Business Intelligence Contracts

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 40 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,443 2,004 2,760
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.94% 4.60% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 5.33% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 1,401 1,974
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.19%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 54 41
10th Percentile £18.20 £12.75 £18.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.29 £21.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.13 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% -4.45% -19.84%
75th Percentile £33.40 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £41.00 £76.85 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £22.50 £26.38
% change year-on-year +13.02% -14.69% +8.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +4 1,261 £500 - 1,908
London -2 670 £525 - 986
UK excluding London +4 615 £475 +5.56% 998
Work from Home -5 494 £500 - 1,029
South East +25 191 £525 +23.53% 226
North of England -9 132 £475 +5.56% 290
Midlands -4 91 £475 +7.95% 193
South West -11 85 £475 -11.63% 115
West Midlands -1 68 £485 +7.78% 133
North West -21 66 £530 +14.29% 187
Scotland -8 63 £450 -5.76% 57
Yorkshire +6 52 £447 -0.67% 73
East of England +17 39 £481 +17.38% 78
East Midlands -3 22 £413 +0.12% 57
North East +5 14 £450 -32.08% 30
Wales -2 8 £275 -45.00% 23
Northern Ireland -13 8 £513 +2.50% 27

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
1 127 (8.80%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.91%) Confluence
3 24 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.18%) Apache
6 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.11%) SAS
7 11 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.35%) CMS
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2003
11 3 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 192 (13.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.11%) Oracle Smart View
6 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.35%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
9 2 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.14%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.069%) InVision
10 1 (0.069%) Simulink
10 1 (0.069%) Stata
Business Applications
1 40 (2.77%) Aladdin
2 38 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.97%) thinkFolio
5 11 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
8 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.28%) Cognos Business Intelligence
11 4 (0.28%) Endur
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle HRMS
12 3 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 879 (60.91%) Power Platform
2 356 (24.67%) Azure
3 140 (9.70%) Power Automate
4 137 (9.49%) PowerApps
5 132 (9.15%) AWS
6 81 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
8 76 (5.27%) Snowflake
9 73 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (5.06%) GCP
10 64 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 46 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 45 (3.12%) GitHub
13 42 (2.91%) Serverless
14 41 (2.84%) dbt
15 40 (2.77%) OCI
16 31 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 29 (2.01%) SaaS
18 26 (1.80%) Azure Functions
19 23 (1.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.32%) Firewall
1 19 (1.32%) VPN
2 11 (0.76%) Network Security
2 11 (0.76%) SAN
3 10 (0.69%) DNS
3 10 (0.69%) Internet
4 9 (0.62%) DHCP
5 6 (0.42%) LAN
6 5 (0.35%) WAN
6 5 (0.35%) Wireless
7 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 4 (0.28%) NAS
8 3 (0.21%) DDNS
8 3 (0.21%) IMAP
8 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.21%) Skype
8 3 (0.21%) SMTP
9 2 (0.14%) HTTP
9 2 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 875 (60.64%) Power BI
2 225 (15.59%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (15.52%) Tableau
4 96 (6.65%) SQL Server
5 79 (5.47%) Relational Database
6 71 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 61 (4.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 60 (4.16%) Oracle Reports
9 54 (3.74%) Metadata
10 49 (3.40%) Big Data
11 48 (3.33%) Power Query
12 47 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 46 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 45 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
15 31 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
17 26 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.80%) Data Mining
18 25 (1.73%) BigQuery
19 24 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 94 (6.51%) JIRA
2 43 (2.98%) Git
3 36 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.87%) GitLab
5 25 (1.73%) Liquibase
6 21 (1.46%) Gradle
6 21 (1.46%) JUnit
6 21 (1.46%) Mockito
7 20 (1.39%) ERwin
8 13 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.55%) Selenium
12 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.35%) Subversion
13 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.35%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.28%) Hudson
14 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
General
1 511 (35.41%) Finance
2 484 (33.54%) Social Skills
3 307 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 277 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (17.39%) Marketing
6 207 (14.35%) Manufacturing
7 203 (14.07%) Telecoms
8 193 (13.37%) Electronics
9 66 (4.57%) Banking
10 58 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.53%) Front Office
12 37 (2.56%) Retail
13 33 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.94%) Local Government
16 22 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.04%) Legal
19 13 (0.90%) Military
20 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 362 (25.09%) Analyst
2 248 (17.19%) Developer
3 157 (10.88%) Data Analyst
4 138 (9.56%) Architect
5 134 (9.29%) Senior
6 111 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 97 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 84 (5.82%) Lead
9 80 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 74 (5.13%) Consultant
11 66 (4.57%) Power BI Developer
12 59 (4.09%) Data Architect
13 50 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 39 (2.70%) Business Manager
15 37 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) Power Platform Developer
17 31 (2.15%) Data Scientist
17 31 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (2.08%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
19 29 (2.01%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.60%) .NET
2 43 (2.98%) Kafka
3 39 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 38 (2.63%) React
5 32 (2.22%) REST
6 31 (2.15%) PySpark
7 26 (1.80%) SOAP
8 25 (1.73%) XML
9 24 (1.66%) CSS
10 23 (1.59%) HTML
11 22 (1.52%) OpenAPI
11 22 (1.52%) Swagger
12 21 (1.46%) Spring
12 21 (1.46%) Spring Boot
13 18 (1.25%) Web Services
14 15 (1.04%) .NET Framework
15 13 (0.90%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.76%) .NET Core
16 11 (0.76%) Entity Framework
17 10 (0.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.74%) Onboarding
2 47 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 41 (2.84%) Derivative
3 41 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 39 (2.70%) Hedge funds
5 31 (2.15%) NHS
6 30 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 26 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.90%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.83%) FMCG
16 11 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.54%) Windows
2 25 (1.73%) Linux
3 14 (0.97%) Windows 10
4 11 (0.76%) Unix
5 7 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.14%) Android
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.069%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (29.66%) Analytics
2 360 (24.95%) Agile
3 347 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 336 (23.28%) Data Modelling
5 333 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 244 (16.91%) Data Analysis
7 231 (16.01%) Data Visualisation
8 207 (14.35%) Decision-Making
9 203 (14.07%) Programme Management
10 201 (13.93%) ETL
11 200 (13.86%) Digital Marketing
12 165 (11.43%) Data Governance
13 158 (10.95%) Migration
14 154 (10.67%) DevOps
15 147 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 146 (10.12%) Actionable Insight
17 134 (9.29%) Data Management
18 130 (9.01%) CI/CD
19 116 (8.04%) Data Engineering
20 113 (7.83%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 657 (45.53%) SQL
2 319 (22.11%) Python
3 72 (4.99%) PowerShell
4 64 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 61 (4.23%) C#
6 57 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.33%) R
8 47 (3.26%) Java
9 46 (3.19%) PL/SQL
10 29 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 28 (1.94%) T-SQL
12 23 (1.59%) VBA
13 17 (1.18%) Bash
14 13 (0.90%) Scala
15 8 (0.55%) Bicep
15 8 (0.55%) C++
15 8 (0.55%) VB
16 7 (0.49%) Groovy
17 5 (0.35%) ABAP
17 5 (0.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 253 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 193 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 176 (12.20%) Degree
4 43 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.83%) PMP
10 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.49%) CISSP
13 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.35%) CCNA
14 5 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.35%) MBA
15 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 54 (3.74%) GDPR
3 47 (3.26%) QA
4 38 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.87%) PMO
6 11 (0.76%) SLA
7 9 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.21%) Basel II
12 3 (0.21%) HL7
12 3 (0.21%) IFRS
12 3 (0.21%) MiFID
12 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) WCAG
13 2 (0.14%) DICOM
13 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 42 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.43%) Docker
3 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) Brightmail
5 3 (0.21%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) NFS
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.069%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.069%) HDFS
7 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (2.49%) Terraform
2 22 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.62%) Ansible
5 8 (0.55%) Grafana
6 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) SCCM
8 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.14%) vRealize
10 2 (0.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.069%) Argo
11 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.069%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.069%) VxRail
Vendors
1 304 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 272 (18.85%) SAP
3 124 (8.59%) Oracle
4 109 (7.55%) Databricks
5 61 (4.23%) Google
6 38 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.49%) BISAM
8 31 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 17 (1.18%) Informatica
11 16 (1.11%) Adobe
12 15 (1.04%) SimCorp
13 14 (0.97%) Calypso
13 14 (0.97%) Charles River
13 14 (0.97%) IBM
14 13 (0.90%) Ariba
14 13 (0.90%) VMware
15 10 (0.69%) Cognos
15 10 (0.69%) Dell
15 10 (0.69%) Talend