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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 60 41
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 94 88 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.36% 3.33% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 3.83% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 51 79
10th Percentile £338 £205 £252
25th Percentile £475 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £700 £494 £563
90th Percentile - £588 £620
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +23.53% -2.86% -7.89%
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 £39.75
% change year-on-year -59.94% +101.26% -4.22%

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 1,369 2,300 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.63% 87.02% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,292 1,792
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £409 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% +3.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £604
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 168 63
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -14.29% +201.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.72 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%

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 13 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 13 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 +44 81 £625 +60.26% 58
Buckinghamshire -8 7 £505 +12.22% 31
Oxfordshire +2 6 £400 -11.11% 30
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 13 (13.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) Power Platform
2 24 (25.53%) Azure
3 9 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.45%) AWS
4 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.32%) Azure AKS
5 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.26%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.26%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Table
7 3 (3.19%) OCI
7 3 (3.19%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.06%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.06%) GCP
8 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.06%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.06%) Junos
2 1 (1.06%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (43.62%) Power BI
2 9 (9.57%) Tableau
3 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.38%) Big Data
4 6 (6.38%) Power Query
5 5 (5.32%) Metadata
5 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.13%) Impala
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.06%) HBase
9 1 (1.06%) HDInsight
9 1 (1.06%) Sisense
9 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) ERwin
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (4.26%) Selenium
4 3 (3.19%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) JIRA
5 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 43 (45.74%) Finance
2 41 (43.62%) Telecoms
3 39 (41.49%) Public Sector
4 38 (40.43%) Manufacturing
5 36 (38.30%) Electronics
5 36 (38.30%) Marketing
6 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
7 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.19%) Legal
9 3 (3.19%) Publishing
10 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) French Language
11 1 (1.06%) Games
11 1 (1.06%) Italian Language
11 1 (1.06%) Local Government
11 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Retail
11 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Architect
2 21 (22.34%) Active Directory Architect
3 17 (18.09%) Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) Senior
5 10 (10.64%) Data Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) Developer
6 9 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Data Modeller
9 4 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.19%) Consultant
10 3 (3.19%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.19%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Data Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) .NET
1 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
1 4 (4.26%) PySpark
2 3 (3.19%) .NET Core
2 3 (3.19%) ADO
2 3 (3.19%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.13%) Kafka
3 2 (2.13%) YAML
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) MDX
4 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.19%) Low-Code
2 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.13%) Learning Management System
3 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.13%) Life Science
3 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) CMDB
4 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.06%) IoT
4 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.72%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.23%) Digital Marketing
1 35 (37.23%) Programme Management
2 30 (31.91%) Agile
3 24 (25.53%) Test Automation
4 21 (22.34%) Identity Access Management
5 18 (19.15%) Analytics
6 14 (14.89%) Data Analysis
6 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
7 11 (11.70%) Decision-Making
7 11 (11.70%) DevOps
8 10 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.51%) Data Architecture
10 8 (8.51%) ERP
10 8 (8.51%) Migration
11 7 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (7.45%) Visualisation
12 6 (6.38%) Data Cleansing
12 6 (6.38%) Data Migration
12 6 (6.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) PowerShell
2 26 (27.66%) SQL
3 12 (12.77%) Python
4 7 (7.45%) Bash
5 5 (5.32%) Bicep
6 4 (4.26%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) R
7 3 (3.19%) VBA
8 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.06%) ABAP
9 1 (1.06%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.06%) VB
9 1 (1.06%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 35 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.47%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.64%) Degree
5 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.06%) MBA
9 1 (1.06%) PhD
9 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.06%) PMP
9 1 (1.06%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (1.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (1.06%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.06%) NFS
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.19%) Grafana
2 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.19%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.06%) vRealize
3 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 42 (44.68%) SAP
2 23 (24.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Salesforce
4 7 (7.45%) Oracle
5 5 (5.32%) Databricks
5 5 (5.32%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.13%) Cognos
6 2 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) Sparx
6 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.13%) Workday
7 1 (1.06%) Capita
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.06%) Citrix
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) HP
7 1 (1.06%) IBM
7 1 (1.06%) Juniper
7 1 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.06%) VMware