Business Intelligence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Business Intelligence (BI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 58 43
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 97 89 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.42% 3.31% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 3.80% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 83
10th Percentile £351 £209 £252
25th Percentile £484 £300 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £428 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.65% -7.57% -2.63%
75th Percentile £700 £491 £563
90th Percentile - £588 £630
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile - - £22.35
25th Percentile - £22.61 £25.19
Median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -63.49% +190.00%
75th Percentile - £35.51 £79.19
90th Percentile - £55.45 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £80.00 £49.25
% change year-on-year -59.94% +62.44% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +47 82 £600 +47.24% 89
Buckinghamshire -4 9 £543 +20.56% 62
Oxfordshire +3 6 £400 -11.11% 47
Business Intelligence
South East

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.34%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.21%) Power Platform
2 27 (27.84%) Azure
3 9 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.19%) AWS
6 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.09%) OCI
7 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Table
8 2 (2.06%) PaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.03%) GCP
9 1 (1.03%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.06%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.03%) Junos
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.21%) Power BI
2 10 (10.31%) Big Data
3 9 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.22%) Tableau
6 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.15%) Metadata
6 5 (5.15%) Power Query
7 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.06%) Impala
9 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (1.03%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) ERwin
2 5 (5.15%) Git
3 4 (4.12%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (4.12%) Selenium
4 3 (3.09%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.06%) JIRA
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 43 (44.33%) Finance
2 42 (43.30%) Telecoms
3 39 (40.21%) Manufacturing
3 39 (40.21%) Public Sector
4 37 (38.14%) Electronics
4 37 (38.14%) Marketing
5 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
6 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Legal
8 3 (3.09%) Publishing
9 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Games
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Architect
2 21 (21.65%) Active Directory Architect
3 15 (15.46%) Analyst
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 11 (11.34%) Developer
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Data Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Data Modeller
8 6 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Consultant
10 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Report Developer
11 3 (3.09%) SQL Data Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) PySpark
2 3 (3.09%) ADO
2 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.09%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.06%) .NET
3 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.06%) Kafka
3 2 (2.06%) YAML
4 1 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.09%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Life Science
4 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) CMDB
5 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) IoT
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.80%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Digital Marketing
1 36 (37.11%) Programme Management
2 31 (31.96%) Agile
3 24 (24.74%) Test Automation
4 21 (21.65%) Identity Access Management
5 17 (17.53%) Analytics
6 14 (14.43%) Data Analysis
7 13 (13.40%) Data Modelling
8 11 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
8 11 (11.34%) DevOps
9 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.25%) Data Architecture
10 8 (8.25%) ERP
10 8 (8.25%) Migration
10 8 (8.25%) Visualisation
11 7 (7.22%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.22%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (7.22%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (7.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.90%) SQL
2 27 (27.84%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.46%) Python
4 6 (6.19%) Bash
5 4 (4.12%) Bicep
6 3 (3.09%) C#
6 3 (3.09%) VBA
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.06%) R
8 1 (1.03%) ABAP
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.03%) VB
8 1 (1.03%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 36 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.71%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.28%) Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) MBA
8 1 (1.03%) PhD
8 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.03%) PMP
8 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (21.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) NFS
2 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Grafana
2 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) vRealize
2 2 (2.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 43 (44.33%) SAP
2 26 (26.80%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.31%) Databricks
4 8 (8.25%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle
6 5 (5.15%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.06%) Cognos
7 2 (2.06%) Google
7 2 (2.06%) Sparx
7 2 (2.06%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.06%) VMware
7 2 (2.06%) Workday
8 1 (1.03%) Capita
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix
8 1 (1.03%) Dell
8 1 (1.03%) F5
8 1 (1.03%) HP
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) Juniper