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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 272 191 190
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.58% 6.34% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 6.93% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 130 113
10th Percentile £287 £280 £203
25th Percentile £375 £366 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -2.86%
75th Percentile £570 £650 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £668
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 9
10th Percentile £14.14 £21.22 £22.61
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.75 £24.43
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -59.94% +92.40%
75th Percentile £80.08 - £84.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.57 -
England median hourly rate £25.42 £28.60 £24.22
% change year-on-year -11.14% +18.11% -1.16%

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 4,782 2,755 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.52% 91.44% 84.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,121 1,766 2,674
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £410 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £663 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 172 439
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.09 £13.00
25th Percentile £24.81 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.06% -41.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -20 123 £500 -16.67% 62
Berkshire -27 81 £520 -16.80% 30
Hampshire +5 77 £450 -25.00% 18
West Sussex -3 32 £380 -1.30% 8
Buckinghamshire -13 30 £425 -15.84% 21
Surrey -22 21 £525 +43.84% 23
Oxfordshire -15 12 £500 +25.00% 11
East Sussex +4 6 £538 +43.33% 5
Kent -5 6 - - 12
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 27 (9.93%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 59 (21.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.10%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.37%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.94%) iTrent
3 6 (2.21%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (2.21%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.84%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.10%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
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 Payables
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 197 (72.43%) Power Platform
2 64 (23.53%) Azure
3 26 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (7.72%) Power Automate
5 18 (6.62%) PowerApps
6 14 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (4.78%) AWS
8 11 (4.04%) Copilot Studio
8 11 (4.04%) SaaS
8 11 (4.04%) Serverless
9 8 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.57%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.21%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.21%) dbt
11 6 (2.21%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.21%) GitHub
11 6 (2.21%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Intranet
2 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.37%) BGP
3 1 (0.37%) DHCP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.37%) Junos
3 1 (0.37%) OSPF
3 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (72.43%) Power BI
2 32 (11.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 31 (11.40%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (6.62%) Tableau
6 15 (5.51%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.57%) Big Data
8 7 (2.57%) Metadata
8 7 (2.57%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.84%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 5 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (1.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.10%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.10%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 30 (11.03%) JIRA
2 5 (1.84%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) ERwin
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) Hudson
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.37%) Postman
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 77 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 75 (27.57%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (26.10%) Finance
4 22 (8.09%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.09%) Retail
5 21 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.51%) Marketing
7 10 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.84%) Electronics
11 5 (1.84%) Military
12 3 (1.10%) Advertising
12 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.37%) Aviation
14 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.37%) Legal
14 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (26.84%) Analyst
2 40 (14.71%) Data Analyst
3 31 (11.40%) Developer
4 28 (10.29%) Architect
5 23 (8.46%) Senior
6 21 (7.72%) PMO Analyst
7 20 (7.35%) Lead
8 19 (6.99%) Data Engineer
9 18 (6.62%) Oracle Developer
10 16 (5.88%) Consultant
11 14 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.04%) Platform Architect
12 11 (4.04%) Power Platform Architect
12 11 (4.04%) Report Developer
13 10 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.68%) Project Manager
14 9 (3.31%) E-Commerce Specialist
15 8 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.94%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.51%) REST
2 14 (5.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.84%) ADO
4 3 (1.10%) EDI
4 3 (1.10%) JSON
4 3 (1.10%) Middleware
4 3 (1.10%) SOAP
4 3 (1.10%) XML
5 2 (0.74%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.74%) PySpark
5 2 (0.74%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.74%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.74%) YAML
6 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.37%) Node.js
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.31%) Data Structures
1 9 (3.31%) PKI
2 8 (2.94%) CMDB
2 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.57%) Clustering
4 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.84%) FMCG
5 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.10%) NHS
6 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.74%) Wiki
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.04%) Windows
2 9 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (20.96%) Agile
2 56 (20.59%) Data Modelling
3 51 (18.75%) Analytics
3 51 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (16.54%) Decision-Making
6 43 (15.81%) Data Analysis
7 38 (13.97%) DevOps
8 35 (12.87%) ERP
8 35 (12.87%) ETL
9 33 (12.13%) Visualisation
10 30 (11.03%) Data Governance
10 30 (11.03%) Migration
11 29 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (9.56%) Data Visualisation
12 26 (9.56%) Process Improvement
13 25 (9.19%) Validation
14 24 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
15 23 (8.46%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (8.09%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 82 (30.15%) SQL
2 17 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.15%) Python
4 12 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (4.04%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.57%) C#
7 7 (2.57%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.10%) Bicep
8 3 (1.10%) VBA
9 2 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.37%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 63 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.62%) Degree
4 9 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.84%) ACCA
6 5 (1.84%) PMP
7 4 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.10%) CIMA
8 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.37%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.44%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.46%) PMO
3 20 (7.35%) GDPR
4 12 (4.41%) QA
5 11 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) SLA
8 2 (0.74%) COBIT
8 2 (0.74%) NIST
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) IFRS
System Software
1 14 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.10%) SCCM
1 3 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.37%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
2 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.01%) Oracle
3 34 (12.50%) SAP
4 14 (5.15%) Databricks
5 13 (4.78%) IFS
6 9 (3.31%) BMC
6 9 (3.31%) Remedy
6 9 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.94%) Workday
8 6 (2.21%) Adobe
8 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.10%) Baan
9 3 (1.10%) Informatica
9 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Cognos
10 2 (0.74%) Foundry
10 2 (0.74%) Google
10 2 (0.74%) Palantir
10 2 (0.74%) Talend