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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 284 195 202
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.25% 5.52% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 6.14% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 132 136
10th Percentile £267 £276 £227
25th Percentile £400 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +10.29% +11.54%
75th Percentile £553 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £700 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
10th Percentile £28.71 - £27.85
25th Percentile £34.01 - £38.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -45.10% +109.76%
75th Percentile £80.71 £34.15 £64.41
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £67.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -7.18%

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 5,398 3,175 4,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.77% 89.92% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,327 1,986 2,480
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £414 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.22%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 293 323
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £21.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +169.41% -62.95% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.45 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -31 109 £500 -16.67% 76
Hampshire -13 78 £525 -6.67% 30
Berkshire -42 62 £525 -16.00% 36
West Sussex +2 50 £380 -5.00% 7
Buckinghamshire -10 32 £475 +19.35% 26
Surrey -23 25 £500 +39.86% 17
Oxfordshire -19 15 £500 +122.22% 15
Kent - 9 £550 - 10
East Sussex +5 5 £616 +64.27% 8
Middlesex - 2 - - 4
Home Counties 0 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 17 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.41%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.70%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (16.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.11%) 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 12 (4.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.82%) iTrent
2 8 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.76%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (1.41%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (1.06%) Eloqua
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (1.06%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.70%) Primavera
7 2 (0.70%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.35%) Maximo
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 203 (71.48%) Power Platform
2 68 (23.94%) Azure
3 21 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (7.39%) Power Automate
4 18 (6.34%) AWS
5 14 (4.93%) PowerApps
6 13 (4.58%) Serverless
7 12 (4.23%) GCP
8 9 (3.17%) dbt
9 8 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.46%) OCI
11 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.11%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (70.77%) Power BI
2 29 (10.21%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (9.15%) Tableau
4 25 (8.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 24 (8.45%) Oracle Reports
6 17 (5.99%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.17%) Metadata
8 8 (2.82%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.76%) SAP Data Services
10 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration 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%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.39%) JIRA
2 9 (3.17%) Git
3 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
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%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 73 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.66%) Finance
4 24 (8.45%) Retail
5 19 (6.69%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.63%) Marketing
7 9 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.76%) Banking
9 5 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.41%) Military
11 3 (1.06%) Advertising
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.06%) Legal
11 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Publishing
12 2 (0.70%) Aviation
12 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (27.11%) Analyst
2 50 (17.61%) Data Analyst
3 39 (13.73%) Developer
4 31 (10.92%) Senior
5 22 (7.75%) Architect
6 21 (7.39%) Lead
7 17 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 16 (5.63%) Consultant
9 15 (5.28%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Oracle Developer
10 13 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Engineer
12 10 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.17%) E-Commerce Specialist
14 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.82%) Report Developer
15 7 (2.46%) HR Analyst
15 7 (2.46%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.04%) REST
2 16 (5.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.46%) Middleware
4 6 (2.11%) EDI
4 6 (2.11%) SOAP
5 5 (1.76%) .NET
6 4 (1.41%) CSS
6 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.41%) HTML
6 4 (1.41%) JPA
6 4 (1.41%) jQuery
6 4 (1.41%) Spring
6 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.41%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.06%) JSON
8 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.70%) PySpark
8 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.99%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.23%) PKI
3 11 (3.87%) Clustering
4 9 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.11%) FMCG
6 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.76%) CMDB
8 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
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%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) Social Media
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Windows
2 12 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.52%) Analytics
2 79 (27.82%) Data Modelling
3 66 (23.24%) Decision-Making
4 65 (22.89%) Agile
5 57 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 44 (15.49%) Visualisation
7 43 (15.14%) ETL
8 42 (14.79%) ERP
9 41 (14.44%) Data Analysis
9 41 (14.44%) Migration
9 41 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (14.08%) Validation
11 37 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (11.97%) Dashboard Development
12 34 (11.97%) DevOps
13 33 (11.62%) Data Governance
14 31 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
14 31 (10.92%) Requirements Gathering
15 30 (10.56%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 131 (46.13%) SQL
2 23 (8.10%) JavaScript
2 23 (8.10%) Python
3 16 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (5.63%) PL/SQL
3 16 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.58%) T-SQL
5 8 (2.82%) C#
6 6 (2.11%) Java
7 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.41%) X++
9 3 (1.06%) R
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.70%) VBA
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 75 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) Degree
4 20 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.11%) ACCA
6 6 (2.11%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.11%) PMP
7 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.41%) CIMA
8 4 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISA
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.75%) GDPR
3 15 (5.28%) QA
4 13 (4.58%) PMO
5 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.41%) IFRS
7 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.76%) Terraform
2 2 (0.70%) Grafana
2 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.35%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 78 (27.46%) Microsoft
2 58 (20.42%) Oracle
3 41 (14.44%) SAP
4 18 (6.34%) ServiceNow
5 17 (5.99%) Databricks
6 13 (4.58%) IFS
7 12 (4.23%) BMC
7 12 (4.23%) Remedy
8 10 (3.52%) Salesforce
9 9 (3.17%) Google
10 8 (2.82%) Workday
11 7 (2.46%) Adobe
12 6 (2.11%) Baan
13 3 (1.06%) Informatica
13 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.70%) ESRI
14 2 (0.70%) Foundry
14 2 (0.70%) Palantir
15 1 (0.35%) Ab Initio
15 1 (0.35%) NEC