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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 48
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 235 200 198
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.60% 6.61% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 7.20% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 139 126
10th Percentile £311 £258 £200
25th Percentile £406 £361 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -14.14%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 11
10th Percentile £12.29 £21.22 £22.61
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.75 £37.48
Median hourly rate £36.71 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% -32.54% +44.83%
75th Percentile £69.92 £43.75 £82.23
90th Percentile £82.70 £56.34 £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.31 £24.43
% change year-on-year -12.77% +11.80% -9.52%

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 4,231 2,777 4,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.81% 91.80% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 1,758 2,925
10th Percentile £272 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 134 383
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.14 £21.00 £18.26
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.26
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -7 131 £505 -8.18% 55
Berkshire -11 83 £550 -12.00% 29
Hampshire +1 68 £450 -21.74% 31
Buckinghamshire +10 40 £425 -15.84% 16
Surrey -26 18 £550 +22.22% 19
West Sussex -11 14 £433 +12.34% 4
Oxfordshire -9 8 £500 +17.65% 12
Kent -13 3 - - 17
East Sussex +3 2 £375 - 1
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 34 (14.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.98%) Confluence
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (24.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (9.36%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.43%) InDesign
6 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.70%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.70%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.70%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.28%) Eloqua
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.85%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 140 (59.57%) Power Platform
2 52 (22.13%) Azure
3 39 (16.60%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.94%) PowerApps
5 18 (7.66%) Power Automate
6 15 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.38%) SaaS
7 14 (5.96%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (5.53%) AWS
8 13 (5.53%) GCP
9 12 (5.11%) OCI
10 11 (4.68%) Copilot Studio
10 11 (4.68%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.40%) GitHub
12 7 (2.98%) OneDrive
13 5 (2.13%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.13%) Serverless
13 5 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) Firewall
1 4 (1.70%) VPN
2 3 (1.28%) BGP
2 3 (1.28%) Junos
2 3 (1.28%) OSPF
3 2 (0.85%) 2G
3 2 (0.85%) 5G
3 2 (0.85%) Intranet
3 2 (0.85%) LTE
3 2 (0.85%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.85%) VoIP
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (59.57%) Power BI
2 41 (17.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 35 (14.89%) Oracle Reports
4 21 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (8.09%) Tableau
6 14 (5.96%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (3.40%) Big Data
10 7 (2.98%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 7 (2.98%) Metadata
10 7 (2.98%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.13%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (1.28%) MySQL
14 3 (1.28%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 30 (12.77%) JIRA
2 9 (3.83%) Git
3 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.28%) JUnit
3 3 (1.28%) Storybook
4 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.43%) Postman
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.43%) Toad
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 74 (31.49%) Finance
3 59 (25.11%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.47%) Public Sector
5 27 (11.49%) Marketing
6 21 (8.94%) Telecoms
7 20 (8.51%) Manufacturing
8 18 (7.66%) Electronics
9 15 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (5.53%) Retail
11 4 (1.70%) Advertising
11 4 (1.70%) Banking
12 3 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.43%) Military
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (27.66%) Analyst
2 40 (17.02%) Developer
3 35 (14.89%) Data Analyst
4 25 (10.64%) Oracle Developer
5 22 (9.36%) Architect
5 22 (9.36%) PMO Analyst
6 19 (8.09%) Consultant
7 18 (7.66%) Senior
8 15 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 15 (6.38%) Report Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Lead
10 11 (4.68%) Platform Architect
10 11 (4.68%) Power Platform Architect
11 10 (4.26%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.40%) Oracle Consultant
14 7 (2.98%) Integration Manager
14 7 (2.98%) Project Manager
15 6 (2.55%) Functional Consultant
15 6 (2.55%) Resource Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (4.26%) REST
3 5 (2.13%) ADO
4 4 (1.70%) Web Services
5 3 (1.28%) CSS
5 3 (1.28%) HTML
5 3 (1.28%) PySpark
5 3 (1.28%) React
5 3 (1.28%) RESTful
5 3 (1.28%) SOAP
5 3 (1.28%) Spring
5 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.28%) Vitest
5 3 (1.28%) XML
6 2 (0.85%) IDoc
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (0.85%) Plotly
6 2 (0.85%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.85%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (3.40%) Data Structures
1 8 (3.40%) NHS
2 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.55%) CMDB
3 6 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.28%) PKI
5 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.85%) Clustering
6 2 (0.85%) IoT
6 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.85%) Wiki
7 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) SCADA
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Windows
2 6 (2.55%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (22.13%) Data Modelling
3 48 (20.43%) Agile
4 46 (19.57%) Analytics
5 43 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (17.87%) Data Analysis
7 32 (13.62%) Decision-Making
7 32 (13.62%) Visualisation
8 30 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 27 (11.49%) Data Governance
9 27 (11.49%) DevOps
10 26 (11.06%) ETL
10 26 (11.06%) Waterfall
11 24 (10.21%) Migration
12 23 (9.79%) Data Visualisation
13 19 (8.09%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
14 18 (7.66%) Digital Marketing
14 18 (7.66%) Programme Management
15 15 (6.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.66%) SQL
2 20 (8.51%) Python
3 16 (6.81%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.40%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.40%) R
5 6 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.13%) C#
6 5 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.70%) Java
8 3 (1.28%) Bicep
8 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.28%) VBA
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.79%) Degree
4 7 (2.98%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.28%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.28%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.28%) PMP
6 3 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.21%) PMO
3 10 (4.26%) QA
4 8 (3.40%) GDPR
5 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.55%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) COBIT
6 2 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.28%) SCCM
3 2 (0.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 55 (23.40%) Oracle
3 33 (14.04%) SAP
4 12 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.68%) Databricks
6 9 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.55%) Adobe
8 4 (1.70%) Foundry
8 4 (1.70%) Palantir
9 3 (1.28%) BMC
9 3 (1.28%) Cisco
9 3 (1.28%) Cognos
9 3 (1.28%) IFS
9 3 (1.28%) Juniper
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.28%) Remedy
9 3 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 2 (0.85%) Talend