Business Intelligence Contracts in the South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Business Intelligence (BI) England / South West
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	20	27	20
Rank change year-on-year	+7	-7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence	188	172	210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West	7.02%	5.77%	6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	8.56%	7.32%	8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	134	134	178
Median daily rate	£400	£363	£368
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.34%	-1.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£272	£270	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£569	£500	£452
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	6	4
Median hourly rate	£41.25	£38.63	£32.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+6.79%	+18.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.25	£30.50	£28.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.25	£49.50	£129.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.96	£32.50	£23.75
% change year-on-year	-13.96%	+36.84%

Business Intelligence is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills South West
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	2197	2349	2436
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West	82.07%	78.83%	78.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	1401	1550	1640
Median daily rate	£400	£388	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.22%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£283	£285	£290
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£585	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	92	109	111
Median hourly rate	£43.50	£35.00	£35.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+24.28%	-1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£21.00	£16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£47.50	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South West citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West.

Contractor daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Bristol	+10	85	£400	+12.28%	28
Wiltshire	+11	34	£425	+1.19%	21
Gloucestershire	+11	23	£420	+3.38%	9
Devon	+7	18	£350	+7.69%	1
Dorset	+6	9	£400	+88.23%	1
Somerset	-22	3	£255	-34.61%	3
Business Intelligence England

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the South West region with a requirement for Business Intelligence.

1	211 (60.63%)	Finance
2	169 (48.56%)	SAP
3	166 (47.70%)	Marketing
4	162 (46.55%)	Manufacturing
5	161 (46.26%)	Electronics
5	161 (46.26%)	Telecoms
5	161 (46.26%)	Programme Management
5	161 (46.26%)	Digital Marketing
5	161 (46.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	126 (36.21%)	SQL
7	106 (30.46%)	Agile Software Development
8	88 (25.29%)	Data Warehouse
9	85 (24.43%)	Security Cleared
10	65 (18.68%)	SC Cleared
11	61 (17.53%)	Microsoft

12	58 (16.67%)	SQL Server
13	53 (15.23%)	Project Management
14	51 (14.66%)	MVC
15	49 (14.08%)	.NET
16	47 (13.51%)	SQL Server Integration Services
17	45 (12.93%)	Stakeholder Management
18	42 (12.07%)	C#
19	41 (11.78%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
20	38 (10.92%)	Oracle
21	37 (10.63%)	ETL
22	34 (9.77%)	Scrum
23	33 (9.48%)	SharePoint
24	32 (9.20%)	PRINCE2
24	32 (9.20%)	T-SQL
25	31 (8.91%)	Data Modelling

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	33 (9.48%)	SharePoint
2	13 (3.74%)	SharePoint 2013
3	10 (2.87%)	Mule
3	10 (2.87%)	Mule ESB
4	9 (2.59%)	WebLogic
5	8 (2.30%)	SAS
6	7 (2.01%)	SharePoint 2010
6	7 (2.01%)	SharePoint Server
7	6 (1.72%)	Confluence
8	5 (1.44%)	MS Exchange
9	4 (1.15%)	Alfresco
9	4 (1.15%)	GeoServer
10	3 (0.86%)	IIS
10	3 (0.86%)	OpenStack
10	3 (0.86%)	PowerExchange
11	2 (0.57%)	Apache
11	2 (0.57%)	Apache Solr
11	2 (0.57%)	ArcGIS
11	2 (0.57%)	nginx
11	2 (0.57%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	16 (4.60%)	Microsoft Excel
2	15 (4.31%)	Microsoft Project
3	12 (3.45%)	Microsoft Office
4	5 (1.44%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.57%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.29%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	161 (46.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	17 (4.89%)	Dynamics CRM
3	7 (2.01%)	SAP CO
3	7 (2.01%)	SAP FI
3	7 (2.01%)	SAP FI/CO
4	5 (1.44%)	SAP FI-AP
4	5 (1.44%)	SAP SRM
5	3 (0.86%)	Maximo
5	3 (0.86%)	Workday HCM
6	2 (0.57%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Applications
6	2 (0.57%)	Oracle EBS
7	1 (0.29%)	iTrent
7	1 (0.29%)	Oracle 11i
7	1 (0.29%)	SAP BPC
7	1 (0.29%)	SAP PS

Cloud Services
1	22 (6.32%)	Amazon AWS
2	16 (4.60%)	Microsoft Azure
3	9 (2.59%)	Amazon EC2
3	9 (2.59%)	Virtual Private Cloud
4	7 (2.01%)	Office 365
5	4 (1.15%)	Amazon S3
6	3 (0.86%)	Cloud Computing
7	2 (0.57%)	Azure Data Factory
7	2 (0.57%)	Boomi
7	2 (0.57%)	GitHub
7	2 (0.57%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.29%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.29%)	IaaS
8	1 (0.29%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	5 (1.44%)	DNS
2	4 (1.15%)	HTTP
2	4 (1.15%)	Kerberos
3	3 (0.86%)	DHCP
3	3 (0.86%)	Firewall
4	2 (0.57%)	LDAP
4	2 (0.57%)	NAS
4	2 (0.57%)	Remote Desktop
4	2 (0.57%)	SAN
4	2 (0.57%)	Unified Communications
4	2 (0.57%)	VPN
5	1 (0.29%)	Cisco Nexus
5	1 (0.29%)	DCCP
5	1 (0.29%)	DSL
5	1 (0.29%)	ISDN
5	1 (0.29%)	LAN
5	1 (0.29%)	Skype
5	1 (0.29%)	VoIP
5	1 (0.29%)	WAN
5	1 (0.29%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	88 (25.29%)	Data Warehouse
2	58 (16.67%)	SQL Server
3	47 (13.51%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	41 (11.78%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	28 (8.05%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	25 (7.18%)	Power BI
7	18 (5.17%)	BusinessObjects
7	18 (5.17%)	Oracle Database
8	15 (4.31%)	Relational Database
9	11 (3.16%)	SQL Server 2014
10	10 (2.87%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	9 (2.59%)	SQL Server 2008
12	8 (2.30%)	Oracle Database 10g
12	8 (2.30%)	QlikView
13	7 (2.01%)	Data Mining
14	6 (1.72%)	Big Data
14	6 (1.72%)	Oracle BI Publisher
14	6 (1.72%)	SAS EBI
14	6 (1.72%)	SQL Server 2012
15	5 (1.44%)	Oracle Database 12c

Development Applications
1	10 (2.87%)	JIRA
2	9 (2.59%)	Oracle APEX
2	9 (2.59%)	Team Foundation Server
3	8 (2.30%)	Selenium
3	8 (2.30%)	Visual Studio
4	7 (2.01%)	Git (software)
5	6 (1.72%)	Cucumber
5	6 (1.72%)	WebDriver
6	5 (1.44%)	Jenkins
6	5 (1.44%)	Maven
6	5 (1.44%)	SoapUI
6	5 (1.44%)	TeamCity
7	4 (1.15%)	Bitbucket
8	2 (0.57%)	ERwin
8	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Forms
8	2 (0.57%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	2 (0.57%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8	2 (0.57%)	TestRail
8	2 (0.57%)	Vagrant
9	1 (0.29%)	Eclipse

General
1	211 (60.63%)	Finance
2	166 (47.70%)	Marketing
3	162 (46.55%)	Manufacturing
4	161 (46.26%)	Electronics
4	161 (46.26%)	Telecoms
5	26 (7.47%)	Banking
6	23 (6.61%)	Retail
7	9 (2.59%)	Spanish Language
8	7 (2.01%)	Retail Banking
9	5 (1.44%)	Investment Banking
10	3 (0.86%)	Military
11	2 (0.57%)	Local Government
12	1 (0.29%)	Billing
12	1 (0.29%)	Front Office
12	1 (0.29%)	Publishing
12	1 (0.29%)	Wholesale Banking

Job Titles
1	132 (37.93%)	Developer
2	59 (16.95%)	Analyst
3	47 (13.51%)	Business Intelligence Developer
4	27 (7.76%)	Consultant
5	23 (6.61%)	C# Developer
5	23 (6.61%)	Project Manager
5	23 (6.61%)	SQL Developer
6	21 (6.03%)	Architect
7	20 (5.75%)	SSIS Developer
8	17 (4.89%)	Business Analyst
9	16 (4.60%)	Business Intelligence Analyst
9	16 (4.60%)	SharePoint Developer
9	16 (4.60%)	SSRS Developer
10	15 (4.31%)	.NET Developer
10	15 (4.31%)	Data Warehouse Developer
11	13 (3.74%)	Coordinator
11	13 (3.74%)	Full Stack Developer
11	13 (3.74%)	Java Developer
11	13 (3.74%)	SQL BI Developer
12	12 (3.45%)	CRM Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	49 (14.08%)	.NET
2	31 (8.91%)	AngularJS
3	28 (8.05%)	ASP.NET
4	26 (7.47%)	HTML
5	25 (7.18%)	CSS
6	23 (6.61%)	ASP.NET Web API
7	22 (6.32%)	JSON
8	20 (5.75%)	Twitter Bootstrap
9	18 (5.17%)	XML
10	17 (4.89%)	jQuery
11	14 (4.02%)	Spring
12	13 (3.74%)	Hibernate
12	13 (3.74%)	JPA
12	13 (3.74%)	SOAP
12	13 (3.74%)	Spring MVC
13	12 (3.45%)	RESTful
14	11 (3.16%)	Middleware
14	11 (3.16%)	REST
15	10 (2.87%)	Ember.js
15	10 (2.87%)	Web Services

Miscellaneous
1	27 (7.76%)	Greenfield Project
2	21 (6.03%)	Analytical Skills
3	17 (4.89%)	Management Information System
4	10 (2.87%)	Computer Science
4	10 (2.87%)	Data Centre
5	7 (2.01%)	Data Protection Act
5	7 (2.01%)	NHS
6	6 (1.72%)	PMI
7	5 (1.44%)	Driving Licence
8	3 (0.86%)	Client/Server
8	3 (0.86%)	Credit Risk
8	3 (0.86%)	Mobile App
9	2 (0.57%)	CESG
9	2 (0.57%)	Enterprise Software
9	2 (0.57%)	Enterprise Storage
9	2 (0.57%)	Mainframe
9	2 (0.57%)	Smart Meter
9	2 (0.57%)	Smartphone
9	2 (0.57%)	Taxonomies
9	2 (0.57%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	17 (4.89%)	Linux
2	14 (4.02%)	Windows
3	12 (3.45%)	Windows Server
4	11 (3.16%)	Windows Server 2012
5	9 (2.59%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	7 (2.01%)	Oracle Linux
7	6 (1.72%)	Unix
8	5 (1.44%)	Windows Server 2008
9	2 (0.57%)	CentOS
9	2 (0.57%)	Windows 10
9	2 (0.57%)	Windows Server 2003
10	1 (0.29%)	AIX
10	1 (0.29%)	Android
10	1 (0.29%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	161 (46.26%)	Digital Marketing
1	161 (46.26%)	Programme Management
2	106 (30.46%)	Agile Software Development
3	53 (15.23%)	Project Management
4	51 (14.66%)	MVC
5	45 (12.93%)	Stakeholder Management
6	37 (10.63%)	ETL
7	34 (9.77%)	Scrum
8	32 (9.20%)	PRINCE2
9	31 (8.91%)	Data Modelling
9	31 (8.91%)	Migration
10	24 (6.90%)	SDLC
11	20 (5.75%)	Data Migration
12	17 (4.89%)	CRM
12	17 (4.89%)	Data Analysis
12	17 (4.89%)	Integration Testing
12	17 (4.89%)	Kimball Methodology
12	17 (4.89%)	Workflow
13	16 (4.60%)	DevOps
14	15 (4.31%)	Test Scripting

Programming Languages
1	126 (36.21%)	SQL
2	42 (12.07%)	C#
3	32 (9.20%)	T-SQL
4	27 (7.76%)	JavaScript
5	16 (4.60%)	PL/SQL
6	15 (4.31%)	Java
7	4 (1.15%)	PowerShell
7	4 (1.15%)	Python
7	4 (1.15%)	VBA
8	3 (0.86%)	Bash Shell
8	3 (0.86%)	Ruby
8	3 (0.86%)	Shell Script
9	2 (0.57%)	Dart
9	2 (0.57%)	Perl
10	1 (0.29%)	ABAP
10	1 (0.29%)	C++
10	1 (0.29%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
10	1 (0.29%)	Groovy
10	1 (0.29%)	PHP
10	1 (0.29%)	SPARQL

Qualifications
1	85 (24.43%)	Security Cleared
2	65 (18.68%)	SC Cleared
3	24 (6.90%)	Degree
4	20 (5.75%)	DV Cleared
5	9 (2.59%)	ISTQB
6	7 (2.01%)	HNC
6	7 (2.01%)	HND
6	7 (2.01%)	ISEB
6	7 (2.01%)	PMI Certification
7	4 (1.15%)	APMP
7	4 (1.15%)	PMP
8	3 (0.86%)	Chartered Engineer
8	3 (0.86%)	CITP
8	3 (0.86%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
8	3 (0.86%)	MBCS
8	3 (0.86%)	PRINCE2 Certification
9	2 (0.57%)	CESG Certified Professional
9	2 (0.57%)	Cisco Certification
9	2 (0.57%)	DBS Check
9	2 (0.57%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	11 (3.16%)	JSP 440
2	8 (2.30%)	QA
3	7 (2.01%)	PMO
4	6 (1.72%)	Data Quality
5	5 (1.44%)	Basel II
5	5 (1.44%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	3 (0.86%)	IFRS
6	3 (0.86%)	IFRS 9
6	3 (0.86%)	SLA
7	2 (0.57%)	ISO 9000

System Software
1	12 (3.45%)	Active Directory
2	10 (2.87%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	5 (1.44%)	Hyper-V
4	4 (1.15%)	Oracle RAC
5	3 (0.86%)	Microsoft App-V
5	3 (0.86%)	XenApp
6	2 (0.57%)	Docker
6	2 (0.57%)	vCloud
6	2 (0.57%)	Virtual Machines
6	2 (0.57%)	Xen
7	1 (0.29%)	DFS Replication
7	1 (0.29%)	Firmware
7	1 (0.29%)	ProxySG

Systems Management
1	4 (1.15%)	Ansible
1	4 (1.15%)	Data Guard
1	4 (1.15%)	Puppet
2	3 (0.86%)	SCCM
2	3 (0.86%)	vRealize
2	3 (0.86%)	WSUS
3	2 (0.57%)	NetBackup
3	2 (0.57%)	Opscode Chef
3	2 (0.57%)	Oracle RMAN
4	1 (0.29%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4	1 (0.29%)	Nagios
4	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
4	1 (0.29%)	SCOM
4	1 (0.29%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	169 (48.56%)	SAP
2	61 (17.53%)	Microsoft
3	38 (10.92%)	Oracle
4	15 (4.31%)	Red Hat
5	14 (4.02%)	Tableau
6	13 (3.74%)	VMware
7	11 (3.16%)	Teradata
8	10 (2.87%)	IBM
9	8 (2.30%)	Cisco
10	7 (2.01%)	Nintex
11	5 (1.44%)	Atlassian
11	5 (1.44%)	Cognos
11	5 (1.44%)	Informatica
12	4 (1.15%)	ClickSoftware Technologies
12	4 (1.15%)	TIBCO
12	4 (1.15%)	Unisys
13	3 (0.86%)	CheckPoint
13	3 (0.86%)	Citrix
13	3 (0.86%)	Veeam
13	3 (0.86%)	Workday