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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 269 197 199
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.74% 6.60% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 7.21% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 136 129
10th Percentile £298 £293 £202
25th Percentile £400 £365 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 10
10th Percentile £14.89 £21.22 £22.61
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.75 £32.39
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -55.17% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49.58 - £83.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.57 £84.45
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.22
% change year-on-year -16.70% +18.11% -11.95%

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 4,637 2,732 4,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.74% 91.59% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 1,747 2,821
10th Percentile £285 £257 £225
25th Percentile £408 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +0.10% -0.99%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £615
90th Percentile £713 £675 £694
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 164 434
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.80 £18.20
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.04 £62.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -8 137 £500 -13.04% 36
Berkshire -18 90 £525 -16.00% 13
Hampshire +6 82 £450 -25.00% 26
Buckinghamshire -1 34 £425 -21.66% 13
West Sussex -3 21 £450 +16.88% 9
Surrey -26 17 £550 +34.56% 21
Oxfordshire -8 13 £500 +11.11% 11
Kent -5 6 - - 20
East Sussex +1 2 £375 - 9
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 30 (11.15%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.35%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 65 (24.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.37%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.37%) InDesign
6 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.60%) iTrent
2 6 (2.23%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.86%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (1.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.49%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.12%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 177 (65.80%) Power Platform
2 58 (21.56%) Azure
3 33 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.69%) PowerApps
6 17 (6.32%) Power Automate
7 16 (5.95%) AWS
8 14 (5.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (4.46%) GCP
10 11 (4.09%) Copilot Studio
10 11 (4.09%) SaaS
11 8 (2.97%) GitHub
11 8 (2.97%) Serverless
12 7 (2.60%) OCI
12 7 (2.60%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (2.23%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.23%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.23%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) Firewall
1 3 (1.12%) Intranet
1 3 (1.12%) VPN
2 2 (0.74%) BGP
2 2 (0.74%) Junos
2 2 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.37%) 2G
3 1 (0.37%) 5G
3 1 (0.37%) DHCP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.37%) LTE
3 1 (0.37%) Mobile Backhaul
3 1 (0.37%) VoIP
3 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (65.80%) Power BI
2 38 (14.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 36 (13.38%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (8.18%) Tableau
6 15 (5.58%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.35%) Big Data
8 8 (2.97%) Metadata
8 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.60%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 6 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.86%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.49%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.12%) OLAP
13 3 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 31 (11.52%) JIRA
2 9 (3.35%) Git
3 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.12%) JUnit
3 3 (1.12%) Storybook
4 1 (0.37%) Hudson
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.37%) Postman
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 87 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.23%) Finance
3 78 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.52%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.67%) Marketing
6 21 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (7.81%) Retail
6 21 (7.81%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.32%) Electronics
7 17 (6.32%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Military
11 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Banking
13 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (27.88%) Analyst
2 42 (15.61%) Data Analyst
3 38 (14.13%) Developer
4 23 (8.55%) Architect
5 22 (8.18%) PMO Analyst
6 21 (7.81%) Oracle Developer
6 21 (7.81%) Senior
7 19 (7.06%) Consultant
8 18 (6.69%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.32%) Lead
10 14 (5.20%) Report Developer
11 12 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (4.09%) Platform Architect
12 11 (4.09%) Power Platform Architect
13 10 (3.72%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.35%) Project Manager
15 8 (2.97%) E-Commerce Specialist
15 8 (2.97%) Integration Manager
15 8 (2.97%) Oracle Consultant
16 7 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (4.46%) REST
3 6 (2.23%) ADO
4 3 (1.12%) CSS
4 3 (1.12%) HTML
4 3 (1.12%) React
4 3 (1.12%) RESTful
4 3 (1.12%) Spring
4 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.12%) Vitest
4 3 (1.12%) XML
5 2 (0.74%) JSON
5 2 (0.74%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.74%) Middleware
5 2 (0.74%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.74%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.74%) SOAP
5 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.74%) Web Services
5 2 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.72%) CMDB
2 9 (3.35%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.60%) NHS
5 6 (2.23%) PKI
5 6 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.49%) Clustering
8 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.12%) FMCG
8 3 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Wiki
10 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) IoT
10 1 (0.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.97%) Windows
2 6 (2.23%) Windows 10
2 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (19.70%) Data Analysis
2 53 (19.70%) Data Modelling
3 52 (19.33%) Agile
3 52 (19.33%) Analytics
4 47 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (14.13%) Decision-Making
6 37 (13.75%) DevOps
7 34 (12.64%) Visualisation
8 31 (11.52%) Data Governance
9 30 (11.15%) Migration
9 30 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (9.67%) Data Visualisation
10 26 (9.67%) ETL
11 25 (9.29%) ERP
11 25 (9.29%) Process Improvement
11 25 (9.29%) Validation
12 22 (8.18%) Requirements Gathering
13 21 (7.81%) Waterfall
13 21 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.51%) SQL
2 18 (6.69%) Python
3 14 (5.20%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (2.60%) C#
6 7 (2.60%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.23%) R
8 4 (1.49%) Java
8 4 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.12%) Bicep
9 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.12%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 62 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.55%) Degree
4 8 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.49%) ACCA
8 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.12%) PMP
8 3 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.74%) CIMA
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.87%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.29%) PMO
3 17 (6.32%) GDPR
4 14 (5.20%) QA
5 11 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.12%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) COBIT
7 2 (0.74%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS
System Software
1 12 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.12%) SCCM
2 2 (0.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 53 (19.70%) Oracle
3 39 (14.50%) SAP
4 11 (4.09%) IFS
5 10 (3.72%) Databricks
5 10 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.60%) Workday
7 6 (2.23%) Adobe
7 6 (2.23%) BMC
7 6 (2.23%) Remedy
8 4 (1.49%) Foundry
8 4 (1.49%) Palantir
9 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.74%) Cisco
10 2 (0.74%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) Juniper
10 2 (0.74%) Talend