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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 277 186 190
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.71% 6.15% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 6.74% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 126 114
10th Percentile £287 £271 £203
25th Percentile £379 £360 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £509
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% - -
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% +101.26%
75th Percentile £80.08 - £84.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.57 -
England median hourly rate £24.62 £28.60 £24.22
% change year-on-year -13.92% +18.11% -3.62%

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 4,755 2,761 4,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.87% 91.30% 84.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 1,762 2,719
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 173 436
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -13 128 £500 -13.04% 53
Berkshire -20 84 £515 -17.60% 26
Hampshire +11 81 £450 -24.21% 20
Buckinghamshire -10 32 £425 -15.84% 16
West Sussex -2 29 £380 -1.30% 9
Surrey -19 21 £525 +43.84% 24
Oxfordshire -14 12 £500 +25.00% 12
Kent -6 6 - - 13
East Sussex +3 5 £459 +22.40% 6
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 29 (10.47%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.61%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (22.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.14%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) InDesign
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.89%) iTrent
1 8 (2.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (1.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (1.08%) Eloqua
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 196 (70.76%) Power Platform
2 65 (23.47%) Azure
3 29 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.58%) Power Automate
6 18 (6.50%) PowerApps
7 14 (5.05%) AWS
7 14 (5.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (3.97%) Copilot Studio
8 11 (3.97%) SaaS
9 10 (3.61%) Serverless
10 8 (2.89%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.17%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.17%) GCP
11 6 (2.17%) GitHub
11 6 (2.17%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.17%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.81%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) Firewall
1 3 (1.08%) Intranet
1 3 (1.08%) VPN
2 2 (0.72%) BGP
2 2 (0.72%) Junos
2 2 (0.72%) OSPF
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (70.76%) Power BI
2 32 (11.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 31 (11.19%) Oracle Reports
4 27 (9.75%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.58%) Tableau
6 14 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.89%) Big Data
7 8 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.53%) Metadata
8 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.53%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.17%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.44%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.08%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (11.19%) JIRA
2 6 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) ERwin
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Hudson
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 82 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 79 (28.52%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (27.44%) Finance
4 23 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.30%) Retail
5 22 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.14%) Marketing
7 12 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.53%) Electronics
12 5 (1.81%) Military
13 4 (1.44%) Advertising
14 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.36%) Banking
15 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.36%) Legal
15 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (27.08%) Analyst
2 41 (14.80%) Data Analyst
3 33 (11.91%) Developer
4 27 (9.75%) Architect
5 23 (8.30%) Senior
6 22 (7.94%) PMO Analyst
7 20 (7.22%) Data Engineer
7 20 (7.22%) Lead
8 18 (6.50%) Oracle Developer
9 16 (5.78%) Consultant
10 14 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (3.97%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Platform Architect
11 11 (3.97%) Power Platform Architect
11 11 (3.97%) Report Developer
12 10 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.61%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.25%) E-Commerce Specialist
14 8 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.89%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.05%) Oracle Fusion
1 14 (5.05%) REST
2 6 (2.17%) ADO
3 3 (1.08%) EDI
3 3 (1.08%) JSON
3 3 (1.08%) Middleware
3 3 (1.08%) SOAP
3 3 (1.08%) XML
4 2 (0.72%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.72%) PySpark
4 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.72%) Seaborn
4 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.72%) YAML
5 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.36%) Kafka
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.36%) Node.js
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.89%) CMDB
2 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.89%) PKI
3 7 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.17%) Clustering
4 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.81%) FMCG
5 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.81%) NHS
6 3 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.72%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.72%) Wiki
8 1 (0.36%) Replication
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.61%) Windows
2 8 (2.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.22%) Agile
1 56 (20.22%) Data Modelling
2 55 (19.86%) Analytics
3 54 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (16.25%) Data Analysis
5 45 (16.25%) Decision-Making
6 39 (14.08%) DevOps
7 36 (13.00%) Visualisation
8 35 (12.64%) ERP
9 34 (12.27%) ETL
10 31 (11.19%) Data Governance
11 30 (10.83%) Migration
11 30 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (9.75%) Data Visualisation
13 26 (9.39%) Process Improvement
13 26 (9.39%) Validation
14 25 (9.03%) Requirements Gathering
15 23 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (7.94%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (28.88%) SQL
2 16 (5.78%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.42%) Python
4 12 (4.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.89%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.53%) C#
7 7 (2.53%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.08%) Bicep
8 3 (1.08%) R
8 3 (1.08%) VBA
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 64 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.22%) Degree
4 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.81%) ACCA
6 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.81%) PMP
7 3 (1.08%) CIMA
7 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.72%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.72%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.72%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.03%) PMO
3 20 (7.22%) GDPR
4 13 (4.69%) QA
5 11 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.72%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 13 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.08%) SCCM
1 3 (1.08%) Terraform
2 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.36%) Grafana
2 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.69%) Oracle
3 37 (13.36%) SAP
4 14 (5.05%) Databricks
5 13 (4.69%) IFS
6 8 (2.89%) BMC
6 8 (2.89%) Remedy
6 8 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.89%) Workday
7 6 (2.17%) Adobe
7 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.08%) Baan
8 3 (1.08%) Foundry
8 3 (1.08%) Informatica
8 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.08%) Palantir
8 3 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco
9 2 (0.72%) Juniper
9 2 (0.72%) Talend