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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 286 189 207
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.32% 5.50% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 6.09% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 127 131
10th Percentile £268 £273 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £638
90th Percentile £600 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 2
10th Percentile £28.24 - £24.30
25th Percentile £34.01 - £29.63
Median hourly rate £37.69 £32.05 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -23.69% +14.82%
75th Percentile £80.16 £34.15 £57.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £64.10
England median hourly rate £29.98 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.25% +5.47% -7.92%

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 5,359 3,102 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.96% 90.28% 82.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,943 2,569
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £673 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 276 361
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £27.38 £15.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £57.79 £21.67 £55.08
Median % change year-on-year +166.72% -60.66% +10.15%
75th Percentile £82.25 £51.10 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.99
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -35 107 £500 -16.67% 45
Hampshire -11 81 £525 -8.70% 24
Berkshire -32 66 £520 -13.33% 16
West Sussex +1 49 £380 -5.00% 5
Surrey -17 30 £500 +36.99% 15
Buckinghamshire -24 25 £475 - 20
Oxfordshire -14 16 £500 +122.22% 9
Kent +11 9 £550 - 13
East Sussex +3 5 £616 +64.27% 8
Home Counties -1 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - - 3
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 17 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.85%) Confluence
3 4 (1.40%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (18.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.35%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.35%) InDesign
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.80%) iTrent
3 7 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (2.10%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (1.75%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (1.40%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (1.05%) Eloqua
7 3 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (1.05%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.70%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.70%) Primavera
8 2 (0.70%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 206 (72.03%) Power Platform
2 63 (22.03%) Azure
3 21 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.29%) Power Automate
5 15 (5.24%) AWS
6 13 (4.55%) Serverless
7 12 (4.20%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.85%) GCP
9 9 (3.15%) dbt
9 9 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.80%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.45%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.45%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.45%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Broadband
1 1 (0.35%) DHCP
1 1 (0.35%) DNS
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
1 1 (0.35%) Intranet
1 1 (0.35%) VPN
1 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (71.68%) Power BI
2 30 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (9.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 27 (9.44%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (9.09%) Tableau
5 19 (6.64%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.80%) Metadata
7 8 (2.80%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (2.45%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.75%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.40%) Big Data
11 4 (1.40%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (1.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (8.39%) JIRA
2 9 (3.15%) Git
3 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.40%) JUnit
4 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.35%) ERwin
5 1 (0.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Hudson
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 72 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
1 72 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.23%) Finance
3 24 (8.39%) Retail
4 18 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.94%) Marketing
6 9 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.45%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.75%) Banking
8 5 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.40%) Military
9 4 (1.40%) Publishing
10 3 (1.05%) Advertising
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
10 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (27.27%) Analyst
2 46 (16.08%) Data Analyst
3 39 (13.64%) Developer
4 31 (10.84%) Senior
5 23 (8.04%) Architect
6 20 (6.99%) Lead
7 19 (6.64%) Oracle Developer
8 17 (5.94%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.59%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (4.20%) Consultant
10 12 (4.20%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) Report Developer
12 9 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) E-Commerce Specialist
13 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.45%) HR Analyst
14 7 (2.45%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.99%) REST
2 18 (6.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.10%) EDI
3 6 (2.10%) Middleware
3 6 (2.10%) SOAP
4 5 (1.75%) JSON
5 4 (1.40%) .NET
5 4 (1.40%) CSS
5 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.40%) HTML
5 4 (1.40%) JPA
5 4 (1.40%) jQuery
5 4 (1.40%) Spring
5 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.40%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.40%) XML
6 3 (1.05%) PySpark
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.55%) PKI
3 11 (3.85%) Clustering
4 10 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.80%) CMDB
6 6 (2.10%) FMCG
6 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.40%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.70%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.70%) Wiki
11 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.24%) Windows
2 13 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.87%) Analytics
2 72 (25.17%) Data Modelling
3 66 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 64 (22.38%) Agile
5 52 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (16.43%) Data Analysis
7 45 (15.73%) Visualisation
8 44 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (14.69%) ETL
10 41 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (13.99%) ERP
11 40 (13.99%) Migration
12 39 (13.64%) Validation
13 37 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (11.54%) Dashboard Development
15 32 (11.19%) Data Governance
15 32 (11.19%) DevOps
16 31 (10.84%) Data Visualisation
16 31 (10.84%) Process Improvement
16 31 (10.84%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 127 (44.41%) SQL
2 22 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 21 (7.34%) Python
4 19 (6.64%) PowerShell
5 17 (5.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (5.59%) PL/SQL
7 15 (5.24%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.50%) C#
9 6 (2.10%) Java
10 5 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.40%) X++
12 3 (1.05%) Bicep
12 3 (1.05%) R
13 2 (0.70%) VBA
14 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.69%) Degree
4 19 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.10%) ACCA
6 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.10%) PMP
7 4 (1.40%) CIMA
7 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISA
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (18.53%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.69%) GDPR
3 18 (6.29%) QA
4 17 (5.94%) PMO
5 11 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.75%) SLA
7 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.40%) IFRS
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) COBIT
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 16 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.40%) Terraform
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.05%) SCCM
3 1 (0.35%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (25.52%) Microsoft
2 59 (20.63%) Oracle
3 39 (13.64%) SAP
4 17 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.55%) BMC
5 13 (4.55%) IFS
5 13 (4.55%) Remedy
6 12 (4.20%) Databricks
7 10 (3.50%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.80%) Adobe
8 8 (2.80%) Google
8 8 (2.80%) Workday
9 6 (2.10%) Baan
10 3 (1.05%) Informatica
10 3 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.70%) Foundry
11 2 (0.70%) NEC
11 2 (0.70%) Palantir
12 1 (0.35%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.35%) ESRI