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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 43 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 278 156 233
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.19% 4.45% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 4.99% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 110 143
10th Percentile £272 £222 £235
25th Percentile £391 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £625 £638
90th Percentile £627 £700 £735
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £30.38 - £31.53
25th Percentile £34.01 - £47.70
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £60.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -47.25% +115.78%
75th Percentile £82.25 £34.15 £64.73
90th Percentile £85.25 £35.41 -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -6.27%

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 5,355 3,126 3,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.74% 89.21% 82.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 1,947 2,310
10th Percentile £280 £221 £257
25th Percentile £425 £383 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.82% -0.75%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £630
90th Percentile £713 £656 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 309 270
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.50 £34.25
Median hourly rate £52.43 £21.39 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +145.09% -62.70% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £85.94 £69.65 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -19 110 £483 -19.25% 115
Hampshire -21 65 £525 -6.67% 42
Berkshire -29 63 £525 -12.50% 63
West Sussex +3 47 £380 +117.14% 16
Buckinghamshire -1 37 £475 +33.33% 31
Surrey -1 31 £500 +25.00% 39
Oxfordshire -21 10 £375 +66.67% 21
East Sussex - 7 £616 - 17
Kent - 6 £550 - 9
Middlesex - 6 - - 3
Home Counties -2 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 13 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.96%) Confluence
3 4 (1.44%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.08%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (17.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.88%) iTrent
3 5 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.08%) Maximo
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.08%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.72%) Primavera
6 2 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (76.26%) Power Platform
2 68 (24.46%) Azure
3 23 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.19%) Power Automate
5 18 (6.47%) AWS
6 15 (5.40%) Serverless
7 13 (4.68%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.88%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.88%) GCP
10 8 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.52%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.52%) dbt
11 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (2.52%) SaaS
12 6 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.16%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.80%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.36%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.36%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (75.18%) Power BI
2 26 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (9.35%) Tableau
3 15 (5.40%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (5.40%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (3.96%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.88%) Metadata
6 8 (2.88%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (2.16%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.80%) Power Query
8 5 (1.80%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.44%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.44%) MySQL
9 4 (1.44%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.55%) JIRA
2 8 (2.88%) Git
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.44%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Hudson
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) RStudio
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.36%) TestRail
5 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 88 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 67 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (20.14%) Finance
4 20 (7.19%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.19%) Retail
5 15 (5.40%) Aerospace
5 15 (5.40%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.96%) Marketing
7 10 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.16%) Legal
8 6 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.80%) Banking
9 5 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.44%) Military
10 4 (1.44%) Publishing
11 3 (1.08%) Billing
11 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (25.90%) Analyst
2 43 (15.47%) Data Analyst
3 35 (12.59%) Developer
3 35 (12.59%) Senior
4 20 (7.19%) Architect
5 17 (6.12%) Lead
6 16 (5.76%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.04%) Consultant
7 14 (5.04%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 11 (3.96%) Microsoft Engineer
10 9 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) Data Manager
11 8 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) E-Commerce Specialist
11 8 (2.88%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.52%) HR Data Analyst
12 7 (2.52%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.12%) REST
2 10 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.88%) Middleware
4 6 (2.16%) .NET
4 6 (2.16%) EDI
5 5 (1.80%) SOAP
5 5 (1.80%) Terraform
6 4 (1.44%) CSS
6 4 (1.44%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.44%) HTML
6 4 (1.44%) JPA
6 4 (1.44%) jQuery
6 4 (1.44%) Spring
6 4 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.44%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.08%) JSON
7 3 (1.08%) PySpark
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.72%) SPFx
8 2 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.47%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.60%) PKI
5 9 (3.24%) Clustering
6 8 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.52%) FMCG
8 6 (2.16%) Social Media
9 5 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.44%) CMDB
10 4 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.08%) PMI
12 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.72%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.96%) Windows
2 10 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.22%) Analytics
2 73 (26.26%) Data Modelling
3 68 (24.46%) Decision-Making
4 67 (24.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (21.58%) Agile
6 44 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.47%) Visualisation
8 42 (15.11%) ETL
9 41 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (14.75%) Data Analysis
10 39 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 36 (12.95%) Data Governance
12 35 (12.59%) Validation
13 34 (12.23%) ERP
13 34 (12.23%) Migration
14 33 (11.87%) DevOps
15 32 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (11.51%) AI
15 32 (11.51%) Dashboard Development
16 30 (10.79%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 121 (43.53%) SQL
2 27 (9.71%) Python
3 23 (8.27%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (4.68%) PL/SQL
5 13 (4.68%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.32%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.52%) C#
8 6 (2.16%) Java
9 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.44%) X++
10 2 (0.72%) R
10 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.72%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.63%) Degree
4 19 (6.83%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.16%) ACCA
7 6 (2.16%) PMP
8 5 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.44%) CIMA
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.72%) CAPM
11 2 (0.72%) CISSP
11 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (19.78%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.76%) GDPR
3 15 (5.40%) QA
4 12 (4.32%) PMO
5 5 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.44%) IFRS
7 3 (1.08%) GMP
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 10 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.08%) Grafana
3 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 98 (35.25%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.19%) Oracle
2 45 (16.19%) SAP
3 22 (7.91%) Databricks
4 18 (6.47%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.60%) BMC
5 10 (3.60%) Remedy
6 9 (3.24%) Google
6 9 (3.24%) IFS
7 8 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.88%) Workday
8 6 (2.16%) Baan
9 4 (1.44%) Ariba
9 4 (1.44%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) ESRI
10 3 (1.08%) IBM
11 2 (0.72%) Adobe
11 2 (0.72%) Teradata
12 1 (0.36%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.36%) NEC