Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Business Intelligence (BI)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 7.14% 3.00% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.59% 3.80% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £416 - £234
25th Percentile £448 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £605 £431 £513
90th Percentile £668 £458 £535
East of England median daily rate £525 £450 £405
% change year-on-year +16.67% +11.11% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £17.03 - -
25th Percentile £19.31 - -
Median hourly rate £23.75 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.08 £27.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.45% +15.63% -31.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 79 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 74.49% 79.00% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 49
10th Percentile £220 £212 £197
25th Percentile £325 £244 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £666 £541 £550
90th Percentile £713 £693 £669
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £14.92 - -
25th Percentile £18.92 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £42.25
90th Percentile £24.53 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +24.61%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Suffolk over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Suffolk

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Ipswich +5 4 £548 +46.00% 3
Bury St Edmunds - 2 - -
Business Intelligence
East of England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Star Schema
2 1 (14.29%) Semantic Layer
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Head of AI
2 1 (14.29%) Installation Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Logistics
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks