Business Intelligence Contracts

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 42 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 2,111 3,730 4,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.60% 4.78% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 5.30% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 2,664 3,583
10th Percentile £300 £358 £325
25th Percentile £406 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £706 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 41 82
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £26.62 £22.69
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +17.32% +13.45%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £45.88 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.82 £22.50 £18.42
% change year-on-year -3.02% +22.18% -3.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,646 70,386 79,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.22% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,253 48,791 55,756
10th Percentile £310 £343 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £619
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,565 1,689 1,973
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.41 £11.92
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.30 £13.50
Median hourly rate £43.84 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% +62.79% -14.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.05 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £32.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +39.06% +77.78% -20.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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
England +10 1,818 £513 -2.38% 1,418
London +13 911 £540 -1.82% 565
Work from Home +13 904 £500 -4.76% 723
UK excluding London -7 890 £500 - 935
South East -7 215 £475 -9.52% 223
North of England 0 177 £460 -10.29% 271
South West -4 175 £570 +5.12% 89
Midlands -5 136 £475 -5.00% 166
North West +23 116 £475 +5.56% 144
West Midlands -3 107 £475 -10.38% 107
Scotland +6 82 £475 +5.56% 57
East of England +21 72 £450 -5.26% 108
Yorkshire -26 51 £450 -22.41% 78
East Midlands -10 29 £425 - 58
Wales +6 23 £448 -18.64% 30
Northern Ireland +10 16 £225 -45.45% 9
North East +31 11 £485 -7.62% 50

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 151 (7.15%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.42%) Confluence
3 48 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.85%) Apache
4 18 (0.85%) SAS
5 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.43%) CMS
7 8 (0.38%) IIS
8 7 (0.33%) MS Exchange
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.24%) Mendix
11 4 (0.19%) Luigi
11 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.14%) IBM Domino
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 244 (11.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.66%) Trello
7 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.28%) SPSS
8 6 (0.28%) UXPin
9 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.14%) Mathematica
9 3 (0.14%) Stata
10 2 (0.095%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.047%) Revit
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 82 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
3 31 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.47%) SAP BPC
6 10 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Cognos Business Intelligence
10 4 (0.19%) iTrent
10 4 (0.19%) Shopify
10 4 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (56.42%) Power Platform
2 638 (30.22%) Azure
3 204 (9.66%) PowerApps
4 177 (8.38%) AWS
5 173 (8.20%) Power Automate
6 162 (7.67%) Dynamics 365
7 151 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
8 129 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 113 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (3.88%) GCP
12 74 (3.51%) Serverless
13 55 (2.61%) Snowflake
14 47 (2.23%) SaaS
15 40 (1.89%) PaaS
16 39 (1.85%) Entra ID
17 33 (1.56%) GitHub
18 30 (1.42%) dbt
19 29 (1.37%) Azure Functions
19 29 (1.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.04%) DNS
2 25 (1.18%) DHCP
3 22 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (0.85%) Firewall
5 15 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.62%) HTTP
6 13 (0.62%) SAN
6 13 (0.62%) VPN
7 12 (0.57%) LAN
7 12 (0.57%) WAN
8 11 (0.52%) Wireless
9 10 (0.47%) Network Security
10 9 (0.43%) Internet
11 8 (0.38%) Skype
12 7 (0.33%) FTP
12 7 (0.33%) VoIP
13 5 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.19%) VLAN
15 3 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,179 (55.85%) Power BI
2 367 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 266 (12.60%) Tableau
4 265 (12.55%) SQL Server
5 149 (7.06%) Data Lake
6 138 (6.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 89 (4.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 82 (3.88%) Big Data
10 74 (3.51%) Power Query
11 71 (3.36%) Metadata
12 66 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
13 59 (2.79%) Relational Database
14 58 (2.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 52 (2.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 45 (2.13%) NoSQL
17 43 (2.04%) Star Schema
18 40 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
19 35 (1.66%) SAP HANA
20 34 (1.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (4.59%) JIRA
2 50 (2.37%) Git
3 32 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 29 (1.37%) GitLab
5 24 (1.14%) ERwin
6 16 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
9 7 (0.33%) Balsamiq
9 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.33%) NUnit
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.24%) CMake
11 5 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.19%) RStudio
13 3 (0.14%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 700 (33.16%) Finance
2 533 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 495 (23.45%) Public Sector
4 411 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
5 394 (18.66%) Marketing
6 350 (16.58%) Manufacturing
7 327 (15.49%) Telecoms
8 317 (15.02%) Electronics
9 74 (3.51%) Banking
10 56 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.37%) Retail
12 45 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.85%) Law
14 39 (1.85%) Legal
15 31 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.33%) Local Government
17 20 (0.95%) Back Office
18 17 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 463 (21.93%) Analyst
2 421 (19.94%) Developer
3 208 (9.85%) Data Analyst
4 200 (9.47%) Architect
5 196 (9.28%) Data Engineer
6 193 (9.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 193 (9.14%) Senior
7 133 (6.30%) Business Analyst
8 117 (5.54%) Power BI Developer
9 102 (4.83%) Consultant
10 98 (4.64%) Data Architect
11 96 (4.55%) Lead
12 92 (4.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 85 (4.03%) Project Manager
14 73 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
14 73 (3.46%) Support Engineer
15 58 (2.75%) Power BI Analyst
16 49 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (2.18%) Azure Data Engineer
18 43 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (4.93%) .NET
2 70 (3.32%) JSON
3 49 (2.32%) PySpark
4 48 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 44 (2.08%) HTML
6 41 (1.94%) REST
7 39 (1.85%) CSS
8 35 (1.66%) XML
9 33 (1.56%) Web Services
10 26 (1.23%) MDX
11 25 (1.18%) .NET Framework
12 24 (1.14%) Kafka
13 21 (0.99%) YAML
14 19 (0.90%) Node.js
15 18 (0.85%) React
16 17 (0.81%) .NET Core
16 17 (0.81%) JSON Schema
17 16 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
17 16 (0.76%) RESTful
17 16 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.88%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 71 (3.36%) NHS
4 66 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 47 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 44 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.23%) PKI
10 21 (0.99%) Social Media
11 20 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
11 20 (0.95%) Wiki
12 17 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (0.76%) Cloud Native
13 16 (0.76%) FMCG
14 15 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
14 15 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.71%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.21%) Windows
2 54 (2.56%) Linux
3 35 (1.66%) Unix
4 33 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.18%) Android
6 24 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.24%) Rocky
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.095%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) AIX
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (26.62%) Analytics
2 460 (21.79%) Data Modelling
3 427 (20.23%) Agile
4 383 (18.14%) Visualisation
5 344 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
6 337 (15.96%) Programme Management
7 333 (15.77%) ETL
8 320 (15.16%) Digital Marketing
9 290 (13.74%) Data Analysis
10 250 (11.84%) Data Visualisation
11 212 (10.04%) Migration
12 194 (9.19%) DevOps
13 193 (9.14%) Decision-Making
14 189 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 180 (8.53%) Project Management
16 158 (7.48%) Data Management
17 144 (6.82%) Data Governance
18 143 (6.77%) Scrum
19 139 (6.58%) Data Analytics
20 137 (6.49%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 850 (40.27%) SQL
2 305 (14.45%) Python
3 128 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (4.83%) C#
5 95 (4.50%) T-SQL
6 92 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 87 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 81 (3.84%) R
9 78 (3.69%) Java
10 39 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.61%) Scala
12 26 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 17 (0.81%) Bash
13 17 (0.81%) C++
14 15 (0.71%) VBA
15 10 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.38%) C
17 8 (0.38%) X++
18 7 (0.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 264 (12.51%) Degree
2 256 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 221 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.95%) CISSP
11 18 (0.85%) PMP
12 14 (0.66%) CISM
12 14 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
13 12 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.47%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.47%) CIMA
15 8 (0.38%) ACCA
16 6 (0.28%) CCNA
16 6 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.52%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.98%) QA
3 44 (2.08%) GDPR
4 35 (1.66%) PMO
5 27 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.04%) SLA
7 14 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.57%) HL7
9 12 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.43%) NIST
11 7 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 9000
11 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.28%) GxP
13 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.24%) RMADS
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
15 3 (0.14%) COBIT
15 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 65 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.33%) Docker
3 18 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.66%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.095%) NFS
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.047%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.047%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
9 1 (0.047%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.047%) KVM
9 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (2.23%) Terraform
2 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (0.95%) SCCM
4 19 (0.90%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.57%) SCOrch
6 9 (0.43%) Ansible
7 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
9 4 (0.19%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.19%) CA Service Virtualization
9 4 (0.19%) Control-M
9 4 (0.19%) Dollar Universe
9 4 (0.19%) PowerCLI
9 4 (0.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.095%) MOM
11 2 (0.095%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.095%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 548 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 472 (22.36%) SAP
3 206 (9.76%) Oracle
4 139 (6.58%) Databricks
5 69 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.22%) Google
7 40 (1.89%) Informatica
8 30 (1.42%) Remedy
9 29 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.04%) IBM
11 21 (0.99%) Alteryx
11 21 (0.99%) Cisco
11 21 (0.99%) Sparx
12 20 (0.95%) Apple
13 18 (0.85%) Citrix
13 18 (0.85%) Workday
14 16 (0.76%) Cognos
15 14 (0.66%) Talend
16 13 (0.62%) BMC
16 13 (0.62%) Red Hat