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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 283 190 211
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.30% 5.52% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 6.12% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 128 133
10th Percentile £268 £263 £211
25th Percentile £371 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £641 £638
90th Percentile £600 £700 £735
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% +49.15%
75th Percentile £80.16 £34.15 £57.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £64.10
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +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 5,338 3,104 4,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.20% 90.21% 82.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 1,942 2,615
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 271 381
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £15.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +155.56% -59.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £52.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -36 101 £500 -16.67% 47
Hampshire -6 83 £510 -11.30% 25
Berkshire -38 64 £525 -14.29% 17
West Sussex +1 49 £380 -5.00% 6
Surrey -14 30 £500 +39.86% 16
Buckinghamshire -22 21 £475 - 19
Oxfordshire -13 16 £500 +122.22% 11
Kent +9 9 £550 - 12
East Sussex +3 5 £616 +64.27% 5
Home Counties -1 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - - 4
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 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.89%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (19.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.59%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.06%) 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 (4.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.83%) iTrent
3 6 (2.12%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.77%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.41%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.06%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (1.06%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.71%) Primavera
7 2 (0.71%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 208 (73.50%) Power Platform
2 63 (22.26%) Azure
3 21 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.36%) Power Automate
5 15 (5.30%) AWS
6 13 (4.59%) Serverless
7 12 (4.24%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.18%) GCP
8 9 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.47%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.47%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.47%) dbt
10 7 (2.47%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.12%) 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
1 207 (73.14%) Power BI
2 26 (9.19%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (8.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 25 (8.83%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (8.48%) Tableau
5 19 (6.71%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.83%) Metadata
7 8 (2.83%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (2.47%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.77%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.41%) Big Data
11 4 (1.41%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) JIRA
2 9 (3.18%) Git
3 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.71%) 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 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 71 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (19.79%) Finance
4 27 (9.54%) Retail
5 18 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.01%) Marketing
7 16 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.47%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.77%) Banking
10 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.41%) Military
12 3 (1.06%) Advertising
12 3 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (29.33%) Analyst
2 46 (16.25%) Data Analyst
3 37 (13.07%) Developer
4 29 (10.25%) Senior
5 23 (8.13%) Architect
5 23 (8.13%) Lead
6 17 (6.01%) Business Analyst
6 17 (6.01%) Oracle Developer
7 16 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (4.24%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Engineer
9 11 (3.89%) PMO Analyst
9 11 (3.89%) Report Developer
10 10 (3.53%) Consultant
11 9 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.18%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 8 (2.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.07%) REST
2 16 (5.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.12%) EDI
3 6 (2.12%) Middleware
3 6 (2.12%) SOAP
4 5 (1.77%) JSON
5 4 (1.41%) .NET
5 4 (1.41%) CSS
5 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.41%) HTML
5 4 (1.41%) JPA
5 4 (1.41%) jQuery
5 4 (1.41%) Spring
5 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.41%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.41%) XML
6 3 (1.06%) PySpark
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.71%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.71%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.95%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.59%) PKI
3 11 (3.89%) Clustering
4 10 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.83%) CMDB
6 6 (2.12%) FMCG
6 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.71%) Wiki
11 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.30%) Windows
2 13 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.73%) Analytics
2 68 (24.03%) Agile
2 68 (24.03%) Data Modelling
3 63 (22.26%) Decision-Making
4 55 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (17.31%) Data Analysis
6 43 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (15.19%) Visualisation
7 40 (14.13%) ETL
7 40 (14.13%) Migration
8 39 (13.78%) ERP
8 39 (13.78%) Validation
9 38 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (11.66%) Dashboard Development
11 32 (11.31%) Data Governance
11 32 (11.31%) DevOps
12 31 (10.95%) Data Visualisation
13 30 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
13 30 (10.60%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.46%) SQL
2 22 (7.77%) JavaScript
3 21 (7.42%) Python
4 19 (6.71%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (5.30%) T-SQL
7 14 (4.95%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.53%) C#
9 6 (2.12%) Java
10 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.41%) X++
12 3 (1.06%) Bicep
12 3 (1.06%) R
13 2 (0.71%) VBA
14 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) Degree
4 16 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.18%) PMP
6 7 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.12%) ACCA
7 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.41%) CIMA
8 4 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISA
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.02%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.77%) GDPR
3 19 (6.71%) PMO
4 18 (6.36%) QA
5 11 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.77%) SLA
7 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.41%) IFRS
8 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.71%) COBIT
8 2 (0.71%) GRC
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 16 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.41%) Terraform
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.06%) SCCM
3 1 (0.35%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 55 (19.43%) Oracle
3 39 (13.78%) SAP
4 15 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.59%) BMC
5 13 (4.59%) IFS
5 13 (4.59%) Remedy
6 12 (4.24%) Databricks
7 10 (3.53%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.83%) Adobe
8 8 (2.83%) Workday
9 6 (2.12%) Baan
9 6 (2.12%) Google
10 3 (1.06%) Informatica
10 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) Foundry
11 2 (0.71%) NEC
11 2 (0.71%) Palantir
12 1 (0.35%) ESRI
12 1 (0.35%) Planview