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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 219 198 207
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.60% 6.30% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 6.98% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 125 135
10th Percentile £307 £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 £544
90th Percentile £652 £663 £635
England median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.73 £22.97
25th Percentile £17.65 £33.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -32.54% +58.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £64.73 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.78 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.50 £28.37
% change year-on-year -13.95% -3.07% +5.07%

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 3,980 2,836 4,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.65% 90.29% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,618 1,739 2,909
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £615
90th Percentile £694 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 103 359
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.26 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.15
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.40 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 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 18 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 18 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 -6 126 £505 - 49
Berkshire -12 83 £565 +7.62% 30
Hampshire +1 63 £450 -18.18% 41
Buckinghamshire +12 39 £425 -15.84% 10
Surrey -26 17 £550 +17.02% 17
West Sussex -5 14 £400 +14.29% 9
Oxfordshire -14 4 £500 +17.65% 12
East Sussex +5 2 £375 -
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 37 (16.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.20%) Confluence
2 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (26.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.83%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.37%) Eloqua
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.91%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 125 (57.08%) Power Platform
2 54 (24.66%) Azure
3 40 (18.26%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (10.05%) PowerApps
5 17 (7.76%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.31%) SaaS
7 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (5.02%) Copilot Studio
8 11 (5.02%) Entra ID
9 10 (4.57%) AWS
9 10 (4.57%) GCP
10 9 (4.11%) OCI
11 7 (3.20%) GitHub
12 6 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.74%) OneDrive
13 5 (2.28%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.28%) Serverless
14 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) VPN
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.37%) BGP
3 3 (1.37%) Junos
3 3 (1.37%) OSPF
4 2 (0.91%) 2G
4 2 (0.91%) 5G
4 2 (0.91%) DHCP
4 2 (0.91%) DNS
4 2 (0.91%) Intranet
4 2 (0.91%) LTE
4 2 (0.91%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.91%) VoIP
5 1 (0.46%) DDNS
5 1 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.46%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (57.08%) Power BI
2 33 (15.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 27 (12.33%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (6.85%) Tableau
5 14 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 9 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.20%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.74%) Big Data
9 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.28%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.28%) Metadata
10 5 (2.28%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.37%) MySQL
12 3 (1.37%) OLAP
12 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.70%) JIRA
2 8 (3.65%) Git
3 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.37%) JUnit
3 3 (1.37%) Storybook
4 1 (0.46%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) Toad
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (42.01%) Social Skills
2 76 (34.70%) Finance
3 57 (26.03%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.44%) Public Sector
5 29 (13.24%) Marketing
6 23 (10.50%) Manufacturing
6 23 (10.50%) Telecoms
7 21 (9.59%) Electronics
8 16 (7.31%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (7.31%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (4.11%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Banking
11 4 (1.83%) Legal
12 3 (1.37%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.91%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Military
14 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (27.40%) Analyst
2 34 (15.53%) Developer
3 31 (14.16%) Data Analyst
4 23 (10.50%) Architect
5 22 (10.05%) PMO Analyst
6 19 (8.68%) Oracle Developer
7 18 (8.22%) Consultant
8 16 (7.31%) Senior
9 13 (5.94%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Platform Architect
10 11 (5.02%) Power Platform Architect
10 11 (5.02%) Report Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Business Analyst
12 9 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Lead
13 8 (3.65%) Administrator
14 7 (3.20%) Functional Consultant
14 7 (3.20%) Integration Manager
14 7 (3.20%) Oracle Consultant
14 7 (3.20%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.20%) REST
3 5 (2.28%) ADO
4 3 (1.37%) CSS
4 3 (1.37%) HTML
4 3 (1.37%) PySpark
4 3 (1.37%) React
4 3 (1.37%) RESTful
4 3 (1.37%) Spring
4 3 (1.37%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.37%) Vitest
4 3 (1.37%) Web Services
4 3 (1.37%) XML
5 2 (0.91%) BAPI
5 2 (0.91%) IDoc
5 2 (0.91%) JSON
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (0.91%) Pandas
5 2 (0.91%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.65%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.65%) NHS
3 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.28%) CMDB
5 3 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.91%) IoT
6 2 (0.91%) Replication
6 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.91%) Wiki
7 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) PKI
7 1 (0.46%) SCADA
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.20%) Windows
2 6 (2.74%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (20.55%) Data Analysis
3 42 (19.18%) Agile
4 41 (18.72%) Data Modelling
5 37 (16.89%) Analytics
6 36 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (15.53%) Visualisation
8 30 (13.70%) Decision-Making
9 28 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (12.33%) Waterfall
11 25 (11.42%) Data Visualisation
11 25 (11.42%) DevOps
12 21 (9.59%) ETL
13 20 (9.13%) AI
13 20 (9.13%) Data Governance
13 20 (9.13%) Digital Marketing
13 20 (9.13%) Programme Management
14 18 (8.22%) Migration
15 17 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
16 16 (7.31%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.74%) SQL
2 17 (7.76%) Python
3 14 (6.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.65%) R
5 5 (2.28%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.37%) Bicep
7 3 (1.37%) C#
7 3 (1.37%) Java
7 3 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.37%) VBA
8 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.59%) Degree
4 6 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.37%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.37%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.37%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.37%) PMP
6 3 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.42%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.96%) PMO
3 10 (4.57%) QA
4 6 (2.74%) SLA
5 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) COBIT
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.46%) Brightmail
2 1 (0.46%) ISA Server
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.37%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 48 (21.92%) Oracle
3 38 (17.35%) SAP
4 16 (7.31%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.57%) Databricks
6 9 (4.11%) OpenAI
7 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.28%) Adobe
9 4 (1.83%) Cognos
10 3 (1.37%) Cisco
10 3 (1.37%) Foundry
10 3 (1.37%) Juniper
10 3 (1.37%) Palantir
10 3 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.91%) Informatica
11 2 (0.91%) Talend
12 1 (0.46%) Arqiva
12 1 (0.46%) Concur
12 1 (0.46%) RedGate