	Talend Open Studio
2	17 (2.63%)	Team Foundation Server
3	16 (2.47%)	Oracle APEX
4	15 (2.32%)	JIRA
4	15 (2.32%)	Maven
5	14 (2.16%)	Toad
6	12 (1.85%)	Git (software)
7	11 (1.70%)	Oracle Forms
8	9 (1.39%)	Eclipse
8	9 (1.39%)	Jenkins
9	8 (1.24%)	TeamCity
10	7 (1.08%)	HP UFT
11	5 (0.77%)	ERwin
11	5 (0.77%)	Visual Studio
12	4 (0.62%)	Bitbucket
13	2 (0.31%)	JUnit
13	2 (0.31%)	Selenium
13	2 (0.31%)	SpecFlow
13	2 (0.31%)	Subversion
13	2 (0.31%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	221 (34.16%)	Finance
2	142 (21.95%)	Telecoms
3	135 (20.87%)	Marketing
4	99 (15.30%)	Manufacturing
5	97 (14.99%)	Electronics
6	30 (4.64%)	Retail
7	17 (2.63%)	Legal
8	14 (2.16%)	Publishing
9	13 (2.01%)	Banking
10	10 (1.55%)	Billing
11	6 (0.93%)	Pharmaceutical
12	5 (0.77%)	Back Office
13	4 (0.62%)	Advertising
13	4 (0.62%)	General Ledger
13	4 (0.62%)	Military
14	2 (0.31%)	Local Government
14	2 (0.31%)	Retail Banking
14	2 (0.31%)	Spanish Language
15	1 (0.15%)	Law
15	1 (0.15%)	Welsh Language

Job Titles
1	175 (27.05%)	Developer
2	124 (19.17%)	Analyst
3	70 (10.82%)	Architect
4	59 (9.12%)	Business Intelligence Developer
5	56 (8.66%)	SQL Developer
6	50 (7.73%)	Consultant
7	44 (6.80%)	Business Analyst
8	41 (6.34%)	Business Intelligence Analyst
9	31 (4.79%)	Data Architect
10	27 (4.17%)	DBA
11	26 (4.02%)	Project Manager
11	26 (4.02%)	SQL BI Developer
12	25 (3.86%)	Data Warehouse Developer
13	18 (2.78%)	Administrator
13	18 (2.78%)	Business Intelligence Manager
13	18 (2.78%)	SQL DBA
14	17 (2.63%)	Business Intelligence Consultant
14	17 (2.63%)	Microsoft Developer
14	17 (2.63%)	OBIEE Developer
15	16 (2.47%)	ETL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	31 (4.79%)	XML
2	21 (3.25%)	JSON
3	20 (3.09%)	Web Services
4	18 (2.78%)	REST
5	17 (2.63%)	Swagger
6	16 (2.47%)	XSLT
7	15 (2.32%)	JSON Schema
7	15 (2.32%)	Middleware
7	15 (2.32%)	WireMock
8	12 (1.85%)	.NET
9	9 (1.39%)	RESTful
9	9 (1.39%)	SOAP
10	8 (1.24%)	MDX
11	7 (1.08%)	HTML
12	6 (0.93%)	Oracle Fusion
13	5 (0.77%)	OAuth2
13	5 (0.77%)	PostGIS
13	5 (0.77%)	RabbitMQ
14	4 (0.62%)	.NET Framework
14	4 (0.62%)	Velocity

Miscellaneous
1	81 (12.52%)	Analytical Skills
2	43 (6.65%)	Management Information System
3	23 (3.55%)	NHS
4	20 (3.09%)	Greenfield Project
5	13 (2.01%)	Data Structures
6	12 (1.85%)	Reference Data
7	11 (1.70%)	Computer Science
8	10 (1.55%)	Enterprise Software
9	9 (1.39%)	Data Centre
10	7 (1.08%)	Clustering
10	7 (1.08%)	Life Science
11	6 (0.93%)	Replication
11	6 (0.93%)	Social Media
11	6 (0.93%)	User Experience
12	5 (0.77%)	CMDB
12	5 (0.77%)	Credit Risk
12	5 (0.77%)	Mobile App
12	5 (0.77%)	PMI
13	4 (0.62%)	Digital Media
13	4 (0.62%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	36 (5.56%)	Windows
2	34 (5.26%)	Linux
3	12 (1.85%)	Unix
4	9 (1.39%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	9 (1.39%)	Solaris
4	9 (1.39%)	Windows Server 2008
5	8 (1.24%)	Windows Server 2012
6	6 (0.93%)	Oracle Linux
7	4 (0.62%)	Apple iOS
8	3 (0.46%)	Windows 10
8	3 (0.46%)	Windows Server
9	2 (0.31%)	Android
9	2 (0.31%)	CentOS
9	2 (0.31%)	Windows 2000 Server
9	2 (0.31%)	Windows Server 2003
10	1 (0.15%)	Windows Vista

Processes & Methodologies
1	144 (22.26%)	Agile Software Development
2	129 (19.94%)	ETL
3	114 (17.62%)	Data Modelling
4	102 (15.77%)	Programme Management
5	98 (15.15%)	Digital Marketing
6	70 (10.82%)	Analytics
7	55 (8.50%)	Project Management
8	51 (7.88%)	Stakeholder Management
9	50 (7.73%)	Migration
10	47 (7.26%)	CRM
10	47 (7.26%)	Performance Tuning
11	44 (6.80%)	Visualisation
12	43 (6.65%)	ITIL
13	35 (5.41%)	Kimball Methodology
14	34 (5.26%)	Waterfall
15	31 (4.79%)	Scrum
16	29 (4.48%)	Service Management
17	28 (4.33%)	Dimensional Modelling
17	28 (4.33%)	ERP
18	27 (4.17%)	Data Visualisation

Programming Languages
1	243 (37.56%)	SQL
2	52 (8.04%)	PL/SQL
3	45 (6.96%)	T-SQL
4	28 (4.33%)	Java
4	28 (4.33%)	Python
5	15 (2.32%)	C#
5	15 (2.32%)	XPath
6	14 (2.16%)	Shell Script
6	14 (2.16%)	VBA
7	13 (2.01%)	R
8	12 (1.85%)	C
9	11 (1.70%)	JavaScript
10	9 (1.39%)	VB
11	8 (1.24%)	F#
11	8 (1.24%)	PowerShell
11	8 (1.24%)	Ruby
12	6 (0.93%)	ABAP
12	6 (0.93%)	PHP
12	6 (0.93%)	Scala
13	5 (0.77%)	C++

Qualifications
1	69 (10.66%)	Security Cleared
2	52 (8.04%)	SC Cleared
3	37 (5.72%)	Degree
4	27 (4.17%)	ISEB
5	10 (1.55%)	Microsoft Certification
6	8 (1.24%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	8 (1.24%)	PMI Certification
7	7 (1.08%)	MCDBA
8	6 (0.93%)	ISTQB
9	5 (0.77%)	BPSS Clearance
9	5 (0.77%)	Computer Science Degree
9	5 (0.77%)	ISEB Practitioner
10	4 (0.62%)	BC Cleared
10	4 (0.62%)	CFA
10	4 (0.62%)	CISM
10	4 (0.62%)	DV Cleared
11	3 (0.46%)	CCA
11	3 (0.46%)	PMP
11	3 (0.46%)	PRINCE2 Certification
12	2 (0.31%)	CIMA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	30 (4.64%)	Data Quality
2	29 (4.48%)	QA
3	23 (3.55%)	PMO
4	10 (1.55%)	SLA
5	6 (0.93%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	5 (0.77%)	JSP 440
7	3 (0.46%)	GDPR
7	3 (0.46%)	HL7
8	2 (0.31%)	GxP
8	2 (0.31%)	Solvency II
9	1 (0.15%)	Actionable Recommendations
9	1 (0.15%)	COBIT
9	1 (0.15%)	EFQM
9	1 (0.15%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	1 (0.15%)	PCI DSS
9	1 (0.15%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	1 (0.15%)	WCAG

System Software
1	16 (2.47%)	Oracle RAC
2	14 (2.16%)	Active Directory
3	8 (1.24%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	7 (1.08%)	Docker
5	4 (0.62%)	vSphere
6	3 (0.46%)	vCloud
6	3 (0.46%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.31%)	HDFS
7	2 (0.31%)	NFS
7	2 (0.31%)	Samba
7	2 (0.31%)	Squid
7	2 (0.31%)	VMware Workstation
7	2 (0.31%)	XenServer
8	1 (0.15%)	Apache Flume
8	1 (0.15%)	Hyper-V
8	1 (0.15%)	ProxySG
8	1 (0.15%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	8 (1.24%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
1	8 (1.24%)	Oracle RMAN
2	7 (1.08%)	Puppet
3	6 (0.93%)	Ansible
3	6 (0.93%)	Microsoft Clustering
4	5 (0.77%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4	5 (0.77%)	vRealize
5	4 (0.62%)	Data Guard
5	4 (0.62%)	Kibana
5	4 (0.62%)	logstash
5	4 (0.62%)	Rsyslog
6	3 (0.46%)	Oozie
6	3 (0.46%)	ZABBIX
7	2 (0.31%)	Hadoop YARN
7	2 (0.31%)	Nagios
8	1 (0.15%)	AppDNA
8	1 (0.15%)	HP Quality Center
8	1 (0.15%)	Kubernetes
8	1 (0.15%)	Microsoft Intune
8	1 (0.15%)	Opscode Chef

Vendors
1	162 (25.04%)	SAP
2	154 (23.80%)	Oracle
3	125 (19.32%)	Microsoft
4	57 (8.81%)	Tableau
5	32 (4.95%)	Talend
6	30 (4.64%)	Cognos
7	22 (3.40%)	VMware
8	18 (2.78%)	IBM
9	17 (2.63%)	Informatica
9	17 (2.63%)	MicroStrategy
10	13 (2.01%)	Red Hat
11	12 (1.85%)	Remedy
12	11 (1.70%)	HP
12	11 (1.70%)	Teradata
13	9 (1.39%)	Hyperion
14	6 (0.93%)	Ab Initio
14	6 (0.93%)	Citrix
14	6 (0.93%)	ESRI
14	6 (0.93%)	OpenText
14	6 (0.93%)	SolarWinds