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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 272 180 210
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.09% 5.10% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 5.71% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 130 140
10th Percentile £262 £248 £233
25th Percentile £394 £403 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £627 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile £28.00 - £24.34
25th Percentile £34.01 - £29.73
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £39.94
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -19.75% +41.82%
75th Percentile £80.06 £34.15 £50.61
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.41 £56.28
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.03 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% +6.75% -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 5,356 3,150 3,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.47% 89.31% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 1,960 2,363
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £419 £393 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.66% +0.11%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 312 309
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -58.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £72.69 £53.75 £70.18
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.16 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -34 104 £475 -20.83% 56
Hampshire -14 69 £525 -6.67% 23
Berkshire -40 58 £500 -23.08% 25
West Sussex +4 48 £380 +16.92% 11
Buckinghamshire -8 33 £475 +33.33% 21
Surrey -11 27 £500 +33.33% 7
Oxfordshire -18 13 £400 +77.78% 13
Kent - 8 £550 - 9
East Sussex +7 7 £616 - 6
Middlesex - 3 - - 1
Home Counties -1 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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.47%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (2.94%) iTrent
3 7 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.10%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.74%) Maximo
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.74%) Primavera
7 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.74%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 202 (74.26%) Power Platform
2 70 (25.74%) Azure
3 23 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.72%) Power Automate
5 19 (6.99%) AWS
6 15 (5.51%) Serverless
7 14 (5.15%) PowerApps
8 11 (4.04%) GCP
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.57%) dbt
12 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.21%) SaaS
13 5 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Broadband
2 1 (0.37%) Intranet
2 1 (0.37%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (73.16%) Power BI
2 26 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (9.19%) Tableau
4 18 (6.62%) Oracle Reports
5 17 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 15 (5.51%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.68%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.31%) Metadata
9 8 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.84%) Power Query
11 5 (1.84%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.47%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
12 4 (1.47%) PowerPivot
12 4 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (7.72%) JIRA
2 9 (3.31%) Git
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.47%) JUnit
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) Hudson
5 1 (0.37%) JMeter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.37%) RStudio
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) TestRail
5 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 80 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 70 (25.74%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (19.49%) Finance
4 22 (8.09%) Retail
5 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.41%) Marketing
8 11 (4.04%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.84%) Banking
11 5 (1.84%) Legal
12 4 (1.47%) Military
12 4 (1.47%) Publishing
12 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.10%) Billing
13 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Aviation
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (26.47%) Analyst
2 44 (16.18%) Data Analyst
3 35 (12.87%) Developer
4 30 (11.03%) Senior
5 20 (7.35%) Lead
6 19 (6.99%) Architect
7 15 (5.51%) Consultant
7 15 (5.51%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.15%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (3.68%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.31%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 9 (3.31%) Oracle Developer
13 8 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.57%) Data Manager
14 7 (2.57%) HR Analyst
14 7 (2.57%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.62%) REST
2 10 (3.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.94%) Middleware
4 6 (2.21%) .NET
4 6 (2.21%) EDI
4 6 (2.21%) SOAP
5 5 (1.84%) Terraform
6 4 (1.47%) CSS
6 4 (1.47%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.47%) HTML
6 4 (1.47%) JPA
6 4 (1.47%) jQuery
6 4 (1.47%) Spring
6 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.47%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.10%) JSON
7 3 (1.10%) PySpark
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.74%) SPFx
8 2 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.99%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.68%) Clustering
2 10 (3.68%) PKI
3 8 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.21%) FMCG
6 5 (1.84%) CMDB
7 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.10%) Social Media
9 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) PMI
10 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.04%) Windows
2 10 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.04%) Analytics
2 74 (27.21%) Data Modelling
3 63 (23.16%) Decision-Making
4 60 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (20.96%) Agile
6 44 (16.18%) ETL
6 44 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 40 (14.71%) Visualisation
9 39 (14.34%) Data Analysis
10 38 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (13.97%) Validation
11 37 (13.60%) ERP
11 37 (13.60%) Migration
12 35 (12.87%) Data Governance
13 34 (12.50%) DevOps
14 31 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
14 31 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
15 28 (10.29%) CI/CD
15 28 (10.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 124 (45.59%) SQL
2 24 (8.82%) Python
3 23 (8.46%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.51%) PL/SQL
6 13 (4.78%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.78%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.57%) C#
7 7 (2.57%) Java
8 5 (1.84%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.47%) X++
10 3 (1.10%) R
11 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.82%) Degree
4 18 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.57%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.21%) ACCA
7 6 (2.21%) PMP
8 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) CIMA
10 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CAPM
12 1 (0.37%) CISA
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.35%) GDPR
3 14 (5.15%) QA
4 12 (4.41%) PMO
5 6 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) IFRS
7 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.10%) SLA
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 10 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) Grafana
1 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 83 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.65%) Oracle
3 42 (15.44%) SAP
4 21 (7.72%) Databricks
5 16 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.41%) IFS
7 10 (3.68%) BMC
7 10 (3.68%) Google
7 10 (3.68%) Remedy
8 8 (2.94%) Workday
9 6 (2.21%) Baan
9 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.10%) Informatica
11 2 (0.74%) Adobe
11 2 (0.74%) Ariba
11 2 (0.74%) ESRI
11 2 (0.74%) Foundry
11 2 (0.74%) IBM
11 2 (0.74%) Palantir
11 2 (0.74%) Teradata